Forum Home Enhancements - Members who have visited Today (or in the last 24 hours).

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This adds a simple display of all members who have visited the forum - either today (i.e. since the users midnight) or in the last 24 hours.

Note: it is not possible for this hack to count guests - however, see this thread to track guests.

The main features of the 3.6 version are basically the same as previous versions ;

1. It displays the list on the Forum Home.
2. The list view is collapsable, so you just see the number.
3. Invisible users are only displayed to those allowed to see them (with a "*")
4. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc will be displayed correctly (based on the display usergroup).
5. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the time they were last active.
6. The list is in member name order.
7. The mod is phrased.
8. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Options.
9. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option (include or exclude groups).
10. The switch between Visited Today and Rolling 24 Hours is an ACP option.
11. The listing of members can now be suppressed (a simple message is displayed instead).
12. The list of names can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.
13. The option to record and display the Most Ever visitors has been added (v4.43+).

(Options are in vBulletin Options > Who has visited today)

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.

To upgrade from the 3.5 version just re-import the product with the overwrite option set to yes.


EvilHawk has also updated his WVT on a seperate page, see this post.


History:

v4.30 : First version for 3.6, a number of bits have been re-written.
v4.31 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v4.32 : Updated for Version Checking.
v4.33 : Added options to disable/change auto template insert (not released).
v4.34 : Internal code changes (not released).
v4.35 : More Internal code changes.
v4.36 : Minor phrasing changes.
v4.37 : SQL Changes to use slave.
v4.38 : Added new template for username display code, modified always collapsed code.
v4.39 : Fix uncached template.
v4.40 : Fixed table index issues.
v4.41 : Moved auto-template options to mods main settings group.
v4.42 : Usergroup display and other options added. Updated to prevent loading user data when name display is disabled.
v4.43 : Most Ever visitors (members) option added.

[agilent]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Again you would need to edit the section of the plugin that builds this information and edit it. I believe it's 'wrdate' you need to look for.

Paul M, it calls the time from the $vbulletin->options['timeformat'] which is no problem, but if you change the time format there is changes it board wide. Does anyone know how I can call it to m-d (month day like 08-21) without effecting the board wide time display?

Something like display equals both dateformat and timeformat? not sure

[agilent]

Where do we set it to list users alphabetically or randomly?

[Paul M]

Sorry but you are basically asking me to look into ways of customising this modification for you, this is beyond the level of support I currently have time to provide.

[David Bott]

VER 3.6.8

Greetings...Would you think this hack would make or server load increases? I ask for right after I installed it, the server loads on all 5 server went out of control.

Got the servers under control and disabled the program. Reopened site all was well. Watched the loads for awhile and then turned the program back on. Loads started to increase again. Tuned it off, they fell.

Did not have the option set to show all the names for, well, we are a very busy site. (24 hour counter when I looked was 28,000+)

Just wanted to check in on this. Thanks.

(Note...only 10 queries on the forums display page with it OFF.)

[Paul M]

28,000 is an awful lot of users.

The answer (for the current release) is probably yes, I would expect it to have some sort of effect on that sort of scale - this is because even when name display is disabled, it still reads the data for all 28,000 members from the user table.

This is actually a problem I've known about since the 3.5 version (i.e. a long time) but is very low on my fix list, simply because it's a rare problem.

Since it's now been bought up, I'll take another look at changing that [over the weekend] and see if that improves it. It would be helpful to me if you could try the changed version, even if you ultimately decide not to use it, just so I get an idea on whether the improvement actually works.

[David Bott]

Hi Paul...

Thanks for responding. I am guessing you are not aware of AVSForum. We have over 450 thousand registered users and see about 210,000 unique visitors a day. As such, if it looks though the user table to check the last visit time and date, well, yupper, that is why I more or less crashed.

As of this post...

Currently Active Users: 4788 (1980 members and 2108 guests)
Most users ever online was 8,818, 01-17-07 at 03:41 PM.
AVS Forum Statistics
Threads: 860,522, Posts: 11,101,217, Members: 457,824

If I can be of help, be happy to. For now I can see if happen and quickly turn off the plug in.

Happy to work with you via AIM. PM me to keep this off site.

Thanks

[DJRu]

Great easy hack!

Installed in 2 minutes and working just fine!
thanks

[Skavenger]

Originally Posted by Shazz

Paul sorry if its been asked many many times, could this work on vbadvanced? if so please point me in the right direction.

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/show...+visited+Today

btw, in history it says v4.42, but in the mod details it says 4.41

[DeiseHost]

I just installed the update for this and now it doesn't work.
Any ideas?

[Michael Biddle]

Originally Posted by DeiseHost

I just installed the update for this and now it doesn't work.
Any ideas?

Same, I reimported older product