Need to return a variable for useronline status in vbulletin

[Colleen78]

I am trying to make it so a background image in my postbit changes color depending on if a user is online, offline or invisible.

 

I am doing this by assigning a class which I need to change using conditionals, and I found this bit of code for a plugin: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1323306&postcount=8

 

However, it's not working, it's showing everyone as offline.

 

What's the best way to go about doing this?

 

I had my class change depending on the users status, ie "class="online1"... The "1" would be the part that changes to either 0, 1 or 2... any ideas how to get this working?

 

Here's what I have so far.

 

I made a custom template.

 

Title: postbit_onlinestatus_two

Inside that template:

<if condition="$onlinestatus==0">0</if><if condition="$onlinestatus==1">1</if><if condition="$onlinestatus==2">2</if>

 

 

I've made a plugin to cache the template.

 

Hook Location: cache_templates

Title: cache custom templates

Code:

$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array('beer','drink','postbit_onlinestatus_two'));

(it's caching other templates as well)

 

 

I've created a plugin to execute the template.

 

Hook Location: postbit_display_complete

Title: Postbit Online Status

Code:

eval('$postbitonlinestatus = "' . fetch_template('postbit_onlinestatus_two') . '";');

 

 

And the code in my postbit template:

<div class="online$postbitonlinestatus">

 

It's currently returning a "0" regardless if I am online or not.

 

Can someone please give me a little guidance to get this working? Thank you.

[Colleen78]

By default, vbulletin returns an image to indicate if a user is online, offline, or invisible, I am trying to return text, I could just do that in the default template, but can't because I am using the default template as it is in other areas, such as the members profile page.

 

This is hard code in one of the files to return a users online status.

 

	$onlinestatus = 0;
// now decide if we can see the user or not
if ($user['lastactivity'] > $datecut AND $user['lastvisit'] != $user['lastactivity'])
{
	if ($user['invisible'])
	{
		if (($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['canseehidden']) OR $user['userid'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
		{
			// user is online and invisible BUT bbuser can see them
			$user['invisiblemark'] = '*';
			$onlinestatus = 2;
		}
	}
	else
	{
		// user is online and visible
		$onlinestatus = 1;
	}
}

if ($setstatusimage)
{
	eval('$user[\'onlinestatus\'] = "' . fetch_template('postbit_onlinestatus') . '";');
}

return $onlinestatus;
}

 

I hope that helps, I've been trying to figure this out for 2 days.

[Colleen78]

I came up with a solution but have one last issue, it's not parsing correctly when using quick reply, it loads in using the image code instead, but on refresh it's fine.

 

I don't have to use plugins or anything, I just did this to my postbit_onlinestatus template:

 

<if condition="$vbulletin->userinfo['field8'] != 'Horizontal Postbit' AND in_array(THIS_SCRIPT, array('showthread','private'))"><if condition="$onlinestatus==0">0</if><if condition="$onlinestatus==1">1</if><if condition="$onlinestatus==2">2</if><else /><if condition="$onlinestatus==0"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/user_offline.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$user[username]">$vbphrase[x_is_offline]</phrase>" border="0" /></if>
<if condition="$onlinestatus==1"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/user_online.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$user[username]">$vbphrase[x_is_online_now]</phrase>" border="0" /></if>
<if condition="$onlinestatus==2"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/user_invisible.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$user[username]">$vbphrase[x_is_invisible]</phrase>" border="0" /></if></if>

 

My members can choose their postbit, hence the first part of the code.

 

Any ideas how to make this parse right away with quick reply?