How to add a custom location to Who's Online List? - Comprehensive Tutorial

[dvb]

(10-23-2008 05:02 AM)EviLito Wrote:  Hey, hi!

May someone please guide me how to make a custom location of a page that I have in a custom subdirectory?

I tried this way, but it says I'm on Forum Index (and I'm not)

example:
site.com/forum/custom_directory/index.php

Are you exactly in "site.com/forum/custom_directory/index.php"?
With ".php" in your browser's address? or in "site.com/forum/custom_directory/"?

Your location should contain '.php'

Can you give the url, and upload or copy your edited file?

[EviLito]

Sure, thanks for replying.

"site.com/forum/custom_directory/index.php" means my custom page. The forum original index page is in "site.com/forum/index.php" but it seems like the WOL functions doesn't detect directories? In the "switch-case" code they only select the file name, and my file name is also "index.php" (it's in another directory tough) and it appears in the Who's Online list: "Viewing board index" (or something like that)

[dvb]

The WOL functions shouldn't detect directories.

Why not giving it other name?
you can still redirect that 'index.php' to the new one if you want

[EviLito]

(10-28-2008 11:59 AM)dvb Wrote:  Why not giving it other name?

Well, I wanted to have a gallery image section, and it's really hard and ugly setting in the forum root directory. It should have its own directory: Example: myforum.com/gallery so in that address yo go to index.php by default, and shows the gallery.

Anyway, I guess I should rename it but I won't have a nice address anymore (Ej: myforum.com/gallery/images.php)

Thanks for your replies.

[Zash]

This is very useful. Thanks for a great tutorial

[dvb]

I've just viewed this thread How do I hide a group from "who's online"?, so I'm giving the answer here to help all the others.

First of all we have to know in which pages MyBB generate a viewable list of users (except plugins), a quick search of 'while($user = $db->fetch_array($query))' will give a quick result (I've omitted the unimportant results):

MYBB_ROOT/forumdisplay.php
Line 214 listing the users that browsing the same forum
MYBB_ROOT/inc/functions_calendar.php
Line 523 listing the users that have a birthday today or in a calendar day
MYBB_ROOT/index.php
Line 69 listing usernams of all online users
MYBB_ROOT/memberlist.php
Line 215 members list...
MYBB_ROOT/online.php
Line 166 the who's online list
MYBB_ROOT/portal.php
Line 256 generally, like index.php

To control which user groups are shown just add in the top of the mentioned loop ('while($user = $db->fetch_array($query))') of any of the pages above, a code like the following examples, that will check the user's usergroup and according to the condition skip the user:

For example, in 'online.php' we have this code:

PHP Code:

    while($user = $db->fetch_array($query))
    {
        $plugins->run_hooks("online_user"); 


we can change it to this:

PHP Code:

    while($user = $db->fetch_array($query))
    {
        //If the user is an administrator, don't tell the users what he's doing
        if ($user['usergroup']==4) continue;
        $plugins->run_hooks("online_user"); 


Of course if you'll make this, users still can see what an administrator is doing in the administrator's profile page

Another example, in 'memberlist.php' we have this code:

PHP Code:

    while($user = $db->fetch_array($query))
    {
        $plugins->run_hooks("memberlist_user"); 


we can change it to this:

PHP Code:

    while($user = $db->fetch_array($query))
    {
        //If the user is banned or awating activation, don't display him
        if (in_array($user['usergroup'],array(5,7))) continue;
        $plugins->run_hooks("memberlist_user"); 


Both of the examples above can be made in a plugin in the proper hook.

[dvb]

In this thread - http://community.mybboard.net/thread-44052.html
you can see a nice & simple solution for the following problem:

(01-24-2009 09:35 PM)Sephiroth Wrote:  A while back I posted a question regarding online list integration, for a custom-coded section of the website.

However, I have another question. I plan on changing the structure of this site, to MyBB's index page is /forums/index.php and the new homepage is simply /index.php

... Is there a way to differentiate the two different index.php scripts in online.php so I could have it as "Viewing Site Homepage" instead of "Viewing Forum Index"?

And the solution

(01-28-2009 12:23 PM)flash.tato Wrote:  Did you study at least the function expecially the $location param.

PHP Code:

            if($location == "index.php")
                $user_activity['activity'] = "home";
            else // ($location == "/forums/index.php")
                $user_activity['activity'] = "index"; 


Then edit accordingly

PHP Code:

function build_friendly_wol_location($user_activity) 


I should note that in case this doesn't working, try something like "/forums/index.php?"

In my localhost I've installed mybb in the subfolder 'mybb' and for the location 'http://127.0.0.1/mybb/online.php' the $location param' is '/mybb/online.php?'

[flash.tato]

(02-01-2009 04:05 PM)dvb Wrote:  In this thread - http://community.mybboard.net/thread-44052.html
you can see a nice & simple solution for the following problem:

(01-24-2009 09:35 PM)Sephiroth Wrote:  A while back I posted a question regarding online list integration, for a custom-coded section of the website.

However, I have another question. I plan on changing the structure of this site, to MyBB's index page is /forums/index.php and the new homepage is simply /index.php

... Is there a way to differentiate the two different index.php scripts in online.php so I could have it as "Viewing Site Homepage" instead of "Viewing Forum Index"?

And the solution

(01-28-2009 12:23 PM)flash.tato Wrote:  Did you study at least the function expecially the $location param.

PHP Code:

            if($location == "index.php")
                $user_activity['activity'] = "home";
            else // ($location == "/forums/index.php")
                $user_activity['activity'] = "index"; 


Then edit accordingly

PHP Code:

function build_friendly_wol_location($user_activity) 


I should note that in case this doesn't working, try something like "/forums/index.php?"

In my localhost I've installed mybb in the subfolder 'mybb' and for the location 'http://127.0.0.1/mybb/online.php' the $location param' is '/mybb/online.php?'

Well my solution is pretty raw i've to say.
Because it doesn't check proper URL (that code with index.php?id=ok will fail because it isn't handled properly) but hey it was meant as proof of concept.

And good work for a guide also if i highly suggest users to learn PHP or better programming

[aglioeolio]

this was very usefull to me, thanks dvb

[dvb]

(02-02-2009 07:34 PM)flash.tato Wrote:  Well my solution is pretty raw i've to say.
Because it doesn't check proper URL (that code with index.php?id=ok will fail because it isn't handled properly) but hey it was meant as proof of concept.

And good work for a guide also if i highly suggest users to learn PHP or better programming

maybe an strpos? or parse_str?

(02-03-2009 08:33 AM)aglioeolio Wrote:  this was very usefull to me, thanks dvb

no problem