[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Shy

Since I have little knowledge of PHP and how the forum's script works (plus I do need guest views to count), I hope someone could create this type of solution for vBulletin 3.
I'm surprised that it's not a widely requested feature. It's quite popular with other forums.

Well it really should work. Try the following edit to your showthread.php:

Find:

PHP Code:

if ($vboptions['threadviewslive'])
{
 // doing it as they happen
 $DB_site->shutdown_query("
  UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
  SET views = views + 1
  WHERE threadid = " . intval($threadinfo['threadid'])
 );
}
else
{
 // or doing it once an hour
 $DB_site->shutdown_query("
  INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "threadviews (threadid)
  VALUES (" . intval($threadinfo['threadid']) . ')'
 );
} 


And replace by:

PHP Code:

// Ignore views by thread starter
if ($threadinfo[postuserid] != $bbuserinfo[userid])
{
 if ($vboptions['threadviewslive'])
 {
  // doing it as they happen
  $DB_site->shutdown_query("
   UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
   SET views = views + 1
   WHERE threadid = " . intval($threadinfo['threadid'])
  );
 }
 else
 {
  // or doing it once an hour
  $DB_site->shutdown_query("
   INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "threadviews (threadid)
   VALUES (" . intval($threadinfo['threadid']) . ')'
  );
 }
}
// End: Ignore views by thread starter