[feature until vB3] Who's Online -- just "viewing forum"

[SFishy]

I tried to find a topic relavent to this and couldn't, so maybe someone can help explain this to me, or tell me if it's a bug.

When looking at "Who's Online" here's what I see...

http://fishyvb.something-fishy.org/test/who.gif

See the first person says "Viewing Forum" but nothing else? Why is that? It's can't be because I don't have access... I'm an admin, and have access to everything! I've trying to simulate this problem on myself and I can't.

What am I missing?

[SFishy]

Just wanted to add... I just looked at the "Who's Online" here too and noticed the same problem. How could a guest have access to something a member doesn't? It's can't be that!

http://fishyvb.something-fishy.org/test/who_vb.gif

Any ideas?
Anyone? LOL :D

[nuno]

huh:confused:
what the hell r u talking about?:rolleyes:

[SFishy]

Why does the "Who's Online" say Viewing Forum without the forum information, but only for some people. For others it shows Viewing Forum ForumNameLink.

What's the difference?

[nuno]

i c
maybe coz the script is unable to parse real user location :rolleyes:
just a thought :)

[Freddie Bingham]

That will happen if the user opens "forumdisplay.php" without specifying a forum. If you question it you can always look in the session table and see what that user has for their location. They may have several entries so you have to pick the newest.

[SFishy]

Freddie,

Thanks for the response... question though... How would someone be hitting forumdisplay.php without specifying a forum? My users are mostly people who are going to click on links, not type in an address to get where they want. How would it be possible to have someone get to just "forumdisplay.php" without clicking? I realize once in blue moon it might happen, but why consistently?

I assume I access the session table through phpMyAdmin? (We're working on getting that installed).

Thanks again...

[Freddie Bingham]

Yes through phpmyadmin.

Post the locations that are giving your problems and I will tell you what the problem is. If it is consistent than you can send me ftp login info and I will modify your code to give me debug information and see what the cause is.

[SFishy]

Freddie,

I'm not sure what you mean by "Post the locations that are giving your problems" -- do you mean after I look at phpMyAdmin, or do you want access to my who's online page? Like I said, we are working on geting phpMyAdmin installed, so I can't give you the locations until we're finished with that. My Who's Online page gives no information. Just "Viewing Forum".

Thanks...

[unixman]

I just looked in my sessions table for this one user who I noticed has the "Viewing Forum", but no forum name. The location was valid:


/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&forumid=26


That's not it. Something else is causing it. In the case of the above forum, my forum 26 is a valid, public forum, not private.

[Freddie Bingham]

That would be because the script is looking for the forumid value where the daysprune value is. I will have to make a note to fix that.

[unixman]

An update - I also see "Replying to Thread", but no link - for a normal user. Tried to pull the session info up, but she had finished replying before I could see it, so the session info changed on me - grrrr.

[unixman]

Originally posted by freddie
That would be because the script is looking for the forumid value where the daysprune value is. I will have to make a note to fix that.

Ah yes, location-specific parameters. Unrolling through strok() or split() should do the trick. :)

Cheers.

[Joshua Clinard]

I also see the two problems reported rather frequently on my board.

[Joshua Clinard]

So is this bug being fixed, or are they pulling a Microsoft, and calling it a feature? I don't think I understand how it could be a feature when the intended behavior is to show what forum or thread a user is viewing? I don't mean to be critical or anything, it just doesn't make sense.

[John]

There is a fix, but it is long and complicated, and not mission critical, so the fix is just being left in the vB3 code.

John