dont know if it was supposed to do this or not, but im not getting ANY spiders now... is it supposed to show the old spiders?

Look up for instruction..

The table was emptied during the upgrade... Give it a little while, they'll show up.

ahh sorry - i didnt see the upgrade notice - my table didnt empty btw - got 14+ pages of spiders in mysql.. just so you know. ill empty it manually

If it wasn't showing any spiders after you install this version, it did empty the table. The stuff that's in the table now is what's been added since you did the upgrade.

BTW - here's what I'm planning for the next version:

- Split up the display of spiders by "type". So "searchspiders", "misc_spiders", "http_monitors" etc will each be in their own table.
- Reduce the number of IP addresses displayed, and add a link to a pop-up to show all of the IPs for a spider.
- Combine spiders that have the same name but different user agents. For example, on my site, Google shows up as "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)" and "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)". This started happening after I fixed the "unknown spiders" issue in this release, it'll be fixed in the next one.
- See if I can make it work without transactions, so it'll work with earlier versions of MySQL.

I think that's it... If you've got any suggestions post them and I'll see if I can get them done.

Make the Botname a link if a link is specified in the spider.xml
So you can directly check what spider is crawling your forum if the info is available ;)

Still showing up as unknown :S http://www.mished.co.uk/forum/spiders.php

Just out of curiosity, why does the spider archive get cleared out every time this hack is upgraded?

Link Placement suggestion:


Place it in the footer - with a conditional so that only admins can see it:


In the footer template look for:

and below it add:



You can put this same link anywhere else you would like, and only admins will see it.

Thanks for posting that, Joey. Which of your sites are you running this on?

Megareus Rex - the tables only need to be cleared if there's an update to the tables.