Display Users Viewing non-vBulletin Pages in "Online Users"

NeutralizeR · #1 09-11-2007, 09:01 AM

Hi,

I had some non-vBulletin pages integrated to the vb database and i wanted to show the users viewing those pages in Online Users so i used this piece of code at the top of the non-vBulletin pages:

PHP Code:

  <?php

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'adv_index');
define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_SCRIPT', 'CMPS');

$forumpath = 'yourforumpath';

//example = '/home/msxorg/public_html/forum'

chdir($forumpath);

$phrasegroups = array();
$globaltemplates = array();
$actiontemplates = array();
$specialtemplates = array();

require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
require_once('./global.php');

exec_shut_down();
?>

You can remove the lines related to vBadvanced if you don't have it installed.

More information can be found here:

How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates)

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Let's say you have a page nothing to do with vBulletin & vBulletin database (wordpress pages, external html pages, even pages of your other domains etc...) and you still want to show the page viewers in Online Users of vBulletin.

Step - 1

Create a page called 'extra_online_users.php'.

Copy these lines in it:

PHP Code:

  <?php

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);

$forumpath = 'yourforumpath';
//example = '/home/msxorg/public_html/forum'

chdir($forumpath);

$phrasegroups = array();
$globaltemplates = array();
$actiontemplates = array();
$specialtemplates = array();

require_once('./global.php');


exec_shut_down();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Extra Online Users</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="content-language" content="en" />
</head>
<body style="margin: 0px">
<!-- anything can be put here. a little image, some text, etc... or you may keep it like this -->
</body>
</html>

Save and upload this page to your domain or forum root.

Step - 2

Open your non-vbulletin page and copy these lines to the very bottom of your page:
(Note: Before </body>)

HTML Code:

<iframe src="http://www.yourdomain.com/extra_online_users.php" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" width="0" height="0"></iframe>

Now, anybody visits your non-vbulletin page will be displayed at "Online Users".

But it will show their location as "Unknown Location". We can fix this of course.

Step - 3

Go to your AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > Add new Plugin

Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: online_location_process
Title: Extra Online Users Process
Execution Order: 5

Code:

PHP Code:

  if ($filename == 'extra_online_users.php')
{
    $userinfo['activity'] = 'extra_online_users';
}

Save.

Go to your AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > Add new Plugin

Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: online_location_unknown
Title: Extra Online Users Unknown
Execution Order: 5

Code:

PHP Code:

  if ($userinfo['activity'] == 'extra_online_users')
{
    $handled = true;
    $userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing -your custom page title comes here-';
    $userinfo['where'] = '<a href="http://-your custom page url comes here-">-your custom page title-</a>';
}

Save.

If you want to apply this tutorial for more than one page, just create another instance of "extra_online_users.php" and name it like "extra_online_users2.php".

Don't forget to add the lines to the plugins and make the name changes.

Demo and screenshots:
Messenger Blog
(a wordpress blog -

this image at the footer is called by iframe 'extra_online_users.php')

The viewer is displayed as:

Feel free to ask any questions realated to this tutorial.

Display Users Viewing non-vBulletin Pages in "Online Users" tutorial by NeutralizeR @ MsXLabs

Original thread:
Display Users Viewing non-vBulletin Pages in "Online Users" - vBulletin.org Forum

basketmen · #2 02-02-2008, 09:16 PM

great, this what i need

but it is better if there is simpler methode or vbseo can do that in future feature

Ace Shattock · #3 02-02-2008, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by basketmen

great, this what i need

but it is better if there is simpler methode or vbseo can do that in future feature

also in your first php code is this line needed??

Quote:

You can remove the lines related to vBadvanced if you don't have it installed.

More information can be found here:

How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates)

Nope.

list · #4 02-17-2008, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by basketmen

great, this what i need

but it is better if there is simpler methode or vbseo can do that in future feature

Not really related

amenadiel · #5 07-20-2008, 02:56 AM

will the users appear in the what's going on box?

NeutralizeR · #6 07-20-2008, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amenadiel

will the users appear in the what's going on box?

Yes.

myandy99 · #7 09-18-2008, 09:03 PM

I want to add the latest threads to my homepage which is a tpl(html template) page. How to do that?

amenadiel · #8 09-18-2008, 09:13 PM

you could do that using an iframe.

myandy99 · #9 09-18-2008, 09:56 PM

Thanks. do you have sample code?

amenadiel · #10 09-18-2008, 11:02 PM

Let's see, I'd start doing a really basic script. Something like:

Code:

<?php

require_once('./global.php');

$cadena="select * from vb_thread order by lastpost desc limit 0,10";
$getthreads = $db->query_read($cadena);

echo '<div><ul>';
    while($thread = $db->fetch_array($getthreads)) {
        $title=$thread['title'] ;
        $threadid=$thread['threadid'] ;
        echo '<li><a href="showthread.php?t='.$threadid.'">'.$title.'<a></li>';
     }
echo '</ul></div>';

?>

myandy99 · #11 09-19-2008, 11:31 PM

I got following error with the code after putting it on my tpl file:

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in pages/homepage.tpl line 147]: syntax error: unrecognized tag: $title=$thread['title'] ; $threadid=$thread['threadid'] ; echo '
'.$title.''; (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 439) in /home/sistest/public_html/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

amenadiel · #12 09-19-2008, 11:57 PM

you shouldn't paste the code in your tpl, just put it in your vbulletin directory as (for example) lastposts.php and refer it in your tpl as an iframe.

<iframe src="/forum/lastposts.php"></iframe>

myandy99 · #13 09-20-2008, 12:22 AM

Thanks. The posts do display this time in a frame. But when I click a post in the forum it opens within the frame, which is not right. How to make it open in current page?

I will PM you the link so that you can see what I mean.

briansol · #14 09-20-2008, 01:21 AM

add target="_top" to the link

echo '<li><a href="showthread.php?t='.$threadid.'" target="_top">'.$title.'<a></li>';

it should be noted, that using iframes is generally a bad idea, as they are deprecated in xhtml strict.

amenadiel · #15 09-20-2008, 11:28 AM

I'm aware the proper way of inserting such a block should be with an

include('/forum/lastposts.php')

but without knowing what kind of CMS is used in the frontpage, it may result in trouble. For example, using an include with the code I proposed will break postnuke, because it has a global.php of his own.

well, who uses postnuke anymore btw.

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