psiStats 2006 (The New vBStats for vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x)

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| psiStats 2009
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Feb 28, 2010
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|| Time required to install: 1 minute
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

A sophisticated statistics module for your vBulletin board.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Statistics Tracking:

• General Board Statistics
• Style Usage Statistics
• Top Threads & Forums Statistics
• Display Colors + Resolutions (Requires JavaScript) Statistics
• Countries + Regions Statistics
• Browsers + Operating Systems Statistics
• Referring Sites Statistics
• Referrer Statistics
• Age & Gender Demographics

Features:

• No code or template modifications required.
• Modules can be enabled or disabled, as needed.
• Statistics are updated every fifteen minutes via cron.
• Mother site, e.g. the site where your forum is hosted, will never be listed as a referrer.
• Only one extra query per forum page.
• Statistics can be sorted either numerically or alphabetically.
• Automatic Integration with Referrer Statistics (if installed)[/i]
• Configurable number of last items for top threads / forums.
• Allows to specify whether to show data from from forums with post counts disabled.
• Configurable number of last items in referring site statistics.
• Configurable gender field and responses (optional).
• Configurable list of usergroups that can access statistics (optional).
• Referring site statistics censure (by word) and individual site blockage.
• Detects most popular browsers and operating systems.
• Requires cookies for screen color depth and resolution tracking.

VERSION HISTORY

1.6.2 - stable
[+] Added recognition for Windows 7-based user agents.

1.6.1 - stable
[+] The navbar link is now shown only to those who can access the statistics.

1.6.0 - stable
[+] Added two new modules:

• Referrer Statistics
• Age & Gender Demographics

[+] Added Google Chrome recognition (this includes a matching icon).
[+] Added Setting to control whether top threads & forums data is gathered from forums where posts are not counted towards user post counts.
[+] Updated ip to country databases to the most recent ones.
[F] Corrected a few phrasing bugs and phrased things that were not phrased in 1.5.2.

1.5.2 - stable
[+] Added a few more translations (thanks to those who submitted these).
[+] Fixed a few bugs that were mentioned for 1.5.1.

1.5.1 - stable
[+] Added option to globally enable / disable any stats modules.
[+] Fixed bug with some staff being counted twice.
[+] All numbers are now nicely formatted.

1.5.0 - stable
[+] No more template edits, just upload the files and the product and you're ready to go.
[+] vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x compatible.

1.4.4 - stable
[+] Referrering Sites now have a JS and an XML feed capability.
[+] Added a better firefox icon into the icon database.
[F] Fixed a couple of minor bugs.

1.4.3 - stable
[+] The hack now respects vBulletin's "Show Active Users" setting.
[+] The hack is now valid XHTML (all templates must be reverted).

1.4.2 - stable
[+] Corrected a bug, which caused incorrect number of moderators to be displayed.
[+] gb.gif renamed to uk.gif.

1.4.1 - stable
[+] The front page has been revised, and it now loads four times as fast regardless of the size of your database.
[+] The ip database has been updated to the revision of October 18, 2006.
[+] The flag database has been updated to the revision of October 18, 2006.
[+] Referrer statistics hack, if installed, is now detected automatically. No configuration required.
[+] Added an option to specify a custom board creation date, if not reflected correctly by the joindate of a user with lowest userid.

1.4.0 - stable
[+] The system is now cross-compatible with both vBulletin 3.5 and 3.6.
[+] The ip database has been updated to the revision of August 30, 2006.
[+] A variety of code optimizations and template corrections have been done.
[+] To keep statistics legible, the engine now only tracks the major and the minor browser versions. X.Y.Z.E is now stripped to become X.Y.

1.3.2 - stable
[+] Since more browsers support cookies than ajax, screendepth/screenresolution tracking is now done via cookies.
[+] One less query per page - e.g. now it's only one query per page.
[+] Statistics are now updated every 15 minutes rather than every hour.
[F] Fixed faulty count in cron and in region stats screen.
[F] Fixed bug which prevented the cron from being created in some cases.
[F] Fixed minor bugs which caused errors of the E_NOTICE level.

1.3.1 - stable
[F] Fixed AJAX coding error, which used synchronous ajax instead of asynchronous, evidently causing higher load.
[F] Fixed WOL error that was caused by AJAX stats update and that made it look like everyone is browsing the stats.
[F] Fixed a query in update cron.

1.3.0 - stable
[+] Yay, no more file edits!
[+] No more multiple queries. The hack now takes up a maximum of two (2) queries per page in contemporary browsers, and one (1) query in non-javascript browsers.
[+] New vBulletin Option: Statistics can be configured either numerically or alphabetically.
[+] Since Opera is updated way too often, the engine, from now on, will only identify the primary version marker (7,8,9 as opposed to 7.01, 7.02, 7.21, 8.01 etc).
[+] Templates and phrases are now in their own separate group.
[F] Eliminated a bug which prevented bot identification from working properly.

1.2.8 - beta
[+] Removed 5 queries during the stats recording.
[+] Countries mapped to valid cia abbreviations and the countrybit template has been updated.
[+] Added missing Fiji flag (Thanks to firstrebel!)
[F] Eliminated a bug which prevented the thread and post limit from having any effect.
[F] Eliminated a bug which prevented the browser identification from working properly in some cases.

