Members Online List

[BigMike]

I recently converted from YaBB Gold SP1.2 and I had a nifty mod that would keep a list of all members that had logged on within that particular day. Every day it would clear the list and start over.

I am wondering if this has already been made for SE? I searched and could not find it.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
BigMike

[Anguz]

that sounds cool... you mean a login/out log? neat

and if it's saved, you could set it so keep the las X days of log, if you have enough space, you can just keep it

and if it could let you search when was the last time a certain member logged in, even better... or what members were at a certain time online

if there's something wrong at some point, it'd prove useful to determine who was online at the time too...

that'd be account based though, if it could track guests, it'd be more complete, but a larger log too, of course

the info saved for each login or logout could be: account (if member), ip, date, time

all that info is already in the forum when the person is browsing it, so it shouldn't be too hard to save it to a table yabbse_loginout or something like that

for logout it'd be logged when the person clicks the logout button or his session expires... since it may expire while still browsing, thus having the person log back in in the next minutes, it could ignore that logout and back in if that happens within 5 minutes or whatever is set

just a few ideas

[BigMike]

Yea it was a pretty cool feature. Made my board look like it had a whole ton of users at all time. I miss it.

Here's a screen shot (trying to save my bandwidth):



This was my record 28 users on at one time back on Feb 21st. At that time in the day, you can see that 62 people had Logged into the board at least once. At midnight it would clear out and then start over as people logged in.
It would also be cool to see in what order certain people were logging in. And I later bolded the Admins and Moderators and it looked really cool-

Regards,
BigMike

[BigMike]

Well looks like I am just going to script this one myself.

I'll let you know when I finish it!

Regards,
BigMike

[BiErLeEuW]

looks very nice!!

These members have visited the board at least one today:

[Tywick]

Well looks like I am just going to script this one myself.

I'll let you know when I finish it!

Regards,
BigMike

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and if it could let you search when was the last time a certain member logged in, even better... or what members were at a certain time online
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This can be accomplished refencing the "lastLogin" field in the "_users" table.

There may be a way to reference the "$settings[n]" array but I'm not sure which number of the array "lastLogin" is loaded into.

I hope this helps

[GWP]

God, the amount of times i have asked for this within this forum, so am happy to see someone is looking into it. I even offered to pay someone to do it, but no joy!

My previous post:
http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?board=141;action=display;threadid=19364

[BigMike]

Ok guys, its 3:30am and I have been coding since midnight. I am tired and I've got work at 8am oh the life of a programmer

So the good news is that I got it scripted and its working great (so far) but needs a couple of days testing before I release it.

Also, since this is my first mod that I'm releasing for public use, I will need to write the mod file on a clean board so you guys can eaisly install it. In other words, the mod is currently burried deep within my already highly mod'd page, so I will need to make it work on a stock setup.

But just give me a couple of days and I'll try to get it up for a download.

BTW, its posted above, but here is a direct link where you can see it in action -- way at the bottom of the main index:
http://board.marlincrawler.com

Let me know what you think-
I've already got some nice touches for instance if you are the first user to log on for a new day, then it will say on the first page load "No One Has Visited the Board Today." Then when you reload, it says "Hey (yourname) is the only one who has visited the board today!" And then of course it will read what you'r probably reading now, unless you are of course the first to load the page for today   Also, my version writes the ',' comma to the previously logged on member. So theres no more ugly extra ',' hanging off the last members name (you can see it in my screen shot above).

3 Things I want to add before releasing it:
1) Make the names point to the user's profile
2) Bold all Moderator and Admin names
3) add a date with exact time of when the last record was set

Once I get all these things going I will release it. Looks like this upcoming Saturday evening or Sunday morning.... I should have some time.

I will also *learn* how to disable/enable from admin center, but I'll do that later.

Feedback appriciated! And remember this is the first day it's working, so I still need to check it for any bugs...

Good night!!
BigMike

[GWP]

"Absolutely fabulous" comes to mind
Cant wait for the mod to be released.
My board is so heavily modded that i will have to change the mod anyway

[BigMike]

If someone could help me......


I've been searching around through SE's code (you know the old learn-as-you-go php) and I cant find out how to do this.


Let's say I've got the following value:

$temp = "365 days in 1 year";

Now how can I get the value of the first item? In this case, 365.

Right? I want to set another variable equal to 365 -- as retrived from the $temp vaiable, in this case the first number.
Right now, my only knowledge would be way to long and un efficient. I know this IS REALLY DUMB but I could explode by using

$this = explode(' ',$temp);

and then

Code Select Expand

$this[0] would then equal '365' but Im sure their is a better way of doing this.

Actually, Im looking for some code that could get the following:

**now im making this up, but I think their is something like this **

$this = get(0,2,$temp);

And what this would do is start at the very first element in the array, which is a '3', and continue until the 3rd element, the '5', which all together would be 365. I remember doing this in C++

Thanks in advance,
BigMike

[Anguz]

great!! I'll be waiting for the release!!  

please post here when you do so we're notified

suggestion: add a " and xx unique Guests" to the end of the list

[GWP]

If someone could help me......

I wish I could Bigmike.
Just hope spaceman or [Unknown] read this

[Fizzy]

Great work BigMike,

I agree with GWP.
If anyone can, SpaceMan can  

[Fizzy]

This was my record 28 users on at one time

Hey there BM

Just a question, but does Gold log the number of guests by IP number?
If so, I found that one guest using an AOL connection could be recorded as a rotating IP number. The effect would be to show 10 guests when there really was only one.
I tend to ignore the "number of guests" on my board for that very reason.

[Anguz]

Just a question, but does Gold log the number of guests by IP number?
If so, I found that one guest using an AOL connection could be recorded as a rotating IP number. The effect would be to show 10 guests when there really was only one.
I tend to ignore the "number of guests" on my board for that very reason.

that's the only way I can think of to keep track of the number of guests... unless it checks the cookie in the computer and keeps a count of unique cookies, wich I doubt

on the other hand, even if the same person could have different IPs, the count would be daily, I doubt the same person will visit the board more than once a day with different IPs... at least not more than 2 IPs and that'd be with a just a few Guests

so the worst it could cause would be to count just a few more guest than there really are a day, which isn't that bad, specially not if it means you can have a better count of how many ppl actually visited the board... only counting the members ain't accurate either, I normally have more Guests than members in my forums

and the Guest count could be optional, so you have it if you want to and don't if not