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.

[Paul M]

Have you actually set any permissions (as per the install instructions).

[vitrag24]

i think keep mostever plugin is better option for me then reinstalling all 4 products.

What do u say?

[USAMustangs.com]

I installed this new version overwriting the previous version and now the whole guests and spiders display has disappeared?

I verified that everything is enabled. I did upload the bitfield file into includes/xml

I also updated the members visited version at the same time and it seems to working just fine?

Any ideas? I sure would like to get it working again.

I have vB 3.6.5

Thanks

EDIT: Never mind. I didn't have the Usergroup permissions enabled. It's working great now.

Thanks again.

[DiverTree]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Have you actually set any permissions (as per the install instructions).

im having the same problem. the whole feature is gone from the forums page. i uploaded the bitfield_track-guests.xml to the /includes/xml file then imported the product with overwrite set to yes. when i goto ...

admin cp > vB options > guest tracking

i dont see the option to select usergroups to view the mod. this is what i got ...

Master Enable > Yes
Enable Display > Yes
Enable Views Tracking > Yes
Detect Spiders > Yes
Collapse Display > No
Rolling 24 Hours Option > Yes
Enable Most Ever Guests Option > Yes
Script Types to ignore > cron,login
Request Variables to ignore > explain,styleid,langid,referrerid,mode,nojs,goto
Database Clean-up Period > 2
Guest List Row Limit > 1000
Guest Views Row Limit > 500
Code Option > Run Code On Forum Home Page Only
ATCS: Enable > Yes
ATCS: Template Name > FORUMHOME
ATCS: Search Text > <!-- end logged-in users -->

i upgraded 'members who have posted' and 'members who have visited' without a hitch. nice work and thank you

oh crap ... its in the usergroup manager. lol. sorry for bothering you.

[Total666]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Have you actually set any permissions (as per the install instructions).

I needed to read more , thanks dude for your patience ...

[budswope]

Originally Posted by Rich

LOL, I removed the execution order earlier and then editted the _slave and it worked. Thanks.

When you say "remove the executionorder" what do you mean? I see 4-5 places where it occurs...

<plugin active="1" executionorder="5">
			<title>Guest Tracking (2)</title>
			<hookname>cron_script_cleanup</hookname>
			<phpcode><![CDATA[

Just remove the blue portion and I'm good to go?

[Paul M]

Assuming you are talking about running this on 3.5 - then at the very least you would also need to remove _slave from the queries - I also have no idea if the datastore calls will work.

[vitrag24]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1354275&postcount=693" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...&postcount=693</a>
plz look at my query.

[Paul M]

Do you have a support issue ?

[budswope]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Assuming you are talking about running this on 3.5 - then at the very least you would also need to remove _slave from the queries - I also have no idea if the datastore calls will work.

Yes I thought I had the _slave part right. Is this what you meant by "no idea if datastore calls still work"---Sorry I don't know really what that is but when I try to import it this is the error I get. This is a terrific mod that I have in a 3.6.8 forum that would be very helpful in the 3.5.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.3:

Invalid SQL:

		REPLACE INTO phrase 
		(varname, fieldname, product, text)
		VALUES ('setting_pemdata_desc','vbsettings','pem-dummy-product','Leave this setting alone.'),
		       ('setting_pemdata_title','vbsettings','pem-dummy-product','Modification Version Data');

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'fieldname' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054