Track Guest Visits

[Paul M]

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Something that has been repeatedly asked in the "Members who visited today" modifications (all versions) is a similar way to track the number of guests that have visited a forum each day. This isn't possible in stock vbulletin as no record is kept of guest visits, they are a 'realtime' display only. I've therefore finally got round to looking at the issue and produced this modification.

This will add (another) section to the "What's Going On" area. The data is kept in a new table so it should be possible for other uses to be made of it (or display it in other ways). A screenshot of the current display is attached.

Options / Features ;

* The ability to turn it on/off.
* The ability to turn just the display on/off.
* The ability to allow (or prevent) certain usergroups viewing the display.
* The ability to run the display code on all pages (not just forumhome).
* The ability to switch between 'Today' and Rolling 24 Hours display (default).
* The list of guests can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.

* The script that the Guest is running is logged (e.g. showthread, usercp etc).
* The request variables in use are logged (e.g. threadid, userid etc).
* The guest table can be cleaned of old records to help control it's size.
* Controls for the displays automatic template update.
* The datastore read (for spider detection) will read from the File/APC/Memcache/Xcache datastore .

Version 1.19+

* Guest Views data collection - tracking each guests viewing of the forum index page, forums and threads.
* Guest Views data collection can be separately disabled.
* Multiple guest visits to the same page are logged separately.
* Clicking on a Guest type in the main display will list all recent visits by guests of that type.
* Clicking on the option in the guest listing will show that guests viewing data (if enabled).
* Usergroup permissions are now done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.

Four new usergroup permissions are provided in the usergroup manager.

* Can View the Guests Visited Display - Members can view the guests visited display on Forumhome.
* Can View Guest IP Addresses - Members can see the ip addresses of visiting guests.
* Can View Guest Visits List - Members can view the list of guest visits page.
* Can View Guest Tracking Data - Members can view the individual guest visit tracking page.


Version 1.22+

The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests has been added - this used to be provided by a seperate add-on product.


* All (non usergroup) modification settings are in vBulletin Options > Guest Tracking.

To install ;

Unzip the XML files.
Upload the bitfields file to your ../includes/xml folder.
Import the product into vB using the ACP Product Manager.
Set your required permissions in the usergroup manager.

Note that by default no permissions are given, you must set them.

You can get an improved Spiders Definition file, that recognises many more spiders, from this post (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=565415).

Note: For Spider detection to work you must set [I]Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options.

A German translation has been provided by hurik in post #769 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1385038#post1385038) - (for Version 1.22).


History:

v1.00 : Internal dev version.
v1.01 : Initial vb 3.6 beta release.
v1.02 : Phrasing added, final beta version.
v1.03 : Initial full version, some new options added.
v1.04 : Fix potential variable name clash with WVT Mod.
v1.05 : More options added, script and request variable logging added.
v1.06 : Minor internal code changes, phrasing altered slightly.
v1.07 : Datastore call changed to standard fetch function.
v1.08 : Moved Datastore call due to oddities, and fixed small bug.
v1.09 : Simplified always collapsed code.
v1.10 : Datastore call moved and reverted back to db_fetch.
v1.11 : Added Spider Cache Refresh on install (limited release).
v1.12 : Unique Guest id changed from standard vb id to internally created id.
v1.13 : Changed the SQL to force MySQL to use the index on forumhome.
v1.14 : Changed install code to delete old spider cache before rebuilding it.
v1.15 : Added check to try and detect a broken spider cache and fix it.
v1.16 : Number formatting added to individual totals in display list.
v1.17 : New usergroup display options added, datastore read updated.
v1.18 : Beta for new display options - listing guests and tracking guest views.
v1.19 : First release with the new permissions and display options.
v1.20 : Minor changes to install code only.
v1.21 : Internal development version, not released.
v1.22 : Added the "Most ever guests" option.

[memomemo]

Thank you sir

[AzzidReign]

This should come in handy since each day google has been adding over 100 pages from my site...now its time to see if my guest stats increase :D

Thanks!

[Zia]

helo PaulM..this is really a nice modifications..

can it be shown in the same block of "User Visited Today"
also can it show Spider Visited today in the same block? Hence its showing the spider too...

thnx in advance

[DPSR]

Its looks good, will install it later on :)

[Shazz]

Ive been waiting for one of these
Looks good :)

[engager]

helo PaulM..this is really a nice modifications..

can it be shown in the same block of "User Visited Today"
also can it show Spider Visited today in the same block? Hence its showing the spider too...

thnx in advance

Great hack, Paul M! :)

I agree with Zia...Paul, can you do this, or give us the code to add to "User Visited Today" template, as this strip does take up a large amount of space which has, or will have, little detail in it!

Would appreciate it!

Br.

INSTALL -clicked!

[Shazz]

If you removed the plugin, it does take the table it adds away right?

[Ascor]

Very nice and useful, thank you :)
Ho can i change the name "Visitors" and "Google Spiders" ?

[efil]

Thank you!
it's working.

[Allan]

Thank you for this hack Paul ;)

[Snake]

Wow! I have been waiting for this. Thanks! :D

[Veer]

WOW, Great Hack ;)

Clicks INSTALL.

But waiting for stable release !! :)

Thanks.

