Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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 modification adds another section to the "What's Going On" area.
It also has seperate pages to display (1) the list of guests, and (2) the pages a particular guest has visited

Options / Features ;

* The ability to turn the whole modification on/off.
* The ability to turn just the forumhome display on/off.
* The ability to allow (or prevent) certain usergroups viewing the forumhome display.
* The ability to switch between 'Today' and Rolling 24 Hours display (default).
* 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.
* The datastore read (for spider detection) will read from the File/APC/Xcache datastore if used [note, not Memcache].
* 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.
* The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests.
* Usergroup permissions are done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.
* Clicking on the main display icon will list the recent visits by all guests (if allowed).
* Clicking on a Guest type in the main display will list all recent visits by guests of that type (again, if allowed).
* Clicking on the option in the guest listing will show that guests viewing data (if enabled, and allowed).
* The main display can be set as always collapsed on initial page load (4.0.3 +)

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 files.
• If upgrading from a previous version, delete any old trg bitfield xml files from your ../includes/xml/ folder.
• Upload the new bitfields file to 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.
The installation code will turn this on for you.

It is recommended that you visit your Who's Online page after installing this mod (or after updating your spiders file) to make sure your spider definitions are built / rebuilt.


History:


Beta Releases

v4.0.0.2 : 04-Jan-2010 : Initial Beta release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.0.3 : 05-Jan-2010 : Fix scope error in global hook database write.
v4.0.0.5 : 06-Jan-2010 : Second stage Beta - Main Guest List Display added.
v4.0.0.6 : 06-Jan-2010 : Fix IP display error in Guest List Display.

v4.0.1 : 08-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 09-Jan-2010 : Minor code changes and fixes.
v4.0.3 : 16-Jan-2010 : Added always collapsed option.
v4.0.4 : 20-Feb-2010 : Internal update, not released.
v4.0.5 : 27-Feb-2010 : Style code updates for vB 4.0.2.
v4.0.6 : 19-Sep-2010 : Fix bug in attachment viewing links.
v4.0.7 : 23-Oct-2010 : Fixed for WGO style changes in vB 4.0.8.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.
v4.1.8.0 : 18-Nov-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.8 onwards (only).
v4.1.11.0 : 03-Mar-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.11 image changes.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[Paul M]

Stats standard vb functionality, not connected to this mod.

[Paul M]

The older (pre 418) version is now attached to the main post.
This is for vBulletin versions 4.1.0 - 4.1.7 only.
Please note that the older version is NOT supported. There is no 4.0.x version available.

[JimNY]

It says incompatible with 4.1.9 - Not working. Was working for the couple of days

Dependency Type Compatibility Starts
Incompatible With Delete
vBulletin Version

Product Guest Tracking is up to date.
Installed Version 4.1.8.0
Latest Version 4.1.8.0

[Paul M]

Huh ?

Sorry, I dont really understand your post.

Where is this ? what are you doing ?

[JimNY]

Setting Group

Help Guest Tracking
Master Enable
Set to 'Yes' to enable the Guest Tracking system.
Yes No
Enable Display
Set to 'Yes' to enable the Guest Tracking display. Note that if the master enable is set to yes, then data will still be collected, even if this is set to 'No'. You must disable the whole modification to prevent this.
Yes No
Enable Views Tracking
Enable the guest views tracking, this tracks a guests progress through the forum homepage, forum views and thread views.
Yes No
Detect Spiders
If set to 'Yes' the Guest Tracking mod will detect if the visitor is a known spider and mark it as such. This adds one datastore read per guest visit. Note that 'Enable Spider Display' must also be turned on in the Who's Online Options for spider detection to be active.
Yes No

Paul,

Hack worked perfectly since installing it on 11-19-2011. It is no longer working. What possible could have gone wrong?

Product Guest Tracking is up to date.
Installed Version 4.1.8.0
Latest Version 4.1.8.0
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Can someone hacked forum/vbulletin and tamper with Guest Tracking?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by JimNY

Hack worked perfectly since installing it on 11-19-2011. It is no longer working. What possible could have gone wrong?

Please be more specific, what do you mean by 'no longer working' ?

[kfyonur]

Thanx it is working on 4.1.8,dont forget to set usergroup permission..

[Luca_ITA]

Great mod! Installed on 4.1.9

Allego la traduzione in italiano.

[anandbagmane]

does this support 4.1.9 version

[Paul M]

Did you see the post above yours