1.2.7
[F] Corrected online users count.
[F] Corrected staff count.
[F] Eliminated the style stats bug, which originated from users who had invalid styles saved in their profiles.
[F] Eliminated the posts per day bug.
[F] Renamed "gb.gif" to "uk.gif"
[F] Renamed "Oceania" region to "Australia and Oceania".
[F] Only threads and forums to which the user has permissions are displayed in top threads and forums.

1.2.6
[F] Minor template fix.

1.2.5
[+] Rewritten Browser and OS detection (previosly somebody else's module was used).
[F] For staff stats, only primary usergroups are now counted.

1.2.1
[+] New "Usergroups Allowed To View Stats" admincp option.
[+] Navigation split in two rows, for greater view
[+] Crawlers now have a browser picture associated with them.
[F] Eliminated Tracking of Empty Referrers.
[F] Updated country database with a number of missing countries, including UK.
[F] Minor fix to style statistics screen, applying to styles that are not used.

1.2.0
First Official Release.

1.1.0
Development release; Excess queries, phrases, and code has been removed.

1.0.0
Development release; All phrases that were hard-coded were moved into the phrase system.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[klaush]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

In next release they will count both ways (e.g. the actual way of set-up).

Thanks! But my life is not depending on this change! :-)

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

I just found this site:
http://www.flags.net/
What about I use that in the hack?

Looks fine; but you have to change most of the code?

[akanevsky]

Looks fine; but you have to change most of the code?

Fortunately, no. I simply run a script, which scans the index page, extracts the abbreviations, and saves them into the country database, just as with option 3 here.

[klaush]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Fortunately, no. I simply run a script, which scans the index page, extracts the abbreviations, and saves them into the country database, just as with option 3 here.

Good to know. From Germany the site is fast, has a solid structure as well and the most important information about the country.

So what do you guys think?

[akanevsky]

On the second thought.. I am staying with cia. The flags cite has about 10 countries missing, whereas cia site is only missing Yugoslavia.

[DementedMindz]

Psionic Vision nice work seems to be working great i just have one question how do i get Display Colors & Resolutions to work i just didnt see nothing in that section

[akanevsky]

You don't see anything until any stats are recorded. Just wait a while for a couple of visitors, and you should start seeing those stats.

[lanc3lot]

Originally Posted by TonysDesigns

Don't worry, I am uninstalling this hack since I never received support ANYHOW. I personally do not need a teenager telling me to calm down or threats of adding me to ignore list. Advice, concentrate and focus your engergy on fixing your releases rather than worrying about getting a moderator to delete unanswered posts OR telling people to calm down with threats of ignoring. I don't know who you think you are with statements like that. I can see your immaturity shining here. Uninstalls

I was away for a day, mate posts like that goes vb.org far away back...Here we share our ideas - coding abillities, we dont request anything as certain....where are your manners? How old are u and talk like that?

The lad is keep supporting this product, with often updates...what else did u looking for? To give u his msn and serve u all day long? FFS, i hope users like u really get banned from communities like Vb.org ...

Anyway, i calm down and ask, Psionic Vision have u read my comments of strange appear on the Who's Online, that users are in the Stats page when they are just on the homepage? Didnt saw an answer, for this i ask that

And some quick questions. What the numbers means? I mean, ok in the Regions i have that from US i have 400. This means 400 sessions? 400 hits? 400 members?

Thnx in advance as always, if u are 16 and code like that, the feature is in your hand, keep up

Update:

I searched a bit more the bug, and it seems that if the user is on Arcade (tested just there for sure) its shows that he is on the stats page!! Please help, something must be messed up

[bashy]

Hi Psionic


Just took a copy of my WOL..

MSNBot Spider Viewing User Profile daniel 207.46.98.47 12 Minutes Ago
Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Thread Farcry xbox 68.142.251.50 1 Minute Ago
Google AdSense Spider Viewing Thread New shot box 66.249.66.102 2 Minutes Ago
Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing User Profile jolotull 68.142.251.88

Just to show you that MSN does definatley come in the forum, Still not shown up on your stats though m8......

I chose red font, why is it green lol

Regards

Bashy

[firstrebel]

Last night I upgraded 3.5.2 > 3.5.3. I now cannot view top forums and threads with /psistats.php?do=toptf. I get page cannot be displayed error. All the other options work OK. I have gone through the install again totally.

Any ideas?

Bob

[akanevsky]

strange appear on the Who's Online, that users are in the Stats page when they are just on the homepage?

Then they are in stats. What appears in WOL does not have anything to do with the hack.

What the numbers means?

Numbers mean the # of user sessions that have this particular item applied to it.
E.g. 150 next to Russia means that there were 150 forum sessions initiated from a Russian IP.

if u are 16 and code like that, the feature is in your hand, keep up

Thanks

and it seems that if the user is on Arcade

That's not likely. However, if you give me a link to the Arcade hack, I'll look at it for you.

Just took a copy of my WOL..

Thank you.

I chose red font, why is it green lol

Because that's how they tweaked it on vbulletin.org.

Last night I upgraded 3.5.2 > 3.5.3. I now cannot view top forums and threads with /psistats.php?do=toptf. I get page cannot be displayed error. All the other options work OK. I have gone through the install again totally.

Wait until next release. It might be happening because of the unlimited thread select (instead of 10 or whatever is set in admincp).