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.

[Nathan2006]

Thank you for the update Paul

Is there anyway to have the clickable username history for admins only please?

Thanks for any help

[aciurczak]

Updated. Thanks Paul, it's now successfully accounting for user permissions on the thread titles, I appreciate the effort. (and the mouseover is working again as well).

I should have mentioned before you updated it that a useful addition would be to have a configurable sort of the usernames. The first thing I do is change the "ORDER BY" clause to sort by whoread.dateline instead of username, as then people can see easily who came to the thread at what time at a glance, rather than mousing over each one of them, or having to hit the view all link to bring up a separate window. Others might prefer the stock ordering of alphabetical username list. But best of all worlds would be for that to just be another choosable parameter within the admin control panel, rather than requiring a code edit, even though it is such a tiny edit each time.

[ericgtr]

Thanks for the update Paul. For some reason when I click on the username it takes me to this URL

http://www.guitarblast.com/showthread.php/misc.php?do=wrviews&u=10

Not sure why it's adding the /showthread.php in there.

[Paul M]

Your browser is being weird.

Originally Posted by Nathan2006

Is there anyway to have the clickable username history for admins only please?

Originally Posted by aciurczak

I should have mentioned before you updated it that a useful addition would be to have a configurable sort of the usernames.

I'm not planning any more changes to this atm, maybe in the future, but I also don't want to overwhelm it with options.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Your browser is being weird.

Then it's weird in IE6 on one PC and IE7 on the other. Time to revert.

[habasabi]

Updated..THANKS. I agree w/ Nathan.. if there is any way, in the future, to add the clickable user history to be admins only.. that would be awesome!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

Then it's weird in IE6 on one PC and IE7 on the other.

It works for me using IE6, IE7 and FF, and showthread.php is obviously not being added to the link by the mod (otherwise it wouldn't work for anyone).

If it's not your browser then I guess it must be something on your forum that is intefering.

[Subah]

Thanks again for the Update

[SwissPegasus]

Since i update from 3.39 to 3.4 i could not see the information anymore. Could anybody help?

[BadgerDog]

Updated to v3.40 and running vBulletin v3.67pl1 ...

Running great... :up:

Thanks ...

Regards,
Badger