Major Additions - psiStats 2006 (The New vBStats for vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x)

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| psiStats 2009
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Feb 28, 2010
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|| Time required to install: 1 minute
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

A sophisticated statistics module for your vBulletin board.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Statistics Tracking:

• General Board Statistics
• Style Usage Statistics
• Top Threads & Forums Statistics
• Display Colors + Resolutions (Requires JavaScript) Statistics
• Countries + Regions Statistics
• Browsers + Operating Systems Statistics
• Referring Sites Statistics
• Referrer Statistics
• Age & Gender Demographics

Features:

• No code or template modifications required.
• Modules can be enabled or disabled, as needed.
• Statistics are updated every fifteen minutes via cron.
• Mother site, e.g. the site where your forum is hosted, will never be listed as a referrer.
• Only one extra query per forum page.
• Statistics can be sorted either numerically or alphabetically.
• Automatic Integration with Referrer Statistics (if installed)[/i]
• Configurable number of last items for top threads / forums.
• Allows to specify whether to show data from from forums with post counts disabled.
• Configurable number of last items in referring site statistics.
• Configurable gender field and responses (optional).
• Configurable list of usergroups that can access statistics (optional).
• Referring site statistics censure (by word) and individual site blockage.
• Detects most popular browsers and operating systems.
• Requires cookies for screen color depth and resolution tracking.

VERSION HISTORY

1.6.2 - stable
[+] Added recognition for Windows 7-based user agents.

1.6.1 - stable
[+] The navbar link is now shown only to those who can access the statistics.

1.6.0 - stable
[+] Added two new modules:

• Referrer Statistics
• Age & Gender Demographics

[+] Added Google Chrome recognition (this includes a matching icon).
[+] Added Setting to control whether top threads & forums data is gathered from forums where posts are not counted towards user post counts.
[+] Updated ip to country databases to the most recent ones.
[F] Corrected a few phrasing bugs and phrased things that were not phrased in 1.5.2.

1.5.2 - stable
[+] Added a few more translations (thanks to those who submitted these).
[+] Fixed a few bugs that were mentioned for 1.5.1.

1.5.1 - stable
[+] Added option to globally enable / disable any stats modules.
[+] Fixed bug with some staff being counted twice.
[+] All numbers are now nicely formatted.

1.5.0 - stable
[+] No more template edits, just upload the files and the product and you're ready to go.
[+] vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x compatible.

1.4.4 - stable
[+] Referrering Sites now have a JS and an XML feed capability.
[+] Added a better firefox icon into the icon database.
[F] Fixed a couple of minor bugs.

1.4.3 - stable
[+] The hack now respects vBulletin's "Show Active Users" setting.
[+] The hack is now valid XHTML (all templates must be reverted).

1.4.2 - stable
[+] Corrected a bug, which caused incorrect number of moderators to be displayed.
[+] gb.gif renamed to uk.gif.

1.4.1 - stable
[+] The front page has been revised, and it now loads four times as fast regardless of the size of your database.
[+] The ip database has been updated to the revision of October 18, 2006.
[+] The flag database has been updated to the revision of October 18, 2006.
[+] Referrer statistics hack, if installed, is now detected automatically. No configuration required.
[+] Added an option to specify a custom board creation date, if not reflected correctly by the joindate of a user with lowest userid.

1.4.0 - stable
[+] The system is now cross-compatible with both vBulletin 3.5 and 3.6.
[+] The ip database has been updated to the revision of August 30, 2006.
[+] A variety of code optimizations and template corrections have been done.
[+] To keep statistics legible, the engine now only tracks the major and the minor browser versions. X.Y.Z.E is now stripped to become X.Y.

1.3.2 - stable
[+] Since more browsers support cookies than ajax, screendepth/screenresolution tracking is now done via cookies.
[+] One less query per page - e.g. now it's only one query per page.
[+] Statistics are now updated every 15 minutes rather than every hour.
[F] Fixed faulty count in cron and in region stats screen.
[F] Fixed bug which prevented the cron from being created in some cases.
[F] Fixed minor bugs which caused errors of the E_NOTICE level.

1.3.1 - stable
[F] Fixed AJAX coding error, which used synchronous ajax instead of asynchronous, evidently causing higher load.
[F] Fixed WOL error that was caused by AJAX stats update and that made it look like everyone is browsing the stats.
[F] Fixed a query in update cron.

1.3.0 - stable
[+] Yay, no more file edits!
[+] No more multiple queries. The hack now takes up a maximum of two (2) queries per page in contemporary browsers, and one (1) query in non-javascript browsers.
[+] New vBulletin Option: Statistics can be configured either numerically or alphabetically.
[+] Since Opera is updated way too often, the engine, from now on, will only identify the primary version marker (7,8,9 as opposed to 7.01, 7.02, 7.21, 8.01 etc).
[+] Templates and phrases are now in their own separate group.
[F] Eliminated a bug which prevented bot identification from working properly.

