Recently Viewed Threads

Recently Viewed Threads

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What this does
This will show each user a list of Recently Viewed Threads. The idea came from www.SitePoint.com. I found myself using it alot when I came back to the site to check up on some threads I forgot about, or just couldn't find. AJAX enabled - (quick thread title edit and open/close works!)

This was coded to be placed on the forumhome, though you can edit to your needs if you know what your doing.

How this plugin works
The concept of this plugin is simple. When a user clicks on a thread, it will log the user and thread info in the database. The thread will then be marked as viewed using a conditional timestamp comparison. In lamens terms this means that when a user views a thread, it will log the time the thread was viewed. It will not relog the thread information if the user views the same thread within a certain amount of wait time. (Admin CP setting). Default is 5 minutes.

Descriptive Example
LiveWire clicks on a thread titled 'New Hack Posted'. 1 small query is performed to see if I have recently viewed this thread yet.

If I have viewed this thread already, it will check and see when I viewed it. If it was longer then 5 minutes ago, then it will add the new information using 1 more query.

If I have never viewed this thread before, then it will insert it into the database using 1 query.

To do list...

• Time to install: 2 minutes or less
• Queries to run: 1 (Installer Controlled)
• File Mods: 0
• Templates to edit: 1 (forumhome)
• Templates to add: 1 (Installer Controlled 'forumhome_recentbit')
• New Phrases: 0
• New Plugins: 2

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Important Note
This product of mine is marked as beta as I'm still working on some code for future releases. vBCron to clean up Database will be released soon as an addon in the below post.

Product History
Sun, Feb 12 2006 - Forumhome Recent Table is can be collapsed
Sun, Feb 12 2006 - Added plugins (The two plugins didn't export for some reason)
Sat, Feb 11 2006 - Beta Released


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Please post bugs and errors here. Hope you like, feedback welcomed!

[bashy]

Working oK for me

Those that think it aint...go view a thread then goo look..(refresh just in case)

Could you please make this collapseable?
Nice hack btw

[The Realist]

looked at a thread and still nowt?

[Akagi]

It'll be interesting if you could implement this into the UserCP like IPB2

[bashy]

Very strange...Mine worked 1st time..
I then moved the hack further up the template and still
works 100%....I dont know what to suggest..

Have you turned it on in your admincp?

Originally Posted by The Realist

looked at a thread and still nowt?

[KMxRetro]

Installed - shows "Recently Viewed Threads" even when there are none to show...very shabby. Also, turns the Thread count in the "Threads/Posts/Users" at the top of my page to however many recently viewed threads there are.

Threads: 1, Posts: 2,303, Members, 2,700 for example.

Oh, and there's no AJAX to be found.

Uninstalled.

[Snake]

Thank you, I'm gonna install this...

[bashy]

Originally Posted by KMxRetro

Installed - shows "Recently Viewed Threads" even when there are none to show...very shabby. Also, turns the Thread count in the "Threads/Posts/Users" at the top of my page to however many recently viewed threads there are.

Threads: 1, Posts: 2,303, Members, 2,700 for example.

Oh, and there's no AJAX to be found.

Uninstalled.

Hi

I beg to differ, mine is working 100%
please see www.bashys-place.com or to skip the brill intro use www.bashys-place.com/forums i am afraid you will need to register by the looks of it
as its a members only hack, wich is a shame as guest could make use of this as well

Fancy inplementing this LiveWire, Guest as well?

[The Realist]

Uninstalled.

Sorry.

[FleaBag]

Working for me! Thanks for the update LiveWire. To call someone's hack shabby is a bit lame! I think it's top notch. As far as moving to the UserCP is concerned, a little fiddling with the plugins could probably achieve this. I'm gonna try to get it working in CMPS.

[Logikos]

I've just downloaded and installed this hack on a fresh vBulletin 3.5.3 install and it works perfect. Ajax is working also (Here is another screenshot of me using it) You have to remember to save your settings in the admincp before this to work. The active staus is turned off by default.

vBulletin Options -> Recently Viewed Threads -> Recently Viewed Active -> Set to Yes