Avatar Opacity for online / offline

[Zachery]

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=64606

Another template edit turned hack.

So here is the idea, when a user is online the avatar would be just like a regular avatar when they are offline the avatar would be faded
Well for the postbit its very simple as the online varible is already there

youll need to find


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and replace it with



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Feel free to change the code in red, this is the level of opacitiy

Next will be the online / offline avatar for the memberslist :)
well sadly i forgot somthing because from time to time i need to remember im not a php coder, at this time i have not figured out how to get this to work in the memberlist yet, however i will keep working at it ^^

[Brad]

hmmm I was doing this myself on vB 2 but it required a hack iirc, its a cool trick.

[Zachery]

Yea well the postbit status is not the hardone, but now that i think & look at it, i dont think there is a way to get it to work on the memberlist sadly :(

[Tony G]

Is indeed a cool trick.

Doesn't matter about the memberlist, doesn't have to show online/offline status for a person. They can look in the postbit. :p

[Zachery]

ME and boofo were talking about it at vB.org :) however (moves) its in the right place now :)

[tccra]

This works great except ... all avatars opacity is reduced, not just those that are offline. How can I screw up one line of text pasting? :D


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[Natch]

I'm finding the same ... and doing some debugging, it looks like the variable $onlinestatus does not exist in postbit - it's there in the postbit_onlinestatus, but not in postbit (I tested this by adding

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to the postbit, and it rendered

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Any ideas ?

[Zachery]

Well, that is odd O.o it should work by all means, ill go and see why its not

<wonders off>

[Tradjick]

It´s not working for me either. Should it also work on vB 3.01 ?

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I'll test it out, I've been looking for this anyway. :)

Indeed, it's not working...

[Zachery]

Yes i know, ive thought of a way to redo it so it all works, sadly the varible gets unset during the process and isnt avabile to the postbit template :(

[Ryan Ashbrook]

What about putting the avatar in the Online / Offline template and replacing the avatar code with the Online / Offline code?

[Zachery]

Youll see, i just need some time to work on it :)

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Ok, I can't wait. :)

[masterstanf2k]

hack didn't work for me :(

[GamerzWorld]

Bah didnt work :(

[Grounds_Network]

Use an else statement


Basically say
if condition = online Then
show avatar ful
else
show avatar with opacity
End if


^^ that is VB(Visual Basic) sayntax :P but try doing it with php.

[Zachery]

I need to recode part of it, ill update this tomorow

[Grounds_Network]

Well, i kind of re-did your hack...and using it for my site.


http://www.pixelgrounds.com/Forum

[Zachery]

the varible i was trying to use is just not avaible in the postbit(_legacy) template.

[Chanrith]

Well, i kind of re-did your hack...and using it for my site.


http://www.pixelgrounds.com/Forum
How did you go about doing this?

[arcadian_girl]

*bump*

is there a way to do this-has it been figured out? :)

[VPREATR]

Any updates?