Improved Who's Online Display

This hack is pretty straightforward: it provides more detail on the Who's Online? page. Here are some examples:

• Things like "Editing Buddy List" or "Editing Forum Options" are not accompanied by links. "Buddy List" links to the page to edit your own Buddy List, and so on with "Forum Options, "Ignore List," and a few others similar to that.
  
• Instead of "Sending Email to Another Forum User" or "Viewing the Profile of a Forum Member," you'll be told which user it is in both cases, and their username will be a link to their profile.
  
• Most significantly, IMO: no more vague "Sending Private Message" or "Reading Private Message" messages. Now you have the following:
  -- Reading a Private Message
  -- Reading a Private Message From You
  -- Replying to a Private Message
  -- Replying to Your Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message to You
  
  As you can see, this is much more useful, yet it still protects the basic privacy of each member. Cool, eh?
  
• "Viewing the Results of a Poll" now links you to the results of that poll, and the word "Post" in "Editing Post" is a link to the post being edited.
  
• The word "Attachment in "Viewing Attachmet in Thread Blah Blah Blah" is now a link to the specific attachment being viewed.

That's it, basically. I'm using it on my site: http://www.movieforums.net/online.php

It is *HIGHLY* recommended that you use vBHacker to install this hack, as it involves 14 code edits in one file (online.php)...automating that can save you a lot of time. Attached is an archive containing a vBHacker installation file, as well as a plain text instruction file. Enjoy.

[-=dm=-]

I have never noticed it before
today I installed u r hack and I was longtime on the whoisonline and suddenly I saw a private event title.

[Warlord]

Ok, I have added $DB_site to that string of code and I'm not getting any errors.. I'll have to see if the extras work as people use the different features....

For now, I'm clicking on install

[FleaBag]

Thanks for this hack Chris, installed manually in under 3 minutes on 2.2.5 and working brilliantly!

[Boofo]

I get an error in online.php in line 175 (or around there) when someone is writing or sending a private message. If they read it, it seems fine. The error starts on the line that begins with:

$pm = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT fromuserid FROM privatemessag

Any ideas?

[StealthAnime]

good hack, will install it right away

[TWTCommish]

Boofo: what error do you get?

[Boofo]

You'd have to ask me that. It gives me the error as I load the screen (or refresh it is how I first saw it). I call it the "white page error" where is tells me the line of code and file the error is in. The page won't re-load until they are out of it. I will try to catch it again and let you know.

[Boofo]

TWTCommish,

I finally got the error again tonight (this early AM actually). Here it is:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/virtual/site3/fst/var/www/html/forum/online.php on line 175

It happened right after they were "Reading a private message". Actually the message was from me (isn't it supposed to say "Reading your private maeesage"?). then I got the error and the page would not load. After about 5 refreshes, it re-loaded and then I had a box pop up for a new peivate message. The line in the error is the line that I told you about in my previous post about the error. Hope this helps!

[TWTCommish]

Ok, you can fix the error by replacing this:

PHP Code:

global $thread, $post, $forum, $event, $gotforum, $hideprivateforums, $bbuserinfo, $timeformat, $enableemail, $enablepms, $bbtitle, $usergroupdef, $numberguests; 


with this:

PHP Code:

global $DB_site, $thread, $post, $forum, $event, $gotforum, $hideprivateforums, $bbuserinfo, $timeformat, $enableemail, $enablepms, $bbtitle, $usergroupdef, $numberguests; 


[Boofo]

Ok, done! Will that also fix the problem of it not showing that they are Reading My Private Message (instead of just reading a private message) or just the error part? And are you going to update the install with this or do I need to copy it down somewhere?