UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Admin only see online users

I would like to hide the "who's online" and I know how to do that through CP, but my question is, is there a way that I (as admin) can see who is online - users and anon and their IPs whilst still hiding the who's online box from others?

yah, a slight tweak to ubbthreads.inc.php to check for 'Administrator' and then display would do the trick

Apologies in advance for the hand holding Sirdude, but I'm lost. Is that something I can do within the control panel?

Ah. Okay. So I found that ubbthreads.in.php file. I presume I must change it in my text editor, save it, upload it to my ftp server to replace existing file, right?

I can do that. Can you tell me what to change check for admin?

In situations like this I simply tell the admin to disable the island, and bookmark the "details" page...

which points out what i deem a flaw. lowly guests can peruse that link, even if the admin doesn't want it.

so what i do for /scripts/online.inc.php is change "admin_only" => 0 to "admin_only" => 1 and that prevents all but admins to view that link.

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so I'm in the ubbthreads.inc.php file and when I do a "find" for "admin_only" i come up with no results?

sorry for the misdirect toon.. rather than waddle thru ubbthreads.inc.php, the easiest way is to combine giz idea, but further restrict it to admin only..

sooooooo

1. open /scripts/online.inc.php
2. find "admin_only" => 0 ( ~ line 39ish)
3. change to : "admin_only" => 1
4. save file and upload
5. go to admin cpanel and disable who's online island
6. bookmark (just for you) http://yourforum/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=online

*poof* done

note: 'yourforum' is your domain and i assumed it was under the ubbthreads directory.. your mileage may vary

note: this will allow YOU (admins too) only to access that URL without getting an access error like "yo dude, no can do that" for all other users, including guests. it's essentially hidden AND protected this way

Done. Look at me. Programming and stuff

Oh. PS - THANK YOU

you are welcome toon.. and i'm glad you asked the question, because i think the way it is now (wide open) isn't the way it should/could be.. dunno... having to edit code ain't what i'd deem the way to do it..

/me checks out 7.3 code to see

<snicker> yeh, the admin only tick is good too if you want to ensure no one goes there; you can set it mod only or regged only too if you wanted to open things up slightly

SD, yeh, I'd definitely have it regged only ...

well, we have a group perm 'can view member list' that -- although not the same -- could be used to make it configurable (possibly)..

along with regonly=1

but, that's a Rick call from where i stand