Who Was Online Today on forums

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What does this hack do?

It shows the users who visited your forums in the last 24 hours (or today). This hack works similiarly like the one released for vBulletin 2.

NOTE: If you want to show 'Who was online today' on a separate page from forumhome, then download instructions-newpage.txt and onlinetoday.php instead of instructions-regular.txt

Modifications

• 1 file modification
• 3 template modifications
• 0 queries to run

Features

• supports and uses phrases
• usernames are formatted properly
• invisible users only show to people who are supposed to see them (admins and whoever else you allowed)
• integrated (makes it so that the Who Was Online bar is now collapseable

Screenshots
Look below

Credits: Thanks goes to Mystics, where this hack is based on his

[good2laugh]

Originally Posted by good2laugh

I don't know what I'm doing, and I've just probably done something wrong .. but should I have all those asterisks, isn't it possible to just have user1, user2, user3, user4, (where user is their screen name)

I've (I hope) attached a screen grab.

I really would appreciate if someone can give me an "idiot type" guide to how to fix this... I really AM code stupid. Thanks if anyone will help.

it's not letting me attach for some reason... so here's kinda what it looks like - except it's spanning two coloumns and there are many more names than this, just added a few to demonstrate.

Most users ever online on a day was 278 on May 9th, 2004. | The following members have already visited the forums today:
1Gilly1 ****************************** , 1seasnbehind* ****************************** , a.fo ****************************** , a1lien1 ****************************** , acanthis* ****************************** , ajax ****************************** , akiraamk ****************************** , almiroty ****************************** , AmyMeara ****************************** , Angin17 ****************************** , Annie ****************************** , aquarius ****************************** , babyalz ****************************** , becc* ****************************** , Bertha ****************************** , Bev* ****************************** , bobbyg ****************************** , BodieM* ****************************** , Bren* ****************************** , Brenda ****************************** , breza25* ****************************** , cancankate ****************************** , caramgui ****************************** , carix ****************************** , Casper Hauser ****************************** , Catheeka ****************************** , cherryxf ****************************** , Cici814* ****************************** , cjxphile* ****************************** , colette* ****************************** , Colin_s ****************************** , Cuits ****************************** , D Gordon* ****************************** , daanii ****************************** , danafan ****************************** , Dannie ****************************** , dasku ****************************** , dcsmick ****************************** , debw* ****************************** , Diane ****************************** , dreamcatcher ****************************** , EllaK ****************************** , emmbright* ****************************** , En Ami ****************************** , estrellazul ****************************** , Eszcd30 ****************************** , EWirth ****************************** , flo73* ****************************** , FlyingCarpet* ****************************** , Foxmulder ****************************** , gadd1960 ****************************** , gadksfan* ****************************** , gillyfan2002 ****************************** , gillyfan2003 ****************************** , Gillytams ****************************** , gillywoz ****************************** , Goldberg ****************************** , grovesa16 ****************************** , Hansie ******************************

[jcbklyny]

I'm using VB 3.01 and everything installed fine. All looked good... until I realized that the Number of Active Users Today being displayed doesn't match up when you use IE and Mozilla... you get 2 different totals.

It seems like when the Number of Active Users Today resets itself at the end of the day IE takes a few hours to start counting again... while Mozilla works fine.

If you view the onlinetoday.php file in either browser there isn't a problem... it only happens when displaying on the forumhome in IE.

Any Ideas? If this was answered in a previous post, please... point me in the right direction.

I had to uninstall this until I get a fix.

Thanks
John

[derb]

nice hack !
could someone please tell me how to get the invisible users count into the totals ?
At the moment only the admin sees the correct one.

[derb]

Originally Posted by derb

nice hack !
could someone please tell me how to get the invisible users count into the totals ?
At the moment only the admin sees the correct one.

anyone ???

[Battle_Ring]

how come

Number of Active Users Today: 43
Most users ever online on a day was 43 on 05-24-2004.

that above liek reset every day anyone know how i can fix this
but then

Most users ever online was 135, 05-01-2004 at 12:58 AM.

[ctsolutions]

works near perfectly except that on my site, the usernames are NOT formatted properly. That means all the user are "plain text" no color, nu bold.

Can somebody help ?

Thanks
CtSolutions

[Banana]

Well, just downloaded and installed and it resets at midnight

Also, how does one update this with "old" world-records from the previous incarnation of this hack? I can update the datastore table appropriately BUT the current data is cached so the database update is ignored.........

[Banana]

Also (in addition to the above). My install also 'resets' each day at midnight. I've followed the instructions very carefully and re-checked. Does anyone have any clues as to why this might happen that I can investigate?

[nickels376]

It's a per-day reading, so it would reset at 12:00 midnight. Users based on that 24hr period.

-Dom

[Banana]

Sorry, obviously not clear, I mean it doesn't 'save' the most online in a day. So for instance if 100 visited yesterday and then (so far) 50 today - it says "The most users online ever on one day is 50 on Today." rather than "The most users online ever on one day is 100 on Yesterday".