Track Guest Visits
 

This tracks 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. This will add (another) section to the "What's Going On" area.

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 [if used].
* 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 done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.
* The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests can be enabled.

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.

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

To install (or upgrade);

• Unzip the XML files.
• Upload the bitfields file to your ../includes/xml folder.
• If upgrading from the vb 3.6 version, delete the bitfield_track-guests.xml file from your ../includes/xml folder.
• Import the product into vBulletin using the ACP Product Manager.
• Set your required permissions in the usergroup manager.

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


You can get an improved Spiders Definition file from this post - and now a more recent version is available from this site.

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


History:

v3.7.001 : Initial vb 3.7 release.
v3.7.002 : Fix for cron_script hook changed in 3.7 Beta 4.
v3.7.003 : Header, Navbar and Footer added to guest display pages.
v3.7.004 : Tracking of visits to archive pages added.

Thanks
ok

Someone has been busy. Thx

oh yes Paul!!!!! :D

Thanks Paul for porting this over to 3.7

I've never used this mod. How is it on a very large board? I love the idea but worry my traffic might be too much for it. any input would be appreciated. thanks

FYI - we get approx 20 million page views a month

The data collection uses a simple sql insert/replace per guest, the forumhome display uses one select - the table is indexed. I dont see why it would cause any issues. The only way to be sure is try it.

works good .....

Thanks very much, Paul. :)

Nevermind... sucks to think youre working on one forum and realize youre actually uploading files to another by mistake.

thank you sir

Thank you thank you thank you I have been awaiting for this one. Installed happy as always and here is a gift for ya Paul LMAO

I like the fact that in all of your mods we're able to display them where we want. Thanks again, Paul. :)

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Please remember to post in English only, Thanks.

Hey Paul,

Do you think it's possible to extend it further so that you can keep track of banned users when they are logged out and still browsing the forums?

Maybe a link to a page where you can check the guest's IP against the list of banned IPs or something.

The problem I have right now is that I banned a user account and that person also got barred and I want to prove that this guy is still using my forums.

i have installed and enable it but i can't see any difference or a button to see the tracjing!
In ACP is enabled
in usergroups permission i did not find any point for geust tracking

thanks in advance

I have the same issue and not sure where i've gone wrong.

Regards

Did you actually upload the bitfield file, and then import the product ?

SERIOUS PROBLEM after upload xml file

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted:

I CAN'T LOGIN AND FORUM IS DOWN!!!HELP

Um, I dont see how uploading this could possibly cause such an effect.

Thanks

Thank you very much

Paul, just wondering ...

about THIS post, if i wanna increase my spider detection i must download and rename the spiderlist.xml in spiders_vbulletin.xml right?

Updated for Cron Script changes.

Yes.

Thanks Paul I love this hack and never have had a issue with it :)

Paul, i've just updated, but i don't uninstalled the previously version ... :(

when i tried to install the latest i saw the request that we must uninstall the old hack (.001)... but i've overwrited the new hack ... however after that i uninstalled your hack and reinstalled the .002 ... maybe i've troubles? something about the old hack is "hooked" on my DB?

i made the same error with the "who has read" ...

edit: another question Paul, is possible that the old hacks made my forum slow? now, with the new hacks my board seems more faster ...

I'm not sure what you are talking about here - what request to uninstall .001 ?

sorry for my bad english Paul ... :)

anyway i try to explain better ...

when i installed the .002 (the latest hack that you release) the plug-in tells me that i must uninstall any previously version that i've installed, then the .001 ... but i don't uninstalled the .001 i simply overwrite the .002 onto the .001 ... (i don't stopped the installing process)

it's clear now? :)

I think you are misreading the message - it simply informs you that it is has removed any older version (pre 3.7). It does not ask you to do anything. I'll probably update the message slightly to make it clearer.

OK thx Paul :)

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installed, brilliant.

Would be nice if the spiders linked to their <info></info> on spiders_vbulletin.xml

I'm not sure what use that would be to most people.

Just a curiosity to see what are those names that visited the forum, members sometimes wonder.

I noticed that on new boards the date is set to 01-01-1970 if there are no guest visitors.

Not a big deal because as soon as someone visits this will get updated. But it is something you may want to change.

Thanks for this great mod :)

Thanks Paul.

Paul, this has all the spiders the old XML had and some more. You can update your link to the spiders detection file if you want, as this is being updated and the old one is from 2006.

http://spiderlist.codeforgers.com/