1.2.8 - beta
[+] Removed 5 queries during the stats recording.
[+] Countries mapped to valid cia abbreviations and the countrybit template has been updated.
[+] Added missing Fiji flag (Thanks to firstrebel!)
[F] Eliminated a bug which prevented the thread and post limit from having any effect.
[F] Eliminated a bug which prevented the browser identification from working properly in some cases.

1.2.7
[F] Corrected online users count.
[F] Corrected staff count.
[F] Eliminated the style stats bug, which originated from users who had invalid styles saved in their profiles.
[F] Eliminated the posts per day bug.
[F] Renamed "gb.gif" to "uk.gif"
[F] Renamed "Oceania" region to "Australia and Oceania".
[F] Only threads and forums to which the user has permissions are displayed in top threads and forums.

1.2.6
[F] Minor template fix.

1.2.5
[+] Rewritten Browser and OS detection (previosly somebody else's module was used).
[F] For staff stats, only primary usergroups are now counted.

1.2.1
[+] New "Usergroups Allowed To View Stats" admincp option.
[+] Navigation split in two rows, for greater view
[+] Crawlers now have a browser picture associated with them.
[F] Eliminated Tracking of Empty Referrers.
[F] Updated country database with a number of missing countries, including UK.
[F] Minor fix to style statistics screen, applying to styles that are not used.

1.2.0
First Official Release.

1.1.0
Development release; Excess queries, phrases, and code has been removed.

1.0.0
Development release; All phrases that were hard-coded were moved into the phrase system.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

IF YOU LIKE MY HACK, PLEASE CLICK INSTALL

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

Just for reference my situation was fixed by the following response from my adminsitrator: The lock permission is granted for bobforum on database physio............

regards to all

That's what I was talking about - contact your host when you get that error.

[smoknz28]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Something's wrong with your vBullletin then. What version are you running, and what hacks?

Sorry it took so long to get back on this. Here are the following mods I have installed on my vB 3.6.1:

Bills PayPal Donate 1.31
FlashChat Integration 3.06
Members who are using flashchat 4.32
Members who are using flashchat (Add-on) 1.01
Multiple Login Detector 1.03
psiStats 2006 1.4.0
v3 Arcade 1.0.6
vBadvanced CMPS 2.2.0
vbgooglemap Member Edition by StonyArc 2.5.2
Zoints Profile System 1.4.4

Thanks for any help on this one.

Mark
www.f-bodyhideout.com/forums

[daylight]

nice work, and Istalled and it works great..
thanks first of all for this hard work
just a question !
is there any way to see those users list who belongs to any piticular countries? like say uk have 5 users here. can i see who those 5 users are?
and same as style ...can i see which users are using what?
thanks

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by smoknz28

Sorry it took so long to get back on this. Here are the following mods I have installed on my vB 3.6.1:

Bills PayPal Donate 1.31
FlashChat Integration 3.06
Members who are using flashchat 4.32
Members who are using flashchat (Add-on) 1.01
Multiple Login Detector 1.03
psiStats 2006 1.4.0
v3 Arcade 1.0.6
vBadvanced CMPS 2.2.0
vbgooglemap Member Edition by StonyArc 2.5.2
Zoints Profile System 1.4.4

Thanks for any help on this one.

Mark
www.f-bodyhideout.com/forums

Try disabling your other hacks one by one and running cron every time, see which one conflicts.

Originally Posted by daylight

is there any way to see those users list who belongs to any piticular countries? like say uk have 5 users here. can i see who those 5 users are?

No, that is not possible, as it does not even track specific users.

[RS_Jelle]

A little suggestion:

Add a url and a versioncheck to the product file. Very easy to do and it makes the product management of your site a bit easier

[Zelda-King]

This doesn't seem to show the UK. I get shown under the US.

[mcyates]

I get a server 500 error which is weird. I have a shared server so i might not have something installed. But i'm not sure what it might be.

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Zelda-King

This doesn't seem to show the UK. I get shown under the US.

Download the latest package and overwrite the psistats database folder.

[perfphysio]

HI all, I have this hack working nicelt on my vBulletin 3.6.2. The one things the whole hack doesn't seem to mention is what is the actual stats showing me. i.e. for country and region stats, it this the numbers for the current month? Is it overall, it is accumulative until I reset it etc etc.

Also how is that decision made. Is is via the IP of the user when logged in, is it from any visitor via their local IP, is it a resolution of the ISP?

USA always wins out in stats packages due to the generic .com and we all know not everyone with a .com ending is in the USA. The same with .net. If it is users IP then this is somewhat better but if someone can help me understand the actual data this would be great.

Many thanks

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

HI all, I have this hack working nicelt on my vBulletin 3.6.2. The one things the whole hack doesn't seem to mention is what is the actual stats showing me. i.e. for country and region stats, it this the numbers for the current month? Is it overall, it is accumulative until I reset it etc etc.

Also how is that decision made. Is is via the IP of the user when logged in, is it from any visitor via their local IP, is it a resolution of the ISP?

USA always wins out in stats packages due to the generic .com and we all know not everyone with a .com ending is in the USA. The same with .net. If it is users IP then this is somewhat better but if someone can help me understand the actual data this would be great.

Many thanks

The country is identified based on the ip address and the ip2country database that the hack package contains.