AJAX Who's Online

First off, this is my first modification. It's tiny, it's obvious, but I'm proud of it. I have Zero Tolerance to thank, he did give me some hints and tips.

Description:
This only refreshes the names of the users in the index page of the forums. Not the "currently online" number of users. It could say currently 4 users online, and there's a huge list of usernames.
I don't really see a need of a picture since there's no visual change. It only calls the names of the users currently online and removes them if they're offline without the need of refreshing the index page of the forums.

Edits:
1 Template to edit (FORUMHOME)
1 File to edit (index.php)

First the File Edit:
Open your index.php file in your forum directory.
Find:

// ### ALL DONE! SPIT OUT THE HTML AND LET'S GET OUTTA HERE... ###

Above add:

if ($_GET['do'] == 'online')
{
	echo $activeusers;
	exit;
}

Save, close, then upload index.php file to your forum directory.

Next, open your FORUMHOME template.
Find:

			<div class="smallfont">
				<div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase>

Above that, add:

<script type='text/javascript'>
<!--
function requestWhoOnline()
{
	doReqOnline = new vB_AJAX_Handler(true)
	doReqOnline.onreadystatechange(ReqOnlineDone)
	doReqOnline.send('index.php?do=online')
}
function ReqOnlineDone()
{
	if (doReqOnline.handler.readyState == 4 && doReqOnline.handler.status == 200)
	{
		fetch_object('whoisonline').innerHTML = doReqOnline.handler.responseText
		setTimeout("requestWhoOnline()", 60000)
	}
}
setTimeout("requestWhoOnline()", 20000)
-->
</script>

Now Find:

<div>$activeusers</div>

Replace with:

<div id="whoisonline">$activeusers</div>

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Since this is my first mod, I'd back up the files. Forgive me if this hack has already been done. I made a strict search and found no such thing. I decided to try to do it, and voila! Go me.

[Lea Verou]

Lol you're funny. I don't have a man in my life, huh? Probably you need to find a girlfriend. I can assure you I am pretty satisfied with my boyfriend for more than a year now and he surely is much more a "real man" than you seem to be.
So stop talking about issues you don't know just "in case" cause you seem ridiculus.

[NuclioN]

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

Great hack! Works perfectly. **installs**

I did add the code change for index.php as a plugin instead of hacking the file. It's the forumhome_complete hook.

Thanks!

That's strange. There's argue about the serverload and no one is asking for your method to avoid file editting. How did you code that?

[TyleR]

for a first hack, this is pretty dang good..Kudos, Sonikku

As for server load, people, vBulletin does it already..whats one more SMALL object going to hurt? Answer: nothing.

- Tyler

[NuclioN]

Strange thing happened. We have the spiders wol notition and when you refresh the page they're there but when this addon is refreshing...they are gone!

[Red Blaze]

NuclioN, It only calls "activeusers". I believe that they don't call out guests and spiders.

Borgs8472, The Who's Online page already refreshes on its own.

Moosa, I'll see what I can up with to put it on vBA.

o0oicebergo0o, I apologize, but you need to shut your trap. You're talking big saying that you don't want her talking to you, but here you are repling back to her. If you want her to stop talking to you, YOU have to stop talking to her. And you'd give back to the community by doing just that.

[Tony G]

Everyone who is flaming each other, please stop right now. This thread isn't intended for you to rip into each other like that. Got a problem? Use PM or contact each other outside the forums. That crap won't be tolerated here. Anymore further flaming posts will be deleted without warning.

Thank you.

Please do not start flame-wars in the middle of a hack thread, or any thread for that matter. If you feel like a hack may be too server intensive, then kindly notify the hack author and I'm sure he/she will notify users that the hack is not intended for larger boards...

Sonikku, this is just a official notification that this will increase server load dramatically for boards with a handful of active members...

[o0oicebergo0o]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Lol you're funny. I don't have a man in my life, huh? Probably you need to find a girlfriend. I can assure you I am pretty satisfied with my boyfriend for more than a year now and he surely is much more a "real man" than you seem to be.
So stop talking about issues you don't know just "in case" cause you seem ridiculus.

hey now, stick to the topic, the topic is this wonderful hack, please stay focused :nervous:

[EasyTarget]

don't be an idiot iceberg.. you're like the kid that has to do something one more time after they're told not to.

[o0oicebergo0o]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

don't be an idiot iceberg.. you're like the kid that has to do something one more time after they're told not to.

Being called an idiot dosen't really sit well with me. That's a very disrespectful thing to say and it trully just took a tool on my emotions. You need to grow up, fast. But I expect you to easily degrade someone within a shielded environment via binary. I'm sorry you feel this way about me without getting to know me, and i'm trully concerned for you eventhough this is a coding forum, in all honesty, mabey you should read this book

Anyway, how is your experences with the server load for this modification, especially people with 50 or more concurrent users.
For another idea, possibly a secondary modification since this idea is pretty neat, how about having the number of members currently online displayed at the very top of the page, or better yet, in the status bar of your internet browser which would update its self automatically every so many minutes. Just an idea.