Away message for users

Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).

Some demo captures:

The Edit Profile screen, when a user is NOT away:



The Edit Profile screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user is NOT away:



The postbit icon when a user is away:




How to install:

Download the attached zip file. Upload away.gif to your images dir (or create your own away.gif).

Upload install_awayuser.php to your admin dir and follow the instructions.

Cheers,

Bira

newest version by sho here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

[scsa20]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by aidler
OK, great hack. But why isn't there a detailed explanation what has chanced so one can do it manually. I upgraded to 2.2.6 and now I can't reintegrate the modifications for this hack into my templates because I don't know the necessary modifications. Now what??

[Boofo]

But isn't the code different in some spots that make it harder to compare? I have almost 60 hacks installed and it would scare the heck out of me to try and compare anything. That is the only reason I haven't upgraded. I would upgrade in a minute if I knew I wouldn't have to re-install my hacks.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by scsa20


before I upgraded mine, I used Beyond Compare to move over all my hacks

[Smoothie]

Xcellent hack! Long thread here to read thru all the extras, but well worth it.

[Boofo]

How would you add the away status to the member listing itself?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tarion



THX Bira wonderfully it works perfect.

[chr@nox]

w00t...great hack m8!!
many thanks

[update] WORKS GREAT

[thebigboss]

I installed this hack after I seen it working at Bane's site, talkloud.

The problem I have, is any user who date of birth is before 1970 has there birthday set to 1 january 1970 in the members under there details. If the year is omitted, the day and month are correct.

I don't mind a couple of years knocked off, but theres an awfull lot of oldies on my site born 1 January 1970

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

(Will post if I find the fix, as I noticed another member posted the same problem a few pages back and I've read this thread 4 times now and can't bring myself to searching through it again tonight) :laugh:

[Tarion]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boofo
How would you add the away status to the member listing itself?

[Boofo]

Thanks, Tarion, but I already have it in those 2 places. I wanted to put it in the meberlist itself (next to the name column). I also want it to show up in the private messages, if I can.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tarion


look at Post 92 and 93 there is the instructions to do that

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...810#post206810

[thebigboss]

I just checked the profiles on my live site and it doesn't have this hack installed.
The users who's birthdays are before 1970 (1969 and before) are all showing there DOB as 1 January 1970, so its over to vbulletin.com for me

I apologise for any chaos :ermm:

[Tarion]

sorry but with that feature i can't help you. I can coding PHP but in VB my knowlege is over, but i hope you found someone who can help you with this problem.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boofo
Thanks, Tarion, but I already have it in those 2 places. I wanted to put it in the meberlist itself (next to the name column). I also want it to show up in the private messages, if I can.