Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Something that has been repeatedly asked in the "Members who visited today" modifications (all versions) is a similar way to track 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. I've therefore finally got round to looking at the issue and produced this modification.

This will add (another) section to the "What's Going On" area. The data is kept in a new table so it should be possible for other uses to be made of it (or display it in other ways). A screenshot of the current display is attached.

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].

Version 1.19+

* 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 now done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.

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.


Version 1.22+

The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests has been added - this used to be provided by a seperate add-on product.


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

To install ;

• Unzip the XML files.
• Upload the bitfields file to your ../includes/xml folder.
• Import the product into vB using the ACP Product Manager.
• Set your required permissions in the usergroup manager.

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

You can get an improved Spiders Definition file, that recognises many more spiders, from this post.

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

A German translation has been provided by hurik in post #769 - (for Version 1.22).


History:

v1.00 : Internal dev version.
v1.01 : Initial vb 3.6 beta release.
v1.02 : Phrasing added, final beta version.
v1.03 : Initial full version, some new options added.
v1.04 : Fix potential variable name clash with WVT Mod.
v1.05 : More options added, script and request variable logging added.
v1.06 : Minor internal code changes, phrasing altered slightly.
v1.07 : Datastore call changed to standard fetch function.
v1.08 : Moved Datastore call due to oddities, and fixed small bug.
v1.09 : Simplified always collapsed code.
v1.10 : Datastore call moved and reverted back to db_fetch.
v1.11 : Added Spider Cache Refresh on install (limited release).
v1.12 : Unique Guest id changed from standard vb id to internally created id.
v1.13 : Changed the SQL to force MySQL to use the index on forumhome.
v1.14 : Changed install code to delete old spider cache before rebuilding it.
v1.15 : Added check to try and detect a broken spider cache and fix it.
v1.16 : Number formatting added to individual totals in display list.
v1.17 : New usergroup display options added, datastore read updated.
v1.18 : Beta for new display options - listing guests and tracking guest views.
v1.19 : First release with the new permissions and display options.
v1.20 : Minor changes to install code only.
v1.21 : Internal development version, not released.
v1.22 : Added the "Most ever guests" option.

[rjmjr69]

I do not see any product file in the zip?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by GateKeper

I did an uninstall of the hack, I installed the latest version, and I get the errors, I once again removed it, and tried to go back to an older version, ended up with even more errors in the user group manager area, it had the guest tracking permissions, with just the radio buttons but no descriptions, so I removed everything again, installed the latest again and have disabled the hack to see if I get anymore messages, if none, I will enable the hack tomorrow and see if errors come in again....

Uninstalling it should have dropped the old table, I can't see why it wouldn't have. I guess you could uninstall it and then check, dropping the tables manually if necessary.

You are obviously not going to get any errors if it's disabled, so I'm not really sure what your objective is there.

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

I do not see any product file in the zip?

There are only two files in the zip, since one is the bitfields file that doesn't really leave a lot to choose from - so I don't see how you cannot see it

[GateKeper]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Uninstalling it should have dropped the old table, I can't see why it wouldn't have. I guess you could uninstall it and then check, dropping the tables manually if necessary.

You are obviously not going to get any errors if it's disabled, so I'm not really sure what your objective is there.

Well no errors, since the hack has been disabled, did it this way to make sure it was not something else. (something I might have done )

I will now enable once again tonight and see if errors come back if so, I will be confident its the hack ?, not saying anything bad about the hack, just that it is giving us errors, and I am not sure why, will need to investigate further.

Paul M you mention dropping the tables manually,,,,,how do I do this ? please advise if possible, still learning, and trying....

thanks for the time...
:up:

[DieselMinded]

phpmyadmin and delete the tables for this mod if there still there after the uninstall

[Redlee]

Ok I'm a newbie, I installed this last night works fine I believe. Only thing I need to know is my CMPS page is what I want to track. It is tracking my forumhome but thats not my home page. Do I need to change the page name thats being tracked? Where do I find that?

[asw]

Update installed and working perfectly on 3.6.8

Many thanks - :up:

[Coleccromos]

Is it possible that this modification of problems with the database of this type?

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: User athletic already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
/hermes/web10/b758/pow.cromosdefutbol/htdocs/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 273

[Paul M]

Nope, that's general server/mysql problem - specifically, you have too many connections to mysql.

[Mrdby]

Works Fine For Me

[DPtheGod]

Hello, I downloaded this and put it on my forum, but nothing shows up. I have the Master Enable set to yes, and have made all admins and super moderators able to see it, yet none of us can see anything. I have done everything correctly accordingly as per instructions, but still nothing. Could this be an issuewith the templates and other mods on the forum?