Hey,

Just a quick little idea, was wondering how hard it might be to implement, or if it was possible.

I was thinking it would be quite cool to add a little green dot to the corner of a users avatar if they are currently online, would that be possible?

James

[@djpaul Keymaster 15 years, 1 month ago]

Bit of a blast from the past, but: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/612

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 1 month ago]

Hey DJPaul,

I think jamesyeah is talking about a general online status icon for BP and not for the buddypress.org/forums/.

@jamesyeah, check out the /bp-core/bp-core-classes.php file.

This will give you a headstart:

global $bp;

$user = new BP_Core_User( $bp->displayed_user->id); //i'm assuming you're viewing someone's profile page here

$user_status = $user->status;

I’ll take a look at this later tonight, but we’ll see if a solution is posted by then

[@djpaul Keymaster 15 years, 1 month ago]

Well, of course he is, but I don’t have eight month old samples for *everything*. It’s pretty close for anyone who wants to implement this as a plugin.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 1 month ago]

I know your code offers the “dot” portion of his request, DJPaul.

Here’s the online status portion:

EDIT: Deleted function… needs more testing with other accounts that are not administrators!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 1 month ago]

Okay, here’s my crack at finding out if a displayed user ID is online:

function is_displayed_user_online() {

global $bp;



$user = new BP_Core_User();

$fetchOnlineUsers = array_values($user->get_online_users());



// grab online user IDs

$onlineIDs = $fetchOnlineUsers[0];



// loop through each online user ID; if online user ID matches displayed user ID, then displayed user is online, hence return true

foreach($onlineIDs as $online) {

if($bp->displayed_user->id == $online->user_id) {

return true;

}

}

}



//let's test out the function

//put this in a profile template

if(is_displayed_user_online())

echo 'user is online';

else

echo 'user is offline';

[@erich73 Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

can we get this feature into BP-core ?

so that Admin is able to activate or deactivate this feature ?

Or can we get a plugin for this ?

Thanks !

[@jamesyeah Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

Hey guys,

Thanks for your feedback, this looks like exactly what I was after, I’ll try and put this together as a plugin as I think it could be pretty cool.

James

[@luvs123 Member 13 years, 7 months ago]

@r-a-y, I would love to use this, but I get: `Fatal error: Class ‘BP_Core_User’ not found in`

[@janismo Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

wouldn’t it be easier to overlay css/border color for online users?
do not know how to do it, no need to ask me , smth like is user logged in etc.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@luvs123 – BP_Core_User refers to an older version of BuddyPress.

I would try something like what shanebp outlines here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-display-if-the-user-is-online-or-not-in-the-forum-topic-and-profile/#post-99118