Display who has read a thread - Version 3

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a completely new version, based on the idea of my "Display who recently read a thread" hack.

It has a few differences that some people may prefer to the other system. However, those differences may not suit everyone so both versions will continue to be available. Note however that they both have the same product id, it is not possible (or sensible !) to use both at the same time. You can upgrade Version 2 to Version 3 simply by importing the new product with overwrite set to 'yes'.

This version uses it's own table and does not rely on the database thread marking system being active, this also means that old data is not lost when the display limit is passed. The problem of people not being recorded when reading old threads is also removed.

The hack is a vb product and is installed in the normal manner via the product manager - the installation does a small amount of processing so be patient.

Hovering over a name in the displayed list will show when the member last visited the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they last visited it from.

There are settings for the following (in vBulletin Options - Thread Display Options) ;

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.

Note: When using option 4, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so it can be changed at any time.


History:

v3.12 : First Release.
v3.13 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

[Paul M]

BTW, when did I give you permission to remove the copyright notice from my Top Posters hack you have installed ?

[vktechnology]

Originally Posted by Paul M

BTW, when did I give you permission to remove the copyright notice from my Top Posters hack you have installed ?

Apology about this.. my new staff tested and installed it...
I just Click install and reinstall..

[vktechnology]

Originally Posted by Paul M

That's an insane number of records in your threadread table. You either have an incredibly busy forum, or a ridiculously high value for the database marking days, or your cron job to clear the db marking table is not doing it's job.

yes..
something about treadread table to big to import..

I reinstall again.
I go to phpmyadmin

1. copy Threadread table to threadread2
2. emtry threadread table
3. upload "who has read a thread - Version 3" & import datbase very fast..
4. delete table name +++++ad
5 copy threadread2 to +++++ad and make structure same as +++++ad table..

now it work...

thank you for making this script...

[sensimilla]

Any chance to put it on top and not bottom of the page ?

Thanks in advance

[Paul M]

Not without editing the code, and possibly a template.

[m52]

installed, and working.

nice!

[DementedMindz]

wow i went to uninstall this and got a nice database error i guess ill keep it installed until i can figure out why.. i dont think it removes everything when uninstalled

[DementedMindz]

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO +++++ad
(userid, threadid, dateline, ipaddress)
VALUES
(1, 1335, 1147674434, 'xx.xxx.xxx.xxx');

[Paul M]

Not sure what the +++++ is for but that code is from one of the plugins so it hasn't been uninstalled, try again, or just disable it.

[Yorixz]

Very nice addon, just got one little feature request, could you add an option to make it possible to limit this hack to a few categories (and subforums of these), this could remove the query on the forums where it isn't requred (or that are too often requested).
Thanks for your work so far!