Spiders - Filtering from Who's Online?

[Ajeh]

Why don't you use the sort options ...

Click on Asc or Desc and it sorts spiders, guests and members for you ...

There are a bazillion other ways to sort as well ...

[wmarcy]

The sort optiosn are ok for a temporary fix and I have been using them, but I would prefer some sort of code option, preferably an admin switch to just not show them at all on the whos online display.

Would it be a smple matter of a chunk of code If User=spider then ignore kind thing?

[wmarcy]

Ok, looking at the code, the first thing we do code wise when whos online is called is check for bots:

// highlight bots
function zen_check_bot($checking) {
// googlebot.com and google.com
if (empty($checking)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

Since we know at the outset who a bot is, wouldn't it be doable to filter out those bots, to not show at all in the list?

Or in my n00bieness, I can't see why it would be undesirable or untenable to code?

[Ajeh]

It can be done ... by adding an exclusion to the select table first ...

Bots do not have session_id so if you don't pull the blanks you don't see them ...

I have not looked to see what this would do beyond change the display ...

If I were coding for this I would set an option for bots or no bots that can be switched on/off ...

NOTE: there are no overrides for the admin files so backup your files before making changes ...

[wmarcy]

What do you think about adding another line to this code:


// remove entries that have expired
$db->Execute("delete from " . TABLE_WHOS_ONLINE . "
where time_last_click < '" . $xx_mins_ago . "'
or (time_entry=time_last_click
and time_last_click < '" . $xx_mins_ago_dead . "')");

That stripped spiders out Linda?

[Ajeh]

It would be easier to just add an exclusion to the select statement for what is going to be listed I think ...

Why mess up the logic of the tables?

[wmarcy]

I agree Linda, I will look into getting someone to make the tweak for me, as I am dangerously close to be over my head as it is.