Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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 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 a previous version, delete the old bitfield 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.

Note: For Spider detection to work you must set Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options.

Template Hook

Please note that this modification uses the following template hook in the FORUMHOME template ;

forumhome_wgo_pos2

This must be present in any customised template/style you are using, otherwise this modification will not display.


History:

v3.8.001 : Initial vb 3.8 release.
v3.8.002 : Fix install code SQL error.
v3.8.003 : Fix bug in attachment viewing links.

[joedirt]

i installed this on Version 3.8.3 and everything is ok but the time how can you set the time on this mod its showing

The most guests online over 24 hours was 0, 12-31-1969 at 07:00 PM.

is there anyway to fix this problem?

thanks

[mattwmc2001]

Sweet! Got it working!

I was wondering about this. Nice one!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by joedirt

i installed this on Version 3.8.3 and everything is ok but the time how can you set the time on this mod its showing

The most guests online over 24 hours was 0, 12-31-1969 at 07:00 PM.


is there anyway to fix this problem?

thanks

That will update once a guest visits.

[The Realist]

Installed in 3.8 working fine.

Thanks.

[BigDog56]

Question. I have a problem with a troll that was banned. She keeps coming back in under web shared proxies. (She has registered under fake ip's over 50 times now.) Is there a way to tell (Like site meter, which I had to uninstall due to the tracking cookies they are now putting on everyone's pc.) if it's the same pc as a guest using different proxies? In other words, once I get a "fingerprint" of her pc, be able to tell if it's her registering again.

[steven s]

Is it possible to have a separate page that shows me
time ip, etc for Member Registration attempt for only?

[Kahuna900]

Originally Posted by BigDog56

Question. I have a problem with a troll that was banned. She keeps coming back in under web shared proxies. (She has registered under fake ip's over 50 times now.) Is there a way to tell (Like site meter, which I had to uninstall due to the tracking cookies they are now putting on everyone's pc.) if it's the same pc as a guest using different proxies? In other words, once I get a "fingerprint" of her pc, be able to tell if it's her registering again.

I have been using this plug-in for a while now and it seems to help if they are using the same machine to login.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183268

[chick]

Excellent, thank you this works great. Again, much appreciation for this mod.

[MarkoP]

This is probably going to be a goofy question but I just need to make sure...where it says this:

* The guest table can be cleaned of old records to help control it's size.

Is that taken care of automatically or do I need to do it manually somewhere?

Thanks!

[Paul M]

Its a setting in the options.