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What does this hack do?

Using this hack, you can show who is currently on your forums from anywhere else on your website! The page, though, must be a PHP page.

If you want to display this information on another webpage by integrating it (which you'll probably want to

), just put

PHP Code:


			
<?php require_once("online.php"); ?>

or

PHP Code:


			
<?php



require_once("online_external.php");



?>

depending on the location of the online.php file

THE BELOW IS ONLY IF YOU ARE USING ONLINE.PHP

If you are using online.php, then this line of code MUST be at the top of the page!

If you don't want to show the total users online at the top of the page, though, then remove

PHP Code:


			
print $show;

and copy that to wherever you want to show the info instead (remember to surround this with PHP tags, such as:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



print $show;



?>

THE ABOVE IS ONLY IF YOU ARE USING ONLINE.PHP

Features

supports phrases!
option to display either usernames or a total number of registered members instead
only administrators can see users who choose to be invisible

Instructions

Download the attached online.php if you want to show invisible users to administrators, etc., or download online_external.php if you don't want to worry as much about things

, and follow these instructions:

Find

PHP Code:

$path = "./vb3/"; // path to your forums folder, normally /forum/

, change the ./vb3/ to whatever the path is to your forums directory
Find

PHP Code:

$showusernames = 0; // 1 to show usernames online, 0 to only show the number of users online

and change $showusernames to 1 if you want to display usernames, instead of the total number of registered members browsing

That's it!

misterfade · #52 08-10-2004, 10:08 PM

This hack is very good, but does anyone know how to show just the total number of registered members? I would really like this.

Thanks.

Toneboy · #53 08-11-2004, 07:17 PM

misterfade, if you know how to connect to your MySql database this query gets the registered number of users on your site:

PHP Code:


			
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user"); 

if(!($result)) { 

 print "Useronline Select Error > "; 

} 

$totalusers = mysql_num_rows($result);

echo "<p class=\"feed\"><b>Total members:</b> $totalusers<br />";

Very basic, seen in action here.

TYorke · #54 09-14-2004, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juanph

SKINVB

You have to
require the script first
then print show

I hope you understand that.

Baptizer....

I got the same thing...my solution...don't use online_external.php.

Instead use online.php

It took me a little bit but it worked...

ceck it out in my footer.

http://www.s3squad.com

Yup, I concur

It worked on my site as well...I added the require_once bit at the very top of my HTML page (even before the <html> tag) then, wherever I wanted to display the online info I just added the print command. Basically the code on your page 'should' look like:

<?php require_once('/path/to/script'); ?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
....

(somewhere on your page you may now add

<?php print $show ?>

Of course you have to name your page something like index.php (the extension is what matters here)

Hope that made it clear to everyone. Oh and yes, I am using online.php

TYorke · #55 09-24-2004, 06:03 AM

BTW is there any way of adding links to user profiles?

JAB Creations · #56 09-24-2004, 08:00 AM

Members names are linked on my vb and its slightly hacked. Are you asking ahead of time or do you not see your members linked?

TYorke · #57 09-24-2004, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JAB Creations

Members names are linked on my vb and its slightly hacked. Are you asking ahead of time or do you not see your members linked?

What vB? and no I don't see them linked.

Wordplay · #58 10-18-2004, 07:28 PM

is there a way to add the direct link to where the user is? because it just says on all the pages i added, that the member is viewing the startpage. no matter where they are.

Jag · #59 11-08-2004, 06:34 PM

I had to make a number of modifications to get this hack to work on my site (it's not very friendly with other scripts, changing dir, without changing back, not closing the mysql connection, etc... not good coding practices for something that's meant to work with meant other code).

However, after fixing it up, it works fine, and I've installed it

TMXS · #60 12-21-2004, 12:50 PM

I've installed the script and it works perfectly. Great job.

nicedreams · #61 01-06-2005, 11:08 PM

I'm able to get the online_external version working somewhat, but when it try to show usernames online, it always says (none). When i switch it to not show the user name, it shows the correct number of members online. What's wrong?

Jim

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