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

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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.

[amykhar]

Support will be slow for the next couple of days. My home DSL is down and I can't spend a lot of time on the web at work.

[shadiguy1]

can anyone find out why it wont work with 3.0.3 i would relly like to use it . Thanks in advance.

[Couch]

Works Perfectly. Thank you

[richiepearce]

Originally Posted by shadiguy1

can anyone find out why it wont work with 3.0.3 i would relly like to use it . Thanks in advance.

I am using 3.0.3 and it works OK.

[Viks]

problem appears to be the syntax...not the mod.
try this
in line -> SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent,user.userid

there sud be a space between "session.useragent," AND "user.userid"

like below:

SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent, user.userid

Originally Posted by shadiguy1

this is what i get when i install it.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent,user.userid,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
FROM session AS session
LEFT JOIN user AS user USING (userid)
WHERE session.lastactivity >

ORDER BY session.userid

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY session.userid' at line 7

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 10th of February 2005 08:46:21 AM
Script: http://nextelelite.com/forums/index.php?
Referer: http://nextelelite.com/
Username: Shadiguy1
IP Address: 205.188.116.7

[amykhar]

I have the requested changes made. I am just testing them - need to wait for more spiders to hit my site.

[amykhar]

If you have spiders on your site now and are willing to try out raw code , please follow the directions in this text file AFTER you have installed the original hack.

I have not been able to verify that this works because the spiders aren't crawling in hordes at my site today. If you install this test code and need help, you must be willing to share your forum url and have the who's online page available to guests. I can't debug otherwise.

(Attachment removed and posted down below.)

[eva01_]

it wont let me edit the phrase O_o

[kall]

Originally Posted by amykhar

If you have spiders on your site now and are willing to try out raw code , please follow the directions in this text file AFTER you have installed the original hack.

I have not been able to verify that this works because the spiders aren't crawling in hordes at my site today. If you install this test code and need help, you must be willing to share your forum url and have the who's online page available to guests. I can't debug otherwise.

It works fine for me.

http://forums.nzboards.com

For now, unregistereds can view the who's online.

*edit* although...I have google showing up multiple times.

Originally Posted by forumhome.php

Most users ever online was 260, 06-Dec-2004 at 09:48 PM.
kall , google(1) , yahoofeedseeker(1) , google(2) , google(3) , google(4) , yahoo! slurp(1) , google(5) , yahoo! slurp(2)

*edit2*
And whosonline is spitting out the foul taste of an error:

Originally Posted by online.php

1 members and 16 guests and [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] search engine spiders

[eva01_]

curses why wont it let me edit the phrase ><!!!!

is it because we found a bug in vB when using safari?

[amykhar]

Kall, it won't work on the who's online page. I'll check your site to see what's going on.

[amykhar]

ok. I see the problem with the code. I'll fix it and update the text file.

[amykhar]

ok. The spiders are at my site and this seems to be working ok. I see there is a problem with the phrase on who's online. I will fix that either later tonight or tomorrow morning. I have to get ready for work now.

(Removed attachment and updated directions for the hack.)

[eva01_]

why do people ignore others with questions <_<

why can i not edit the phrase???

[amykhar]

Eva, I don't know why you can't edit phrases. It's something you should probably post a separate thread on.