You can already do that if you place the &writesession code in the right place in the forumdisplay.cgi file. See above, it's explained how to do it there.

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Thanks again Slurpee.
WOW!! What a hack!!!!

Now the next step.....

How can this be incorporated into a static page such as a web site's front page?

Thanks again to EVERYONE!

For all those who have wanted this as a SSI call, I've modified the addon script to be able to be called as a SSI. Grab the script from here:
http://www.arlo.net/ubb/cgi-bin/online.txt

Save it to your CGIDIR, set the permissions properly, and rename it to "online.cgi". Then, open it up and edit the configuration variable ssi (set it = 1). Then, just call it from where ever you want.

P.S.
Where do I put this so it shows up in Active Topics? I have some users who go straight there instead of the main forum.

I'm PSYCHED!!!!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!!

(I wonder if this can be modified to pin the user down to the THREAD he/she's reading!)

NBA - What do you mean by "Where do I put this so it shows up in Active Topics?"

BTW, I have the following just after the configuration variables in my active.cgi script:



If you do this, make sure active.cgi has the require cookie-lib.pl and ubb_library.pl. After this call, you can reference the list of who is online by placing the variable $OnlineUsers elsewhere in the HTML part of the active.cgi script.

As for being able to pin a user down to what thread they are reading... not possible really, since the threads are not dynamically created. It's not impossible (it could be done using SSI calls on the static pages) - but it would add a good bit of overhead to the boards and the script.

Thanks Dave,

But, I'm not sure where all this goes. (I'm not a programmer)

Could you guide me thru this please?

O.k. guys now I love this SSI thing, it works great, what I really want to know is this...
Can you get this to work for other parts of the site? I don't want to know who's currently browsing the boards, I want to let users know how many people are currently in my java chatroom from the main page of my site (and probably also from the boards).
My chatroom is embedded in a page and is therefore static (it will not move URL ever), so really all I need to do is be able to tell the script that I want it to let me know how many people are browsing the .html page that my chatroom is on (because if they are browsing the page then they are automatically in the chatroom).
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

Hey!

I have an idea.

Can a Forum be embedded into Online.cgi so members can post notes to meet in other forums/threads?

I think someone wrote a hack to do this in Ultimate.cgi for unregged members....

I think this could really be an excellent feature!

First, great hack! Works good.

I have a problem with the online.cgi not using my background image. Maybe its the wrong variable for the background image? I dunno. If you know the background image variable please let me know. =)

I still couldn't get it to display on the forums though. No idea why. Just doesn't display anything(and I updated the threads, etc.)



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RPG-Files Webmaster & Owner
http://www.rpg-files.com

hello?

Anyone have answers?

Ps...is there a cookie problem on this site?

Yes, there seems to be.

Just a thought

Ok, i installed the hack as described but it is not working properly. i deleted the one line from the GetOnlineUsers routine so that i would see myself when i am on. buti don't only after i postet a new topic or a reply my name would show up. what wrong? what can i do to fix it? i have version 5.42

mIkE 2oo0 - Go in to your preferences and make sure you have it set to remember your username. That should probably solve your problem. Because the way the hack works is it just pulls your cookie info and uses it... so if you don't have it set to remember your username, you won't show up until you post.

Troy - regarding the background image for the online.cgi script... oops. It's looking for it in your CGI directory, so you can either change the code, or just place a copy of your background image in the CGI directory. (I just did a symbolic link).

There seems to be a problem with online.cgi.

Today instead of showing March 11..it's showing FEBRUARY 11. All posts and other date references on the board are OK, so i believe the problem lies in online.cgi.

Anyone else getting this bug?

Without looking, I'd imagine it's a mistake invloving the 'localtime' command. It returns the month as a zero based index, so you have to increment it.

Just a thought

Yup, that's the problem... find:

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime($seed);

adn right after it add:

$mon++;

Fixed!

I'd just like to congratulate myself on that superb bug-fix

Just a thought

How about making each username a link to his profile? Could be kind of handy to some people.

That would be nice. You could have a little table in the popup with the user's row of buttons (profile, mail, pm etc.)

Just a thought

I think I found an incompatability between the Online Users Hack and the Start=here hack.

The Start=here hack seems to cause multiple displays of the online user.

Here's the location of the Start=here hack in case you want to investigate this further.

Start=here hack

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Music Global Network
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