[bashy]

Well, what can i say, i just couldn't help myself, this is a great add-on and i just had to try it, not that im like that ya know, it aint as if i try every hack out there :o

Anyway, nice idea but it didn't work, well not for me, It gave a blank page, i refreshed a few times and got this db error

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT * FROM guest WHERE lastactive > 1163289600;

MySQL Error : Table '++++++++.guest' doesn't exist Error Number : 1146
Date : Sunday, November 12th 2006 @ 10:31:05 AM
Script : http://www.bashys-place.com/forums/index.php


I am assuming it didn't add the table?
I will try to add this manually and see what happens, that's as long as the table is in the product lol

EDIT:

Nope it wont let me add it manually, i cannot see whats wrong as i do not know sql

[redlabour]

Can you Phrase this please within the next Update ? ;)

[jluerken]

Nice Hack Paul but "Total guests that have visited the forum today:" needs to be phrased :D

[Paul M]

Can you Phrase this please within the next Update ? ;)Like the notes say, this is a beta version. I'm more interested in it actually working than the pretty stuff like options and phrasing - they will come in later versions. Same for those asking about linking it to the "Visitors Today" mod. :cool:

[redlabour]

Like the notes say, this is a beta version. I'm more interested in it actually working than the pretty stuff like options and phrasing - they will come in later versions. Same for those asking about linking it to the "Visitors Today" mod. :cool:

Works great on 3.6.3 ! ;)

[Rich]

Great mod Paul, thanks for releasing it! Any chance on a 3.5 version for those of us that are running a board with that version?

[Allan]

File attach: French language :)

[maroceve]

Thanks Paul !
Merci Allan, installé en Francais sur maroceve.com !

[Paul M]

Great mod Paul, thanks for releasing it! Any chance on a 3.5 version for those of us that are running a board with that version?There will not be an official 3.5 version. However, I believe that if you edit the XML file to remove the executionorder="x" bit's you should be able to import it on a 3.5 board.

[voteforbird]

Thank you for the base code, here. I went ahead and modified it to make a simpler display. Please see http://www.volconvo.com/forums/

Is there any way this minimized display can be a default option? And perhaps a switch to make it say (X members, Y guests and Z spiders) as well?

Thanks!

[projectego]

Thank you for sharing, Paul. :)

[Paul M]

Version 1.02 (Beta 2) is now uploaded - this should include all the phrasing.

Please remember the install 'button' if you install this (it helps me judge usage, and means you get the notification e-mails).



(and I don't object to MOTM nominations if you feel it worthy)

[jluerken]

"Total guests that have visited the forum today"
still not phrased in the template Paul :D

Please add a version number to the download file

[Shazz]

/me updates

[Paul M]

"Total guests that have visited the forum today"
still not phrased in the template Paul :DUm, yes it is.

Please add a version number to the download fileSorry, that's not likely to happen.

[redlabour]

Update works ! ;)

[bashy]

Hi Paul

I still get a db error as soon as i install this

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.3:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO guest
(guestid, hostip, useragent, lastactive, spider)
VALUES
('b7a7a78a0f0ab05079e72c6a96628b62', 'Some IP addy', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)', 1163355326, 'Google');

MySQL Error : Table '***********.guest' doesn't exist Error Number : 1146
Date : Sunday, November 12th 2006 @ 06:15:26 PM
Script : http://www.bashys-place.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6293


Any ideas please?

[Paul M]

It's not created the table.

Uninstall it, then edit the xml file and remove (or comment out) the $db->hide_errors(); at line 19 - and then reinstall it. If the table creation fails you should get an error displayed telling you why. If it fails you will need to uninstall it again afterwards.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

There will not be an official 3.5 version. However, I believe that if you edit the XML file to remove the executionorder="x" bit's you should be able to import it on a 3.5 board.


quick heads up, removing the executionorder="x" comments dont work on 3.5....

borked my board up...lost the index when applying it.

[Paul M]

Hmm, actually it won't work because $vbulletin->db->query_read_slave does not exist in 3.5 - you need to edit that to just $vbulletin->db->query_read if you try using it on 3.5

[wengi]

Better wait for final release of this nd thnks for sharing paul :)

[Rich]

LOL, I removed the execution order earlier and then editted the _slave and it worked. Thanks.

[Zoints]

Nice hack Paul :)

[Paul M]

JFYI ;

As no major problems have been reported in 1.01 or 1.02, the next update (in a few days) will remove the beta status.

[bashy]

Hi Paul

Did what ya said, it didnt give any errors at all m8, still a blank index though so have removed again lol.....

It's not created the table.

Uninstall it, then edit the xml file and remove (or comment out) the $db->hide_errors(); at line 19 - and then reinstall it. If the table creation fails you should get an error displayed telling you why. If it fails you will need to uninstall it again afterwards.

[Zia]

they will come in later versions. Same for those
asking about linking it to the "Visitors Today" mod. :cool:

Thanx Man (Y) :)

* Zia kliks install

[Greek76]

Nice hack Paul install went smoothly and it works just fine for 3.6.2.

[PoetJA-1975]

Excellent addition - Thanx for this one PAUL!

Jacquii.

[Spiffware]

bashy try adding the table manually then edit out the talbe creation from the xml file it should work just fine then

[Spiffware]

I would install it if i can limit the ppl that can see it to just admins other wize it looks like a cool mod for ppl.

[Paul M]

Hi Paul

Did what ya said, it didnt give any errors at all m8, still a blank index though so have removed again lol.....Sorry, but you seem to have some sort of local sql problem, not much I can do about that.

I would install it if i can limit the ppl that can see it to just admins other wize it looks like a cool mod for ppl.That will come in later versions, as it is in all my other WGO section mods - Unfortunately the interest in this mod has caught me slightly by surprise, I'm not actually around much this week, and away next week. :cool:

[Devil Woman]

Thanks for this, great hack deffinetly a good way of keeping up with the amout of hits you get a day from guests

*Installed*

[Lottis]

Installed, and working great.

[SaN-DeeP]

sounds interesting how many additional queries are added on forumhome ?
Can we also keep track of guests per forum and per thread ?

[Antivirus]

Very nice job Paul, looking forward to the stable release!

[Shazz]

Very nice job Paul, looking forward to the stable release!

This is going to be the stable release soon...

[MeMySelfNi]

trying this out now

[ShawnV]

Awesome mod, works perfectly.

Now I know I am getting spammed by 4000 yahoo slurp spiders a day :)

_V

[Paul M]

Very nice job Paul, looking forward to the stable release!1.02 is stable, it's only labelled beta because it lacks a few options. The basic code will not change in the next version, just a few of the options will get added.

sounds interesting how many additional queries are added on forumhome ?One (uses slave if you have one). I hope you're not one of those obsessed with queries ;)

Can we also keep track of guests per forum and per thread ?No.

