How and what is the best way to tell the user that is logon at the time.

[Frank H. Shaw]

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What is the best way to expose the user that is currently logon to the forums in PHP script. What veriables where is this information stored and how can get access to this information.

I have to tell a user that has not logon yet.

I want to tell if posiable if the user is a spyder {if this is posiable at all to do in the first place}.

I want to tell if the user is logon who his screen name that he used and more important is the userid.

IF I CAN GET HIS USERID THEN I CAN SEARCH THE USER TABLE AND GET THE USERS SCREEN NAME AND OTHER DATA IF NEED BE?

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Murphy]

Not sure if this is the answer to what you are asking.

I would look at the who is online screen and copy the ip address and then go to the admincp and under users, search for the ip address.

[glennybee]

There isn't any log that will tell you log in and log off times for any member. The members profile will tell you when they were last active and when their last post was.

You can install this mod that shows which members visited the site within the last 24 hours. It will also tell you what spiders visited too.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=196458

You can get an up to date list of spiders here...

http://spiderlist.codeforgers.com/

[Frank H. Shaw]

Before I write my PHP script to do what i explained above in the last posting and i am at present only want the userid of the person that logon and how do I tell he is not logon.

Where is this information being strored and how is the information being stored?

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[glennybee]

There are several login hook locations that you could extract login info from. See the functions_login.php file.

[Frank H. Shaw]

There are several login hook locations that you could extract login info from. See the functions_login.php file.


I have looked at the file many times: - HOW DO I USE THE HOOKS IF THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE REFERING TO?

Line 51

 
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('usercp_nav_start')) ? eval($hook) : false; 

Line 186

 
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('usercp_nav_complete')) ? eval($hook) : false; 

Line 388

 
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('profile_fetch_profilefields_loc')) ? eval($hook) : false; 

Line 411

 
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('profile_fetch_profilefields')) ? eval($hook) : false; 

I asume you mean any one of the 4 hooks above?

Please explain?

These above are used to hook into a templete that is not the thing I think i am looking for?

I want to pull the information somewhere out of a datastore I hope to at least.

SO I KNOW THAT THE FOLLOWING

 $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] 

IS THIS THE CURRENT LOGON USER?


From the userinfo array which should be global holds information about the user can I assume that it holds the information about the current user so at what point does the current user get vaildated and information put into the array?


THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Frank H. Shaw]

Get the following error message:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: C:\Inetpub\vhosts\burningtaper.org\httpdocs\forums \calendar.php
Line: 134

To recreate error

In the file calendar.php right after the
START MAIN SCRIPT


Just add the following PHP code

unset($mycurrentuser);

$mycurrentuser = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];
 
ob_start();
 
echo( "My Current User is :" . "   " . $mycurrentuser);
 
 
ob_end_flush();
 
ob_end_clean(); 

I do get my My Current User is :and a vaild value for the user when the user logon other wise a zero if no user logon that is.

But unstead of my web page i get part of the web page with a error posted in the center of the page.

How do i get around this error?



THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Frank H. Shaw]

The following works just fine

 
print($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']); // This works fine
 

// But this does not work why

unset($mycurrentuser);
$mycurrentuser = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];

print_r( "My Current User is :" . "   " . $mycurrentuser); // does not work 

Why same location?

In the file calendar.php right after the Next line after the line 119

START MAIN SCRIPT

Get the following error message:

same error as before: Unable to add cookies, header already sent.

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw