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.

[Haenk]

• I'm missing a title for
  ".../misc.php?do=guestlist",
  ".../misc.php?do=guestview..."
  I see only "- forum title"
• Is it possible to activate the navbar with broadcum and so on in the view?

Thanks

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Larz979

I just uninstalled this mod because I was starting to get some errors that pointed to the guests table.

After uninstalling it my "usergroup" table is now missing off the server. Any ideas why this would go missing after the uninstall?

1. If you get mysql errors then thats a mysql problem, not this (you probably needed to repair the table).

2. This has no effect on the usergroup table, either installing, using, or uninstalling it.

[Larz979]

Somehow the permissions on the table got screwed up. I am back up and running. May or may not have had to do with the uninstall.

Originally Posted by Larz979

I just uninstalled this mod because I was starting to get some errors that pointed to the guests table.

After uninstalling it my "usergroup" table is now missing off the server. Any ideas why this would go missing after the uninstall?

3.7 gold

Larz

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Haenk

• I'm missing a title for
  ".../misc.php?do=guestlist",
  ".../misc.php?do=guestview..."
  I see only "- forum title"
• Is it possible to activate the navbar with broadcum and so on in the view?

Thanks

Title are there on a full, unedited install, what have you changed ?

[Paul M]

As requested a number of times, I have now added the Header, Navbar and Footer to the guest information display pages.

[ercy]

thank a lot

[Hugo Holbling]

I've occasionally been getting a database error since installing this mod:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM guest FORCE INDEX (lastactive) WHERE lastactive > 1210374000;
MySQL Error : Table './hugoholb_vbulletin/guest' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Error Number : 145

When I switched off the mod in the admincp the error went away. Do you have any idea what's going wrong and what I can do to fix it? I'm going to uninstall it and then install again to see if that corrects the table.

[Paul M]

It means exactly what it says - the mysql table has crashed - you need to use the mysql repair command to repair it (you can do this via phpmyadmin or the ACP).

Uninstalling/re-installing it might work as that will attempt to drop and then re-create the table - however, im not sure if mysql will drop a crashed table.

[Hugo Holbling]

Thanks, Paul. It's working fine now.

[PenPusher1000]

Cool hack. Great for focusing marketing efforts.

One question. Where is the 'what's going on" section.

Thanks!!