TodaysVisitorsPlugin

Deprecated TodaysVisitorsPlugin extracts the todays visitors from the logfile.

TodaysVisitorsPlugin is superseded by the UserInfoPlugin. This plugin will no longer be developed.

Syntax Rules

• The %TODAYSVISITORS% variable gets expanded to a plain list of todays visitors.
• The %TODAYSVISITORS{ ... }% variable does the same and takes the following attributes:

$n, $dollar, $percnt and $quot behave the same way as in FormattedSearch.

Example

TodaysVisitorsPlugin Global Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Generates a list of todays visitors

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download all related files from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip TodaysVisitorsPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/TodaysVisitorsPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/TodaysVisitorsPlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/TodaysVisitorsPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• Test if the installation was successful:

%TODAYSVISITORS{ header="Todays visitors:" format=" * $user $n" footer="end of list" }%

Plugin Info

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main/OliverKrueger
Plugin Version:	05 Nov 2004 (V1.000)
Change History:
05 Jun 2003:	Initial version (V0.900)
05 Nov 2004:	Complete rewrite in perl , added attributes (V1.000)
CPAN Dependencies:	none
Other Dependencies:	none
Perl Version:	5.005
Plugin Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TodaysVisitorsPlugin
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TodaysVisitorsPluginDev

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/OliverKrueger - 05 Jun 2003