SMF reporting of visitors on different section of site?

[dewdrinker19]

Hey guys!  My forums are installed at

http://www.originald.com/forums/

Is there any way to make people that only go to the home page at www.originald.com show up in the "users active" area at the bottom of the forums?

[karlbenson]

You would need to use ssi and the function on your homepage
<?php ssi_logOnline(); ?>

That will Log Online Presence and show on your homepage who is online.

[dewdrinker19]

Thank you for the super quick reply!

I added that code in and all the content on my front page disappeared!  Anybody know of a reason that would happen?

Could it be that I am using a mod that brought people's phpbb3 passwords over?

[karlbenson]

did you include SSI.php first?

require("SSI.php");

Then call the function?

[dewdrinker19]

I have tried

require("SSI.php");
<?php ssi_logOnline(); ?>

and

require("http://www.originald.com/forums/SSI.php");
<?php ssi_logOnline(); ?>

but I still get the same results.

Thank you for your help this far.  I sometimes have 50+ guests according to that page and would love for the message boards to show the same!

[Oldiesmann]

If it's already a PHP page, then you just need to do this:

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

require_once('/path/to/forum/SSI.php');
ssi_logOnline();

[dewdrinker19]

I put that code in and it didn't seem to hurt anything.  So far the numbers are still way off but I'm assuming that is because the main page also has a 15 minute period of time before it takes out people.  I will come back in a while and see if the number have become the same.  Thanks for the help you two!

Sorry I'm such a noob at this stuff, everybody is at one point right? haha

[dewdrinker19]

40 minutes later and there are 24 guests on my main site and 1 on the forums. 

Ugh.

[Rumbaar]

It should reflect the current online status of your forum.

I can't see the sample coding on your main page, but in my test it's accurately and instantaneously reflected the state of my forum.