Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This is a port of my 3.0.x modification. It shows, on your forumhome page, any spiders that are present (ones that show as a spider on your who's online page)

NOTE: If you are using a portal that shows who's online, this mod will mess up your portal. As of this date, I do not know of any working portals for 3.5 and I do not have the code to fix portals.

Please understand what this mod does before you start crying that it doesn't work. This mod will show any spiders who show up as a spider on who's online as a spider on the forumhome page. It will NOT show a spider who shows up as a guest on who's online as a spider. It does not add additional spiders to the list either.

PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ADJUST YOUR OWN PORTAL TEMPLATES SO THAT THE PHRASE DOES NOT CONTAIN AN ERROR.

[davidw]

I'm going to have to put this on hold for a while - I'll be away from my main system for a while so I won't have that much of a chance to work on it. If anyone else would like to pick up where I left off, please be my guest. I love to code and play with files and such, but if I don't have the time to work on it, I can't. I may just create a new phrase temporarily to show x members and y guests and spiders.

[Snake]

Ouch I hope you (or anyone else) won't keep us waiting for a long time.

[dmva83]

No rush or anything man, glad to see someone taking the initiative on it is all, I've gotten in everything you've posted, and now all the spiders still add to the guests on the front vbadvanced page, but at least the error is gone.

[Snake]

Originally Posted by christianb

Here's what I've got so far (trying to figure out how to get spiders recognized while my mind is concertrating on other things).

Thanks to Amy for her code that I borrowed on this current topic.

Onlineusers.php

Find:

PHP Code:

     if ($db->num_rows($getonline)) 


Add Above:

PHP Code:

       $numberspiders = 0;
    $numberguest = 0; 


Find:

PHP Code:

        $totalonline = $numberregistered + $numberguest; 


Replace With:

PHP Code:

        $numberguest = $numberguest - $numberspiders;
    $totalonline = $numberregistered + $numberguest + $numberspiders; 


Find:

PHP Code:

        $numberregistered = vb_number_format($numberregistered);
    $numberguest = vb_number_format($numberguest); 


Add After:

PHP Code:

        $numberspiders = vb_number_format($numberspiders); 


I coudn't find those edits in the online.php file. Something is weird going on in here.

[dmva83]

Originally Posted by Aftermath

I coudn't find those edits in the online.php file. Something is weird going on in here.

That is exactly what I was referring to in my first post in the thread..the onlineusers.php file is located inside the modules directory.

[Snake]

Ah my bad. Thank you for that.

[mfizzel]

wish there was a way to test if this works on my board without having to wait for a spider

[mfizzel]

that didn't take long...seems to be working great for me - FYI I used kirby's product

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by mfizzel

that didn't take long...seems to be working great for me - FYI I used kirby's product

But with Kirby's product, Spiders show as Guests on the forumhome and as Spiders in the Who's Onbline.

[Xplorer4x4]

I have not been able to produce a spider count period...using either Amys OR Kirby's hacks.