How to integrate the online-script on non-vbulletin pages

How to integrate the online-script on non-vbulletin pages?

I want, that the vbulletin count ALL visitors off a domain, while they are surfing on other pages outsite the vbulltin. All pages are with php extensions...

[Erwin]

There is hack that shows users online in vB on a NON-vB page, but not the other way around. To do this, the other pages need to be PHP, and what you do is integrate them by including global.php - as easy as that.

[pdaGuy]

Ok I've tried that, but the problem is that when you inlcude the global.php on pages that are outside the VB directory you get a path error. Is there a workaround on this?

[pdaGuy]

Here is an update...
I placed the following code on a non-VB page which is also in a different directory...

require("http://www.mysite.com/vbpath/global.php");

This way I don't get the path error BUT when you go to see who's online you see a Guest viewing the global.php file. The weirdest thing though is that this guest has the IP of my website! :surprised: Is this normal? Can I change this in some way?

[someone2]

Bumping the 1-year-old-thread again:

Did anyone ever got a solid solution for this? What PHP code should we implement on non vb-pages in order to also calculate guest & member numbers who are surfing non vb-pages?

[pdaGuy]

Nothing yet???
And I thought that this would be easy for some great hackers out there... hmm.
Isn't there anyone else interested in this?

[someone2]

This is what I found so far which you can include into other non-vb php pages:

PHP Code:

<?php
chdir("path to the dir if outside forums dir/");
require('./global.php');
?>

If this is your forum dir:
*ttp://www.somesite.com/forums/
then the chdir line should say
chdir("../");


Everything works fine, except when non-vb pages are also called index.php, cause then the Who's online page will also show the Forums Main Index as a location, which is not correct of course.

[pdaGuy]

Hmm.. Thanks someone2!
I'll give it a try ASAP!

[zajako]

you can also use vbstats, and then use the vbstats include file to make the counters update.

also grabbing the global will work, but to make the whos online thing show a name of the pages instead of a url, you will need to add a few lines to the online.php file.