[paldo]

Awesome mod, works perfectly.

Now I know I am getting spammed by 4000 yahoo slurp spiders a day :)

_V


so im not the only victom lol i thought they was just in love with my place.

[Spiffware]

That will come in later versions, as it is in all my other WGO section mods - Unfortunately the interest in this mod has caught me slightly by surprise, I'm not actually around much this week, and away next week. :cool:

good looking forword to it. well have a good vacation and ill see what you do to it when you return ill hit install so i can keep an eye on the progress.

[Paul M]

Vacation ? I wish.

I'm away on a training course for work for a week (20th to 24th).

[Spikeman]

Thanks paul, installed ;)

[pete_brady]

i'm impressed.

i knew i had a lot of visitors, but no idea there were this many

thanks dude

[Shazz]

i'm impressed.

i knew i had a lot of visitors, but no idea there were this many

thanks dude

I feel the same way :)

[AzzidReign]

I'm getting this error after I install it:
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/sitename/public_html/forums/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 11

The error only occurs for guests though.

[Paul M]

I'm getting this error after I install it:
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/sitename/public_html/forums/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 11I have no idea what that is, a search of google seems to suggest its possibly a php 5.0.4 bug. Do you have anything else running on global_start as well as this mod, since line 11 could be any line, depending on other plugins (change the execution order of "Guest Tracking (3)" to 4 and see if the line number changes).

[Captain Kirk76]

Hi, how do i remove this extra image that it puts in, my whose online use just one image :)
can you tell me the code to remove, and where i remove it :)
http://imagehost.forumchunkies.co.uk/out.php/i55_58.png

[Paul M]

That's a non standard display - you will have to edit the 'Display_Guests' template to suit your style.

[Captain Kirk76]

Is there any chance of you telling me the exact bit of code i need to alter to remove that image? Or do i need to fiddle about. (I'm new to vBulletin theme coding)

[Paul M]

Version 1.03 has now been uploaded.

This version is no longer beta and adds a few new options ;

* The ability to turn it on/off.
* The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list.
* To switch between 'Today' and Rolling 24 Hours display.
* The list of guests can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.

(All options are in vBulletin Options > Track Visitors)

[delmarva]

I'm having a bit of trouble installing it correctly. Could you put a little instruction .txt file in with the .zip for us new guys. Thanks

[Total666]

Weird - it is the 1.03 version now :) Thanks man

[Shazz]

/me updates

[engager]

Paul, can't find this updated hack in vBulletin Options! :(

Uninstalled Beta hack, and reinstalled the latest, and still shows v1.01, too!

What's up?

Br.

[Paul M]

Bizarre, the zip looks to be 1.02, yet it's updated. I think I'll upload it again.

Try it now, I've re-uploaded it, and downloaded it, and it shows as 1.03

[Shazz]

/me updates again

[TheBlackPoet]

i updated... its good to know that i am having visitors... but i dont want all my members to know what's what.... so thanks for the update..

[iardon]

Paul M, great mod but any chance this can be integrated into the who visited mod so there isn't another section taking up space?

[kushal]

great mod. Thank you for sharing to this community.

[SCRIPT3R]

Paul M, great mod but any chance this can be integrated into the who visited mod so there isn't another section taking up space?
i was just coming here to ask this. that's how i did it on one of my forums (modified the code), and it looks much cleaner.

[cos]

Hi great plug in

Just wondering if there is anyway of just displaying total guests and not spiders ??

Sorry to be a pain but the guest is cool but on my forum nobody knows what a spider is - hehe

[AzzidReign]

I have no idea what that is, a search of google seems to suggest its possibly a php 5.0.4 bug. Do you have anything else running on global_start as well as this mod, since line 11 could be any line, depending on other plugins (change the execution order of "Guest Tracking (3)" to 4 and see if the line number changes).
I haven't edited my global file if that's what you mean. I just recently upgraded to 3.6.3 so that file is "fresh".

Also, I just upgraded to your 1.0.3...yet same problem :( I'll see if I can find the cause and report back...

[Spiffware]

worked great for me thanks just 1 note
it would be kool to be able to click on the guest or the bot to see where they been or where they where when they were on the board.likesome sort of caching.

[Roms]

looks good. Thanks :)

[Paul M]

worked great for me thanks just 1 note
it would be kool to be able to click on the guest or the bot to see where they been or where they where when they were on the board.likesome sort of caching.Where they have been is not recorded, I guess a future version may be able to record the last thread or post they visited (not sure how feasible that is atm). It will never record all the places a guest visits, that would just be insane.

[newbe_haselina]

Thanks Paul ... :) ...
*install*

[PoetJA-1975]

Using 3.5.6 after editing the modification v.103
It's supposed to be:
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5200/guests2up3.gif

But shows:
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/296/guestskj2.gif

Any ideas? - If no - can you please reupload the v102 file
Thanx,

Jacquii.

[empservices]

I have a problem with the mod. I can see the SQL table updating with visitors but there is nothing displayed on my front page.

I have the 'What's going on" section, but the whole piece for visitors is missing.

My Settings:
Enable - Yes
Spiders - Yes
Collapse - No
Tracking - No
Groups - 0

I'm using the standard vbulleting template with no theme changes.

[Canis Firebrand]

Works perfect.

The only thing I need to see if I can change or if you can offer a place to look.

I have your flashchat users script installed as well. I think both place their own block automatically below the members online section.

I'd like to have the guest show up under the members, then the flashchat.

Would it be simple enough to change the order of execution for those two plugins, make the guests one execute before the flashchat one?

**EDIT**

Got it.. Changed execution order for Guest Tracking plugin using the forumhome_start hook. Now the Guest block shows up before the FlashChat Users block.

