Forum Home Enhancements - Member Tracking

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This tracks the number of members that have visited the forum each day, and displays a list in the same manner as the "Who has visited" modification. However, this also tracks a lot more data, such as the script (and request variables) run on their last visit, and all threads and forums visited.

Note that installing this will automatically remove the "Members Who Have Visited Today" modification.

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 members can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.
* The script that the member is running is logged (e.g. showthread, usercp etc).
* The request variables in use are logged (e.g. threadid, userid etc).
* The member visits table can be cleaned of old records to help control it's size.
* Controls for the automatic template update system.
* Member Views data collection - tracking each members viewing of the forum index page, forums and threads.
* Member Views data collection can be separately disabled.
* Multiple member visits to the same page are logged separately.
* Clicking on a member in the main display will show that members viewing data (if enabled, and you have permission).
* Usergroup permissions are done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.
* Clicking on the "Total members that have visited" line will list all members who have visited and their last action.
* The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever members can be enabled.

Four new usergroup permissions are provided in the usergroup manager.

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

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

To install;

• Unzip the XML files.
• Upload the 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 permissions are given, you must set them.



History:

v3.7.001 : Initial vb 3.7 release.
v3.7.002 : List and view time cutoff options added.
v3.7.003 : Tracking of visits to archive pages added.
v3.7.004 : List/View cutoff options combined into one. Member hyperlinking added.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

sounds good Paul ... so this replaces completely the 'who's has visited' hack right?

edit: just a question: what is the difference between 'run code on all vb pages' and 'run only on forumhome'? i don't understand this

Yes it will completely replace the who has visited hack. If you have it installed when you install this hack it will uninstall it for you.

The difference between run code on all vb pages and run only on forumhome is the running it only on forum home allows you to show it on ex: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ where as run on all pages if you know what your doing and change the replacement condition you can use it to show the who has visited box on all pages. This will run the code and associated queries on all pages even if you dont have it displayed on all pages if you change this settings.

[KURTZ]

thx IWT now a simple question, if i wanna use the code all around i must do some template modifications? or what? i just tried this onto my test board (without any modification) and i don't see anything over the other pages ... thx

[Ideal Web Tech]

You control it using the ATCS options. These are advanced settings so if you go to play with them you better have a clear idea of what you are doing.

ATCS: Template Name - The name of the template we are to automatically edit. This is the template it will search for the Search Text in.
ATCS: Search Text - Text to search for that serves as an insertion point for the hacks output. This should be a unique statement.

Example Setup:

ATCS: Template Name - navbar
ATCS: Search Text - <!-- / nav buttons bar -->

That will make it show up below the navigation buttons row in the navbar. You might need to edit the hack template to make the spacing above and below it proper.

[Super Jinni]

thanks Paul

I was really looking for something like this for long time

great job..

[KURTZ]

ah OK this stuff isn't for me ... however thx

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

I have solved the problem that I was having now. It was a variable conflict of the variable not living the scope till the navbar template was built because of a query call with the same variable name. So I renamed $memberlist to $memberlistwv everywhere it was referenced to solve the problem on my site. In case anybody else has that problem thats all there is to fixing it.

Is this another public mod with the same name or something custom on your site ?

[Ideal Web Tech]

To be honest I didn't pay enough attention to which mod was causing it. But I do know that it wasn't any of my custom code as my naming conventions I use would prevent that.

[BigDog56]

Thank you very much! Works great!

[shofolofo]

How to clear the data every week for example ?

I could not find the cron job or you meant to set them ?

[Paul M]

Like it says ;

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