Forum Home Enhancements - Members who have visited today.

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This adds a simple display of all members who have visited the forum - either today (i.e. since the users midnight) or in the last 24 hours.

Note: it is not possible for this hack to count guests.

The main features of the 3.7 version are as follows ;

1. It displays the list on the Forum Home.
2. The list view is collapsable, so you just see the number.
3. Invisible users are only displayed to those allowed to see them (with a "*")
4. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc will be displayed correctly (based on the display usergroup).
5. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the time they were last active.
6. The list is in member name order.
7. The mod is phrased.
8. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Options.
9. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option (include or exclude groups).
10. The switch between Visited Today and Rolling 24 Hours is an ACP option.
11. The listing of members can be suppressed (a simple message is displayed instead).
12. The list of names can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.
13. An option to record and display the Most Ever Members can be enabled.

(Options are in vBulletin Options > Who has visited today)

To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.



History:

v3.7.001 : Initial version for vB 3.7.
v3.7.002 : Installation Code Updated.
v3.7.003 : Updated to remove potential $group variable name clash.
v3.7.004 : Updated to use template hook if available.

[MuTheMatrix]

Nice add-on

thanks for this.

[XxSparks]

Fantastic Paul, just absolutely fantastic, installed, and working perfectly!

But I do have a question, I've literally looked through 21 pages of no answers, other then your "Track guest visits".

But, I'm wondering however, how can you exclude a certain User group from being displayed?

[Paul M]

There is no facility to stop certain usergroups being displayed.

[Problemsolver]

I heard that u can make so that only certain usergroups see this but I am not sure where to do this?

I guess you go to the cache_template and then enter something in the $ugroups =

but do you write "administrators", administrators, 'administrators' or what?

[da_j]

tnx for the nice add_on

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Problemsolver

I heard that u can make so that only certain usergroups see this but I am not sure where to do this?

I guess you go to the cache_template and then enter something in the $ugroups =

but do you write "administrators", administrators, 'administrators' or what?

No, you put the usergroup ids in the apropriate vb option settings.

[GSeybold]

Hi Paul
Pardon my ignorance but where would this display on the forum and does the "Currently active users" area in the "What's going on" box take care of this?

Sorry tech knob here but this looks like something I can actually install.

Gail

[Paul M]

It displays on the forum homepage, in the "What's Going On" area.

Currently active users is exactly that, just current users, not everyone who has visited today.

[GSeybold]

Ok thanks so much. I have a lot of Vb stuff to learn. And thank you very much for the quick response.

[pigpog]

Hi Paul, Merry Christmas.

I love this mod and I've been using it for about a month, but in the one month the forum has been open we've been getting an escalating number of bots who I've been banning.

What I want to know is this: is it possible to prevent the banned usergroup from appearing in the "total members that have visited this forum" section? I'd prefer guests and prospective new members not to see banned names amongst the genuine members.

Please let me know if this is something you can do, or if you know of a mod I can use to compliment yours to do the job.

Thanks again for a lovely mod,

Kate xxx