AIM Online Status Indicator

Originally Posted by AdmiralB

I've downloaded quite a few hacks from these forums and thought that I should contribute one of my own (First hack and first post ever!)

I dislike the way that vBulletin sets up way you send AIM messages. You have to go from that pop-up window to the profile in order to IM someone by clicking on the icon. With this hack, the image will display whether or not the user is logged into AIM as well as opening the AIM IM window upon clicking the icon. To check whether the user is online, it checks with the AIM server. This only requires two file uploads (images) and a one-line file edit.

STEP ONE:
Upload the files aim_online.gif and aim_offline.gif to any directory.

STEP TWO:
Open up includes/functions_showthread.php and replace this line:

PHP Code:

        eval('$userinfo[\'aimicon\'] = "' . fetch_template('im_aim') . '";'); 


With this:

PHP Code:

        $userinfo['aimicon'] = "<a href='aim:goim?screenname=" . $userinfo['aim'] . "'><img src='http://big.oscar.aol.com/" . $userinfo['aim'] . "?on_url=http://yoursite.com/path/to/aim_online.gif&off_url=http://yoursite.com/path/to/aim_offline.gif' width='16' height='16' style='border: 0;' /></a>"; 


Make sure you change the url's in there to match the path to your images. The icons are attached.

Well, it's not much, but it is my first hack. Just a fun 'lil thing that makes your forum more convenient. I don't know if this can be done with MSNM, but if it's possible, I'll post a follow-up to this thread.

Feel free to edit the images as you like

Looks interesting. And simple! Thanks!

[pjdaley]

i get cha... yea

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by Host Directory

You can find images to use here - http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/usage.php just click on the different osi hosts. Although i have been advised not to use their service since it is hosted by third party individuals and the servers can often go offline or people just suddenly close the servers.

ya, that would be the problem. but you could set it up on your machine to run. your provider would have to allow you to run it on the server.

[Host Directory]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

ya, that would be the problem. but you could set it up on your machine to run. your provider would have to allow you to run it on the server.

Do you think running it on the server would be server heavy? Would it use a lot of bandwidth up?

[Slapyo]

not sure, i haven't run it on my server. but they had some forums on the site you might check there.

[Keyser S?ze]

great hack, clever and useful

[OCH-Stan]

nice lookin' hack!

[oliwood]

could someone implement this for MSN please, i need this for our company!!!

Please help!!!

[Oblivion Knight]

It's sadly not possible to do this with MSN (to my knowledge).
Dave2 from UBBDEV and myself worked on a similar hack to this for UBB.classic back in the 6.3.x.x days and we had it working for AIM, ICQ and Yahoo. If people are interested, I may try and port it sometime.

[Datenpapst]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

might want to check this out. might be able to some how incorporate this.

http://www.onlinestatus.org/hosting.html

What about ICQ Msg?

[turbidblue]

super easy install and works flawlessly!!

thanks!


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