Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

This modification is no longer available or supported.

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.

[caliman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Possibly, but if there is such a bug then its in the standard vbdate() function, as that is what creates that timestamp. The code is identical to that used by default vb for the "Currently Active Users" timestamp. I think its just related to members having different timezones.

I am having this issue with total guests today as well.
Something is off. Perhaps it is the timezones. Any way to set the timezone or something?

[KHALIK]

Product installation does not work with 3.8.0 RC1

will there be a release for 3.8.0 RC1 ?

[Paul M]

Yes.

[AWJunkies]

I had it installed on one of my sites to test it was working nice had over 1000 guests in 24 hour period on average.

Now I had it installed on another site same server and its guests where only at 250 average.

Both have latest update XML for spiders etc.

1000 guests seemed to work perfect from what I could tell except the site with only 250 guests has on average of 20 spiders on at all times and over 15 guests at all times and over 50 users constant all day everyday. So something is going on really the two sites should be flipped according to site stats etc.

Now here is tricky part. The site with 1000 guests I 301 header safe redirected to another site and traffic went from 1000 average to 250 average same as the other site like it is hitting a peak wall now.

So have few questions #1 is how does this mod handle safe redirects of spiders and bots and so on will it register it when site still shows X instead of Y.

Meaning this www.yourdomain.com is original site then safe it to www.yourdomain2.com so if someone goes to yourdomain it will stay URL wise to it but be yourdomain2 if that makes any sense.

Second question is have you installed this more then once on a server NOT the same install of vB have to make that clear multiple domains.

Sorry I am not familiar with all this stats and spiders and so on come from an age before there was such things .

[KHALIK]

The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 3.8.0 Release Candidate 1 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.7.0 / Incompatible with 3.7.99 and greater)

Unable to install on 3.8.0 RC1

[momo2]

I downloaded more spider xml from vb.com, now what do i do with it ?

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by jerx

I have a problem with editing posts, when this add-on is turned on. I get an error message which says 'maxloggedin'. I have seen two other posts where a similar problem has been reported, one in this thread and the other in your Member Tracking Mod. Other people don' t seem to have this problem. What could be the reason for this problem?

Originally Posted by Paul M

No idea, and since I cannot re-create it, there is not much I can do.

I got that same error as soon as i configured & enabled memcache in vB config. disabling vB_Datastore_Memcache makes the error go away.

[ecky]

installed, thank you

[popowich]

For those that like to know, the spiders file was updated recently on 12/16.

-Raymond

[shlomot]

Just upload and overwrite the previous spiders_vbulletin.xml file in your /includes/xml folder.

Originally Posted by momo2

I downloaded more spider xml from vb.com, now what do i do with it ?