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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[Max Taxable]

You can get an improved Spiders Definition file from this site.

That link is no longer valid, and I was looking for a updated definitions file for this. Any ideas?

Chiefly, would like to add the archive dot org "Wayback Machine" crawler to the definitions.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

That link is no longer valid, and I was looking for a updated definitions file for this. Any ideas?

Chiefly, would like to add the archive dot org "Wayback Machine" crawler to the definitions.

You can get the last spiders list here, http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...etin-xml-files

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

You can get the last spiders list here, http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...etin-xml-files

Thanks but, that's the one I have.

[ozzy47]

Ahh ok, AFAIK that is the latest one, I have not seen anything else posted.

[Paul M]

Removed that link as its no longer valid.

wolfshead-solutions btw was Mosh, so it would have been the same file.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Removed that link as its no longer valid.

wolfshead-solutions btw was Mosh, so it would have been the same file.

He was a good fella.

[Max Taxable]

Paul:

I've added this to the XML, the definitions file. Will it work? Any issues?

<spider ident="Archive Bot">
		<name>Wayback Machine</name>
		<info>http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot</info>
		<email>bot@archive.org</email>

Is the "spider ident" what's found in the user agent string for the bot? Must it match the UA?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Paul:

I've added this to the XML, the definitions file. Will it work? Any issues?

<spider ident="Archive Bot">
		<name>Wayback Machine</name>
		<info>http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot</info>
		<email>bot@archive.org</email>

Is the "spider ident" what's found in the user agent string for the bot? Must it match the UA?

And....

That does not work. Any advice Paul? Anyone?

[Max Taxable]

Now I've tried:

<spider ident="archive.org_bot">
		<name>archive.org_bot</name>
		<info>http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot</info>
		<email>bot@archive.org</email>

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Now I've tried:

<spider ident="archive.org_bot">
		<name>archive.org_bot</name>
		<info>http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot</info>
		<email>bot@archive.org</email>

That one made the entire plugin cease to function. Everything hitting the site was a "guest."