I'm looking forward to an official update of this script :D maybe for vb3.6.2 ?

Me too!!!

Hi widemind,

this was a good hint - even that not the downloaded patch from MS solved my problem but the search in Google did ;)
When the problem appeared the first time, nothing about it was to found in Google, but now there was the "golden hint": The error depends on the sound which is played when a message arrives - an installed program had captured the filetype. When i set all file types in MediaPlayers options back to MediaPlayer the problem was gone!

Greetz

JoHon

Hi All,

I have installed the pager system on my forum (www.physiobob.com/forum) about a week ago now. All is working fine however I have noticed when looking at my stats for my saite that the page "/forum/pager.php" has been viewed more than 25 times that of even the forum homepage. This is like 88,000 times as against 3300 for the forum homepage. Now I have not promoted the pager system as yet and there are few if any pager messages appearing in the admin log so therefore people are not yet using it.

Why therefore is this page count so high? Is there something going on in the back ground that I am not aware of? I am considering uninstalling this feature due to my above observations as it makes me a little nervous. If someone could provide some insight I would be most appreciative, many thanks :confused:

Hello, GReat hack!! It works great but...
I have one minor problem with the pager..

Once you write a reply on a pagemsg.
and you refresh your forum....the reply box is cleared again.
(yes, this happens a lot, my forum uses a autorefresh on the active topics)

Is it possible to keep the written texts in the the replybox even after a page refresh?

tia

It uses AJAX to poll the pager every 7 seconds or so by default. So, figure anyone who is visiting your site (and has pager access) will be "hitting" the pager.php file every X number of seconds the entire time they are on your site. This is normal behavior for this hack. And is also the source for a high level of CPU/SQL usage. You can adjust its polling interval and increase the time between checks in the AdminCP to reduce this.

OK, i'll increase it to say 20 seconds and see what the effect is. On the one hand though you need it to be more frequent in order to have a pager conversation. I would think like text chat ideally you would want every 2 seconds or so. In reality the increased timing might mean that the product makes itself redundent.
That said I was not finding any performance issues at a setting of 5 seconds, more the issue was the number of page calls in my stats. Thanks for the assistance on this

Excuse my ignorance, but does this basically make your site statistics like number of hits in accurate in regards to your sites activity. I could see that it shouldn't effect 'Unique Visitors' but does this bump up your numer of site 'hits' to unrealistic numbers, thus making determining activity impossible due to the MOD? Curious since potential advetizers have been asking what my activity is like and this throws a whole new curve into the equation or so it would appear by the previous posts.

I installed with 3.6.0 and it displays fine. i upgraded from an earlier version and have done a reinstall.
The problem i am having is that while it looks like it is there after i select who to page, it doesn't give me the popup window to type a message.
Anything i missed?

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