X online users - but on anotehr page

What I would really like to see is a hack that allows you to see how many other members and guests there are online. But not on the same page, for example, on forumdisplay, you can have a little sentence at the top saying: X users online.

Can this be done? Ed?

It should be as simple as putting

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wherever you want this displayed in whatever template you want it displayed in.

Unless you don't want the names displayed, just the total head count...?

Yup, just want the head count.

Wow, didn't realize I get asked for hacks :)

Just brainstorming out loud here:

If you wanted to do an online.cgi style thing, I think you'd need to add a profile field like "lastpage" that would give the URL for the last visited page (if you wanted to do it that way)

Or you could just do a simple version that would translate the last visited time to a readable version and display it on its own page... Pretty simple actually.

My next hack maybe? :D

theprof, if you just want a head count and none of the cool stuff Ed mentioned...

Open index.php and go to line 139 - find this:



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and add



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in between the $numberinvisible and eval lines. Then call $headcount from whatever template you want it displayed in.

[Edited by leah r on 06-10-2000 at 06:57 AM]

Prof,

Is this what you want? http://www.gandmasti.com (the ability to display a list of users on another page which is not a part of the forum software?)

I'd posted it on

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=958

Shri