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#1 2008-04-09 20:11:09
- Ruhh
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[request] users online
Is anyone willing to create a plugin like the wordpress plugin created by Naatan.com? It would be neat to show the user names when they are online.
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You can try the <txp:ign_usr_online /> tag from the ign_password_protect plugin. I think you can do what you want with that.
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#3 2008-04-10 00:01:42
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Re: [request] users online
I guess that tag is for only registered users such as the publisher. I would want a tag that is for commentators.
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If you uses something like <txp:php>echo pcs('name');</txp:php> the commentator’s name will be shown on the screen but it would be visible only to the ‘owner’ of the comment.
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#5 2008-04-10 05:44:49
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Re: [request] users online
Hm, that would be useful for some kind of welcome back message. Although, how would I go about putting an if and else conditionals on that so if a visitor haven’t commented, the message would say Welcome back, Guest!…?
And of course still not something I am looking for as mentioned in my first post here.
Last edited by Ruhh (2008-04-10 05:53:53)
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Ruhh wrote:
It would be neat to show the user names when they are online… ign_usr_online… I guess that tag is for only registered users such as the publisher. I would want a tag that is for commentators.
Have I missed something here? Surely in order to be “online” you have to be “logged in” somewhere? I.e. you have to have an account in the back-end.
Or do you mean you want to list anyone viewing a page on your site who has commented previously? In which case, how would you know who it is? Their IP address is unreliable and you can’t rely on the state of the ‘remember me’ cookie (and, as colak pointed out, it’s only visible to that user anyway, since that’s how cookies are intended).
I’m struggling to understand what you want. Please enlighten me :-) It seems Nataan.com’s plugin splits users into categories including a group called ‘commentators’. I’m not sure TXP has that concept, but I could be wrong.
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Re: [request] users online
Ruhh,
My suggestion is to forget that idea unless you expect 1000s of visitors. Even with the txp forum which has well over 10000 members what I see how is “Online (Guests: 50, Users: 6):blah blah”. A normal site would have one or max 2 whereas a reasonably successful one would have about 5 visiting it at the same time.
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Depends on the time window you use for counting visiting users. If you count the unique IPnrs in the logfiles for the last 24 hours, you’ll get a higher number. Unless you go the cookie route, it’s an estimation anyway. Some visitors leave the website after a few seconds, some read a single page for over an hour.
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#9 2008-04-10 16:44:41
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Re: [request] users online
Bloke,
Ok, what I want:
The public can see the commentators that are online. Including the number of non-commentators. Just like the plugin created by Naatan that is used for Wordpress. I guess by using the ign plugin, the commentators have to be registered which I would not want that.
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