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How to show "Who's Online" as a center block, preferably occupying position above the footer ??

This can be helpful when there are hundreds of users online, which will unnecesarily lenghthen the right block or cause design problemsn.

How to add ONLINE ( or an online gif ) by the name of each registered user if they are online indeed ??

Grab the code from lib-common and use it to make a staticpage. Don't forget to enable php.
HTH
Robert

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

Can a little more details be spit out by some one ??
Also does any one know how to enable quick reply for this forum, a feature which is in every fourm these days ??

Actually, it would be enough to simply call phpblock_whosonline() from the static page.

However, I don't see how this would solve the actual problem. You'd only have the long list of users somewhere else on the page now ...

bye, Dirk

How can i show in the header.thtml the number of users and anonymous online?

Thanks you, ismael

You can use PHP code in header.thtml. And you can lift the code to count the number of users from the Who's Online block (see above).

bye, Dirk

I have tried in earnest to get a static page to use a custom function from lib-custom as reccomended here. No matter which I try however, it will not work. In my case I'm am trying phpblock_StoriesByTopic; but it will not display. I have tested and it does work in a block--just not a static page. 140sr2--is this no longer an option in the newer GL versions?

While I'm posting I might as well ask another nagging question. I am trying to create a block that spits out an included HTML file. I've tried doing include and require and the like, but no matter what I try it always puts the included HTML on the top of the page and breaks the layout. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks so much.

bsmith at difinitymedia dot com

So what did you try?



Blocks can not display their content themselves, they have to return it and let Geeklog display it.

bye, Dirk

When you say "simply call phpblock_whosonline() from the static page" I suppose I don't know what this means so I don't think answering your question would be productive.

Unfortunately I'm a PHP novice--at best.



What I've tried, I'm sure it's incorrect:

function phpblock_foo ()
{
$foo = include('foo.html');
return $foo;
}


If I missed some documentation regarding this, do inform me please.

After activating the use of PHP in static pages, all you would have to do is to enter
in a new static page and choose "execute PHP (return)" from the PHP dropdown menu for that page.


As for your block: That include will cause the output to start right there - so that won't work. You would have to catch that output and return it to Geeklog. Or read the file yourself instead of using include.

bye, Dirk

Incredibly awesome, thank you so much for your help it is greatly appreciated.

I also want you to know that Geeklog is hands down the best CMS available out of the close to hundred I've tested that are available, whether PHP or any other language. It combines all of the essential aspects that most administrators require in a CMS with versatility, and provides them in a solid, stable and downright eloquent manner. I have reccomended Geeklog to countless people and will continue to do so as I am certain it will only get better as time passes.

And you can quote that.

Thank you Dirk and all developers of Geeklog for an exceptional contribution to the Open Source community.