Topic: [TRICK] displaying the "unknown action" in the who's online list

[Kindred]

so, you have a bunch of mods installed and 90% of them - while they add functionality to your forum - don't add themselves into the list of valid actions in the Who's Online list.

This little trick won't fix ALL of the problems (it's a quick trick, it doesn't drill down into special actions or sub-actions) but it will, at least, display where the user actually IS in your system.

Code: (find in Sources/Who.php) [Select]

function determineActions($urls, $preferred_prefix = false)
{
  global $txt, $user_info, $modSettings, $smcFunc, $context;


Code: (add after) [Select]

global $scripturl;


Code: (find in Sources/who.php) [Select]

// Unlisted or unknown action.
else
$data[$k] = $txt['who_unknown'];


Code: (replace) [Select]

// Unlisted or unknown action.
else
$data[$k] = $txt['who_thisaction'] . '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=' . $actions['action'] . '">' . $actions['action'] . '</a>';

then add the following text string to modifications.YOURLANGUAGE.txt

Code: [Select]

$txt['who_thisaction'] = 'Viewing the ';


[Kindred]

note: I have been playing with the following, but it doesn't quite work....

Code: [Select]

// Unlisted or unknown action.
else {
if (isset($actions['sa'])) {
$extraaction['sa']['text'] = ' - ' . $actions['sa'];
$extraaction['sa']['url'] = ';sa=' . $actions['sa'];
} else {
$extraaction['sa']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['sa']['url'] = '';
}
if (isset($actions['area'])) {
$extraaction['area']['text'] = ' - ' . $actions['area'];
$extraaction['area']['url'] = ';area=' . $actions['area'];
} else {
$extraaction['area']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['area']['url'] = '';
}
if (isset($actions['u'])) {
$extraaction['u']['text'] = ' for User ID' . $actions['u'];
$extraaction['u']['url'] = ';u=' . $actions['u'];
} else {
$extraaction['u']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['u']['url'] = '';
}
if (isset($actions['cat'])) {
$extraaction['cat']['text'] = ' in Category' . $actions['cat'];
$extraaction['cat']['url'] = ';cat=' . $actions['cat'];
} else {
$extraaction['cat']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['cat']['url'] = '';
}

$data[$k] =  'Viewing the <a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=' . $actions['action'] . $extraaction['sa']['url'] . $extraaction['area']['url'] . $extraaction['u']['url'] . $extraaction['cat']['url'] .'">' . $actions['action'] . $extraaction['sa']['text'] . $extraaction['area']['text'] . $extraaction['u']['text'] . $extraaction['cat']['text'] . '</a>';
}



[Labradoodle-360]

Very neat, Kindred...it'd be cool if eventually SMF had this implemented into the core so modifications didn't HAVE to.

[nza2k]

Thank you Kindred,

Is there any way, without killing the sever, to display real time stats instead of a list of names.

For instance :
- 5 members and 1 moderator are watching post 1
- 7 members are watching post 2
- 3 members are connecting
- 1 member is posting a new message
...

?

[Kindred]

that would require a whole bunch more recoding...   my trick is just to replace the frustrating "unknown action"

[nza2k]

No problem, I understand. Thank you for your reply

[Kindred]

note:  I just discovered that you also should add $scripturl to the global variables at the start of the function.

[geek_andy]

Very neat, Kindred...it'd be cool if eventually SMF had this implemented into the core so modifications didn't HAVE to.

I completely agree.

Works great Kindred! Thanks!

[ChalkCat]

Thank you lots for this 

[lets4410]

just the info I needed, thanks

[TattooLeashed]

It doesn't work for me

[Yoshi]

It doesn't work for me

You just posted it did

[TattooLeashed]

Only the word 'Portal' is seen now by the members. Guests show the proper things. Strange...

[Kindred]

which code snippet did you use?   And did you make exactly the edit that I showed?

[Yoshi]

Nah I added a $txt stuff for him.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=473174.msg3307750#msg3307750

[Kindred]

ah yes...   I didn't even think to $txt the english string (naughty me!)

Sorry, my dutch is non existent, so I can't comment directly. lol....

[Yoshi]

ah yes...   I didn't even think to $txt the english string (naughty me!)

Sorry, my dutch is non existent, so I can't comment directly. lol....

First code's what needs to be added in Modifications.{language}.php, second and third code is Find > Replace.

[Antechinus]

Nifty. I like it. Should be default IMO.

What I would also like is a change in that silly "Nothing, or nothing you can see" message. It would make more sense to say "Ant is messing around in admin" or something like that, if it is the case, rather than getting all spooky about it.

[TattooLeashed]

I did all that Yoshi but it still doesn't work


This is how it looks like in who.php:

Code: [Select]

// Unlisted or unknown action.
else {
if (isset($actions['sa'])) {
$extraaction['sa']['text'] = ' - ' . $actions['sa'];
$extraaction['sa']['url'] = ';sa=' . $actions['sa'];
} else {
$extraaction['sa']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['sa']['url'] = '';
}
if (isset($actions['area'])) {
$extraaction['area']['text'] = ' - ' . $actions['area'];
$extraaction['area']['url'] = ';area=' . $actions['area'];
} else {
$extraaction['area']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['area']['url'] = '';
}
if (isset($actions['u'])) {
$extraaction['u']['text'] = ' for User ID' . $actions['u'];
$extraaction['u']['url'] = ';u=' . $actions['u'];
} else {
$extraaction['u']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['u']['url'] = '';
}
if (isset($actions['cat'])) {
$extraaction['cat']['text'] = ' in Category' . $actions['cat'];
$extraaction['cat']['url'] = ';cat=' . $actions['cat'];
} else {
$extraaction['cat']['text'] = '';
$extraaction['cat']['url'] = '';
}

$data[$k] = $txt['unknown_action_viewing'] . ' <a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=' . $actions['action'] . '">' . $actions['action'] . '</a>';
}[s][/s] 
And I put the txt line in my modifications.dutch.php file. What am i doing wrong? Starts to bug me

[Yoshi]

That's the code that doesn't work

Just use the code I provided, it's in the first post of this topic.