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Category: Forum Home Enhancements - Version: 3.6.x Rating:
Released: 11-11-2006 Last Update: 10-04-2007 Installs: 1249
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Something that has been repeatedly asked in the "Members who visited today" modifications (all versions) is a similar way to track 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. I've therefore finally got round to looking at the issue and produced this modification.

This will add (another) section to the "What's Going On" area. The data is kept in a new table so it should be possible for other uses to be made of it (or display it in other ways). A screenshot of the current display is attached.

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].

Version 1.19+

* 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 now done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.

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.


Version 1.22+

The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests has been added - this used to be provided by a seperate add-on product.


* All (non usergroup) modification settings are in vBulletin Options > Guest Tracking.

To install ;
  • Unzip the XML files.
  • Upload the bitfields file to your ../includes/xml folder.
  • Import the product into vB using the ACP Product Manager.
  • Set your required permissions in the usergroup manager.
Note that by default no permissions are given, you must set them.

You can get an improved Spiders Definition file, that recognises many more spiders, from this post.

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

A German translation has been provided by hurik in post #769 - (for Version 1.22).


History:

v1.00 : Internal dev version.
v1.01 : Initial vb 3.6 beta release.
v1.02 : Phrasing added, final beta version.
v1.03 : Initial full version, some new options added.
v1.04 : Fix potential variable name clash with WVT Mod.
v1.05 : More options added, script and request variable logging added.
v1.06 : Minor internal code changes, phrasing altered slightly.
v1.07 : Datastore call changed to standard fetch function.
v1.08 : Moved Datastore call due to oddities, and fixed small bug.
v1.09 : Simplified always collapsed code.
v1.10 : Datastore call moved and reverted back to db_fetch.
v1.11 : Added Spider Cache Refresh on install (limited release).
v1.12 : Unique Guest id changed from standard vb id to internally created id.
v1.13 : Changed the SQL to force MySQL to use the index on forumhome.
v1.14 : Changed install code to delete old spider cache before rebuilding it.
v1.15 : Added check to try and detect a broken spider cache and fix it.
v1.16 : Number formatting added to individual totals in display list.
v1.17 : New usergroup display options added, datastore read updated.
v1.18 : Beta for new display options - listing guests and tracking guest views.
v1.19 : First release with the new permissions and display options.
v1.20 : Minor changes to install code only.
v1.21 : Internal development version, not released.
v1.22 : Added the "Most ever guests" option.

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Old 06-05-2007, 10:59 PM
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Your Guest table (in mysql) has crashed - run a repair on it via the ACP.
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Your Guest table (in mysql) has crashed - run a repair on it via the ACP.
ok i did that, mod is working fine now :-)
what should cause that? i hope it don't happen again :-)

thx !
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cool
installed
but i didnt understand spider detection option

how it will work?

if i banned certain ip and that fellow in on as guest then can i know?or certain ip not banned?

wht abt this google spiders?
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Old 06-06-2007, 11:05 AM
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ok i did that, mod is working fine now :-)
what should cause that? i hope it don't happen again :-)
Tables crash sometimes, usually a server hiccup - that's why mysql has a repair command.
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Thanks, always have used this hack.
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[high]* PugWD marks installed. :up:
[/high]

One thing I noticed though, I installed the Members version first and it immediately showed users from the previous day/24hours; this one however only showed the amount from the time I installed it.
I had 54 guests online at the time but it was only showing 2 from the previous 24 hours (now showing 56 online/35 in past 24hrs, five minutes later).


Also, I notice that it takes an extra five seconds or so to display the What's Going On after the main forum list comes in. What sort of extra overhead do these two products generate?
Reason I ask is because I'm still on shared hosting but am really pushing the limits of it with the size and traffic of my forum.
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Thanks
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i got a little issue, i don't know if someone else noticed it or ran into this problem. I just noticed today, it seems that on my board the google spider count doesn't increase after 1 person visits, it always shows 1. And i know that not only 1 google spider comes every day. so could someone please help me with this? thanking in advance!
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it seems that on my board the google spider count doesn't increase after 1 person visits
I don't understand what you mean, how is people visiting related to google spiders ?

JFYI, google does not send many spiders to forums, esp smaller ones, one spider visits and does all the work (as opposed to yahoo, which floods you with spiders).
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I don't understand what you mean, how is people visiting related to google spiders ?

JFYI, google does not send many spiders to forums, esp smaller ones, one spider visits and does all the work (as opposed to yahoo, which floods you with spiders).
I saw multiple google spiders today but in guest track it only shows one and that's what i mean.
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