Topic: Display green border around avatar when user is online

Display green border around avatar when user is online

@kakilo

Participant

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

11 years ago

Buddypress – Check if a user is online

@macpresss

Participant

11 years 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.

@henrywright-1

Member

11 years 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.

@naijaping

Participant

11 years 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

11 years 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

11 years ago

Man, this worked like a charm!

Thank you so much :}

@kakilo

Participant

11 years 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.

@macpresss

Participant

11 years 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

11 years 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

@macpresss

Participant

11 years ago

Thank you so much!

This looks very good and like real clean code. 🙂

@macpresss

Participant

11 years 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.