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

[LilTara]

I've got the same problem vLIMIT.... does anyone have a fix for this? *crosses fingers*

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*pops in a while later* I got a fresh copy of user.php and redid the changes on it. Works perfect.

I had very little problem and I'm running 2.2.9 Great hack!

[subu1]

hi, that was a great hack and it works on my 2.2.8. *Click install*

but i have a litle problem, in my Profil, ich have a double from this but it is only one in my member.php

auweia my englisch *g*

// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a)
if ($userinfo[away]=="1") {
$sincedate = vbdate($dateformat, $userinfo[awaydate]);
if ($userinfo[returndate]=="0000-00-00") {
$returndate = "Unknown";
} else {
$returnaway = explode("-", $userinfo[returndate]);
$returndate = vbdate($dateformat, mktime(0,0,0,$returnaway[1],$returnaway[2],$returnaway[0]));
}
eval("\$away .= \"".gettemplate("getinfo_away")."\";");
} else {
$away = "";
}
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a)

==========================================
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F1F1F1" colspan="2" align="center">
<normalfont><b>$userinfo[username] ist nicht verf?gbar</b><normalfont>
<br><smallfont><i>Grund: $userinfo[awayreason]</i></smallfont><br>
<normalfont>ab: $sincedate &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; zur?ck am: $returndate</normalfont>
</td>
</tr>

can you help me?



greetz/gr??e subu1

[leitel]

Excuse me, but does this hack run on 2.3?

[iggy123]

I tried it on 2.3 and i get a SQL error from the user.php

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

mysql error number: 1064

[Alien]

Can anyone confirm this working on a copy of 2.3.0?

[AlexanderT]

Installed it on a testboard running v2.3.0 final - no probs.

[AlexanderT]

... and *that* is why the very first post of this thread points to a new version (v1.2a) that takes all these changes you mentioned into account.

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

[Alien]

Great, I'll give it a whirl.

Any idea how many queries this hack adds by chance?

[Frozen Dreams]

I installed version 1.2a on a 2.2.9 ... and it works like a charm
thanks a lot

[Boofo]

Has anyone figured out a way of having this hack automatically set the user as back when their return date comes due?