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.

[sebbe]

Thanks Paul, atm I only have hacks made by you installed on my forum (two hehe). So efficient and to the point hacks!

[Biggles]

Great, thanks. Upgrading today! Nice work.

[Spiffware]

i willl install it as soon as my host desides to fix my server

[BS5]

installed... thanks

[PoetJA-1975]

Nice share - tried installing on 3.5.4 and not so much love lol
Any chance of making this one available for the 3.5 series?
Would so much love this!

Thanx

Jacquii.

edited: could have sworn this one was for 3.5.4

[Paul M]

There is a 3.5 version in the 3.5 add-ons section, however, it does not have the new features added to this version.

[jcodemasters]

Thanks Paul. i will try today this mod

[PoetJA-1975]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There is a 3.5 version in the 3.5 add-ons section, however, it does not have the new features added to this version.

any chance of porting the newest for 3.5.4
At anyrate - suppose if I wasn't so very scared of upgrading - I'd have this one :P
It's a beautiful piece of work no doubt - Thanx anyway for the sharing PAUL

Jacquii.

[Paul M]

Sorry, there is no chance of me adding new stuff to the old 3.5 hacks - I only develop on the latest series, and indeed, as of 2007 I will be cutting back on the support of the 3.5 series as well.

I can't see any reason this would not work on 3.5 - the main thing stopping it is the fact that the product won't install because of the execution order elements. In theory, if you edited them out of the XML you should be able to install this on a 3.5 forum (I won't support such a setup if it doesn't work though). The cron will not install.

[PoetJA-1975]

Understood! Thanx anyway - perhaps one of these days I'll upgrade

Jacquii.