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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Paul M]

Just look in my profile.

[Gadget_Guy]

Would it be possible to add a feature to this mod (which I love BTW) to allow members to opt-out of being visible as having viewed a thread?

Some people on my forum would rather remain anonymous if they viewed a thread.

I am okay with this and support the idea for my forum.

D.

[Paul M]

Sorry, I have no plans to add anything new to this mod.

[DEGE]

Is there a VB4 version of this mod?

[Paul M]

Yes, just check my profile.

[viper357]

Paul, quick question if you don't mind. My board is getting busy with almost 500 000 posts and I need to employ new mods, but with the board being so busy I am unable to track members like I used to when the board was small. Is there any way this mod can help me by showing how many threads a user has read? Ideally I want to promote the members to mods that read the most threads on a daily basis. Perhaps something like a stats page that lists who has read the most threads? Or is there anything I can maybe extract or see in phpmyadmin? Thanks.

[Paul M]

You could certianly run some queries on the table in phpmyadmin.

select userid, username, count(threadid) as threads_read 
from whoread inner join user using (userid)
group by userid order by threads_read desc

Will show you who is reading the most overall.

[viper357]

Perfect, that showed exactly what I wanted, thanks so much Paul, appreciate it.

[furnival]

I need to make a slight adjustment to the output of this mod.

At the bottom of the thread display page it says, for example

Members who have read this thread in the last 15 days : 3
member1, member2, member3

Instead of a comma separated list of usernames I need a semi-colon separated list (so that I can copy and paste the list straight into the PM To: box).

Can anyone tell me how I might change that please?

[Paul M]

Change the comma to a semi-colon in this line of the plugin ;

eval('$treaders .= "' . fetch_template('Display_Readers_User') . '" . ", ";');