Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

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 a previous version, delete the old bitfield 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.

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

Template Hook

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

forumhome_wgo_pos2

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


History:

v3.8.001 : Initial vb 3.8 release.
v3.8.002 : Fix install code SQL error.
v3.8.003 : Fix bug in attachment viewing links.

[Paul M]

Try it now (3.8.002)

[readjono]

Thank you kind sir. Working nicely in v3.8. I've had mine coded by a geek on here so it flows a bit better

[eh9 daddy]

thanks, works fine now

[dt_truck11]

whats the template hook that should be in inserted, because it doesnt seem to have been inserted automatically.

[ijob]

Hi,

The hack is installed but it doesn't display on the index page and there are no options in the usergroup manager?

I had the previous vbersion with no problems....

[readjono]

Originally Posted by ijob

Hi,

The hack is installed but it doesn't display on the index page and there are no options in the usergroup manager?

I had the previous vbersion with no problems....

I had to edit the usergroup managers for it to appear

[RedDevil]

Just upgraded to 3.8 and installed, it seems not to be working.

There is no forum display, however the previous version worked fine.

1. I uploaded the bitfield file to includes/xml deleting the .37 file also
2. Imported product using admin cp using overwrite / it auto uninstalled the old version
3. Set group 6 administrators permissions to all yes.
4. reviewed settings in VB options menu

all seems to be set correctly, yet no display, and idea what the problem could be.

I have member tracking installed this is ok.

[RedDevil]

reverted to the older version for now.

[Paul M]

Sorry, but I cannot guess at problems, I would need ftp/acp access to see what was going on.

[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sorry, but I cannot guess at problems, I would need ftp/acp access to see what was going on.

Pm me what you need then i can send you the access details.