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.

[MeMySelfNi]

updated...

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by SwissPegasus

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

The differences between 3.39 and 3.40 are minor, can you be more specific please.

[Stoebi]

Hi

Thanks for this nice hack. I have a wish:
Restrict the display to certain forums

Regards, Stoebi

[edytwinky]

Does this work with all templates including hand made ones?

[Paul M]

You need to be more specific.

It may not insert the display into your templates automaticly [by default] if your style is custom, but there are settings you can alter to cater for this (and you may need to tweak your style template).

[KURTZ]

updated

[periphrastic]

Installed - thank you.

[Chadi]

I think there is a php 5 specific bug in this mod.

I upgraded to php 5 today and was not able to view any threads at all.

I get this when attempting to view threads

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type vB_Session as array in /home/user/public_html/showthread.php(1963) : eval()'d code on line 35

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('showthread_complete')) ? eval($hook) : false;

Thats like 1963 from showthread.php

I disabled every plugin one by one, still go the error

Then, I unchecked (disabled) in plugin hooks this line:

Who Viewed This Thread? / showthread_complete

After I did that, everything on my forum was normal, odd enough even the who viewed this thread STILL shows up fine in thread view. I do not understand, but perhaps you can debug this.

[ENF]

I have been using the new beta version with 0 errors thus far.

Turned out to be nice tool, thank so much.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by chadi

I upgraded to php 5 today and was not able to view any threads at all.
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Fatal error: Cannot use object of type vB_Session as array in /home/user/public_html/showthread.php(1963) : eval()'d code on line [B]35

We run php 5 without any issues.

The showthread_complete hook in this is mod is where the 'whoread' table is updated (as you are viewing the thread). There is nothing in it (or indeed the entire mod) related to vB_Session, so I think your problem must be elsewhere.

Originally Posted by EtherNetFreak

I have been using the new beta version with 0 errors thus far.

It's not really a beta, but glad it's okay for you