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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[garyopa]

I installed this plugin and it is working great.

Nice, simple, and lots of useful information!

But one question I have, I am currently only using Vbulletin and Vbadvanced (NO VBSEO)

And in the tracking of the visitors list, if I click on a URL, it works and displays it.

But if I click on a vistor that is viewing an ATTACHMENT, I get an error because it:

forums/attachment.php?a=17976

instead of the real url which is:

forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=17976

Is there anyway I can mod it, so it gives me the right URL for attachments, add in
the missing ttachmentid part.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by garyopa

I installed this plugin and it is working great.

Nice, simple, and lots of useful information!

But one question I have, I am currently only using Vbulletin and Vbadvanced (NO VBSEO)

And in the tracking of the visitors list, if I click on a URL, it works and displays it.

But if I click on a vistor that is viewing an ATTACHMENT, I get an error because it:

forums/attachment.php?a=17976

instead of the real url which is:

forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=17976

Is there anyway I can mod it, so it gives me the right URL for attachments, add in
the missing ttachmentid part.

Wow, looks like you discovered a bug to me.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Wow, looks like you discovered a bug to me.

Yep, looks that way.

[garyopa]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Yep, looks that way.

Thanks for reply to my message.

Any ideas, no rush it fixing it, but when you get a chance.

If you need to poke around my site to see the BUG in action, since me a PM and give you more info.

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Second question, to those using this mod (I also using Paul's other mod, to track members):

I was wondering or if one existed, that I could make a mini-stats version on my front page for Vbadvanced,
I don't want all the members names, and vistors listed, just a few lines like this:

6286 Users Online Right Now! (523 members and 5763 guests)

Total members that have visited the forum today: 1,464
The most members online in one day was 1,976, 09-14-2010.

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 49,624
The most guests online over 24 hours was 49,990, Today at 10:05 AM.

What would be variable names to grab this info, as I could code the module myself, if does not exist already!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by garyopa

Thanks for reply to my message.

Any ideas, no rush it fixing it, but when you get a chance.

If you need to poke around my site to see the BUG in action, since me a PM and give you more info.

Its just a phrase issue, i'll probably update it at the weekend as it affects four mods in total (Track Guests and Track Members, 3.8 and 4.0 versions).

[BirdOPrey5]

Looks good... will probably install when this bug is fixed.

[Paul M]

You mean the bug thats already fixed ?

v3.8.003 : Fix bug in attachment viewing links.

[BirdOPrey5]

That's quick!

Working great, Thanks... and great info on updating the spiders xml file, never knew to do that before.

[Simon Lloyd]

Worked straight away without any trouble

Thanks Paul!

[MagicThemeParks]

For the upgrade do we delete the old bitfield xml and upload the new one? Or, simply overwrite the product? Or both?