Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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 modification adds another section to the "What's Going On" area.
It also has seperate pages to display (1) the list of guests, and (2) the pages a particular guest has visited

Options / Features ;

* The ability to turn the whole modification on/off.
* The ability to turn just the forumhome display on/off.
* The ability to allow (or prevent) certain usergroups viewing the forumhome display.
* The ability to switch between 'Today' and Rolling 24 Hours display (default).
* 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.
* The datastore read (for spider detection) will read from the File/APC/Xcache datastore if used [note, not Memcache].
* 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.
* The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests.
* Usergroup permissions are done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.
* Clicking on the main display icon will list the recent visits by all guests (if allowed).
* Clicking on a Guest type in the main display will list all recent visits by guests of that type (again, if allowed).
* Clicking on the option in the guest listing will show that guests viewing data (if enabled, and allowed).
* The main display can be set as always collapsed on initial page load (4.0.3 +)

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 files.
• If upgrading from a previous version, delete any old trg bitfield xml files from your ../includes/xml/ folder.
• Upload the new bitfields file to 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.
The installation code will turn this on for you.

It is recommended that you visit your Who's Online page after installing this mod (or after updating your spiders file) to make sure your spider definitions are built / rebuilt.


History:


Beta Releases

v4.0.0.2 : 04-Jan-2010 : Initial Beta release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.0.3 : 05-Jan-2010 : Fix scope error in global hook database write.
v4.0.0.5 : 06-Jan-2010 : Second stage Beta - Main Guest List Display added.
v4.0.0.6 : 06-Jan-2010 : Fix IP display error in Guest List Display.

v4.0.1 : 08-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 09-Jan-2010 : Minor code changes and fixes.
v4.0.3 : 16-Jan-2010 : Added always collapsed option.
v4.0.4 : 20-Feb-2010 : Internal update, not released.
v4.0.5 : 27-Feb-2010 : Style code updates for vB 4.0.2.
v4.0.6 : 19-Sep-2010 : Fix bug in attachment viewing links.
v4.0.7 : 23-Oct-2010 : Fixed for WGO style changes in vB 4.0.8.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.
v4.1.8.0 : 18-Nov-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.8 onwards (only).
v4.1.11.0 : 03-Mar-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.11 image changes.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[Streamcentral]

Thanks - Got it Sorted - Had Uploaded It To Wrong Folder - Works Great Now - Great Mod!!

[LLent]

i installed this and i dont see where i can see the list i have been to wol and nothing am i missing something or is there another place to look

[SuperTaz]

Originally Posted by LLent

i installed this and i dont see where i can see the list i have been to wol and nothing am i missing something or is there another place to look

You need to give your user group access by going to the user group manager, clicking on your user group and going to the very bottom and set the "Can View the Guests Visited Display" to yes. Then save. Look at the screen shot below...

[LLent]

Originally Posted by SuperTaz

You need to give your user group access by going to the user group manager, clicking on your user group and going to the very bottom and set the "Can View the Guests Visited Display" to yes. Then save. Look at the screen shot below...

thanks after playing with it yesterday i figured it out i figured what i was looking for was a drop down somewhere but that was not the case ...however when i went to the track guests page it was all white and i couldnt see anything on all my styles is beyond me why default wasnt made transparent in the xml so i went and did that to all my styles and was a pia to find the right template...

anyway its all sorted and looking good besides the above mentioned seems like a good mod

[s.stuart]

Thanks for a great product!

[tanzeelniazi]

this mod working perfect but today i install new Style found some issue how i resolve them
see attach Picture

[Mark4865]

Great mod simply to install useful info thanks for effort

[Snowhog]

I am very impressed with this MOD. Excellent! As one of our forum's Administrators, this extra information is very valuable. Even though this MOD has been around for a while, I'm marking it for MOTM.

[TonicWater]

hi, i had a dql error:

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE guest
SET spider = 'Logged In'
WHERE guestid = 'ba3d20a70661643d9b98d9126631f096'
AND script = 'login'
AND spider <> 'Logged In';

MySQL-Fehler : Table './mjforum2/guest' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Fehler-Nr. : 145
Fehler-Zeit : Friday, 04.01.2013 @ 11:27:22
Datum : Friday, 04.01.2013 @ 11:27:22
Skript : http://www.mjackson.net/forum/login.php?do=login
Referrer : http://www.mjackson.net/forum/admincp/index.php
IP-Adresse : 93.219.17.147
Benutzername : MJ@ckson.NET Team
Klassenname : vB_Database
MySQL-Version : 5.0.96-0ubuntu1

the vbuleetin guys says that there is no "guests" table in vb. it comes from this addon. i tried repair table function and this came up:

groupread Optimize Status: OK
guest Check Warning: Table is marked as crashed
guest Check Warning: 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
guest Check Error: Found too long record (24) at 4017672
guest Check Error: Corrupt
guest
guestviews Check Status: OK

any tip what i can do now?

[Alibass]

What vB version are you running and which mod version did you download and install?