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.

[barry g]

Thanks Paul....I would have never figured that out. I am going to work on it and will let you know.

[barry g]

You were right Thanks a bunch and thanks for the mod. Its great.
I reinstalled the chatbox and everything went smoothly.

[imported_silkroad]

Hi Paul,

Can you upload a screen shot of your mod in action?

(Or a link to an active site where it is working in action?)

Thanks.

[Paul M]

There are screenshots on the 3.6 version.

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

[johnban]

Hi Paul,

sorry for asking here but I didn't know where to post the following question.

Now we have VB 3.7.0 and we are planning to upgrade to 3.8.4

The question is if we should have to remove first the mods we have from you (7) and then to install again the same mods for 3.8.4

Our "problem" is that we would like not to loose any of the information that we have now through your posts.

Thank you in advance for the answer.

John B.

[Mr Chris]

hmm I get the following error when importing..

See image..

any thoughts?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by johnban

The question is if we should have to remove first the mods we have from you (7) and then to install again the same mods for 3.8.4

No, you do not need to remove them. Once you have upgraded to 3.8, you can download the 3.8 mod versions and simply install them, they will auto remove their older counterparts.

Originally Posted by Mr Chris

hmm I get the following error when importing..
any thoughts?

The error states that your vb installation is missing a file (class_xml.php, which should be in the includes folder.)

[johnban]

Originally Posted by Paul M

No, you do not need to remove them. Once you have upgraded to 3.8, you can download the 3.8 mod versions and simply install them, they will auto remove their older counterparts.

thanks Paul for the answer.

[VonDoom]

Wow I cant believe it took me so long to find this gem. A+ *Installed* Will also be adding this bad boy to my other forums as well.

[Nucleus1]

Will this one work with VB3.8.3?

I have been looking for this mod for some time and wen I found it I saw it was for an older version.

/Kjell