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can anyone give me a code that will enable away status on my forums?

Number 1, this is not the proper place to post these kinds of questions.

Number 2, the code largely depends on the kind of forums you use, and it's not CSS... If you have no knowledge of the underlaying technology, you rather not modify your forums' code.

i know what type of forum i have and i know what works on this. i am sorry if this is in the wrong forum. and if u have ever heard of fmods.com, then i am one of the development team members. so i think i know what i am doing.

quote:

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Originally posted by ASI Pinoy
i know what type of forum i have and i know what works on this. i am sorry if this is in the wrong forum. and if u have ever heard of fmods.com, then i am one of the development team members. so i think i know what i am doing.

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Then I have no idea why you speak of CSS when you should know that such modification would require PHP code as well as modifications to the MySQL tables in order to hold the away status of the user.

CSS is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language and doesn't control at all the behaviour a website.

but my forum isn't php

Well, it's either PHP, ASP, JSP, Python, Ruby or any other type of dynamic web platform language, but it isn't CSS. What forum platform are you using? Invision's IP.Board?

No offense, but you do not seem to have any knowledge on web technologies.

The CSS could be just hiding the controls for Away status.

this is the online offline code i am using. i don't think css is hiding it.

code:

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<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- Online Status Indicator for Forumer

onlineStatus = "<p style='color:green;font-weight:bold'><img src='http://img86.exs.cx/img86/6840/useronline6oh.gif' alt='Online'> Online</p>"
offlineStatus = "<p style='color:red;font-weight:bold'><img src='http://img91.exs.cx/img91/5369/useroffline9qd.gif' alt='Offline'> Offline</p>"

document.write("<iframe name='index' src='{ibf.script_url}act=Online&CODE=listall&sort_key=click' style='display:none' onload='harvest()'></iframe>")

function harvest()
{
var td = window.frames["index"].document.getElementsByTagName("td")
for(var i = 0; i < td.length; i++){
if(td[i].className == "row1" && td[i].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.innerHTML.match("Online Users")){
var tdi = td[i]
harvestLinks(tdi);
}
}
}

function harvestLinks(tdi){
var a = tdi.getElementsByTagName("A")
var names = new Array(a.length)
for(i = 0; i < a.length; i++){
if(a[i].href.match("showuser=")){
names[i] = a[i].innerHTML.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "")
updateStatus(names);
}
}
}

function updateStatus(names)
{
td=document.body.getElementsByTagName("TD")
for(s=0;s<td.length;s++) {
if((td[s].className=="post1"||td[s].className=="post2")&&td[s].innerHTML.match("Posts: ")&&td[s].width!="100%") {
var poste=td[s].getElementsByTagName("SPAN")[0]
var postName=td[s].parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName("SPAN")[0].getElementsByTagName("A")[0];
for(j = 0; j < names.length; j++){
if(postName.innerHTML==names[j])
{
var replacoo=poste.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
for(p=0;p<replacoo.length;p++){
if(replacoo[p].className=="ShowOn"){
replacoo[p].innerHTML=onlineStatus;
}
else{
//good is sin
}
}
}
}
}
}
}


function OfflineWhen(){
td=document.body.getElementsByTagName("TD")
for(s=0;s<td.length;s++) {
if((td[s].className=="post1"||td[s].className=="post2")&&td[s].innerHTML.match("Posts: ")&&td[s].width!="100%") {
var poste=td[s].getElementsByTagName("SPAN")[0]
if(! poste.innerHTML.match("ShowOn")){
poste.innerHTML += "<br /><div class='ShowOn'>"+offlineStatus+"</div>"
}
}
}
}

OfflineWhen()
// -->
</script>

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Ok, first of all I can clearly see in the code that you are using IP.Board from Invision. Second, why use client side scripting that will fail on workstations with Javascript disabled when you could do the exact same in alot less work directly in the PHP code (Yes, IPB is coded in PHP).

Not to sound rude, but either fmods are accepting anyone in their staff, or they made a mistake by accepting you. Client side scripting should NEVER BE USED if the same could be achived using Server-side scripting (AJAX excluded, but in that case it's an even mix of the two).

(And this is the dirtiest javascript code I have ever seen.)

quote:

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Originally posted by ASI Pinoy
document.write("<iframe name='index' src='{ibf.script_url}act=Online&CODE=listall&sort_key=click' style='display:none' onload='harvest()'></iframe>")

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That method really sucks, and has some serious limitations. You should only use it if absolutely necessary, like if it's impossible to modify the server-side PHP code. Someone must have access to it, since your board seems to be on a dedicated server: http://69.64.49.113/

Basically your script just screen-scrapes the "Online Users" page, so unless that page tells you whether someone is "Away" or not, you're out of luck.