Removing Spiders from the Whos online!!!

[mcyates]

How can i remove the spiders from the whos online as i want to know th true amount of guests on my forum "real people"

[bondjetta]

AdminCP >> vBulletin Options >> Who's Online Options >> Enable Spider Display >> No

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by bondjetta

AdminCP >> vBulletin Options >> Who's Online Options >> Enable Spider Display >> No

That just doesn't tell you they are spiders, which is how it worked in vB2

[mcyates]

Originally Posted by Zachery

That just doesn't tell you they are spiders, which is how it worked in vB2

yeah i want it to recognise them and then remove them from the list. So the guest are all real people and not spiders

[bondjetta]

Originally Posted by Zachery

That just doesn't tell you they are spiders, which is how it worked in vB2

awww...i didn't know they changed that, but now i do

there must be a way to edit online.php right? if it wasn't so early on a Sunday i'd already have it up, let my brain warm up a minute

[bondjetta]

ok i haven't figured it out quite yet because i'm not sure what you still want to know about Spiders?

in online.php you could comment/delete out all the info about spiders obviously but if you did that they'd still show up as guests. So the solution will probably involve keeping them logged as Spiders but pulling the display in the whosonline/whosonlinebit templates...i just haven't figured it out yet i can make the name disappear but not the location/ip/useragent/etc gimme some time and i might be able to figure it out

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by bondjetta

ok i haven't figured it out quite yet because i'm not sure what you still want to know about Spiders?

in online.php you could comment/delete out all the info about spiders obviously but if you did that they'd still show up as guests. So the solution will probably involve keeping them logged as Spiders but pulling the display in the whosonline/whosonlinebit templates...i just haven't figured it out yet i can make the name disappear but not the location/ip/useragent/etc gimme some time and i might be able to figure it out

The real problem is that, everyone is a guest, regardless if they are a spider a not, and you only know that they are a spider because you have a few defined in the vB spiders list. If you didn't have them defined you would know, and if you dont keep these up to date you wouldn't be aware of any changes. Not to mention you might still have guests that are spiders that are not comon.

A Guest is just someone viewing your site who is not logged in.

[bondjetta]

Originally Posted by Zachery

The real problem is that, everyone is a guest, regardless if they are a spider a not, and you only know that they are a spider because you have a few defined in the vB spiders list. If you didn't have them defined you would know, and if you dont keep these up to date you wouldn't be aware of any changes. Not to mention you might still have guests that are spiders that are not comon.

A Guest is just someone viewing your site who is not logged in.

So there's no way to say "do not display guests we know are spiders" based on spidersenabled = true; ? :ermm:

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by bondjetta

So there's no way to say "do not display guests we know are spiders" based on spidersenabled = true; ? :ermm:

Well you can, It would be somewhere in functions_online i think.

meh i just do not see the benifit.

[mcyates]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Well you can, It would be somewhere in functions_online i think.

meh i just do not see the benifit.

thanks for your help in this guys!!