how to include active user info in non-vb page ?

how do i include active user info on this page http://www.animeboards.net

something like

Currently xx members and xx guests viewing this forum

and to have the words member and guest hyperlinked to forums/index.php#active

[Edited by eva2000 on 08-25-2000 at 05:12 PM]

eva:

Well,

Global.php has an explicit REQUIRE for /admin/config.php, so turn this:

 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums/admin/config.php");
 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums/global.php");

into this:

 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums/global.php");

I'm not sure why you have that first require( config.php ) deal in there, but global.php does it for you. That's why you're getting the redefinition error.

Eva this works for me - see at http://www.hedgehogwheels.com/online.php

My forums are in /forums but I don't have an anchor = active so when you click it just goes to the page.

<?php   
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/forums");
require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/forums/global.php");
  
  $loggedins=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(sessionid) AS sessions FROM session WHERE userid=0");
  $guests=$loggedins[sessions];     
  $loggedins=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(sessionid) AS sessions FROM session WHERE userid<>0");
  $members=$loggedins[sessions];         

  echo "There are currently <a href=\"forums/index.php#active\">$members</a> members and
        <a href=\"forums/index.php#active\">$guests</a> guests viewing this forum";
  
?>

Putting $DOCUMENT_ROOT in all requires is a smart thing to do and makes this all easier. If all the PHP files in vBulletin had $DOCUMENT_ROOT then we wouldn't need to chdir.

[Edited by rangersfan on 09-09-2000 at 01:48 PM]

thanks mrogish and rangersfan... i had almost given up on this thread ...

i shall be giving this a try in the morning

man, is the code here messing with the newreply page... the text box is in the middle of my brower and had to scroll horizontally

I tried Rangerfans code but got this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/php/pbcity/vb/etc/online.php on line 5

What I posted works, you can verify it by clicking the link in the same post.

Right,

Not for me though.

I tried putting both the absolute path and the url to the paths you specified in the chdir and the require statements.

Any ideas?

Chris Schreiber tried this yesterday as well Rangersfan and it did not work for him.

Any ideas?

I'm sorry but as it is, it works on my server.

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/php/pbcity/vb/etc/online.php on line 5

Line 5 is the first reference to "$DB_site->query_first"

My script is in /
My forums are in /forums

Is your directory structure the same? If the script is in the same directory as the forum then no chdirs are needed.

The script is running at:
http://forums.paintballcity.com/etc/online.php
the full path to that is:
/home/php/pbcity/vb/etc

The forums are at:
http://forums.paintballcity.com
The full path to that is:
/home/php/pbcity/vb

What would be the right config?

By the paths you list than the etc directory is a sub-directory in the directory that contains your forums?