Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This displays who has read a thread, and the time they last looked at it.

Hovering over a name will show when the member last viewed the thread, you can view the ip address the member used in the 'View-All' display.

There is also an option to allow a thread author to view who has read their thread when they are not in one of the allowed usergroups. The IP and number of days restrictions still apply.

The 3.8.001 release adds the option to restrict the display to certain forums only.

The set/reset facility allows members to click on the 'set' link which then sets a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times wanted, and also completely cleared again. When using this facility there is also a link to allow you to view a seperate list of all readers of the thread.

Warning: When using the set/reset option - there is only a limited capacity of entries per thread (several thousand) - therefore you should only allow this feature to be used by a limited number of people - typically Staff usergroups. Allowing all members to use it will probably slow down your forum and cause errors if more than about 3000 members set a date on one thread.

A cron job (optionally) allows the deletion of records from the whoread table that are over a certain age - this is provided for large forums where the number of table entries can start to reach a million or more after 12 months. The delete age is a setting in the ACP.

There are also settings for the following (in vBulletin Options > Who Has Read a Thread) ;

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.
5. Option to allow thread author to view who read information.
6. Option to turn on the who read cutoff date (reset) function
7. Restrict use of reset function to certain usergroups.
8. Option to set whoread data records to be cleaned out after xxx days.
9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.
10. Restrict the display to certain forums only.

Note: When using option 4 or the set/reset facility, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so they can be changed at any time.

Download the zip, extract the XML file and import using the vb Product Manager.

Note: The experimental TMS support has been removed from the 3.8 Version - as of 3.8 Gold a template hook is available.

Template Hook

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

showthread_after_activeusers

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


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vb 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Changed to use template hook in 3.8.0 Gold.
v3.8.003 : Fix permission bugs when using the forum restrictions option.

[wolfey]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You would need to edit both the plugin code, and the template.

Thank you for the info...now which plug-in? there is 6

Display Thread Readers (1) archive_process_start [Edit] [Delete]
Display Thread Readers (2) cache_templates [Edit] [Delete]
Display Thread Readers (3) cron_script_cleanup_daily [Edit] [Delete]
Display Thread Readers (4) misc_start [Edit] [Delete]
Display Thread Readers (5) showthread_complete [Edit] [Delete]
Display Thread Readers (6) showthread_getinfo [Edit] [Delete]


and the template would be "Display_Readers" yes?

and will All the current information be lost if I change this or will the data just be changed? and the threads now have different information


sorry if this is a stupid question...I looked around for a while to make sure I wasnt missing something

[Paul M]

Sorry, but Im afraid that to answer this would require me to investigate how to do it myself, which is beyond the level of support I can provide. I can only support it as supplied.

[freeoffline]

please update for vb 4

[Paul M]

You may want to look a little harder, a vb4 version has existed for months.

[marshal_ramdev]

Installed. thank you

[Steven W Hill]

Superb and very helpful mod, thanks so much.

If I want to add or change the information that shows up in tooltip format when I hover the pointer over the list of names (as programmed, it displays a Last Read time/datestamp), where would I find the code for it?

I would like for it to display the member's join date, if I can figure out how to do that.

[lordsilence]

I dont know if this question has been asked before.
But is it possible to somehow show all the visits a user has made on a thread and from what IP? As it is now, it only seems to list the last IP used.

Thanks for a nice mod

[Paul M]

Nope, only the last visit is recorded.

[sinpin]

By default administrator and thread author can view who read information,
How do I set this permission to all usergroups ?

[sinpin]

Question/Suggestion

+ Is there a way to allow "view who read information" permission to only all active users on each thread ?