Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

This modification is no longer available or supported.

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.

[Paul M]

The guest table has crashed in mysql, you need to repair it.

That error should not stop you logging into your admincp to repair it (just type the url in direct).

Alternatively you could access your database via phpmyadmin and repair the table.

[DieselMinded]

Paul I turned the Guests View of whats Going on to off a few days ago , I cant access my Admin CP and this is the only corrupt table ,

To anyone else who has this error what view of whats going on do guests have?

[Paul M]

Guests will get a database error until you repair the table.

Why can't you access your admincp ?

As I said before, a crashed guest table will not prevent you accessing the ACP, just type the url into your browser ( http://www.dieselbombers.com/admincp/ ).

[DieselMinded]

It still goes to a Vb Database Error , The vbguests table has corrupted the index My site has been down for more than 24 hours now because of this , and may be down for 3 days

waiting on my host to fix if they can if not then i dont know what the heck im going to do

DM

[Paul M]

Please PM me an admin login, and phpmyadmin access. I can't see why you cannot get in.

[DieselMinded]

Im In Now Paul , And i got the site backup , the Main Structure wasnt populating beyond the corrupted table , I had to run a syntax query w/o the Extension to repair the table .

However I have Disabled this Mod and can you tell me the Correct Un install Method ?

Should i delete the Table vbguests?

Thanks

DM

[Paul M]

You would uninstall it like any other product, with the uninstall option.

For what reason are you uninstalling it ?

[DieselMinded]

Page 33 Of This Mod , I was plagued With the Exact Same thing May of been coincidental but thats not a chance im willing to take , I have the Mod Disabled , If i select Uninstall will it delete the tables it created in the mysql database or do i manually have to delete them ?

Sad Cause i really liked this , i dont know if i had too many guests at one time or what but i dont want to go through this again

Thanks Paul , Im Not saying that im 100% sure this mod Was the cause but everything kind of points to it

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by DiesellMinded

Im Not saying that im 100% sure this mod Was the cause but everything kind of points to it

I'm afraid it doesn't.

Table crashes are a fact of life with mysql - your database died in a big way - in your other post you mention at least two other tables that crashed, possibly more. Presumably you are not going to remove the vb search facility (your search table crashed) or the image verification system (one of those tables crashed).

All it points to is that you had a major mysql failure, which knocked out several of your more busy tables.

Still, it's your choice, uninstalling it should delete the table.

[DieselMinded]

Thanks Paul Im going to wait and see if it happens with it deactivated , I did have my most users ever online 1 min before the crash ,

When i did a search on Google for the error code it brought me to this thread

DM