Thanks again for all your great hacks. They really give you a lot of information in the What's Going On section.

[AzzidReign]

worked great for me thanks just 1 note
it would be kool to be able to click on the guest or the bot to see where they been or where they where when they were on the board.likesome sort of caching.
Get google analytics and that can show you what your top entrances and exits are ;)

[Canis Firebrand]

Paul, you have your two hacks

1) Most ever visitors, posters, chatters and
2) Split the most ever members and guests

I think the code is there is the second one.

But I don't know enough to try and combine it into one or make it on my own.

I'd love the ability in the new Total Number of Guests that have visited today section to have a line that reads the most guests ever.

Like in the first hack.

I think this was mentioned as a request already, but when I went reading through the thread I didn't see it.

It isn't a major function that is needed, just would look nice to have it like the other blocks your hacks provide.

[Paul M]

I have a problem with the mod. I can see the SQL table updating with visitors but there is nothing displayed on my front page.

I have the 'What's going on" section, but the whole piece for visitors is missing.

My Settings:
Enable - Yes
Spiders - Yes
Collapse - No
Tracking - No
Groups - 0

I'm using the standard vbulleting template with no theme changes.Works fine for me with those settings, so something must be intefering with it. BTW, you don't have this marked as installed.

[Paul M]

Using 3.5.6 after editing the modification v.103
It's supposed to be:

But shows:

Any ideas? - If no - can you please reupload the v102 file
Thanx,

Jacquii.Sorry, I would never re-upload on old version. :cool:

I can't think of a way to reproduce that problem, but there was a potential clash of variable names between the two, which I have eliminated in v1.04 (now uploaded).

[MeMySelfNi]

working just fine for me :)

[Shazz]

/me updates again

[PoetJA-1975]

I can't think of a way to reproduce that problem, but there was a potential clash of variable names between the two, which I have eliminated in v1.04 (now uploaded).

EXCELLENT - Thanx a bunch PAUL.
For anyone who's interested - 3.5.x version uploaded :)

Jacquii.

[empservices]

Works fine for me with those settings, so something must be intefering with it. BTW, you don't have this marked as installed.

Any idea what the 'something' could be ? Where would I start looking ?

[jw00dy]

Very cool mod.

Clicks *Installed"

[SpiderFive]

Thanks Paul

[blogtorank]

Thanks again Paul, great add! *Installed*

[Dennis Kaczor]

Hi Paul, this is a neat hack and thanks for posting it! Clicked Installed!

Dennis

[Maxman1544]

Thanks Paul. I will definitely install this once it can be combined with the Members Online. That was one option I liked having on phpbb (everything else sucked, lol).

Something like Total Online Today: Members xx, Guests xx

would be awesome!

[Paul M]

You can do that yourself with appropiate template edits (and maybe execution order changes). All the options are there to output the data as you want. I cannot do this for you as the possibilities are many.

[993ti]

Great mod.
Simple to install and use.
Now i can keep an eye on how many visitors the forum had without checking the stats :)
Thanks :)

[iardon]

If someone could combine this with the who's visited mod by Paul, that would be great. Unfortunately I can't as I'm no coder. :-(

[smoknz28]

Paul, another nice hack brother. ;)

Thanks for sharing your work with us.

Gonzo

[KSE]

Paul, another nice hack brother. ;)

Thanks for sharing your work with us.

Gonzo
x's 2. Installed!

[Smoothie]

Installed and thanks

[Zia]

helo Paul..
can u help us a bit plz..
like:
Google Spiders (1), Google AdSense Spiders (1)

if we want to show only spiders name
like:
Google (1), Google AdSense (1)
with out the "spider" word end of the name..
how could we do it?

Thankx

[Nathan2006]

Thanks Paul

Will be able to track everything on the board with your hacks lol

Install

[Smoothie]

Thanks Paul

Will be able to track everything on the board with your hacks lol

InstallLOL, right on!

[Paul M]

helo Paul..
can u help us a bit plz..
like:


if we want to show only spiders name
like:

with out the "spider" word end of the name..
how could we do it?

Thankx
Everything is phrased, just edit the phrase for 'spiders' to a space.

[jobbe]

Installed

[Paul M]

I have uploaded a new version (1.05) - this captures more data, and adds a few new options as a result ;

The script that the Guest is running is logged
e.g. Was the guest using showthread, or calendar, or usercp etc.

The request variables in use are logged
e.g. what values were used for threadid, userid, calendarid etc.

The above two can be combined to show you what each guest was actually doing on the forum when they last visited.
Note: At the moment this mod does not actually make use of this data, it is there for future use - or you can write your own code to query the guest table and display this information in any form you like.

The display and whole system can be disabled separately
Self explanatory really, you can disable the display, or disable the whole guest tracking system.

The guest table can be cleaned of old records
This is to help control the table size on large forums - the default cleanup setting is 3 days (based on lastactive time) - However, atm this modifications display does not actually make use of any data where the lastactive time is more than 24 hours ago.

[Nathan2006]

Hi Paul

1st thanks for the update :)

The only problem is that I found that once installed in the vb options it leaves a blank space (Screenshot) and if you click on it you get

This: (2nd Screen shot)

Thanks for any help :)

(Screenshots now removed because not needed)

[Paul M]

How bizarre - somehow the phrase has gone AWOL - I've put it back and re-uploaded the zip.

[Nathan2006]

How bizarre - somehow the phrase has gone AWOL - I've put it back and re-uploaded the zip.


yup its back now :D

Thank you :)

[hsv z clubbie]

Installed and working well !!

[Smoothie]

So, the guest visits are logged, but we can't see that info at the moment?

[Shazz]

* Shazz is now updating :)

[Dr-net]

Very nice hack I will install it

[Quantnet]

installed. Many thanks

[Paul M]

Very nice hack I will install it

installed. Many thanks
Don't forget to "Mark as Installed" :)

[keithsan]

*installed*

find it odd that no spiders have shown up yet, I have spiders on...

