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]

Originally Posted by Schwarze Katze

I love the hack, but I've got a problem.

Example:
Right now I've got 50 members, 43 guest and 18 spiders.
On who's online it works for "all" and shows the right numbers.
When I choose "members" it says 50 members, -18 guest and 18 spiders.
When I choose "guests" it says 0 members, 25 guests and 18 spiders.
When I choose "spiders" it says 0 members, 0 guest and 18 spiders.

Can anyone confirm this?

I've got this bug fixed, but can't post the instructions until I can get home and compare my online.php with the stock one. It's an easy fix to make and I will post the directions ASAP.

Amy

[TTG]

Installed and works well on my 3.0.6

Thanks for the great hack .. clicked install

[TTG]

Originally Posted by TTG

Installed and works well on my 3.0.6

Thanks for the great hack .. clicked install

Mmm .. worked for 1 day and now all have all guests and no spiders ..?

[amykhar]

What version of vb are you using and did you check online.php to confirm that spiders are actually on your board? There are plenty of times when spiders aren't around.

[IceFanatic]

This isn't a high priority fix, but how do you move the comma over one space to the left? It looks wierd when there is a space between user name's like it currently is.

If I weren't so PHP stupid I may be able to do it myself.

Great hack btw.

[TTG]

Originally Posted by amykhar

What version of vb are you using and did you check online.php to confirm that spiders are actually on your board? There are plenty of times when spiders aren't around.

Found the problem and this may help other folks having problems in showing spiders in the stats. :banana:

Update Spider Identification Strings & Spider Identification Description in your admincp .. you can always find an up to date list of both here

[Kyderoy]

I installed the hack and when I view who is online I see this

Currently Active Users: 4 (1 members and 3 guests and [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders)

Why is it saying undefined spiders? Did I do something wrong?

[eva01_]

i can't remember which it is but either it is you didn't do the template change or you didn't change the phrase

[Kyderoy]

Figured it out...Thanks for the response

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by TTG

Found the problem and this may help other folks having problems in showing spiders in the stats. :banana:

Update Spider Identification Strings & Spider Identification Description in your admincp .. you can always find an up to date list of both here

Just to be clear, your problem wasn't a problem with the hack. It was a problem with the default, out of the box, behavior of vbulletin.

[TTG]

Correct .. amykhar .. no problems with the hack

[Acers]

hmmm i am having a prob with this hack. Have done exactly as given in text file.
Right now am getting

Currently Active Users: 7 (6 members, 1 guests and 0 spiders)
(on the main forum page in the whats going on field at bottom)

while if i click on who's online and see there, i see
6 members, 1 guests and 2 spiders

where the 2 spiders are the google spiders.

Hows that?
And i am dead sure i have done file edits properly.

(BTW i have removed the and in the phrase with comma,But that can hardly be the reason :P lol

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Acers

hmmm i am having a prob with this hack. Have done exactly as given in text file.
Right now am getting

Currently Active Users: 7 (6 members, 1 guests and 0 spiders)
(on the main forum page in the whats going on field at bottom)

while if i click on who's online and see there, i see
6 members, 1 guests and 2 spiders

where the 2 spiders are the google spiders.

Hows that?
And i am dead sure i have done file edits properly.

(BTW i have removed the and in the phrase with comma,But that can hardly be the reason :P lol

I can't verify the problem because your online.php is not available for guests to view.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Schwarze Katze

I love the hack, but I've got a problem.

Example:
Right now I've got 50 members, 43 guest and 18 spiders.
On who's online it works for "all" and shows the right numbers.
When I choose "members" it says 50 members, -18 guest and 18 spiders.
When I choose "guests" it says 0 members, 25 guests and 18 spiders.
When I choose "spiders" it says 0 members, 0 guest and 18 spiders.

Can anyone confirm this?

I am posting a fix for this problem here so that some more advanced coders can test the instructions before I replace the original text file. Please only do this fix right now if you are a coder and willing to test this code. (The code on my forums works. I just need to ensure I captured all the changes in the instructions.)

This fix requires undoing all changes you made in online.php and using the instructions in this file instead.

Amy

[lefthome]

The install appears not to have an adverse effect on any other part of my forum but I do have a minor problem and that is the last step regarding (vb 3.07):



In the template WHOSONLINE find:

2=?$numberguest?



Add after:

3=?$numberspiders?



Doesn?t exist in my WHOSONLINE Template and the closest things I can find is



<strong><phrase 1="$numbervisible" 2="$numberguests">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase></strong><br /><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase>

</div></td>



Or this:



<select name="who">

<option value="all" $whoselected[0]>$vbphrase[all]</option>

<option value="members" $whoselected[1]>$vbphrase[members]</option>

<option value="guests" $whoselected[2]>$vbphrase[guests]</option>

<if condition="$vboptions['enablespiders']">

<option value="spiders" $whoselected[3]>$vbphrase[search_bots]</option>

</if>

</select>



Assistance please?