Statistics Modifications - Forum Search Stats V.2

Hi all

Did you ever wondered what your users expect to find in your forums?
Did you ever wanted to know what are their needs?
Did you ever wanted to let them know what they can easily find?
If your answer is "Yes", then you must use this product ...

The 1st version was here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=139829

What is new in Version 2

1. Most searched keywords in smaller text.
2. Most searched keywords leads to results page directly instead of search page.
3. Fixed random list bug.
4. Fixed blank keyword bug.
5. An option for choosing who can see search stats in homepage.
6. Censor words listed in Most searched stats according to Forum's censor list.
7. Solved "<span dir=rtl>" problem.
8. Solved TABLE_PREFIX problem.
9. Solved falsy search count when user clicks on links on "most searched keyword stats". ((Thanx to h2ojunkie))

Features
1- Log user searches in your forums.
2- Show most searched keywords on the main forums page in away that demonstrates every keywords importance in your forums.

Screens





Version
Expected to work on all vBulletin 3.6 versions tell now.

Template Edits
1 template edit in FORUMHOME

Plugins
2 Plugins

Installation
1- Upload the directory "upload" contents to your forum root.
2- Import the attached product "[product] Forum Search Stats 2.0.xml" into your AdminCP.
3- Edit template "FORUMHOME":
BEFORE:

</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

ADD:

<if condition="$vbulletin->options['setting_searchstats_showuser'] AND in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], $allowed_groups)">
<tbody>
 <tr>
  <td class="thead" colspan="2">
   <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[most_searched]
</td>
 </tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
 <tr>
  <td class="alt2"><img src="images/misc/search_stats.gif" alt="$vbphrase[most_searched]" border="0" /></td>
  <td class="alt1" width="100%">$most_searched</td>
 </tr>
</tbody>
</if>

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ALSO, many thanx for all who helped in testing and debugging the 1st version, the list is long so i couldnt name them here

[h2ojunkie]

Originally Posted by coderphp

i tested it again and i didnt face this problem
i dont know maybe u have another hack which interfere with this?

I guess it's possible.

I just remembered that I had the same problem with V1 and that was the fix which also happened to work on v2

I guess it's possible I have something else in there that is conflicting with it (although i can't imagine what it could be since search_stats.php is a stand alone admincp script and I have no mods that alter the search in any way.

But who knows, when you start modding stuff you run into all kinds of potential for conflicts. I just figured I would post up the fix just in case someone else experienced a similar problem.

Again, thank you for a great mod.

[h2ojunkie]

Just a thought, but it occurred to me that every time a user clicks on one of the "most searched" keywords on forum home it is actually increasing the count for the # of times that term/phrase was searched for, thereby falsely inflating the true number of searches people did on the term.

Since people are likely to click on them because...they can....it would seem those "most searched" words would be inflated and always remain showing in the top 20 most searched.

Maybe append a new parameter to the end of the link to each of those search terms something like (searchstats=donotcount for example). Where if that parameter is passed when clicking on the link, the searchstats plugin knows not to add to the count for that word/phrase. This way the only words counted in the search stats are terms people actually searched for on their own.

Anyway, just an idea. That was a change on made on mine.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by coderphp

can u clearify why u think that?

Yeah. I think it should go on the search page (both advanced search and search results) myself. The "What's Going On is already overcluttered that it will be ignored by most users and you don't need this information shown unless someone is looking to search.

[coderphp]

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie

Just a thought, but it occurred to me that every time a user clicks on one of the "most searched" keywords on forum home it is actually increasing the count for the # of times that term/phrase was searched for, thereby falsely inflating the true number of searches people did on the term.

Since people are likely to click on them because...they can....it would seem those "most searched" words would be inflated and always remain showing in the top 20 most searched.

Maybe append a new parameter to the end of the link to each of those search terms something like (searchstats=donotcount for example). Where if that parameter is passed when clicking on the link, the searchstats plugin knows not to add to the count for that word/phrase. This way the only words counted in the search stats are terms people actually searched for on their own.

Anyway, just an idea. That was a change on made on mine.

gr8 idea i think
maybe i have sometime to update it soon and add it
thanx for ur feedback & support

Regards
Mahmoud

[kushal]

This is a really good hack for me. And putting it at what's going is is equally good. VbAdvanced module would put more value to it though.
Thank you!

[coderphp]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Yeah. I think it should go on the search page (both advanced search and search results) myself. The "What's Going On is already overcluttered that it will be ignored by most users and you don't need this information shown unless someone is looking to search.

yeah thanx for ur clearance of the topic..

but i think this place is suitable for this stat
if it is all going to go like u said, so we should move the "Members count stat" to the memberlist page
i think the Forumhome footer is suitable for displaying multiple stats which belongs to different things

thanx again for ur feedback, of course everyone has his own point of view, this doesnt mean the other is false

[coderphp]

Originally Posted by kushal

VbAdvanced module would put more value to it though.

as it was asked b4
i will think about integration with VBA

thanx for ur feedback
Regards

[h2ojunkie]

Originally Posted by coderphp

gr8 idea i think
maybe i have sometime to update it soon and add it
thanx for ur feedback & support

Regards
Mahmoud

Here's how I did it - changes in red

forumhome_complete plugin:

if(!in_array(strip_tags($put['query']), $censor_words)) $most_searched .= "<a href=\"search.php?do=process&searchstats=nocount&q=". $put['query'] ."\"><font size=\"".$r."\">" . strip_tags($put['query']) . "</font></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;";

search_process_start plugin:

if($vbulletin->options['setting_searchstats_onoff'] AND $_REQUEST['searchstats']!='nocount')

Always glad to help with a great product when I can - I spend countless hours testing software, all that practice gives me a good eye for incremental improvements

[projectego]

Looks interesting, I might try this out at some point. Cheers.

[wizardan]

How would I go about editing in order to have the display font show up as 'smallfont'?