Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

-------------
This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[Polo]

Originally Posted by princessfrozen

just checking on the status of getting this working in vba cmps. i'm anxiously awaiting this before i install. thanks for your work on this hack amy.

Yes, I'm still interested too....

[biggkay]

Any word on it working with vba?

[Polo]

Originally Posted by biggkay

Any word on it working with vba?

yeah.. I'm still interested

[dsboyce8624]

Anybody who can fix this will be my hero! I want it for vBa too

:classic:

Seriously, those of us with vBadvanced would love you. Well, we'd llike you a whole bunch!

If somebody can do this, and won't because they're good people, I might spring a few dollars to get it done.

I haven't been at this long enough yet to do it myself.

Thanks,

[sdsvtdriver]

Ok, I have gone over the instructions again and checked my phrases, but I'm getting this on the whosonline page:

"1 members and 0 guests and spiders (Most users ever online was 99, 04-26-2005 at 10:40 AM.) "

The number is missing from in front of the spider variable.

http://www.domesticmuscle.com/dmforums/online.php?

ideas?

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by sdsvtdriver

Ok, I have gone over the instructions again and checked my phrases, but I'm getting this on the whosonline page:

"1 members and 0 guests and spiders (Most users ever online was 99, 04-26-2005 at 10:40 AM.) "

The number is missing from in front of the spider variable.

http://www.domesticmuscle.com/dmforums/online.php?

ideas?

You need to recheck it, it looks like the variable for the missing element is not correctly defined.

Dennis

[dsboyce8624]

As for me, I don't want to use this without vBa working. It looks ugly and I'm not able to modify the file myself. I had installed it, but I've since rebuilt from scratch and am now going to wait. I attached the file in a previous post, and I think it's a quick change to make it work. The file is small. But I don't have the skills.

Dennis

[smacklan]

To fix the display problem on vBa cmps do the following:

In the adv_portal_onlineusers template
find:

PHP Code:

2="$numberguest" 


and add after:

PHP Code:

3="$numspiders" 


This will get rid of the error message [ARG:3 UNDEFINED]

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by smacklan

To fix the display problem on vBa cmps do the following:

In the adv_portal_onlineusers template
find:

PHP Code:

2="$numberguest" 


and add after:

PHP Code:

3="$numspiders" 


This will get rid of the error message [ARG:3 UNDEFINED]

Okay, It got rid of the UNDEFINED error, but it doesn't show a 0 when there are no spiders:

2 members, 0 guests and spiders

Have to catch it when there is one on, damned yahoo almost 300 lastnight, nothing today.

I noticed there are two variables, $numberspiders and $numspiders, anything to do with it?

Thanks for helping.

[venomx]

If you look over on vbadvance site they gave me how to make it so it shows no spiders info on the CMPS...
Heres the link: http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5969