UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Who's Currently Online

Ok, this is definantly beta, but appears to be working. So, I'm gonna release it as beta since I hate documething stuff and answering tons of questions.

Get the hack here: http://www.arlo.net/ubb/whoonline.txt

If this thing works, it might just be one of the better hacks around at the moment

I'll try it and give you guys some feedback

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

It's a very good hack!!

It doesn't work for me ;((
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
It always says 'no one else is online'.

Thanks in advance.

I'll test it out for the older versions. 5.39b. Lets see if this bad boy will work.

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I wish I were a Canuck
All they have to do is drink beer, play hockey, and say "Eh"

* No offense meant to any Canadians

One thing to note... it remove's YOUR name from the list when you view it. So, if you are the only one around, you will see "there is no one else around". Other people will see you though...

If you would like it to show your name remove the following line from the "GetOnlineUsers" subroutine:

if ($name eq $cookie{'UserName'}) { next; }

I'm hoping you come through Atom911. Since releases after 5.42 had some major cookie code changes and consolidation, I'm unsure it will work. I have too many hacks to start over so soon with 5.45 coming out. If 5.45 doesn't get many features I may stay with 5.42 a little longer.

BTW, I just noticed all the light bulbs stay on for me on this board...Cookie related?

Dave's light bulbs work okay though.

Yea I added it to this board also. It seem like there is no bugs at the moment. Music Global Network why don't you make a backup of ubblibery.pl and try it to see if it will work. It should just replace the admin cookie section with what it has. It is the same but modtifyed version of the cookie section as 5.44. It shouldn't be a problem.

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I think I got it to work in 5.42. I had to keep the existing get cookie subroutine though. See it in action here!



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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

Strangely enough I can't find the get_cookie routine in ubb_library (5.43a)

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

Could it work for freeware????


and the arlo.net link is broken

For people who have got 5.43 or lower. Try editing in cookie-lib.

Thanks for the tip Slasher

I wonder if I even need it in ubb_library for version 5.42 now?



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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

sounds really cool!

can't wait to play around with this

Okay, now the fun part. Where should the code be added for the forumdisplay.cgi? Any ideas?

BTW, I found this cool icon that seems to fit this hack perfect...

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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

Michael,

I have mine right after the following code in 5.44 (not sure if other versions are the same):


and here is what I added in right after it:


This will not write them to the file if they are browsing a private forum. I did this because of the addon script I'm working on which will display where in the forums they are (using the info you pass to the WriteUserSession routine), and I don't want people knowing who has access to private forums.

Dave,

Version 5.42 has that code. I added what you suggested above. Thanks, this script is great! Can't wait until the addon script is ready.


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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

Haven't gotten it yet(haven't tried yet >:0) Had some paying jobs that i had to take care of first, haha.

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I wish I were a Canuck
All they have to do is drink beer, play hockey, and say "Eh"

* No offense meant to any Canadians

Works on 5.3* versions too

Having a problem with this hack in version 5.40... I changed everything in the Ultimate.cgi like you said, and made the changes to cookie-lib instead of ubb_library.pl (since my version doesn't have the get_cook sub in the ubb_library.pl). However, when I load ultimate.cgi, it gives me no message at all. The column is made, and it says "users currently online", but there is no message saying that people or online or not.

Also, I noticed that no online.cgi file was made in my members directory.

Any idea what might be going on? Thanks.
http://www.quantum9.com

Does it work on freeware????????????????????????????

Dr. Dollarz -- can you please asking if hacks made for the license version work for the freeware. The obvious answer is no. The freeware and the licensed version are nothing alike internally, well, they are, but not enough for hacks to be compatible. So NO this hack does not work for the freeware.

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I wish I were a Canuck
All they have to do is drink beer, play hockey, and say "Eh"

* No offense meant to any Canadians

only people who are on the main page show up in that box. whats the code for adding forumdisplay and posting etc?

If you look at the previous messages you'll see where I posted where you can put it in forumdisplay.cgi - any other place is left up to you to figure out. There are literally quite a few places where you could put it, but I don't want to spend all my time documenting that part of the hack... it's easy enough to figure out.

Ok, I've got a rough first cut at the addon "Who's Online" script. First thing though... I made a minor change in the "GetOnlineUsers" subroutine, to help with this addon script. If you installed today (Sunday) you shouldn't have a problem just adding the addon, as I updated the instructions. If not, check the routine for the lines in bold below:


If you want to make sure, just replace the entire "GetOnlineUsers" subroutine with the one above.

Now, the addon script can be gotten at: http://www.arlo.net/ubb/cgi-bin/online.txt and you can see it in action at http://www.arlo.net/ubb/cgi-bin/online.cgi Just grab the script, save it in your CGI directory, and rename it online.cgi.

