Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This tracks the number of guests that have visited a forum each day. This isn't possible in stock vbulletin as no record is kept of guest visits, they are a 'realtime' display only. This will add (another) section to the "What's Going On" area.

Options / Features ;

* The ability to turn it on/off.
* The ability to turn just the display on/off.
* The ability to allow (or prevent) certain usergroups viewing the display.
* The ability to run the display code on all pages (not just forumhome).
* The ability to switch between 'Today' and Rolling 24 Hours display (default).
* The list of guests can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.
* The script that the Guest is running is logged (e.g. showthread, usercp etc).
* The request variables in use are logged (e.g. threadid, userid etc).
* The guest table can be cleaned of old records to help control it's size.
* Controls for the displays automatic template update.
* The datastore read (for spider detection) will read from the File/APC/Memcache/Xcache datastore [if used].
* Guest Views data collection - tracking each guests viewing of the forum index page, forums and threads.
* Guest Views data collection can be separately disabled.
* Multiple guest visits to the same page are logged separately.
* Clicking on a Guest type in the main display will list all recent visits by guests of that type.
* Clicking on the option in the guest listing will show that guests viewing data (if enabled).
* Usergroup permissions are done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.
* The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests can be enabled.

Four new usergroup permissions are provided in the usergroup manager.

* Can View the Guests Visited Display - Members can view the guests visited display on Forumhome.
* Can View Guest IP Addresses - Members can see the ip addresses of visiting guests.
* Can View Guest Visits List - Members can view the list of guest visits page.
* Can View Guest Tracking Data - Members can view the individual guest visit tracking page.

* All (non usergroup) modification settings are in vBulletin Options > Guest Tracking.

To install (or upgrade);

• Unzip the XML files.
• Upload the bitfields file to your ../includes/xml folder.
• If upgrading from the vb 3.6 version, delete the bitfield_track-guests.xml file from your ../includes/xml folder.
• Import the product into vBulletin using the ACP Product Manager.
• Set your required permissions in the usergroup manager.

Note that by default no usergroup permissions are given, you must set them.


You can get an improved Spiders Definition file from this post - and now a more recent version is available from this site.

Note: For Spider detection to work you must set Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options.


History:

v3.7.001 : Initial vb 3.7 release.
v3.7.002 : Fix for cron_script hook changed in 3.7 Beta 4.
v3.7.003 : Header, Navbar and Footer added to guest display pages.
v3.7.004 : Tracking of visits to archive pages added.

[mariocaz]

I don?t see the another section of this mod in my forum, help!!

www.all-reefs.com

[Paul M]

Did you follow the install instructions ?

[mariocaz]

I think is this, but I don?t understand it very well. sorry

Set your required permissions in the usergroup manager.

[mariocaz]

Ok I see it, never mind so sorry.

[bitbender]

Originally Posted by StRiKeR035

o ok so it tells me they registered as "name" and since they didnt register successfully they dont exist?

Yes, exactly... perhaps it entered data in error on the forum beyond the user name, forcing a partial resend for correction .. Being a bot, it didn't reply.. but.. The tracking software simply saw the last transaction and registered what data it knew.

I know the registration process works, and I know these ghost registrations happen on my site from time to time, same forensic, saw them registering, but they don't exist. Logic tells me that they simply did not complete....

[Mirage Guardian]

Congrats, PaulM
may you alter this mod to check Guests IP? so it can tell us that the user "named bla bla" is viewing the forum as a guest.

[EvilJohn]

Thank You Sir! :up: (waiting on that 1st guest)

[GPTB]

Just posting to say thanks for this mod. Working fine for me on vB 2.7.1.

[drsli]

Thank you so much for another awesome add-on!

[mannaraja]

That is a tiny image.........