Refresh Limit

[Cal Poly Forum]

When a member with the same IP refreshes the page, the "Views" increases.

How do I stop this so that when the same member refreshes the page, the "Views" will not increase. Only increases when another member watches the page for the first time.

[Logician]

This will put a big burden on your database so I'd say forget it.

To ignore same members' view you have to first save all views in your database so that you can check a view if it exist or not before incrementing the count. Even in a small board attempting to keep the records of all thread views would take way a lot of database space, let alone increasing MYSQL activities.

[Cal Poly Forum]

vbulletin.com and vbulletin.org has this feature, right?

[NTLDR]

vB.com uses a cron job to update the views each hour. Not sure if thats hacked in here or not.

[Cal Poly Forum]

Ahh cron job. I have that option or feature in my host but I have no idea where to use it on.

Before I search on google, how do I set the cron job so that it would do the same as vb.com and vb.org (where the "views" would not go up when the same user views the thread)?

[NTLDR]

If your running vB3 then this is an option, if your using vB2 then you can try this hack: http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index.php?s=&action=showhack&hackid=574

[Cal Poly Forum]

ahh thank you. Exactly what I needed.
Hacks Database is hard to find on the forum category.