"Ghost users" - not displayed in the who is online list

[Louis7777]

Ticket: https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-14623

The f parameter in the URL appears to be only needed to account for users who are browsing a specific forum and show them in the who is online list of the specific forum.

Still, it is possible that there are users who don't use the f parameter, mainly because the canonical URL doesn't have it. So they won't appear in the who is online list.

Can anyone think of a solution?

To show those users and count the visitors without the f parameter, so as to finally remove it.

[3Di]

Yes, that's a problem.
https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-15060

[samwisesk8r]

Does anyone know where I would have to look in the code if I want to try to fix it?

[hanakin]

not precisely but you could start in viewtopic.php and work from there

[samwisesk8r]

Does anyone know where exactly the "who is online" users are accounted for?

The viewtopic.php is chaotic so I thought I'd try my luck with a smaller chunk of code first...

[RMcGirr83]

It is actually generated from includes/functions.php within the page_header function.