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Websites who have referred today (in the last 24 hours)


Description:
Lists all websites who have sent you visitors in the last day.

Each time a person arrives at your forum by clicking on a link from another website, the website URL they arrived from is listed on the index page of your forum in the same manner as members who are logged in. Screenshots at the foot of this post.


Options: (AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Websites who have referred today)
Turn it on or off
Mod goes on, mod goes off. Mod goes on, mod goes off.

Enable display for UsergroupIDs
Enter the IDs of the usergroups you wish to be able to view referring links, separated by commas (,). (i.e 1,2,3). Leave blank to display referring links to everyone.

Enable referrer page title? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...0&d=1170326535)
Choose Yes to store the page title of the referrer, which will be used as the link text. If this is not enabled or not available, a trimmed version of the URL will be used.

This may incur a slight penalty on page-load time when a visitor first arrives from a referrer or possibly be problematic where referring pages time out or redirect.

Trim URL variables?
Choose Yes to remove variables from the end of URLs to shrink listing repeats. (i.e. Set to No, every different search from Google will add a new www.google.com referral to the listings. Set to yes, all will be compressed into one listing but the search terms will be lost.)

Blockword List:
Enter character strings to be prevented from being added to the URL database, separated by commas (,). You may use any part of domains (www.xxx or xxx or www.xxx.com or .com).

Highlight arrivals from a referrid link?
Choose Yes to highlight in italics referrers using a forum member's referral link.

For this to work, you must have "Trim URL variables" to No.

Highlight domain list
Enter domains to be highlighted using the markup belowe, separated by commas (,). You must use the format domain.ext, exclude the http://(www.) part. (i.e. redtyger.co.uk)

Opening tag for highlighted domain markup
Enter HTML and/or text that will be placed before the domain name.

Closing tag for highlighted domain markup
Enter HTML and/or text that will be placed after the domain name.


Additional Features:
AJAX inline moderation (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...2&d=1170095586)
Click on the X next to any domain to remove it from the database. No page loads, no waiting.

Scheduled Task (Cron)
All domains are cleared at midnight daily. You can edit the Scheduled task to have the database cleared when and as often as you like. All scheduled clearances are logged and phrased. Like any other vBulletin Scheduled task you must have activity or the scheduled task will not run.

Manual database clearance
As well as removing any individual domain, you can clear the referral database at any time using a link from the index page.

Queries:
This modification adds one very small query for every arrival from an external link. One additional larger query is used on the index page to construct the list.


Installation Instructions:
1. Go to AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Product.
2. Upload the websites_who_have_referred_today.xml file.
3. Upload the wwhrt.php file to the includes/cron folder of your forum directory.
4. Open AdminCP > Styles & Templates > (Your Theme) Edit Templates > Forumhome templates > FORUMHOME.
5. FIND:

<!-- end logged-in users -->
</if>

BELOW, ADD:

<if condition="$vboptions[referrers_onoff] AND is_member_of($bbuserinfo, $referrers_usergroupids) OR !$vboptions[referrers_usergroupids]">
<!-- websites who have referred today -->
<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" colspan="2"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('referrers_today')"><img id="collapseimg_referrers_today" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_referrers_today].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
			$vbphrase[referrers_today]: $url_count <if condition="$url_count >= $vboptions[referrers_last_x_referrers] AND $vboptions[referrers_last_x_referrers]"><phrase 1="$vboptions[referrers_last_x_referrers]"> ($vbphrase[referrers_last_x_count])</phrase></if>
			<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '6'"> (<a href="index.php?$session[sessionurl]do=kill_all_referrers">$vbphrase[referrers_kill_all]</a>)</if>
		</td>
	</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_referrers_today" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_referrers_today]">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt2">
			<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="$vbphrase[referrers_today]" border="0" />
		</td>
		<td class="alt1 smallfont">
			$referrers
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end websites who have referred today -->
</if>

And save the template. Done!


Donations

If you have a pressing wish to donate money to me (and of course, you do) to say thank you and to possibly encourage more future work then you can do via the link below. Also, you will go to heaven.

http://redtyger.co.uk/donations.php

Don't panic! The donations link is only hosted on my website so it can be encrypted and not open my email address to spammers.


