Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This displays who has read a thread, and the time they last looked at it.

Hovering over a name will show when the member last viewed the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they viewed it from (Note: as of v3.34 you can only view the ip addresses in the 'View-All' display).

There is now an option to allow a thread author to view who has read their thread when they are not in one of the allowed usergroups. The IP and number of days restrictions still apply.

A new time set/reset facility has been added. Members allowed to use this facility can click on the 'set' link and it will set a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times as you want, and also completely cleared again. When using this facility there is also a link to allow you to view a seperate list of all readers of the thread.

A cron job has now been added that can (optionally) delete records from the whoread table that are over a certain age - this is provided for large forums where the number of table entries can start to reach a million or more after 12 months. The delete age is a setting in the ACP.

Warning: When using the set/reset option - there is only a limited capacity of entries per thread (several thousand) - therefore you should only allow this feature to be used by a limited number of people - typically Staff usergroups. Allowing all members to use it will probably slow down your forum and cause errors if more than about 3000 members set a date on one thread.


There are settings for the following (in vBulletin Options > Who Has Read a Thread) ;

1. Turn the system on/off.
2. Restrict the display to certain usergroups
3. Restrict the IP display to certain usergroups.
4. Restrict the display to a set number of days.

New in v3.28

5. Option to allow thread author to view who read information.
6. Option to turn on the who read cutoff date (reset) function
7. Restrict use of reset function to certain usergroups.
8. Option to set whoread data records to be cleaned out after xxx days.

New in v3.39

9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.


Note: When using option 4 or the set/reset facility, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so they can be changed at any time.

Download the zip, extract the XML file and import using the vb Product Manager.


History:

v3.20 : First Release for vb 3.6, a few code changes.
v3.21 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v3.22 : Updated for Version Checking.
v3.23 : Internal Development version.
v3.24 : Internal Development version.
v3.25 : Internal Development version.
v3.26 : Internal Development version.
v3.27 : Private release.
v3.28 : Public release of new features.
v3.29 : Fixed bug in clean-up, the setting was hours, not days.
v3.30 : Added options to disable/change auto template insert (not released).
v3.31 : Internal Code Changes, Settings Group renamed.
v3.32 : Minor template change.
v3.33 : SQL Changes to use slave.
v3.34 : Added new template for username display code, made 'View-All' always available.
v3.35 : Added last post marker to 'View-All' display.
v3.36 : Fix uncached templates.
v3.37 : Fixed missing date/time display when 'set' function is used.
v3.38 : Moved auto-template options to mods main settings group.
v3.39 : Version infomation added, display of user thread reading activity added.
v3.40 : Bugfix : Correct bugs reported in posts #308 & #318.
v3.41 : Minor changes to install code only.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Do you actually have records in the whoread table ?

I have a vb3_whoread table and in that table there are over 3300 records.

I have attached a graphic showing the first page of records.

[Paul M]

Perhaps I should have been clearer, I meant do you have records for that specific thread.

Also, those records displayed are very old (and missing the ip address ?) can you sort them in dateline order (desc) and post the most recent ones.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Perhaps I should have been clearer, I meant do you have records for that specific thread.

Also, those records displayed are very old (and missing the ip address ?) can you sort them in dateline order (desc) and post the most recent ones.

Hi Paul, do you mean do I have who read fields in the thread record?

I just want to make sure this is what I should look for.

I will also sort the table by dateline order and post.

[YLP1]

Ok, I took a guess at what fields you wanted in the thread table.

The first graphics are of a single record of a recent topic that has over 200 views. I had to break the graphic up into two because of the size.

One of the who fields is empty the other has a value.

The third graphic is the vb3_whoread table by dateline and descending.

Thank you for all your time in helping me with this issue. I appreciate it very much.

[Paul M]

The reason none are being displayed is clear from the whoread table - the newest record in it dates from 17 Aug 2006. Something is stopping the mod from adding records to the database.

Check the plugins and make sure you have the "Display Thread Readers (2)" plugin and it's enabled.

If it is then I would say another plugin connected to the showthread_complete hook is broken and preventing this from running - change the above plugin execution order from 5 to 4, that should mean it gets run first.

If that does mean records start getting added again then you should change it back to 5 and start disabling other plugins on that hook until it starts working - you have then found the broken hook.

[YLP1]

I disabled all plugins that had a showthread_complete hook and that didn't work.

So I disabled all plugins except CMPS and that didn't work either.

There is a hook with showthread_complete under the Vbulletin heading (refer to graphic) that I didn't touch because it looks like it's a core vb hook.

I have done the above and uninstalled the mod and reinsntalled and have the same problem.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by YLP1

I disabled all plugins that had a showthread_complete hook and that didn't work.

So I disabled all plugins except CMPS and that didn't work either.

There is a hook with showthread_complete under the Vbulletin heading (refer to graphic) that I didn't touch because it looks like it's a core vb hook.

I have done the above and uninstalled the mod and reinsntalled and have the same problem.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.

There are no core vb hooks.

That looks like a very old plugin from an early version of my mod. Disable it.

Other than that, there is nothing I can do unless you want to give me admin access.

[Limerick]

Hello Paul,

At line 83, you should use collapse_tcat instead of collapse_thread, it looks better, IMHO

Thank you for your product

[Shazz]

Ever since I installed this, my attachment icons such as zip,notepad etc Don't show... Ive tried this out on 2 forums

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Limerick

At line 83, you should use collapse_tcat instead of collapse_thread, it looks better, IMHO

It looks pretty much the same here, but technically tcat is correct, so I've changed it for the next version.