Great addition Thanks!!!!!

[Spiffware]

great hack i clicked installed awhile back. *updated*

[coffee]

Installed Guest Tracking 1.05, Thank you Paul M.

Could you please alter this phrase:
$vbphrase[spiders]

To be:
$vbphrase[x_spiders]

Reason, we say in English: "Google Spiders" as in Arabic like: "Spiders Google"

[Paul M]

How will changing the name of the phrase make any difference :confused:

[Shazz]

Edit the phrase through adminCP? :tired:

[coffee]

Not exactly the name of the phrase, but the code too.

Now when it shows bots it says: "Google Spiders (5), MSNBot Spiders (2)"

To translate that to Arabic the phrase lets me change the word "Spiders" alone, while the code writes the rest.

I need to show it this way: "Spiders Google (5), Spiders MSNBot (2)"

Current variable is:
$vbphrase[spiders]

The asked variable is:
$vbphrase[x_spiders]

And its English value is:
{1} Spiders

Arabic like this:
Spiders {1}

[coffee]

Edit the phrase through adminCP? :tired:

lol@u Shazz, you know I'm a member since 2001 ;)

[Paul M]

Not exactly the name of the phrase, but the code too.

Now when it shows bots it says: "Google Spiders (5), MSNBot Spiders (2)"

To translate that to Arabic the phrase lets me change the word "Spiders" alone, while the code writes the rest.

I need to show it this way: "Spiders Google (5), Spiders MSNBot (2)"

Current variable is:
$vbphrase[spiders]

The asked variable is:
$vbphrase[x_spiders]

And its English value is:
{1} Spiders

Arabic like this:
Spiders {1}
Okay, I see what you mean. I'll try and remember to allow that in the next update - however, that probably won't be for a while now, so you'll just have to edit the plugin until then.

[OTTIX]

Hello where change I on German?

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours

by Micha

[coffee]

Okay, I see what you mean. I'll try and remember to allow that in the next update - however, that probably won't be for a while now, so you'll just have to edit the plugin until then.

That; I did already :)

Thank you very much.

[OTTIX]

please,where change I on German?

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours

by micha

[Bandwurm]

<a href="http://www.vbhacks-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6343" target="_blank">http://www.vbhacks-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6343</a>

There is the german translation.

[firstrebel]

Another top class mod from Paul M

Bob

[AzzidReign]

Alright, I've been trying to get this mod working for a while now...and I keep getting this same error:

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/forums/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 37

Line 37 is this:
// ################################################## ###########################


I overwrote global with a fresh one from 3.6.4 so I know for a fact that I haven't modified it. Any idea on what I can do to fix this?

[Paul M]

It does not mean line 37 of global.php, it's line 37 of the code running under the global_start hook. Unfortunately, unless you disable ALL your other plugins, there is no way to be sure what line of this plugin that corresponds to.

Also, as I previously mentioned, this has been known to be a php bug, what version of php are you running.

[AzzidReign]

I'm running php 5.1.6.

[Paul M]

Then I have no idea, it seems to be something unique to your set-up. I'm testing 1.06 locally atm which has a few minor internal code changes, but I don't know if that will make any difference to you. It will be uploaded sometime in the next 24 hours.

[AzzidReign]

These are all the mods I have installed:

Add Usergroup as Moderator 1.0.10 This Hack allows you to have whole Usergroups as Moderators for Forums

Advanced PM Options 1.2.1

Automatic Welcome PM 1.0.4

Custom Links 1.6.0

Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics 4.2

Cyb - Sticky-Closed-Poll Prefixes 1.8

Do not show who's online for guests 1.1

EWT - Forum List Ads 1.0.0

Guest Tracking 1.05

ibProArcade for vBulletin 2.5.7

Left Side Column 1.0.2

Let PHP Live! 1

Miserable Users 2.12

Moderation Auto-PM 2.0.1

Multiple Login Detector 1.03

NoSpam! 1.1

Payment Phrases 1.12

PMs Sender 2.0

Post Thank You Hack 5.3

Prevent Doubleposts 1.0 Beta 4

Random User Picker 1.01

Reported post creates new thread 2.01

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.20

vB Pager 3.0.4

vBadvanced CMPS 2.2.1 (vB 3.6)

vbBOL 1.3.2

vBSEO 3.0.0 RC6

vBSEO :: Conditional Signatures 1.4.1

vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator 1.7

WAP 1.0

Welcome Headers 4.1.2

Again, I'm using vb 3.6.4. I hope this helps find out what the error is and hopefully we can figure out a way to fix it.

Also, I have only tried it with IE 6 to view the site when the product is enabled. I dont know if that may be the cause too, I'm going to try it in FF shortly.

EDIT: Same thing in FF.

[DannyMilner]

Great idea, top marks.

[Paul M]

1.06 Uploaded.

There are some slight internal code changes which should be transparent (but if you have a problem, try this version).

The phrasing has been altered slightly to allow the word "Spiders" to be placed before or after the spider name (or removed completely).

Other than this, no changes. If neither of the above concern you then you do not need to upgrade.

[KURTZ]

UPDATED!

[xfaethorx]

daft question but how do you view what the guest was trying to access or accessed?

[Philster]

Paul, is there no special spider.xml file mod required. I've reviewed your thread and cannot see mention of it so I presume your single plug-in does it all then?

Phil.

[Shazz]

/me updates
thanx

[Nathan2006]

Thanks Paul

Updated :)

[Paul M]

daft question but how do you view what the guest was trying to access or accessed?From post #108 ;

The request variables in use are logged
e.g. what values were used for threadid, userid, calendarid etc.

The above two can be combined to show you what each guest was actually doing on the forum when they last visited.
Note: At the moment this mod does not actually make use of this data, it is there for future use - or you can write your own code to query the guest table and display this information in any form you like


Paul, is there no special spider.xml file mod required. I've reviewed your thread and cannot see mention of it so I presume your single plug-in does it all then?No changes to the spider xml are required.

