Thread: Shoutbox posted user online status.

This minor hack displays, in the shout box, users who have posted in the shout box and who are online.

Everytime a use logs in, if they still have a post in the shout box they will have a little green icon to the left of their name. We have increased our records to a large number so this works out well for us.

See screen shot. You will see a little green dot in front of an online users name.

I am including the gif that I used. You can of course use your own gif and/or change the name the new code refers to.

Code:

find this in your shoutbox.php    


// End of print input box   

and delete everything below it to the end of the file.




Replace the deleted text with this:





$query = "SELECT `shoutbox`.`id`, `shoutbox`.`text`, `shoutbox`.`date`, `shoutbox`.`class`, `Profiles`.`NickName`, `Profiles`.`ID` FROM `shoutbox` LEFT JOIN `Profiles` ON `Profiles`.`ID` = `shoutbox`.`id` ORDER BY `shoutbox`.`date` DESC";
	$shout_res = db_res( $query );



	while ( $shout_arr = mysql_fetch_array($shout_res) )
    {

$user_is_online = get_user_online_status($shout_arr['ID']);

		if ( $user_is_online )
		{
			$offline_online = "<img border=0 src='$site[images]onlinenowsmall.gif'>"; $off_on_text = _t("_Online");
		}

		else
		{
			$offline_online = "";
		}

		$shout_text = process_smiles( process_line_output( $shout_arr['text'], $maxwordlength) );
		$content .= "
			<tr><td title=\"{$shout_arr['date']}\" class=\"{$shout_arr['class']}\">
				<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"{$site['url']}profile.php?ID={$shout_arr['id']}\" class=\"membermenu\">{$offline_online}{$shout_arr['NickName']}</a>: {$shout_text}
			</td></tr>";
    }

	$content .= "
					</table>
				</td></tr>
			</table>
		</form>\n";

    return $content;
}

?>

Prometheus
ps. Almost forgot - though you should know this by now upload the gif to your templates/tmpl_XXX/images_XXX/ folder.

very cool.

And, have you shared the code for the scroll bar? If so, where is that link? I tried searching modmysite for "scroll bar" but didnt get it lol hmmmmm

I just posted it here.

Scroll bar for Shout box



You will be embarrassed how easy this is....lol...



Prometheus

Oh! Sorry... one more thing you will want to change the default maxrecords to something other than the default in your shoutbox.php to something higher.
50 or 60 or whatever...depending on your server load and bw etc etc..this will effect your page load and refresh times.

I really like this, but I want to show a scroll list of who's logged in, on the shoutbox any ideas how to do this?

Thanks









I am running Dolphin 6.04