Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

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, you can view the ip address the member used in the 'View-All' display.

There is also 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.

The 3.8.001 release adds the option to restrict the display to certain forums only.

The set/reset facility allows members to click on the 'set' link which then sets a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times wanted, 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.

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.

A cron job (optionally) allows the deletion of 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.

There are also 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.
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.
9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.
10. Restrict the display to certain forums only.

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.

Note: The experimental TMS support has been removed from the 3.8 Version - as of 3.8 Gold a template hook is available.

Template Hook

Please note that this modification uses the following template hook in the SHOWTHREAD template ;

showthread_after_activeusers

This must be present in any customised template/style you are using, otherwise this modification will not display.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vb 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Changed to use template hook in 3.8.0 Gold.
v3.8.003 : Fix permission bugs when using the forum restrictions option.

[lav0s]

i'm wondering if you are thinking in convert this mod to vb4, mind if you give me a little hint?

[Alucard^]

Hi... Nice hack, i have a question... This hack show people that are in Invisibile mode?

Thx and sry for my english.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Alucard^

Hi... Nice hack, i have a question... This hack show people that are in Invisibile mode?

If you have permission to see them.

[RedHotChili]

Awesome!

Brilliant work, Paul! :up:

Thanks so much for your thorough attention to detail!

Enthusiastically installed!

[RedHotChili]

Okay, started playing with it now that it's installed, and a few anomalies popped up.

There are some users who have posted in a thread, yet their names are not being displayed as having viewed the thread. Is it because the mod won't display this information accurately on threads prior to the install?

Also, and this is a minor issue, the usernames are being displayed with the inherent html formatting, which in my forum the list can get quite crowded with the larger name display. I believe there's a way to get usernames to display unformatted in the list of who has read thread, as I've done it before elsewhere. Just need to look it up and find the right code for it. But this has really nothing to do with the mod, as this is how names are displayed in VB by default in the "Currently Active Users" in the "What's Going On" table, which I have tweaked on my forum by removing formatting.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

There are some users who have posted in a thread, yet their names are not being displayed as having viewed the thread. Is it because the mod won't display this information accurately on threads prior to the install?

Yep, Im afraid I havent quite worked out time travel yet

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

Also, and this is a minor issue, the usernames are being displayed with the inherent html formatting, which in my forum the list can get quite crowded with the larger name display. I believe there's a way to get usernames to display unformatted in the list of who has read thread, as I've done it before elsewhere. Just need to look it up and find the right code for it. But this has really nothing to do with the mod, as this is how names are displayed in VB by default in the "Currently Active Users" in the "What's Going On" table, which I have tweaked on my forum by removing formatting.

You can edit the template to remove the mark-up.

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Yep, Im afraid I havent quite worked out time travel yet

hehe

Originally Posted by Paul M

You can edit the template to remove the mark-up.

Thanks. Will do.

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You can edit the template to remove the mark-up.

Okay, I see I'm gonna need a little help here, as my previous method of stripping away markup won't work here.

This is what I did before:

I edited template forumhome_loggedinuser by replacing:

$loggedin[musername]

with

$loggedin[username]

But there is no "musername" in this template, so where do I go to remove the mark-up?

Is it here?

$threadreader['username'] = "<strong>$vbphrase[wrt_member]</strong>";

Do I just remove the "strong" tag here and possibly elsewhere?

Thanks in advance, Paul.

[Paul M]

Search the templates for $threadreader[opentag] & $threadreader[closetag] and remove them.

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Search the templates for $threadreader[opentag] & $threadreader[closetag] and remove them.

Excellent! :up:

Works like a charm!

Thanks Paul.