[Zia]

1.06 Uploaded.
The phrasing has been altered slightly to allow the word "Spiders" to be placed before or after the spider name (or removed completely).


Thnx Man :)

it was my request...nice to get it within this mods..


Thankx...

[AzzidReign]

I still get the same error with this version. I'm gonna try to figure out whats going on b/c I want this mod :(

[ninjamaster]

thanks :)

[Bounce]

installed,thanks paul , voted for HOTM :cool:

[Shazz]

installed,thanks paul , voted for HOTM :cool:

HOTM? :confused:

[Paul M]

The old name for MOTM.

[Shazz]

The old name for MOTM.

Ohhh
* Shazz does the same

[Paul M]

I still get the same error with this version. I'm gonna try to figure out whats going on b/c I want this mod :(What datastore storage method are you using ?

[firstrebel]

This mod is currently showing Yahoo Slurp = 16 on my forum, but Who's Online shows considerably more.

Bob

[puertoblack2003]

This mod is currently showing Yahoo Slurp = 16 on my forum, but Who's Online shows considerably more.

Bob

yea me as well i was wondering what's going on i normally get about 50% crawler between googles, yahoo and so on and it had drop to about 10 to 20% , this happened after i installed it so i did some test i disabled it for a day and what a difference and i installed it and it showed that it was this hack so i will uninstalled this till the author fix the issues.

[Paul M]

Then it will probably stay uninstalled, because so far I haven't seen a specific issue to fix.

[hendri]

nice.. installed

[Bounce]

The old name for MOTM.

aye lol sorry never realised it had changed name from hack to mod...doh

[firstrebel]

Then it will probably stay uninstalled, because so far I haven't seen a specific issue to fix.
Not a response I would have expected. An explanation would be more helpful please.

Bob

[blogtorank]

(All options are in vBulletin Options > Track Visitors)

This is now called: "Guest Tracking" under the vBulletin Options correct? :cool:

[blogtorank]

This mod is currently showing Yahoo Slurp = 16 on my forum, but Who's Online shows considerably more.

Bob

My thoughts are with this that who's online is more up-to-date within seconds than this section that you are viewing you know? Basically all in all you load a screen with the Guest Tracker and it shows then and that's it, then you view who's online via the online.php which keeps updating continuously "live time" per the seconds you have defined in the vB options area... Just my thoughts of this issue you are talking about.

Just an educated guess is all ;) could be right or could be wrong!

[Paul M]

This is now called: "Guest Tracking" under the vBulletin Options correct? :cool:Hmmm, yes, it seems I renamed it, I'll update the post. :)

[cfish]

Thanks Paul for another great mod. This really ought to be part of core vB and I'm not surprised how much interest there has been.

One thing that caught me out and looking through the thread, it caught out a few other as well is that in order to display spiders, you must set AdminCP>vBulletin Options>Who's Online Options>Enable Spider Display to "Yes". Conversely, if you only want to see visitors and no spiders, set this to "No".

[Paul M]

It's set to yes by default.

Also, don't get confused by what it does - all it means is Spiders will not be listed separately, they are still counted and listed as part of the visitors count.

[caliman]

Thanks Paul! I've been waiting for years for this mod. Works great! 8)

[vectra-c.com]

Installed :)

[tobybird]

Thanks, Paul! Great Mod! Clicked Install :)

[lifesourcerec]

Doesn't work for me (nothing shows up). May be conflicting with another mod. It may be the template adds or something.

[KURTZ]

INSTALLED on 3.6.4 and works fine ;)

thx Paul

[Inferno Dragon]

Where are the installation instructions? I Know most hacks works like by importing them from the product manager..but U didn't mention it whether it's a product or a plugin? and does it require any templates edit? please add this all in your release info :)

Thanks,

[Viper007Bond]

Where are the installation instructions? I Know most hacks works like by importing them from the product manager..but U didn't mention it whether it's a product or a plugin? and does it require any templates edit? please add this all in your release info :)

Thanks,

It's a product and no, it doesn't.

[TheWhite]

Is there a way to combine both registered and guests in the same drop down without creating 2 separate menus?

[Paul M]

Where are the installation instructions? I Know most hacks works like by importing them from the product manager..but U didn't mention it whether it's a product or a plugin? and does it require any templates edit? please add this all in your release info :)Well everyone else seems to have managed ok, but here you go .....

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.

You also seem to have missed the "Mark as Installed" link ..........

:cool:

[bo0oost]

Great mod, thanks!

Mine only shows:

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 1,498
Visitors (1498)

But it doesn't show any of the bots... any ideas?

[Shazz]

Great mod, thanks!

Mine only shows:

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 1,498
Visitors (1498)

But it doesn't show any of the bots... any ideas?

Have you turned the option on in vBoptions.

[TheWhite]

Have you turned the option on in vBoptions.

Can the total of the guest visits be summed to the overall total of the registered visiters?

[bo0oost]

Have you turned the option on in vBoptions.

Yep, it's turned on. The only option that's no is:

"Guest Tracking - Collapse Display"

[Inferno Dragon]

Well everyone else seems to have managed ok, but here you go .....


You also seem to have missed the "Mark as Installed" link ..........

:cool:

okie I installed and it's working fine :) BTW a "manual Prune log table" option would be cool just a suggestions..nice add-on!

Thanks,

[TheWhite]

Not one single person can answer this dumb question??????????

[Paul M]

I suggest a change of attitude.

Also, you seem to have forgotten something else ......

Status: Not Installed

[bo0oost]

Yep, it's turned on. The only option that's no is:

"Guest Tracking - Collapse Display"

Also, when I look at who's online, I can see googlebot and inktomisearch and aol. Is there some place that I can edit the bots?

Thanks

[Paul M]

Yep, it's turned on. The only option that's no is:

"Guest Tracking - Collapse Display"Are you using an alternative datastore to the normal mysql ?

