I've seen a few users asking about how to add the list of Currently Active Users to their own vB page. Below I document the lines of code you must add after creating your own page using one of these articles - How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates) or [How-To] vBulletin API Basics: Creating Custom Pages & Misc. This article only documents what to add to a working page in order to get your Currently Active Users. You should make sure your page is working first before adding this code. I'll refer to your working page as test.php and the template in your working page as 'TEST'.
Instructions
Open your working php page and ADD the maxloggedin template to the specialtemplates array (your maxloggedin users will get reset all the time if you don't add this - I learned that the hard way!):
PHP Code:
// get special data templates from the datastore $specialtemplates = array( 'maxloggedin', );
ADD the forumhome_loggedinuser template to the globaltemplates array so it looks like this:
PHP Code:
// pre-cache templates used by all actions $globaltemplates = array( 'TEST', 'forumhome_loggedinuser', );
Then ADD the functions_bigthree.php to the required files list so it looks like this:
If you are creating this page outside of your normal vb forums directory, you should change directories prior to requiring these files. It would then look like this:
Then open your index.php page and COPY the code between the following START and END lines. Paste these lines into the main part of your page. (You might want to copy this code from a default index.php if you have modified your index.php page.)
START with:
PHP Code:
// ### LOGGED IN USERS ################################################# $activeusers = ''; if (($vbulletin->options['displayloggedin'] == 1 OR $vbulletin->options['displayloggedin'] == 2 OR ($vbulletin->options['displayloggedin'] > 2 AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])) AND !$show['search_engine']) {
I mean how to make it shows users currently viewing this Page, not who is online global.
Something like:
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (1 members and 0 guests)
mokujin
Thanks
You want to add a list to the bottom of your vB page that lists all the users currently viewing this particular page? I do not know. That would be the subject for another article, I imagine. (I'm guessing it would be very similar to how this is done only you copy the code from the showthread page instead of the index page.)
Can I have something like this in my every header? I just photoshopped the attachment.
I suppose you could, but this article won't do it for you. It will only make the information available to your template, not your header. I think you'd have to plugin to a hook location like global_start in order to do the query to have the numbers spit out in the header.
You will need to start a thread about it. I'm not certain how well I can help you since it's something I've never really looked into, but hopefully someone can help.
08-05-2008, 10:00 PM
10-30-2008, 11:48 PM
