Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[amykhar]

Kall, it won't work on the who's online page. I'll check your site to see what's going on.

[amykhar]

ok. I see the problem with the code. I'll fix it and update the text file.

[amykhar]

ok. The spiders are at my site and this seems to be working ok. I see there is a problem with the phrase on who's online. I will fix that either later tonight or tomorrow morning. I have to get ready for work now.

(Removed attachment and updated directions for the hack.)

[eva01_]

why do people ignore others with questions <_<

why can i not edit the phrase???

[amykhar]

Eva, I don't know why you can't edit phrases. It's something you should probably post a separate thread on.

[eva01_]

bah thanks anyways. didn't know if you would know or not. wasn't going to post a new thread if it could be answered here

thank-you ^^

[amykhar]

OK. The online.php bug is fixed and I have updated the install instructions to include the requested features. I have also uploaded a new screen shot that reflects how the hack works now.

Finally, I am moving this out of beta. I believe it's done and all is well.

[eva01_]

hmm i am still getting that
"2 members and 0 guests and [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders"

don't know if you meant by fixing the online.php bug this or not....

everything else works great for it

[lifesourcerec]

I still get this
"[ARG:3 UNDEFINED]"

But I edited the phrase.

[Boofo]

I ran into a unique problem. If there are no spiders online it doesn't show a 0 for the spiders. It just says "and spiders".

I also added some code to not show a (1) if there is only one instance of a given spider. If there is more than one it will show (2) or however many there are.