Online Text?

[snyx]

How can I make it say if a user is online or not? Like the icon under there post, but in text. Here is an example (taken from sitepointforums)

[Freddie Bingham]

Doh, you just edit the postbit online/offline templates.

[almighty one]

hey yeah that was pretty simple and looks nicer too add the glow effect to onlien users name

[snyx]

well duh, I was all in the postbit temp. but I couldnt realize how to change it from the icon to text. arg, there has got to be somthing so simple im missing, and then I looked a bit closer and saw postbit_offline and postbit_online wow, I really hate the way the temp. are sorted, and how I can't seem to find simple things. thanks boys.

[mjames]

Re: Online Text?

Originally posted by snyx
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153055

Hey, that's me!

[Goddess Washu]

Oy, I must be slow... how would I go about doing that... I see the templates and what not, but what would I do from there...

[Pie'oh'pah]

Postbit Templates

online template

***remove all

***insert


& nbsp;Online!


or if you want to have it with glow effect:

***insert

<div style="width:100%; font-size:7pt; color:white; filter:Glow(color=lightgreen, strength=2)"> Online!</div>
<nobr>

offline template

***remove all

***insert

& nbsp;Offline!

or if you want to have it with glow effect:

***insert

<div style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:white; filter:Glow(color=darkgreen, strength=2)"> Offline!</div>
<nobr>

Make sure to remove the space between '&' and 'nbsp;'
And play around with the colors and glow amount

Hope that helps....

-Alex

[Pie'oh'pah]

Another way

I have done it a different way also. Check out the attachement.

To do that, edit the same templates as above, but replace all with


postbit_online template
<table align="center" width="80%" border="0">
<tr>
<td><div align="right" style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:white; filter:Glow(color=lightgreen, strength=2)"> Online </div></td>
<td><div style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:grey; filter:none"> | Offline</div></td>
</tr>
</table>



postbit_offline template

<table align="center" width="80%" border="0">
<tr>
<td><div align="right" style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:{textcolor}; filter:none"> Online | </div></td>
<td><div style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:white; filter:Glow(color=lightgreen, strength=2)"> Offline</div></td>
</tr>
</table>


Ahh and make sure, you enable this option in your admin cp !

- Alex

[Goddess Washu]

Thanks a lot, that second way is really cool.

[Goddess Washu]

But is it possible for me to get that Online | Offline to appear in the area that has the username and the avatar and all that data?

[Pie'oh'pah]

Sure.

In your Postbit Template find $onlinestatus. Take it away
and put that variable whereever you want it to appear.

That's it

-Alex

[Goddess Washu]

Originally posted by Pie'oh'pah
Sure.

In your Postbit Template find $onlinestatus. Take it away
and put that variable whereever you want it to appear.

That's it

-Alex

Ohh ok, thanks again... but is it possible for me to keep that little icon in the toolbar aswell, perhaps I could add some php code to the template to add that decision making...

[Pie'oh'pah]

Grrrrrrr

Well, i guess that would require a little code stripping.
Something like $onlinestatus and $onlinestatus1 and additional templates.

Try to find the declaration of the $onlinestatus variable in the php file, shouldn't be too hard to copy the part and create the same with the $onlinestatus1

I'm not much into php (mostly glad to be able to add the hacks )

I'll try to find it though.

-Alex

[Goddess Washu]

Originally posted by Pie'oh'pah
Grrrrrrr

Well, i guess that would require a little code stripping.
Something like $onlinestatus and $onlinestatus1 and additional templates.

Try to find the declaration of the $onlinestatus variable in the php file, shouldn't be too hard to copy the part and create the same with the $onlinestatus1

I'm not much into php (mostly glad to be able to add the hacks )

I'll try to find it though.

-Alex

Yeah that's what I am thinking... I'm the exact opposite, I understand the php side, but for some reason these templates baffle me... -_- Thanks again for the help. I'll look into that when I get home (at work now) can't get FTP access to my file from here... -_-;; Thanks again.

[Pie'oh'pah]

LOL

We make a couple hehe

Well, i dont know anything about php, but here is the solution

in your admin/functions.php

***find

eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_online")."\";"); 

***right below add

eval("\$onlinestatus1 = \"".gettemplate("postbit_online1")."\";"); 

***find

eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_offline")."\";"); 

***right below add

eval("\$onlinestatus1 = \"".gettemplate("postbit_offline1")."\";"); 

Thats for the php!

Now, just create 2 new Templates:

postbit_offline1
postbit_online1

in those templates put the code from the former postings

now revert the postbit_online and postbit_offline to orignial (then you got that icon back right in front of the posting date)

now place the new variable $onlinestatus1 whereever you like.

Puuuh. Done.


Is this cosidered a hack?? I just did a hack, didn't I?! Yeeehaw my first hack


-Alex