[VB3 RC3] Board Spent Time

This hack keeps track of how much time a user has been online at the
forums and adds it to the information in any of his posts, then any
other user can see if you have been 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day or even up
to years online at the forum.

Also this hack calculates an "average time online" in a very similar way to
how the average posts works.

Thanks to the people that suggested this hack in the request forum, it is
a really nice one and a very fun one too!

Keep in mind this hack will only start tracking the time that you are online once you install it, it has no way of knowing how much time you had been on the forums before.


*Update*: You can show the board spent time in your memberlist, then you can use your memberlist as a leaderboard. For this modification see this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=50


Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[ogetbilo]

Can you please update your insallation instructions for VB3.0gold?
I did everything what it says on your instructions. Now I have <1sec for all my users except 3.
Those 3 are showing 3 sec, 3sec, 5sec respectively and they are not updating.

[Anarchy]

yeah i would like it too

[Catch-22|BL]

Thanks for the hack!

I got the "total time spent" and "memberlist leaderboard" working so I am happy. I did not get the "average time" to work properly, so I just took it out of the postbit and can easily forget about it. Hey, in real life we must appreciate that two out of three is not bad!

[ogetbilo]

Originally Posted by Catch-22|BL

Thanks for the hack!

I got the "total time spent" and "memberlist leaderboard" working so I am happy. I did not get the "average time" to work properly, so I just took it out of the postbit and can easily forget about it. Hey, in real life we must appreciate that two out of three is not bad!

what is your version of VB3?
I could not get it working on VB3Gold.

[Vivi Ornitier]

this hack isn't workin for gold. I put it in my postbit_legacy template and it doesn't show anything

[Anarchy]

need it to work please.

[ogetbilo]

Kentaurus,
Can you please at least post a removal tool if you are not planning to make this hack work in vB3gold?

[007]

Awesome. Works perfect with my old timeonline column from VB2 Also works perfect on 3.01 if anyone's wondering.

[Eternal2u]

*Travels up to that sacred install button and quickly presses it*

Thanx. man..the mems on my board who live on it will EXTREMELY appreciate this.

[sean289855]

I thikn I have everything. The only thing I might not have done run rihgt run the SQL query. Can someone help me how I shoudl do this. That I know exactly if it is me.

[Deep Blue]

Well, it ran once, isnt updating times, any ideas? I'm stuck at something silly like 1 min 16 seconds!

[Mijae]

Originally Posted by HiDeo

Thanks I download and install now

Does this add a query to each page?

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by Mijae

Does this add a query to each page?

No, it doesn't. It uses the existing session query. It adds NO queries

[subu1]

works perfect on vb3 Gold thxxx and click install :-)

[Zylone]

It's installed on my forums and is working properly as you can see by visiting:

http://www.V6F150.com/forums and by viewing any thread.

I do have one problem however... there are a few members that visit daily yet their total time spent is stuck on a particular time 5 minutes say. another one of my admins has only 30 minutes yet he spends alot of time there as well.

It seems to be working fine for me and a bunch of other members but for some it is not working.

I know on a few it's not really working with is members who use AOL services. Maybe this could be a problem behind it?

How exactly does it calculate the time spent... cookies?