Who was online today [available in english & german]

Hack Name: Who was online today
Hack Version: 1.0.2
For vB Version:: 2.x
Originally Created by: genial @ Skats Board (Contact)
Documentation, Translation, a few changes and posted by: Mystics

Description:
This Hack adds something like the "Currently Active Users:"-Feature of vBulletin.
The difference is, instead of showing the users, who are currently online, it shows
all Users, who were online on a day and it also displays "Most users ever online on a day".

Summary of the Features:

• Shows "Number of Active Users Today"
• Shows "Most users ever online on a day"
• Shows last online time for each User while pointing the Mouse Cursor on it's name (=mouseover) in the list

Important: The Hack only works 100% correct, when each member is in the same time zone as the Server!

Files to edit: index.php
Templates to edit: forumhome
New Templates: forumhome_todayloggedinusers, forumhome_todayloggedinuser

I have attached the Install Instructions in a Text File.
The Instruction is in English and in German.

I will attach a Screenshot in a Reply to this Thread!

Post any Questions into this Thread!

Updates in 1.0.1: Inserted the two new templates into the template precaching (first step)

Updates in 1.0.2: Fixed a little Bug with the "Most users ever online on a day"-Count
(Replace '$maxusers[2] = $todayonline;' with '$maxusers[2] = $numbertodayonline;' in index.php)

Info: You can find an other version of this Hack here. In this other version the usernames of the members, who were already online today, are not shown on the Forum-Mainpage; the names are shown in an extra File (like online.php), onlinetoday.php (Screenshot).

So, depending on which version of the Hack you prefer, you have to download this:
Version with usernames on the main Site of the Forum

or this:
Version with usernames on extra site (onlinetoday.php)

Regards,
Mystics

[grace819]

Yup! Excellent hack!

[tinbin]

Prolly asked before in this huge thread, but i got a prob with this hack:
It shows "# of active users today : 0 " to about 1pm UK time.
After that it starts counting.
I've been told it resets about 7am.

Also i think it does not count every user as i'm sure there should be lots more listed.

Is this due to the server? As i've known a forum hosted on the same server (in the USA) and it worked fine there...

[Mickie D]

hi mystics first of i have used this hack for ages and it has always worked well for me

i just wondered if you was gonna do the update of this hack ??

or just add it so that the active users for today shows the guests aswell

thanks very much for the hack, i also understand how busy you are.... but adding a code for the guests to show up aswell would be fab m8

thanks
Mickie D

[Shawnn]

Unless you are an admin the Number of Active Users Today is: O. I hade it working with version 2.2.9 and upgraded to 2.30 and reinstalled the hack and can't get it show users unless you are logged in as an admin.

[Sanjiyan]

03-20-03 at 05:55 PM AlexanderT said this in Post #335
Actually, I changed the way to calculate local midnight in the snippet below. I think now everything is correct.

PHP Code:

$enddate = time();
$localdate = $enddate-(($timeoffset-$bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset'])*3600);
$date = getdate($localdate);
$day   = $date['mday'];
$month = $date['mon'];
$year  = $date['year'];
$midnight = mktime(0,0,0,$month, $day, $year);
$timepassed = $localdate - $midnight;
$startdate = $enddate - $timepassed;
  $todayusers=$DB_site->query("SELECT userid, username, usergroupid, lastactivity, invisible FROM user 
                WHERE lastactivity BETWEEN $startdate AND $enddate 
                ORDER BY username"); 


With this code, 'Number of Active Users Today' should display the correct number of active users since local midnight of the current user logged in.

What is still not taken care of different TZs is the 'Most users ever online on a day' part. With the current implementation of the hack, I don't think this is possible. Why? --

Imagine that in the timezone of your user, until 23:59pm you had 100 visitors on your board. Further imagine that all these 100 visitors visited at 23:50pm (your time). Finally imagine that this is the greatest number of visitors your board has ever seen in one day. So for you, that is for your user and all other users in your timezone, 'Most users ever online on a day' is 100.

So far so good. Now imagine that at 00:10am your time 10 more users logged in. For you, 'Most users ever online on a day' should be still 100, namely from the day before. However, for another user whose timezone is e.g. -1, 'Most users ever online on a day' is now 110, since he still hasn't reached midnight (it is 23:10pm) for him. As a result, the variable holding the Most users contains 110 now. And that means also for you, who is already in the next day, 'Most users ever online on a day' is suddenly 110. You see the problem?!

Greets
Alexander

Where do you put this code?

[AlexanderT]

I attached the edited who-was-online-today.txt. You can compare it to the original who-was-online-today.txt to see where the changes apply in case you want to use the extra-window version.

Greets

[Kaelon]

Have any of you experienced heightened load with this hack? I installed it, but I noticed a slight peak with it. Any tips?

Kaelon

[Sanjiyan]

Yesterday at 03:57 PM AlexanderT said this in Post #351
I attached the edited who-was-online-today.txt. You can compare it to the original who-was-online-today.txt to see where the changes apply in case you want to use the extra-window version.

Greets

I dont use the extra window version, but the version that makes the information appear on the main forum index page, ie below the Who's Online (Currently Active Users)

[FFArmageddon]

"Still in index.php, find this:
-------------------------------------------------------------
if ((int)$maxusers[0] <= $totalonline) {
$time = time();
$maxloggedin = "$totalonline " . $time;
$DB_site->query("UPDATE template SET template='$maxloggedin' WHERE title='maxloggedin'");
$maxusers[0] = $totalonline;
$maxusers[1] = $time;
}
-------------------------------------------------------------"

I cannot find that in index.php 0_0

[Sweet Cheeks]

I installed this awesome hack and its a bit big for our board, is there any way to edit it or maybe just another way to maybe show who has been online in the past 5 minutes instead?

Thanks for your help, either way, I'll use the hack, I was just curious how I'd do the past 5 minutes, thank you :banana:

[Radgam]

I seem be having a rather strange problem with this hack although it's worked fine up until today. Problem:

My board says "Number of Active Users Today: 0" all the time! I've not changed the coding, or the database, or the templates in ANY way but it's just stoped working. Could it be some sort of server screw up? I rechecked all the code for the hack just to be sure and it's unchanged.

I keep checking and other people have definetly been online but it's just not showing up. Infact, it doesn't even show me as being online!

[:: edit ::]
Just for good measure - http://www.gnrforum.com/phpinfo.php
And it now works again after not having worked all morning
:dead: i hate computers!

[XFLBret]

is there a way to modify this hack so that it shows members who browse the board invisibly?

[gc1]

I am a dork and my eyes are bugged out from reading, but could somebody tell me why all my users online today are listed twice in my list?

:beard:

[Floris]

Check your template, maybe you have it pasted twice on creation.

[gc1]

your probably right, will do it tomorrow

MUST GET SLEEP :disappointed:

Thanks for the speedy response


GC