Also, in your Who's Online Options, do you have Enable Spider Display set to yes.

[bo0oost]

Are you using an alternative datastore to the normal mysql ?

Also, in your Who's Online Options, do you have Enable Spider Display set to yes.

No, using the normal MySQL.

My enable spider display in who's online options was turned off. I just turned it on.

Hope this does it... thanks Paul!

[bo0oost]

That did it... thank you Paul.... works great now!!

[bo0oost]

After 1 minute:

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 1,854

Visitors (1849), Google Spiders (1), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (3), AskJeeves Spiders (1)


:)

[Paul M]

No, using the normal MySQL.

My enable spider display in who's online options was turned off. I just turned it on.

Hope this does it... thanks Paul!If that option is turned off then vbulletin does not build the array of spiders that this relies on for spider detection. I will add a note to the main post about this.

[bo0oost]

Wow, sorry if this is offtopic, but anyone else seeing Yahoo Slurp spiders crawl their site so much?

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 1,867

Visitors (1715), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (150), Google Spiders (1), AskJeeves Spiders (1)

[Paul M]

Yes, these are from one site I run this on.

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 4,843

The most guests in one day was 5842, 05-12-2006.

Visitors (3500), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (1332), MSNBot Spiders (6), Google AdSense Spiders (3), Google Spiders (2)
I get similar results on other sites.

[bo0oost]

Yes, these are from one site I run this on.


I get similar results on other sites.

How can I get mine to say the most guests in one day?

[Paul M]

How can I get mine to say the most guests in one day?https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122425

[bo0oost]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122425

Awesome!!

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 1,946

The most guests in one day was 1946, Today.
Visitors (1433), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (509), Google Spiders (1), MSNBot Spiders (1), AskJeeves Spiders (1), Google AdSense Spiders (1)

[TheWhite]

ok, i clicked install sorry i didn't know how it worked anyway wsince the 2 can'ìt be combined is there a way to make the txt in the guest window a bit more nice to look at?

Regards

[Paul M]

"a bit more nice to look at" ? What do you mean ?

The text (and whole layout actually) are phrase and template driven, you can customise them as you want.

[TheWhite]

i mean to make it fit in more maybe by making the inside txt bold and colored so that the different bots look different from each other :)

Regards

[Doglet]

Great hack Paul. Added it in less than a minute and it works perfectly. Thankyou.

[Paul M]

Thankyou.

JFYI - v1.07 uploaded - this is a simple change in the datastore call (to get the spiders data). The change will make no difference to a working installation so upgrading is entirely optional.

[Shazz]

/me updates thanx

[quadinfotech]

Great Hack.
Works very Nicely.

[soulface]

The latest version is breaking few settings. All group templates (specially all other hacks templates) is not staying in a group. Also few admincp additional stats mods not showing on admincp index.

But when i disable this hack. those settings working fine. bellow is the attachment, if you want to see..

[Hornstar]

Wish i found this last month. this is awesome and should be standard. great work.

Thanks.

[Hornstar]

Question, if I log in as a guest, that will add one guest to the total, however if I then log in, will that take me off from the total from the guest total?

Because I think it should so it shows people who are guests and not members in that day.

also instead of just

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 17

could you change it so it is

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: (15 visitors and 2 search engine spiders)

[Paul M]

The latest version is breaking few settings. All group templates (specially all other hacks templates) is not staying in a group. Also few admincp additional stats mods not showing on admincp index.

But when i disable this hack. those settings working fine. bellow is the attachment, if you want to see..The difference between 1.07 & 1.06 is precisely 1 line, I don't see how it could possibly have any effect like that. Maybe your upload got corrupted, try importing it again.

Question, if I log in as a guest, that will add one guest to the total, however if I then log in, will that take me off from the total from the guest total?No, as far a vbulletin is concerned you visited as a guest, so you will be counted.

[soulface]

No result. I redownloaded 3 times the hack & imported. still same.

[Paul M]

No result. I redownloaded 3 times the hack & imported. still same.Yes, you're right. I tried it on my test forum and it does have that bizarre effect, at first I thought it was due to the annoying feature of datastore fetch loading more than you actually ask it for, but it occurred to me that as an Administrator is not a Guest, that bit of code should not even be running. Further investigation showed that the check for being a Guest was failing because the hook used was being called before the session data was loaded. I have moved the call and added an extra line to prevent the datastore call reloading most of the default data again.

Version 1.08 is now uploaded, upgrading is not absolutely necessary unless you are bothered by the style display problem above, but I would suggest it - as it also fixes the minor bug of the spiders data always being loaded, even when it's not necessary.

[Wachtmeister]

Thanks Paul! Great idea!

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[Paul M]

Thanks Paul! Great idea!


Did you forget something. :cool:

Status: Not Installed

[Viper007Bond]

Upgraded and is working like a charm! :)

http://forums.finalgear.com/#whatsgoingon

[Shazz]

* Shazz updates again ! :D

[Spiffware]

*reinstalled* works fine like always.

[Neutral Singh]

mine not working in 3.6.2 ??

[Paul M]

You will need to be a little more specific than "not working" if you want any help. :)

[Masiello]

Thank you Paul

[KURTZ]

<font color="SeaGreen">updated!</font>

[picardtux]

many thX for this add...

her are the german translate produkt verison 1.08 :cool:

[keithsan]

mine works but doesnt show spiders.

which makes me wonder, is it missing other users too.

obviously I have spiders checked to yes.

Any ideas.

[Paul M]

obviously I have spiders checked to yes.
When you say this - do you mean in this mods settings - did you read all the notes in the main post ?

Note: For Spider detection to work you must set Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options and then visit your Who's Online page. This will enable vBulletin to build it's cache of spider details.


BTW, they are not being missed, all that is happening is that they are not being labelled as spiders, they go in the visitors count instead.

[keithsan]

Maybe its just me,

in control panel options under "guest tracking" I have spiders clicked to yes.
This has been clicked since I Installed.

