A big step in programming on Forumotion!

Good evening,

After a few years away from Forumotion, my programming skills have improved by 500%.

One day when I had nothing to do, I decided to see how this great community (Forumotion) was doing, and unfortunately, it's not as I thought it would be. The best ones are gone...

I've always had the idea to create some things that this platform limited (database).

With that in mind, and as I have worked with some interesting systems in my professional life, I decided to have some fun here and share a preview of how some things I've just created are already working.

Who is viewing the topic / Who has already seen this topic:


Widget "Where are you located?"


The funniest thing about these two systems I just created is that they update in real-time without the need to refresh the page. If you are on the page alone, and someone new enters, that person will be added in real-time, and if they leave the topic, they will be removed from the list of current viewers and will only appear in the list of those who have previously visited the topic.

The same goes for the widget; it updates in real-time as users navigate through the forum.

These are two systems that I can say are already working 100% without bugs, but I'm still looking to make some improvements if you have any ideas.



Things I plan to develop:

A widget to see who has viewed a profile, along with the time, like the link below:

Click:

A "Total Time Online" widget to show the top ranking of users with the most hours spent on the forum.
Finish here: https://help.forumotion.com/t162916-a-big-step-in-programming-on-forumotion#1143576

An option to "Hide" and "Show Again" a specific forum post, visible only to moderators and the member who hid the post.

The ability to "Mark as Resolved" and "Unmark as Resolved" (since Forumotion only allows marking once, and it can't be undone).

A dedicated chatbox (not the current Forumotion one) as it is too simple. I want to develop something much, much better with many more features.

Among many other things I have in mind.

I look forward to your feedback and suggestions!


PS: For those who might be concerned that due to the update rate, they will encounter the famous "Request Limit" page, that will NEVER happen! The method I'm using doesn't make any extra requests to cause that issue


Best regards,
Ganso

These are really cool ideas! Thank you for sharing! Does it work on all forum versions?

Look forward to seeing your future tutorials.

Interesting features @Ganso - can't wait to see them!
May I ask you where you store those information? We have some tutorials that use posts orprofile fields to store info.. what about you?

@Obscure Currently, I'm only testing it on "PunBB," but when it's released, it will work on all versions.

@Niko Thank you, bro. I'll be letting some forums test it out soon. As you understand programming, you know that this needs an external database, specifically WebSocket in Node.js. This way, I can control the entries and exits securely, preventing data manipulation. I don't want it to become a 100% public project because it costs me money to keep it online (which I don't mind paying, but I prefer to maintain control over who is using it). The goal is to create a "community" for this great project, allowing programmers to develop plugins and more.

@edit:
I find posts and profile fields too insecure, you know? I can't do something like that.

I was at home and ended up developing the "Total Time Online" widget, heheh, look at this beauty:


It updates almost in real-time and is 100% accurate, so whatever appears in the widget is indeed real-time.
(No profile field is needed to store the information)

What do you think? Share new ideas, heheh.

Best regards,
Ganso

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