• System name: mod_dwhosonline
• Type:
• Version: 1.7.0 (March 6, 2010)
• Compatibility:

DWho's Online (mod_dwhosonline) is the excellent module for replacing standard Joomla! “Who's Online” module. It can filter and count robots on your website and provide you abilities for flexible configuration and integration. No more fictive “100—500 guests” online! Avatars, icons, profile links, user types, latest members, random members, total members, etc. — everything you can do with this module.

Features

• Counts members, guests and robots
• Option to set timeout for users activity
• Options to hide Usergroups and individual Users form the memberlist (hidden users can be count as guests)
• Prefilled and configurable list of search bots and other robots for detection (you can load signatures from text file and specify manually in the parameters)
• Option to show latest members list
• Option to show any random members of the site
• Option to show total members (linked to users´ list)
• Support of users avatars and robots icons using DAvatar content plugin
• Members names and avatars can be configured as links to the users profiles
• Support of link to PMS:
  • uddeIM
  • Messaging
• Different user groups wrapped with individual "class" for better layout design
• Options to trigger content plugins for the module content (onPrepareContent and onBeforeDisplayContent)
• Parameter to specify extra SQL WHERE condition (for advanced users)

Languages

• English
• French (by Sirius)
• Hebrew (front-end by wilDare.com)
• Russian
• Spanish (by Miguel Tuyaré aka Tux Merlín)
• Swedish (front-end by Addie)
• Ukrainian (by Aleks Bycon aka Aleks_El_Dia)

Help to translate DWho's Online module.

Links

• Download DWho's Online module
• DWho's Online support forum
• DWho's Online support at joomlaforum.ru (Russian language)
• DWho's Online on JED (rate me )

Screenshots

Disclaimer

Why I wrote this module?

The main target was to replace Joomla! standard “Who is Online” module because it counts guests incorrect. It’s famous bug, but really “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature”. Joomla! module counts users and guests by sessions, but each page loaded by search bot generates new session, so you get thousands number of “guests” for session lifetime.

In my module you can set short timeout for users activity (independent from session lifetime), e.g. 15 minutes, and list bots signatures to exclude it from guests.