Basically I don't want "and 0 Spiders online".

How do I get rid of that, and include the number of "Spiders" in the number that is shown for guests. (ie. just as it is now in 7.2.2)

[So for example if there were 5 guests and 20 spiders online, I would have that display as "25 guests online"]

Thanks

Just a thought (don't know if this would work) but if you remove (or shorten) the list of user agents - perhaps the spiders will show up as guests.

Of course that won't remove the '0 spiders' notice - but it will make it look like you've got more 'real' visitors to your site

Thanks - it's not just that, I just don't want spiders mentioned all over the place....

Anyone?

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Go on, tell me please!

Anyone, please!

Anyone how do I get rid of the spiders mention on that Whos Online post island (like it was 7.2)?

Please if anyone knows, thanks

You can remove the Spiders part entirely if you comment-out this section of \templates\default\island_whos_online.tpl:

to:

...but as for adding those totals into Guests, I'd have to look into it more deeply and don't have time for that tonight...

OK good start thank you.

If anyone could let me know how to "add" the guests and spiders that would be fantastic.

Thanks

If you have any familiarity with coding, you could compare the 7.2.2 way of doing things vs the 7.3 way, and hack it up from there. I'm no PHP expert, but at 1AM I don't feel it's the time to try and become one... lol.

But really, I dislike having the Spiders' count included into Guests, because I'd rather have an accurate count of *users* vs inflated access totals. But that's just me. If what I posted works, I think that could be enough. Only the site owner cares about Spiders, not the members. And the Spider totals should still come up on the full Who's Online page anyway.

That said, inflating numbers can help sometimes if you're trying to sell ad space or something...