Determining Online Users and Dashboard

I recently developed a pretty simple hack to track online users on a Ning site with very little overhead. I've attached the two files needed. Once loaded and hooked up properly you can get info anytime--very useful from your smartphone for example. It's fun to see how many people just joined your network while out at dinner or a movie, say.

Place XG_Online.php in /lib.
Place InfoController.php in /widgets/admin/controllers.

To track online users, you need to add the following PHP code to the end of your footer.php file (just before </body>). This call is meant to be extremely lightweight:

XG_App::includeFileOnce('/lib/XG_Online.php'); XG_Online::userOnline();

From your browser, enter these addresses to get real-time info:

http://sitename.ning.com/admin/info/dash (for dashboard)
http://sitename.ning.com/admin/info/online (for online users)

With this core online function, you could build a widget that displays online users graphically. I just haven't gotten around to it yet to add it here.

Reply to this post if you have questions.

Enjoy!

Attachments:

XG_Online.php, 1 KB
InfoController.php, 3 KB

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Permalink Reply by Ted Cohn on June 26, 2008 at 11:24am

Sorry, I'm not sure how to do this and really have no time to investigate. Cheers!

Permalink Reply by Jef Paris France on June 26, 2008 at 11:31am

Thanks TED

Can you tell me in which footer.php i ahve to insert part of code beforeunable tio locate it. Can you give the full path thanks

JEF

Permalink Reply by Ted Cohn on June 26, 2008 at 11:34am

/widgets/index/templates/embed/footer.php

Permalink Reply by Jef Paris France on June 26, 2008 at 11:42am

Thanks

Great all working perfectly now

JEF

Permalink Reply by Anjo on June 27, 2008 at 9:27pm

thank you ted for your help,Ive tried it on my test site it didnt make any error,but unfortunately no infromation showed up...what do you think is the problem?(http://code4ning.ning.com/admin/info/online).

Permalink Reply by Ted Cohn on June 27, 2008 at 10:07pm

You might have an error and you should check your error_log file.

Permalink Reply by Anjo on June 27, 2008 at 10:39pm

this is the error_log
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /apps/code4ning/widgets/admin/controllers/InfoController.php on line 43... thanks.

Permalink Reply by Ted Cohn on June 27, 2008 at 10:48pm

Reload InfoController.php - there was a another typo. Sorry, I just don't have time to retest this stuff!

Permalink Reply by Anjo on June 27, 2008 at 10:52pm

thanks ted.

Attachments:

error_log.txt, 3 KB

Permalink Reply by Jef Paris France on June 28, 2008 at 12:50am

Hi Anjo

Have had the same problem instead upoading the new file in you directory use the old one an just replace the wrong insturction by the new one i.e.

$who = Fb_Utils::whosOnline();

by

$who = XG_Online::whosOnline();

and you wont have prob anymore hope for you you still have to former file.

JEF

Permalink Reply by KAJRA on September 20, 2008 at 2:50am

Hi ted ! this is sound great, but how do i find the following directory

/lib.
/widgets/admin/controllers.

Thanks

Dave

Permalink Reply by Jef Paris France on September 20, 2008 at 5:08am

Il faut être en code décentralisé et dans ce cas tu ne bénéficie plus des mises à jour du code ning -