Changelog

v1.1 Added AJAX inline moderation (Yay!) and ability to clear the list via a link on the index page without waiting from the Scheduled Task to do it. Admins only may do either task.
v1.1 Changed the screenshot to show the inline deletion links.
v1.1 Fixed incorrect cron timing (Scheduled Task) and phrased it.
v1.1 Fixed issue with domains that sometimes had www. and sometimes did not. This also now shortens any URL which I was meaning to do anyway, so www.google.com will appear in the list as google.com. Smartens things up and gives a bit more room too.
v1.1 Changed URL encoding to avoid problems with domains that contained hypens.
v1.1 Fixed blockwords not working. They are still only checked when a domain is first added, but inline moderation means you can now take care of it yourself afterwards if necessary..
v1.1 Minor optimisations.

v1.5 Added Archive referral recording.
v1.5 Added Usergroup display controls.
v1.5 Added option to record and use referring page title as link text instead of trimmed domain. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...0&d=1170326535)
v1.5 Added option to highlight referrals that have arrived from a forum member's referral link.
v1.5 Added option to highlight with custom markup any domains of your choice.
v1.5 Fixed workaround for apparent PHP bug where a letter would occasionally be removed from the beginning of URLs
v1.5 Fixed issue with multiple blockwords, I swear to God it's fixed this time. Probably.
v1.5 Fixed issue with AJAX inline moderation only deleting the last URL in the list.
v1.5 Changed minor optimisations.

v1.51 Fixed bug where multiple versions of the same forum URL were used for access.

v1.6 Added option to limit number of recent URLs displayed
v1.6 Added option to trim referrer additions to the domain name only to further limit repeat listings
v1.6 Added URL sorting, referrers are now listed in reverse order (last addition first)
v1.6 Fixed catch for https and ftp URLS.
v1.6 Fixed bug where a w would be trimmed off the beginning of URLS.
v1.6 Fixed blockwords not working (Oh please, oh please, oh please)
v1.6 Minor optimisations

v1.61 Added compatiblity with vBulletin 3.5.x
v1.61 Probably fix to possible referrer text exploit.

v1.62 Added securing of HTML tags as a security measure.

[RedTyger]

Looks to me like the URL might be too long for the database field. Are you getting these error mails a lot?

[AMG021]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Looks to me like the URL might be too long for the database field. Are you getting these error mails a lot?

Nope first time

[jw00dy]

I get DB errors quite often. But I attribute them to being too long for the field.

[AMG021]

How come i can't Remove all referred? I click on the link and nothing happens.

[BadgerDog]

Installed... thanks ...

Question:

I put opening and closing tags like this:

<font color="blue">    </font>

... and I still only get displayed black text?

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Hi again....

I've been using Track Guest Visits Version: 1.16, by Paul M (Administrator)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131314

It was working fine, but since I've installed "Websites who have referred today (in the last 24 hours)", I've noticed that Paul's mod, which used to show 180-250 visitors in the last 24 hours, has dropped off to 10-20 in the last 24 hours.

Edit: I also just noticed that another one of Paul's mods "Members who have visited Today (or in the last 24 hours)." has dropped from 60-70 down to 15 members in the last 24 hours. We've been consistently in the former metric? Now I'm really confused....


Is there something that this mod does, that would have affected either (or any) of Paul's mods?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[Paul M]

There's a lot of code, but from a quick look at it I can't see anything that would affect my mods, are you sure your site wasn't offline for a time ?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There's a lot of code, but from a quick look at it I can't see anything that would affect my mods, are you sure your site wasn't offline for a time ?

No, been up for 205 days contiguously without any problems or re-boot....

It's almost as if the member database your mods draw upon got "wiped"?

Is it ok if I email you my FORUMHOME script?

I haven't touched your <!-- end logged-in users --> section in AdminCP, but I have injected other mods (like this one) into it. Perhaps that's a problem? I also installed your RealIP mod?

In any event, thanks for your response Paul.... and your excellent development work. Both are much appreciated as I've found them very helpful to a new and growing board.

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Interesting....

It bounced back up to 164 visitors and 65 members in the last 24 hours, as of this morning ...

This is what it's been day in and day out for months, so I have no idea what caused the sudden change after installing this mod. Perhaps coincidental to some other anomaly, but I'll try to keep an eye on it and report anything that has a pattern. I did turn this mod off and on again, but I can't see that making any difference.

Quick question:

Trim URL to domain only?
Choose Yes to remove everything except the domain name from the end of URLs to shrink listing repeats. Subdomains will still be included.

I've set this to YES and NO, but I can't see any display difference and I'm not quite understanding what it does?

Thank you for some excellent work. I have found it valuable to be able to analyze where our guests are coming from, particularly a site where we pay for a banner.

Regards,
Badger

[RedTyger]

This modification shouldn't interfere with anyone else unless they happen to be using a referrer table in the database as well.

Trim URL to domain only is a way of limiting repeat entries. So any referrals from http://www.google.com will add a count to one single google.com entry instead of one for each page a referral came from.