Statistics Modifications - Forum Search Stats V.2

Hi all

Did you ever wondered what your users expect to find in your forums?
Did you ever wanted to know what are their needs?
Did you ever wanted to let them know what they can easily find?
If your answer is "Yes", then you must use this product ...

The 1st version was here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=139829

What is new in Version 2

1. Most searched keywords in smaller text.
2. Most searched keywords leads to results page directly instead of search page.
3. Fixed random list bug.
4. Fixed blank keyword bug.
5. An option for choosing who can see search stats in homepage.
6. Censor words listed in Most searched stats according to Forum's censor list.
7. Solved "<span dir=rtl>" problem.
8. Solved TABLE_PREFIX problem.
9. Solved falsy search count when user clicks on links on "most searched keyword stats". ((Thanx to h2ojunkie))

Features
1- Log user searches in your forums.
2- Show most searched keywords on the main forums page in away that demonstrates every keywords importance in your forums.

Screens





Version
Expected to work on all vBulletin 3.6 versions tell now.

Template Edits
1 template edit in FORUMHOME

Plugins
2 Plugins

Installation
1- Upload the directory "upload" contents to your forum root.
2- Import the attached product "[product] Forum Search Stats 2.0.xml" into your AdminCP.
3- Edit template "FORUMHOME":
BEFORE:

</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

ADD:

<if condition="$vbulletin->options['setting_searchstats_showuser'] AND in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], $allowed_groups)">
<tbody>
 <tr>
  <td class="thead" colspan="2">
   <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[most_searched]
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
 <tr>
  <td class="alt2"><img src="images/misc/search_stats.gif" alt="$vbphrase[most_searched]" border="0" /></td>
  <td class="alt1" width="100%">$most_searched</td>
 </tr>
</tbody>
</if>

Finally, if you like the product Please show your support by clicking INSTALL..
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ALSO, many thanx for all who helped in testing and debugging the 1st version, the list is long so i couldnt name them here

[bryanb]

Help!!!

I just installed this mod and my entire forum has gone blank. I uninstalled this, and it's still blank! Any assistance would be appreciated!

[Elenna]

BryanB - try reverting the FORUMHOME template?

[coderphp]

Originally Posted by ElForro

It would be possible to user a separate "censor list" only to be used in with this mod? I would like to censor some searches, but i can't censor that words in the whole forum..

Thanks, and it's a great mod!

sorry separate sensor list not available in this version
thanx for ur feedback

Originally Posted by bryanb

Help!!!

I just installed this mod and my entire forum has gone blank. I uninstalled this, and it's still blank! Any assistance would be appreciated!

u must been done the template edit "FORUMHOME" wrong
as BryanB said, try retreiving the original FORUMHOME template
also put ur forum's link to see the problem

[bryanb]

I tried upgrading another mod a few days ago which mangled some of the database tables (which were repaired). When installing this mod, it somehow was affected by the other mod phpAdsNew Banner Ads integration

Anyway, I was able to correct this by having several of the templates reloaded. What a PITA.

As soon as I'm sure the other mod is fully uninstalled, I'll try this again.

[Nick0r]

Is anyone running the phpadsnew banner ads and this mod - and can confirm there are no compatibility issues?

[ElForro]

Originally Posted by coderphp

sorry separate sensor list not available in this version
thanx for ur feedback

Do you think it would be possible to add this function in future versions?

Thanks!

[lazytown]

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie

Just a thought, but it occurred to me that every time a user clicks on one of the "most searched" keywords on forum home it is actually increasing the count for the # of times that term/phrase was searched for, thereby falsely inflating the true number of searches people did on the term.

Since people are likely to click on them because...they can....it would seem those "most searched" words would be inflated and always remain showing in the top 20 most searched.

Maybe append a new parameter to the end of the link to each of those search terms something like (searchstats=donotcount for example). Where if that parameter is passed when clicking on the link, the searchstats plugin knows not to add to the count for that word/phrase. This way the only words counted in the search stats are terms people actually searched for on their own.

Anyway, just an idea. That was a change on made on mine.

There's no perfect solution to this because either way you are losing some data.. If someone clicks the link perhaps they would have searched for it anyways (and then you are discarding that).

Perhaps if they were kept track of separately (for admins to view)... So you can see how many clicks the 'search links' got on the homepage, and separately how many times someone entered a keyword search. Two separate stats.

Personally, once I have the time to install this mod, I am just going to use it to collect search stats for my own informational purposes (assuming it can be used this way)

-vissa

[lazytown]

By the way, how does this affect guests who have to enter the captcha verification before performing a search? If they click the keywords on the homepage, does it then take them to the advanced search with the keywords filled in (assuming captcha is turned on for guest searches)?

-vissa

[coderphp]

Originally Posted by ElForro

Do you think it would be possible to add this function in future versions?

Thanks!

maybe ill add it in a future version
regards

Originally Posted by vissa

By the way, how does this affect guests who have to enter the captcha verification before performing a search? If they click the keywords on the homepage, does it then take them to the advanced search with the keywords filled in (assuming captcha is turned on for guest searches)?

-vissa

if captcha is turned on, they have to enter the symbols b4 seeing the results

[HDT]

I have customs usergroup "Bulldog Guard" with user group id:9

Then when I set "who can see most searched keywords?" to 5,6,9 there only usergroup id 5,6 who can view the most searched keywords stats in the mainpage.

All user who included usergroup 9 doesnt see it.

Please help.