Users Online Today

[Ross]

I know this has been a long awaited code, and I'm not surprised it's taken someone so long to get around to doing it with the amount of trouble it's given me. I just hope you appreciate it

Anyway, what this code does is adds an extra section to your info center containing a list of members who have been active in the last 24 hours. But how is this possible? Well the information is stored on a server-side database which I am Chris is providing. In order to comply with the ProBoards TOS, I have had to put in a number of security type features which prevents invisible users from being displayed, this is mainly done through the use of cookies.

Anyway, enough about that, here's the actual code.

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<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
/* users online today v2
    coded by ross of 101support.proboards43.com
    special thanks to chris of studiozero.proboards44.com for hosting it
    not to be reposted anywhere
    main footer */

// Edit this variable if you want to use a different image.
var icon_url = "http://s1.images.proboards.com/online.gif";

function include(action, file) {
    var forum = location.href.replace(/^http:\/\/(www\.)?/, '').split(/\./);
    forum = forum[0] + forum[1];
    var action = '&f=' + forum + '&' + action.replace(/%/g, '%25');
    var file = (file)? file : 'users_online_today.php';
    var new_script = document.createElement('script');
    new_script.type = 'text/javascript';
    new_script.src = 'http://iycatacombs.com/ross/users_online/' + file + '?' + action;
    document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(new_script);
}

if(location.href.match(/\.com\/?(index.cgi)?\??(&?action=home)?(#.+?)?$/) && !document.postForm) {
    include('', 'v2.js');
} else if(document.modifyForm) {
    document.cookie = 'activity_logged=false;';
}
//-->
</script>



Note 1: This code will not work with other complete info center remodels like Ultimate Info Center, Info center 102 or MYOIC. At this time I have no intention of adding support for these info centers because of how fragile this code can be, it wouldn't take much for the users to not show if it takes slightly too long to load the data. However, that should not stop other coders from using this code to send/save/retrieve the users online data and then writting it into their own info center.

Note 2: If you are upgrading the code on your forum, please remember to remove the old Header section.

Note 3: This version uses a completly different database system to the last one. Therefore, if you are updating your code, the users online in the past 24 hours will not be shown as the information is not avaliable.

Note 4: A recent update has been made to fix issues with the code not displaying on some pages and not always logging some users.

Special Thanks to Chris aka CD for Hosting the Code

[ME!]

It doesnt seem to record users if they have the same ip address. :/

i tried the updated on at PBS too.

[Ross]

dregondrahl said:

It doesnt seem to record users if they have the same ip address. :/

i tried the updated on at PBS too.

It will, if you give it time. To stop the database being flooded, a cookie is set on the pc when a user gets added to the database. After an hour, this cookie will expire allowing updated data to be sent to the database (either as a new user who has recently logged into that PC or just updating the original users last online time).

Oh, and the one here at at PBS are identical. At least, they should be

[ME!]

yeah i just stated it , because last time i checked you were fixing an error in the code

[ME!]

out of curiosity , why wont i work for any other infocenter ?

i mean what not the results of the users online today into a variable that can be added in at the bottom or in another table ?

[Ross]

dregondrahl said:

out of curiosity , why wont i work for any other infocenter ?

i mean what not the results of the users online today into a variable that can be added in at the bottom or in another table ?

The original version couldn't be used with other info centers because of the check for invisible users. Some info centers wouldn't have allowed that to work properly and thus it would have violated the members privacy if they were actually invisible. The modified version kind of fixes that but I want to be certain before messing around with other info center codes. That, and I don't want too many users using it as it'll eat my bandwidth

[ME!]

yeah coz the php file is hosted by you...hmm..

would the php file be hosted like a js file, like you can host it on ripway..?

[Richie]

yeah php can be hosted on ripway

[ME!]

No , ripways bandwidth is terrible.

[Ross]

The PHP file isn't too much of a problem. It's the mysql database and the overall number of connections to the server that it requires that I'm worried about the most.

[ME!]

then its best kept for the default infocenter .
i doubt anybody wants slow servers..

[dja]

For some reason this is not recording users with special characters in their name

[ME!]

recopy the code and try, Ross knows abt this problem with odd charecthers, and hopfully Ross will fix sooner or later

[lurker]

Is there any other way to make it work for Hey's Ultimate Info Center version 3?

[Danny]

dude even if it did imagine how slow your forum would load. visitors hate a slow loading forum and will just move onto the next.