Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

This modification is no longer available or supported.

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 the vb 3.6 version, delete the bitfield_track-guests.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 - and now a more recent version is available from this site.

Note: For Spider detection to work you must set Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options.


History:

v3.7.001 : Initial vb 3.7 release.
v3.7.002 : Fix for cron_script hook changed in 3.7 Beta 4.
v3.7.003 : Header, Navbar and Footer added to guest display pages.
v3.7.004 : Tracking of visits to archive pages added.

[Dominiek]

Installed and operational.
Good stuff :up:

[sensimilla]

Somehow I get this error on all my forums since last week.

INSERT INTO guestviews
(guestid, forumid, threadid, dateline, ipaddress)
VALUES
('58b22a6c9f1488d7713ad3b68510d6d0', 0, 0, 1222960016, '81.182.xx.xx');

MySQL Error : Got error 127 from storage engine

Any ideas what could cause this, Ive tried to reinstall it and still the same thing.

[Paul M]

Error 127 is basically a crashed table, try running a repair on it.

Alternatively, uninstall the mod, delete the guestviews table and then re-install - that will recreate the table.

[TsirhCitna]

Is it possible to make it so that duplicate IP's don't get multiple entries?

Also, is there anyway to track visits to the photo album pages? As far as I can tell it just says "picture."

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TsirhCitna

Is it possible to make it so that duplicate IP's don't get multiple entries?

No, they should be recorded.

Originally Posted by TsirhCitna

Also, is there anyway to track visits to the photo album pages? As far as I can tell it just says "picture."

Possibly in the future, if I have time. I dont use photo albums, or the social networking features, so they are not included atm

[TsirhCitna]

Originally Posted by Paul M

No, they should be recorded.

Why? As it stands 1 person views 40 pages and it's displayed as 40 visitors. It's very misleading.

[Paul M]

No, it isnt. I suggest you check again, more than just the IP is involved in recognising a visitor.

[TsirhCitna]

How is that this can show 1200+ visitors excluding spiders and google analytics will show 300 pageviews?

[Paul M]

I cannot comment on what Google Analytics does.

[ProAzn]

Ok the guest list is too long.. How do I make pages instead of one long list? I'm in vboptions--->guest tracking. There are 2 settings..

Guest List Row Limit
The maximum number of rows to display on the guest list screen.
set as 1000

Guest Views Row Limit
The maximum number of rows to display on the guest views screen.
set as 500

What do i have to change to make it paginate??