Guests show up as 'Guest' in the forumhome whois online list

Guests show up as 'Guest' in the forumhome whois online list - vBulletin 2.2.6 - Jake's third hack. wOOp!

About: This hack will list all guests as 'Guest' on your forumhome whois online list.

Indications: forums needing the appearance of more traffic.

Directions: one small file mod and one small template mod. see attached file.

Demo: my site @ http://www.macsubculture.com/

[Dade]

Nice.

[Webmasta XT]

very nice hack I was about to realse mine, but oh well..

[Webmasta XT]

there is a bug in urs.. I had 3 Active users, and those were my 3 members and it showed a Guest in the online.. even after my 3 members that were online!

I think I should realse the one I was gonna realse.. :cheeky:

[xware]

The click 'Guest' should be linked to the register page.

[Jakeman]

Originally posted by Webmasta XT
there is a bug in urs.. I had 3 Active users, and those were my 3 members and it showed a Guest in the online.. even after my 3 members that were online!

you had zero guests but the list showed one? that means ' ' is less than 0 ??? try changing $guestcount = ' '; to $guestcount = 0; ... unless 0 is less than 0 in php

please let me know if that works. i will test it as soon as i get a chance. if it doesn't work i can fix it by adding an if statement to check for $numberguest==0, but that's just more code to process.

Originally posted by xware
The click 'Guest' should be linked to the register page.

the links for 'Guest' are the same as on the online.php page. i did this on purpose. you can change this by creating a new template called forumhome_loggedinguest with the same contents as forumhome_loggedinuser except you change the link to go to the register page. then in your index.php file...

change:
eval("\$activeguests .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinuser')."\";") ;

to:
eval("\$activeguests .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinguest')."\";" );

that should work

[Webmasta XT]

just for your sake I won't realse my version, its kinda smililar but urs have one bitty problem.. and if you want me to I can realse it in this same thread, with that problem fixed!

[Jakeman]

for my sake? you can release yours if you want, that's fine. that bug is fixed though.

[Robouk5]

nice hack. I doubt i'll use it though since it clogs up whos online hehe but nethertheless, good hack =)

[Jakeman]

i found and corrected another oversight. when there are only guests on the forums the whois online list starts with a comma. i have fixed this and updated the download file in the first post. the change is in the additional code in forum/index.php