Display who has read a thread - Version 3

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a completely new version, based on the idea of my "Display who recently read a thread" hack.

It has a few differences that some people may prefer to the other system. However, those differences may not suit everyone so both versions will continue to be available. Note however that they both have the same product id, it is not possible (or sensible !) to use both at the same time. You can upgrade Version 2 to Version 3 simply by importing the new product with overwrite set to 'yes'.

This version uses it's own table and does not rely on the database thread marking system being active, this also means that old data is not lost when the display limit is passed. The problem of people not being recorded when reading old threads is also removed.

The hack is a vb product and is installed in the normal manner via the product manager - the installation does a small amount of processing so be patient.

Hovering over a name in the displayed list will show when the member last visited the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they last visited it from.

There are settings for the following (in vBulletin Options - Thread Display Options) ;

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.

Note: When using option 4, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so it can be changed at any time.


History:

v3.12 : First Release.
v3.13 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

[csidlernet]

thanks alot buddy

[COBRAws]

Works like a charm (as it did before!) once again I upgraded to 3.5.4

Thank you Sir Paul M

[jilly]

Could it be possible that this could be restricted to certain forums, so you could just add the forumid of the forums to use this?

I ask because I have certain areas, like tech support, announcements, and back end moderator areas where I want to know or my helpers need to know if someone has read a thread for admin /tech support reasons - but I dont want to use it out on the general boards because I think it might cause some issues. Mainly in some areas on my site, a member's feelings may be hurt if they see so and so read their thread but didnt respond, etc. So I want to use ot more for admin purposes..

[gravesend46]

Installed, cheers!

I have one nasty ex-member who siphons off posts from our forum and uses them selectively on his blog to attack us. He's banned, but he has some cronies, so at least I can now pin down where his info might be coming from!

[MustangLisa]

Cool, thanks. I've been wanting to install something like this.

[angelo]

Thanks, I might install this..but a few suggestions...

Before when I was on phpbb we had a hack like this and it recorded every user who viewed a thread, but each time they viewed the thread it would bump their username back to the beginning of the list of names...this way you could tell when they re-viewed a thread...for example, maybe you made a post and u would really like to know if a certain person has read the thread since the last time, you would know they have because their username is back up towards the beginning.

The second feature that would be nice to have with this is for the list to be collapsable, if you have 5,000 people view a thread it's not gonna be very cool seeing a list of 5,000 usernames...it should only show to users if they select it from a collapsable thing or something.

I would actually pay to have these features added if that's possible..thanks.

[Paul M]

Perhaps you should have actually installed it first - the list is already collapsable - Changing the display order of the names is achieved by changing the SQL WHERE clause to use dateline.

Feel free to send me your payment for the above

[angelo]

ahh, my bad dude...i'm gonna install and fiddle with it. thanks

[robgeo]

Great hack!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nachtfalke]

Don't know, what i am doing wrong, but the list is not showing up. Seems that the Display_Readers template is never included, wether I am in the right usergroup or not. I entered 6 for the usergroup, as i am the board admin. But nothing happens. And yes, I have activated it :-) Any Idea about that?
THX 4 help!