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.

[angelo]

Hi Paul,

I'm planning on upgrading my forums from 3.5.3 to 3.6.0. I currently have this hack installed, is there any way I can carry over the current "who viewed" data to the new 3.6.0 system?

Also, is there any way you can make the who viewed box collapsed by default? I know we can tick it to be uncollapsed or not but some of my users aren't aware of the hack and they could really care less who viewed the thread. I think it would be a lot easier for it to be always collapsed by default no matter if you uncollapsed it already or not.

Thanks

[Paul M]

Upgrading to 3.6 will not affect the data.

[angelo]

Ok, what about the second question?

[Paul M]

No, there is no option to do that - but if they collapse it themselves, it will stay collapsed until they change it again.

[nitro]

Thanks Paul, nice little mod, wonders why this isnt part of vb core.

[phpdevrus]

nice. is there anyway to set it only to a particular forum? like the mod forum lol so i can keep track who has or has not read my posts. ;-)

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by phpdevrus

nice. is there anyway to set it only to a particular forum? like the mod forum lol so i can keep track who has or has not read my posts. ;-)

Nope, sorry, this has no such facility.

[Gripemaster]

*INSTALLED*

Thanks Paul... great for announcement threads!

[MediaHound]

Great hack, thanks!
One suggestion:
It would be great if it also showed the number of guests that viewed the thread - the "thread views" counter is useful, but this would be more icing on the cake.

[Nathan2006]

Thanks Paul