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.

[geevest.com]

hello paul.
how to modif this guest visit with member visit.
so in forum home we have :
Total members that have visited the forum today: 2,087 guest: 4,982

thx

[RS25com]

I believe I have found a bug:

Total guests that have visited the forum today: 135

The most guests online in one day was 220, Today.
Visitors (135)

How can the most guest be 220 "today" when today I only have 135? I believe that should say "Yesterday" (in red).

[lovechandigarh]

Excellent.
Paul, can you change the words:

Note that by default no permissions are given, you must set them.

to

Note that by default no usergroup permissions are given, you must set them.

It clarifies a bit for new users...
Meanwhile, I just installed it and enjoying to see it work on www.lovechandigarh.com Love Chandigarh

[Paul M]

Seems reasonable, changed.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by RS25com

I believe I have found a bug:


How can the most guest be 220 "today" when today I only have 135? I believe that should say "Yesterday" (in red).

Possibly, but if there is such a bug then its in the standard vbdate() function, as that is what creates that timestamp. The code is identical to that used by default vb for the "Currently Active Users" timestamp. I think its just related to members having different timezones.

[geevest.com]

hello paul.
how to modif this guest visit with member visit.
so in forum home we have :
Total members that have visited the forum today: 2,087 guest: 4,982

thx

[Paul M]

Sorry, they are seperate mods, such changes are beyond the support I can provide.

[jerx]

I have a problem with editing posts, when this add-on is turned on. I get an error message which says 'maxloggedin'. I have seen two other posts where a similar problem has been reported, one in this thread and the other in your Member Tracking Mod. Other people don' t seem to have this problem. What could be the reason for this problem?

[Paul M]

No idea, and since I cannot re-create it, there is not much I can do.

[wanno]

Great work!

I would like to ask you if it is possible to have this on my home:
Currently Active Users: 20 (8 members and 12 guests) - Total Visitors Today (or last 24 hours): {param}

The reason is that I do not want to let all members see the spiders, only the administrator.
If I uncheck the spiders feature in VBA option the administrator won't see them either