Setting What a User is "doing" when using SSI

[themortalgod]

Ok so i have a site that has intigrated the SMF login system throughout using the SSI.php commands, but when i go into the "whose online" page is says unknown action whenever a user is using a page I created outside the forum itself, is there anyway for me to set a variable on those pages that will send correct information to the whose online pages? for example if they are in the gallery, i set the var to say "viewing gallery" and then if i click on the whose online list when a user is viewing the gallery it displays "viewing gallery" under action.
thx for any help

[ExcalibursZone]

Not with SSI.php, you cannot do that. Keep in mind that SSI is not an API per se.

You want the smf_api.php file (do a search for smf_api 1.1) for this function:

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void smf_logOnline(string action = $_GET['action'])
- logs the currently authenticated user or guest as online.
- may not always log, because it delays logging if at all possible.
- uses the action specified as the action in the log, a good example
  would be "coppermine" or similar.
- you can add entries to the Modifications language files so as to
  make this action show up properly on Who's Online - see Who.php for
  more details.

Which will do what you want. Also look at the Who.php file in Sources for the rest of what you'd need to do.

[Ensiferous]

with smf_logOnline you need to create language strings with the information otherwise it will give you unknown action. Personally I prefer doing something like this:

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FIND: $data[$k] = $txt['who_unknown'];
REPLACE WITH: $data[$k] = $actions['action']; //$txt['who_unknown'];

This means that if it can't find the language string it will set it to whatever string you supplied. It's NOT sanitized so make sure you don't accept user input.

[JovanT]

You can try something like this:

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$_GET['action'] = 'custom_action';
writeLog();

and then, in Modifications.english.php add something like:

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$txt['whoall_custom_action'] = 'This is my custom action;

[themortalgod]

cool, thx for all the options guys, im loving that API