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.

[ekool]

Would it be possible to integreat wildcard matching into this? For example, vbportals uses the same filename (module.php) to call other "modules" -- So, as far as i can tell there is no way to specifically list what they are doing.

The granularity stops at "Using External Module" -- on my site.

I would like to be able to say, do the following:

modules.php*Active_Topics* (which would be in the URL they are at)

This would be a nice addition.

[mfacer]

urgh.... i have tried everything to get my other pages on the site to show up in the whos online bit.... am i right in thinking it cant be done if the pages are outside the forum folder?

my set up is

domain.com/forum/

and all other pages are simply in the root folder. I installed this hack and added "../test.php" as a filename... I also added require("forum/global.php"); to the file... but that didnt like it cos it couldnt find "admin/conf.php" or something

any ideas what to do? ie: give up?! thanks...

[Oblivion Knight]

Still running flawlessly in 2.3.2, thanks Chen

[sabret00the]

does this work for complex url's like photoposts

/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=&stype=1&si=Konan&perpage=20&sort=1&stype=2&cat=500&ppuser=&friendemail=email@yourfriend.com&

will it automatically grab the username or userid and change the link in the wol to viewing [username]'s gallery?

[ronb]

i just installed this hack and am confused as to what it does. I see no changes and i followed the instructions. When i click on who's online i see alto of unknown locations. Is that correct since i saw this before i installed the hack.

[SVTBlackLight01]

[QUOTE=ronb]i just installed this hack and am confused as to what it does. I see no changes and i followed the instructions. When i click on who's online i see alto of unknown locations. Is that correct since i saw this before i installed the hack.

[KuraFire]

[QUOTE=sabret00the]does this work for complex url's like photoposts

/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=&stype=1&si=Konan&perpage=20&sort=1&stype=2&cat=500&ppuser=&friendemail=email@yourfriend.com&

will it automatically grab the username or userid and change the link in the wol to viewing [username]'s gallery?

[gspot]

[QUOTE=KuraFire]You can't use PHP in this hack, and it won't support dynamic URL's either. So no, it won't grab the username or id.

However, the vB3 version of this that I am currently writing, does allow you to use dynamic pages.

[glowinggal]

i'm with gspot - need this for vb3

[58sniper]

[QUOTE=glowinggal]i'm with gspot - need this for vb3