Add Who's Online locations from Admin CP

This hack was requested on vBulletin.com.

It lets you add possible locations to Who's Online, directly from the Admin CP.
This is good if you are using external hacks, that use vBulletin's system. You probably know that users browsing these external files have Unknown Location (or Main Index for non-admin viewers) next to them.

With this hack, you can easily add a new custom location with ease!
It's also designed in a way that won't let you overwrite existing locations. ('dummy protection' as I like to call it )

The locations you add are not stored in their own table, because I really felt that would be waste of space and resource.
Instead, I store the locations in the template table, in one special template dedicated to this data.
It was a lot harder to do it this way, btw.

Please let me know if you find any bugs, or if this script doesn't work with files in child folders (this is my main concern).
This can be easily remove (just undo changes to online.php), so please don't fear to try it out!

A nice screen shot is in my next post.

[GZ_Tanis]

Any word about a fix for this yet? I am still having the IP addy showing up in the email slot.

[CRego3D]

worked flawlessly for me .. (2.9.0)

[nymyth]

How can you go to a child directory ie:

http://www.jaydabhi.com/forums/index.php is where it goes but what if i have something like this
http://www.jaydabhi.com/photopost this does not lie within the forums directory, how can i take it down a notch???

Peace

ps..i tried what you guys said but it really doesnt work

[bharvey42]

I will install this if you can specifiy files in a child directory.

[-Sidekick-]

What do I have to do to be able to add a link to this from my Admin CP?

Cause it keeps coming up page not found. I'm guessing it has something to do with my session id getting added on at the end of the url?

[paratek]

Erwin, how do you handle the modules.php used in vbportal, or is this just not possible?

For example, how do i display the location for the download section of vbportal?

[kaotic]

[QUOTE]06-11-03 at 09:49 AM -Sidekick- said this in Post #205
What do I have to do to be able to add a link to this from my Admin CP?

Cause it keeps coming up page not found. I'm guessing it has something to do with my session id getting added on at the end of the url?

[Nebby]

[QUOTE]04-09-03 at 02:40 AM GZ_Tanis said this in Post #196
I know you hera this a lot but you can never hear it enough im sure but GREAT Hack. now I am having troubles at the moment tho.


I am running 2.3.0 I installed like you correctly I even went over it 3 times to make sure now the problem I am having is me being the admin of the forums I have the ability to see IP address. The thing is they are showing in the EMAIL slot of the Whos online page.

Everything else worked correctly I made the proper link to the UNKNOWN page i was having. But now Like i said I get the IP #'s in the email Table column, is anyone else havin this trouble? I have added a picture of the screen (i have removed the #'s of course) but you can see where they was.

Thank you for your time

[Intex]

Great hack firefly. Works well. Now just have to try and work out from all the posts how to reference files outside the forum root directory .

Update: Turns out directories are irrelevant - its just the filename that determines the display of who's online. It also turns out that this was in the posts here .

[high]* Intex clicks install.[/high]

[Frozen Dreams]

[high]* Frozen Dreams clicks install.
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awesome hack - been looking for this one