Feel free to link it in however you want. I just made the "Currently Browsing the Boards" text a link to the script (in Ultimate.cgi).

Sweet!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a bunch Dave! I have it working. I added a link that says "Click here for detailed view" next to the "Currenly Browsing the Boards" text. Now I just need to clean up my Default Footer that I noticed you took advantage of (Great Idea).

Here's mine working on version 5.42

Now off to bed.

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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

Very Cool!

But,
It won't pick up the category text color! It stays black, and my text is white.

Thanks in advance!

Dear Dave Downin ,

I have UBB 5.42a and i can't know how can i put this hack script in it i mean in ubb_library.pl i can't find "get_cookie" and i don't know what can i do and really i like this script and i hope it work in my ubb please sir help me A.S.A.P

Regards

Add Dave's get_cookie routine after this code. Also replace the entire cookie-lib code with his ge_cookie routine.


sub GetCookieInfo {($junk, $Domain) = split(////, $CGIURL);($TheDomain, @junk) = split(///, $Domain);$ThePath = join("/", @junk);}



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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

How about a little twist on this hack?

How about an option to show X number Members are Browsing the Forums instead of names, and this could be pasted into a site's Front Page or wherever they want to put it?

Possible?

COOL! Thank YOU!!

How can this be used in a non UBB page/script like a Front Page generated page?

PS...I've tried inserting this code (in Ultimate.cgi) and it won't format properly. The entire code is visible, and it doesn't show the # of users.

This hack can be made to work in the freeware version,aslong as you have a cookie hack already installed.

BTW this is a great hack Dave,you have done a supreme job.

Thanks,Chicken

Here's some extra guidance for the X number of users browsing in the forums. Maybe it will help someone since I had to twittle around some. Click here to see it on my site

First I replaced Dave's "addon" forumdisplay.cgi code above:

&get_cookie;
$online_url = "$CGIURL/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=$ForumCoded&number=$number&DaysPrune=$DaysPrune&LastLogin=$LastLogin";
if ($LWA ne "private") {
&WriteUserSession("$Forum");
}

With this code

&WriteUserSession("Main Page");
$tot_browsing = @found;
$ForumCoded = &HTMLIFY($Forum);
$ForumCoded =~ tr/ /+/;
&get_cookie;
$online_url = "$CGIURL/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=$ForumCoded&number=$number&DaysPrune=$DaysPrune&LastLogin=$LastLogin";
if ($LWA ne "private") {
&WriteUserSession("$Forum");
}

Note: I did not use the $tot_browsing++ variable, since I am using the option to display myself online. It seems to increment the variable +1

Next, in forumdisplay.cgi find the following code:

MGN,
Thanks for the help, but i'm confused now. (not a programmer here)

Perhaps it would be helpful to everyone if someone could document this part of the hack for both with and without the "View Self" option, and where to put the proper code in forumdisplay.cgi and ultimate.cgi.

It would be most appreciated.
Again, thanks to all for this GREAT hack!

Thanks, but, I actually have little idea of what I'm doing...It wouldn't surprise me if I'm mucking up something. It's hard to learn any other way though.

Dave's code is based on the default of not showing yourself on-line. My personal feelings is that the final code/documentation should only "show you on-line"..it's much less confusing this way and who cares if you can see yourself, everyone else can.

Anyway, if you read Dave's txt file you can easily see what 1 line of code to delete to make it show yourself on-line in addition to others that can already see you.


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Michael Butterfield
Music Global Network
http://musicglobalnetwork.com

NBA Austin - If you're still having trouble getting the colors to work in the tables, try putting the table and font color commands before the "colspan" tags. Worked for me.

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Webmaster Van Halen Links.com
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UBB Moderator
http://www.scriptkeeper.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

Thanks Slurpee!

Hello..

I have a big problem in cookies , once when a script need the cookies and wanting to display the name of the member if the name was in english letters it works just fine, but if the name of the member was in arabic letter i get RABISH (some thing not readable).
is there file which i can by pass to avoid this in cookies .
In few words if i want to install the private message code hack at the bottom if the forum appears [MemberName] you have of messages i mean [MemberName] if it was in english letters there is no pproblem but if the member name was in arabic letters i get [un understandable words] (RABISH) like this %34%&43%&%%!36%$%$7& please help me

So far this hack is great...
Question:
When you click to see where a member is, it never show anything but "Main Page". Will there be an add-on to show EXACTLY where a member is? Now THAT would be REALLY cool!

Thank you all for the hard work. It's appreciated!