Topic: Display green border around avatar when user is online

Display green border around avatar when user is online

Participant

@kakilo

Hi guys,

I was lookin for a green border on member’s search page that is shown when the user is online. If the user is offline, instead, show a red one.

Could anybody please help me with this? I was trying to use this code:

<div id="online">
<?php
global $bp;
function check_is_user_online($user_id){
if ( bp_has_members( 'type=online&include='.$user_id) ) return true;
else return false;
}
$this_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
$is_online = check_is_user_online($this_id);
if ($is_online) echo "<img src='http://www.yourweb.com/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/_inc/images/online.png' />";

else{ echo "<img src='http://www.yourweb.com/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/_inc/images/offline.png' />";}

But seems I can’t get it to work or it doesn’t works at all.

Thanks in advance,
Very appreciate.

Henry.

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modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

10 years, 11 months ago

Buddypress – Check if a user is online

Shmoo
Participant

@macpresss

10 years, 11 months ago

Nope I’ve been searching for this also – none of the code snippets online work. There are 3 different code snippets and none are working at the moment for some reason.

It would be cool if we just had a simple user check within the members loop.

Example:
Check if user_is_online() return a Boolean? or –> Echo “something” if user is not online Echo “nothing or something else”;

I would like to add a simple word like online or offline to a HTML class and target it by CSS while making a small ‘breathing’ animation of the gender symbol to show if a user is online or not.

Henry
Member

@henrywright-1

10 years, 11 months ago

@macpresss I wouldn’t use that code from web developers wall in the members loop as it will add a database query for each member. It is more intended for use on the profile page. For the members loop, there are better ways to do it performance wise.

Prince Abiola Ogundipe
Participant

@naijaping

10 years, 11 months ago

@kakilo, I posted 3 different version of that code in the forum and it is still working. It is for member-header and not members-loop but there is nothing stopping you from making it work with
members-loop just pay attention to the code.

I still have that coding working in my member .

Naijaping
shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

10 years, 11 months ago
To show in the members loop, create a template override in your theme for members-loop.php

At the top of your override, paste this:
```
$current_time = current_time( 'mysql', 1 );

function online_check( $current_time ) { 
  global $members_template;
	
  if ( isset( $members_template->member->last_activity ) ) {

    $diff =  strtotime( $current_time ) - strtotime( $members_template->member->last_activity ); 

    if ( $diff < 300 ) // 5 minutes  =  5 * 60
	echo " online";
    else
	echo " offline ";
			
    }
}
```
Call it wherever you like in the members loop like so:
online_check( $current_time );
kakilo
Participant

@kakilo

10 years, 11 months ago

Man, this worked like a charm!

Thank you so much :}

kakilo
Participant

@kakilo

10 years, 11 months ago

I’m also using Prince Abiola script to show if the user is on/off on the members header. Everything is working great now!

Thank you guys!
Henry.

Shmoo
Participant

@macpresss

10 years, 11 months ago

@shanebp

Thanks that works beautiful just like I wanted.

? Just one question, why does it only work if you place the huge function code snippet in the loop template ( at the top ) but when you paste it inside your functions.php it doesn’t work.

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

10 years, 11 months ago

@macpresss

You should be able to put the function in functions.php

But you still need to put this
$current_time = current_time( 'mysql', 1 );
at the top of the template and _not in functions.php

Shmoo
Participant

@macpresss

10 years, 11 months ago

Thank you so much!

This looks very good and like real clean code. 🙂

Shmoo
Participant

@macpresss

10 years, 11 months ago

It’s still work in progress and needs a lot of tuning to be not annoying for users but you get the picture.
It’s something different then a Green or Red bullet that say’s online.