Away message for users

Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).

Some demo captures:

The Edit Profile screen, when a user is NOT away:



The Edit Profile screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user is NOT away:



The postbit icon when a user is away:




How to install:

Download the attached zip file. Upload away.gif to your images dir (or create your own away.gif).

Upload install_awayuser.php to your admin dir and follow the instructions.

Cheers,

Bira

newest version by sho here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

[poolking]

I have got this hack working under 2.2.8

Now how do I get the away info from the user profile to also appear in the postbit template?

[Blago]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by poolking
I have got this hack working under 2.2.8

Now how do I get the away info from the user profile to also appear in the postbit template?

[poolking]

In the modifyprofile template find

$birthday
$customtext

and after them add

$awaytext

Then the away fields will appear in the edit profile, It had me scratching my head why it wouldn't appear in any of my other styles.

Still waiting for an answer to the postbit question.

[adriandaz]

thanks, installed successfully on 2.2.8 no problems

[Webster Media]

I keep getting a parse error on line 266 of admin/functions.php. I have read almost every thread in this post, and have not had any luck.

I am running vB version 2.2.8, and any help you guys could give me would be great.

Line 266 of functions.php is this:

} else {

Which shouldn't matter, but this is the part I am questioning:

if ($buddy['lastactivity'] > $datecut and (!$buddy['invisible'] or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 6) and $buddy['lastvisit'] != $buddy['lastactivity']) {
$onoff="on";
} else {
$onoff="off";
}

EDIT: Just installed the version made for 2.2.6, and this one did not work either. Got same error message.

Regards,
Nick B.

[Sho]

Try https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

[NTLDR]

Follow the instructions carefully, this hack works fine on vB 2.2.8.

[Sho]

The original version certainly does not work on 2.2.6 and 2.2.7, which is why I re-released this hack with updated and corrected instructions. You can find a list of errors and their corrections both in this thread, as well as in the new. See link above.

(Edit: Whoa. Just noticed that both threads were merged.)

[SemperFidelis]

Ok
On vb 2.2.9 once applying Sho updated version of the hack, I am now getting a blank page returned when trying to access usercp.php

Here is a snippet of the code from there regarding the required changes:

Change #1

PHP Code:

// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a) (Start Code Replaced)
// Here is the original :
//   $sql="SELECT userid,username,invisible,usertitle,lastactivity,lastvisit
//      FROM user
//      WHERE (user.userid='$buddyuserssql')
//      ORDER BY username";
// Here is its replacement :
   $sql="SELECT userid,username,invisible,usertitle,away,lastactivity,lastvisit
      FROM user
      WHERE (user.userid='$buddyuserssql')
      ORDER BY username";
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a) (End Code Replaced) 


Change #2

PHP Code:

// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a) (Start Code Replaced)
// Here is the original :
//  if ($buddy['lastactivity'] > $datecut and (!$buddy['invisible'] or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 6) and $buddy['lastvisit'] != $buddy['lastactivity']) {
//  {
//    $onoff="on";
//  } else {
//    $onoff="off";
// Here is its replacement :
  if ($buddy[away]=="1") {
      $onoff="away";
  } else {
      if ($buddy['lastactivity'] > $datecut and (!$buddy['invisible'] or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 6) and $buddy['lastvisit'] != $buddy['lastactivity']) {
        $onoff="on";
      } else {
        $onoff="off";
      }
  }
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a) (End Code Replaced) 


Any help with getting this sorted would be greatly appreciated.

[vLIMIT Sandman]

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: SELECT userid
FROM user
WHERE username='Peter'
AND userid <>
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Monday 13th of January 2003 05:13:39 AM
Script: http://www.inthebackground.com/forum...admin/user.php
Referer: http://www.inthebackground.com/forum...=edit&userid=6

That was what i got when trying to update someone from the admin cp.