So now I'll go and view who's online and in what location. To see if that part helps.

Sounds easy lol. I'll let you know if anything turns up.

[Paul M]

Maybe its just me,

in control panel options under "guest tracking" I have spiders clicked to yes.
This has been clicked since I Installed.
Actually, I think it is you .... you are not reading it properly.

For Spider detection to work you must set Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options and then visit your Who's Online page. This will enable vBulletin to build it's cache of spider details.

This is not the Guest Tracking settings. :)

[Spikeman]

All was working good, now it will display for example - Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (1) any further visits by Yahoo! Slurp Spiders will only register as a normal guest and not as a spider. Any ideas? All settings are at yes in Guest tracking and who is online.

[Paul M]

I don't really understand what you are asking.

[Spikeman]

I don't really understand what you are asking.Ok, I have 20 Yahoo! Slurp Spiders listed in who is online, but in the guests who have visited it only shows as 1 Yahoo! Slurp Spiders the other 19 go into normal guests.
so i get this:- Visitors (25), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (1)
instead of this:- Visitors (5), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (20)

[keithsan]

Thanks,

Fixed and working great.

sometimes i have trouble with simple directions

[ShawnV]

I just upgraded, it was working perfect before tracking all of the spiders, now all it shows is visitors.

No idea what I missed, perhaps I need more coffee or vacation, attached screen shots of ACP options.

Thanks in advance,

_V

[Spikeman]

Exactly the same here.

[Paul M]

I just upgraded, it was working perfect before tracking all of the spiders, now all it shows is visitors.

No idea what I missed, perhaps I need more coffee or vacation, attached screen shots of ACP options.

Thanks in advance,

_VThose settings seem fine, so there is nothing I can tell you without access to your forum.

BTW, the one in your profile says Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.4 ?

[ShawnV]

Those settings seem fine, so there is nothing I can tell you without access to your forum.

BTW, the one in your profile says Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.4 ?

That forum is not operational or updated to the latest verion, least until I decide what skin to make for it.

The problem is at this site which is v3.6.4:

http://www.koww.net/forum/index.php

[Paul M]

By access, I do of course mean full access, including ACP (with SQL queries).

Allthough it would be a start to view the WOL page (it's barred to Guests).

What datasore method are you using ?

[Paul M]

Please run the following sql query and PM me the result.

select * from guest order by lastactive desc

Also, please answer this question.

What datasore method are you using ?

[Viper007Bond]

Conflict with another mod perhaps? It works fine for me...

[ShawnV]

Please run the following sql query and PM me the result.
Also, please answer this question.

PM'd you the sql query and other.

Thought I think I fixed it with a complete uninstall / reinstall, but now its doing something old. it was listing, Yahoo, Google and MSN spiders a few minutes ago, now all it shows is:


Visitors (9), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (6)

Wonder where the other spider visits went?

[Paul M]

The data extract you sent me looks fine, it has google, msnbot and yahoo spiders in it. Unless you wish to give me access to your ACP there is nothing else I can do or look at, everything looks as it should. I notice you are not running it in the 24 hour mode, can you switch back to that.

[Danny Diamond]

installed, thank you

[Shazz]

/me updates

[KURTZ]

updated!

[chkdgate]

Very much needed. Thank you.

[testpig]

I uploaded the product in and nothing is showing on forumhome.

Seems to be the same issue as another user noted previously. Possibly a conflict with another hack....very strange. Will leave the hack enabled so you can see for yourself.

[burntire]

Installed
Thanks

[ryansmith]

Installed

Anyone want to share how to combine these results into the "Members Online" box? If I knew enough about coding I'd attempt it.

Until then, it's running fine in its own box :)

[ShawnV]

Does anyone have a copy of the previous version 1.06 or 1.07 and could you PM or post it?

Cheers,

_V

[MioTraGusa]

It seems that modification has conflicts with forums that it doesn't utilize english language, but only when it's a matter of users without loggin. This failure affects to all the forum where the dates should be shown.

See Screenshots with the product is active or not

[Paul M]

Sorry but I don't really understand most of that.

I don't see how this could possibly affect the display of dates.

[Get Shorty]

This hack causes a problem with the "Direct Category Links" feature of vbSEO. Here is the fix:

Original code:


if (
$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0
AND $vbulletin->options['trg']
AND $vbulletin->options['trgspiders']
)
{
define('SKIP_DEFAULTDATASTORE',true);

$vbulletin->datastore->fetch(array('wol_spiders'));
}


Changed to:


if (
$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0
AND $vbulletin->options['trg']
AND $vbulletin->options['trgspiders']
)
{
define('SKIP_DEFAULTDATASTORE',true);
$__temp_fc = $vbulletin->forumcache;
$vbulletin->datastore->fetch(array('wol_spiders'));
$vbulletin->forumcache = $__temp_fc;
}


Credit to: Oleg Ignatiuk (http://www.vbseo.com/members/oleg-ignatiuk/)

[Paul M]

The datastore fetch is just crap, they really should allow you to completely bypass the default items, that skip definition does not seem to work as expected. I'm going to change this back to using the direct db fetch.

[ShawnV]

The datastore fetch is just crap, they really should allow you to completely bypass the default items, that skip definition does not seem to work as expected. I'm going to change this back to using the direct db fetch.


Good, perhaps my site will work again with this mod as it did before. ;)

[Paul M]

Possibly, I should be uploading it in a few hours.

Edit : v1.10 now uploaded - the datastore call has been moved (allowing one plugin to be removed) and also reverted back to using the db_fetch function.

[Mudvayne]

Updated :)

[KURTZ]

nice one Paul :)

thx

[picardtux]

many many thX

[Tulsa]

I did the update and it says I'm running 1.09 still?

[MioTraGusa]

Updated...

now works perfectly!!! , tanks

[storpappa]

Installed but did not know there was a problem with the prior version.

[darkobg]

<font color="Lime">Updated</font>