Improved Who's Online Display

This hack is pretty straightforward: it provides more detail on the Who's Online? page. Here are some examples:

• Things like "Editing Buddy List" or "Editing Forum Options" are not accompanied by links. "Buddy List" links to the page to edit your own Buddy List, and so on with "Forum Options, "Ignore List," and a few others similar to that.
  
• Instead of "Sending Email to Another Forum User" or "Viewing the Profile of a Forum Member," you'll be told which user it is in both cases, and their username will be a link to their profile.
  
• Most significantly, IMO: no more vague "Sending Private Message" or "Reading Private Message" messages. Now you have the following:
  -- Reading a Private Message
  -- Reading a Private Message From You
  -- Replying to a Private Message
  -- Replying to Your Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message to You
  
  As you can see, this is much more useful, yet it still protects the basic privacy of each member. Cool, eh?
  
• "Viewing the Results of a Poll" now links you to the results of that poll, and the word "Post" in "Editing Post" is a link to the post being edited.
  
• The word "Attachment in "Viewing Attachmet in Thread Blah Blah Blah" is now a link to the specific attachment being viewed.

That's it, basically. I'm using it on my site: http://www.movieforums.net/online.php

It is *HIGHLY* recommended that you use vBHacker to install this hack, as it involves 14 code edits in one file (online.php)...automating that can save you a lot of time. Attached is an archive containing a vBHacker installation file, as well as a plain text instruction file. Enjoy.

[Boofo]

Yeah, I found out about the missing $DB_site in global totally by accident when I suddenly got a fatal error one time. I had been using the hack with no problems for about 2 months then all of a sudden, I got the error. There were two of us that were in the 2 spots to trigger it only that one time. It had never happened up until then.

[Herman]

I had the same problem as that other guy.

File edit number 1:
The code needed was not found in the online.php file.
File edit number 2:
The code needed was not found in the online.php file.
File edit number 3:
The code needed was not found in the online.php file.
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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.
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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.
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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.
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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

File edit number 8:
The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

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The code needed was not found in the online.php file.

[cirisme]

I love this hack.

[Elentari]

Works like a dream with Slynderdales fixes Thanks!!

[FleaBag]

I was getting the same problem with viewing a profile and then the online.php file. I'll apply the fixes right away - thanks!

[Alien]

This working with 2.3.0 (with fixes) now too?

-Jason

[Intex]

Installed and works without any problems. Thx for the hack.

/me clicks install.

[kirupa]

Thanks! This hack is really great. After incorporating all the fixes that members posted, the Who's Online feature works like a charm

Does this work for 2.3.0 ? Looks to be an awesome hack!

[Kriek]

Flawless via 2.3.0

/me clicks install