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.

[ProAzn]

Originally Posted by ProAzn

Ok the guest list is too long.. How do I make pages instead of one long list? I'm in vboptions--->guest tracking. There are 2 settings..

Guest List Row Limit
The maximum number of rows to display on the guest list screen.
set as 1000


Guest Views Row Limit
The maximum number of rows to display on the guest views screen.
set as 500

What do i have to change to make it paginate??

OK i changed guest row limit to 100, now the list is 100 rows but does not paginate over 100 lines.. anyone help??

Guest view row limit is still at 500. ..what is the difference between guest list row limit and guest views row limit??

[Paul M]

They are two seperate views, one is the list of all guests, the other is all the views a single guest has made. There is no paging in this mod, whatever you set the limits too.

[fodvapor]

Great mod...thanks for sharing !

[TitanJeff]

I'm having a problem and thought I would ask...

The hack worked perfectly until earlier this week when I was hacked. In the process of repairing the server, I went ahead and upgraded vB from 3.7 to 3.73. Now, the guest tracking doesn't show up on forumhome though all settings are the same as before the hack.

I uninstalled then reinstalled earlier today and it did show up on forumhome but was followed with a database error. Now, it's not showing up again.

Any ideas?

[Paul M]

Did you remember to copy the bitfields file to the XML folder when you upgraded ?

[TitanJeff]

I did. I should have copied the database error to post here. I may try to recreate the error.

[glennybee]

Not sure how to word this one lol...

When you access the forum you are a visitor...until you log in then you are a member.

I have the 'track visitors' mod installed and I was wondering, does the visitors count change when you eventually log in, i.e. -1.

[Paul M]

No, the visitor count will not decrease, you were a valid visitor at the time.

[RS25com]

Disregard, it's working fine.

[RedDevil]

thanks - installed very useful