Online users module question

[toejam]

Can I make the users appear to stay online longer other than the default time? Change it from fifteen minutes to like four hours?
Thanks for any help.

[Brian]

If you look in your modules/onlineusers.php file for this code:

PHP Code:

(TIMENOW - $vbulletin->options['cookietimeout']) 


You can change the variable "$vbulletin->options['cookietimeout']" to the number of seconds you want it to use.

[toejam]

Do I change the whole "$vbulletin->options['cookietimeout']" to just seconds? So four hours would be 14400 seconds? TIMENOW - 14400

[Brian]

Yes. Though I'm not entirely sure when or how often vB cleans out the session table, so you *may* not actually be able to set it that high without changing your vBulletin cookie timeout. (it won't hurt to try of course, just warning you that it might not work very well).

[toejam]

I did try this without changing the cookies setting and it does work on the module but it doesn't work with the forum homepage currently active users. I didn't realize all I had to do was change cp/vboptions/Session Timeout time. This was what I wanted to do. It also seems to work without changing the onlineusers.php file.