Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This displays who has read a thread, and the time they last looked at it.

Hovering over a name will show when the member last viewed the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they viewed it from. Note that you can only view the ip addresses in the 'View-All' display.

There is also an option to allow a thread author to view who has read their thread when they are not in one of the allowed usergroups. The IP and number of days restrictions still apply.

The set/reset facility allows members to click on the 'set' link which then sets a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times wanted, and also completely cleared again. When using this facility there is also a link to allow you to view a seperate list of all readers of the thread.

Warning: When using the set/reset option - there is only a limited capacity of entries per thread (several thousand) - therefore you should only allow this feature to be used by a limited number of people - typically Staff usergroups. Allowing all members to use it will probably slow down your forum and cause errors if more than about 3000 members set a date on one thread.

Note: You must have the "Show Users Browsing Threads" option set in your vbulletin options for this to display.

A cron job (optionally) allows the deletion of records from the whoread table that are over a certain age - this is provided for large forums where the number of table entries can start to reach a million or more after 12 months. The delete age is a setting in the ACP.

There are also settings for the following (in vBulletin Options > Who Has Read a Thread) ;

1. Turn the system on/off.
2. Restrict the display to certain usergroups
3. Restrict the IP display to certain usergroups.
4. Restrict the display to a set number of days.
5. Option to allow thread author to view who read information.
6. Option to turn on the who read cutoff date (reset) function
7. Restrict use of reset function to certain usergroups.
8. Option to set whoread data records to be cleaned out after xxx days.
9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.

Note: When using option 4 or the set/reset facility, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so they can be changed at any time.

Download the zip, extract the XML file and import using the vb Product Manager.

Version 3.7.006 has experimental support for TMS. If you have TMS installed then the existing automatic template update system will be disabled in favour of TMS. One effect of this is that when using TMS the requirement for "Show Users Browsing Threads" to be enabled is bypassed . This version will continue to work as before for those who do not use TMS.


History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vb 3.7.
v3.7.002 : Added check for 'view others threads' permission.
v3.7.003 : Fix for cron_script hook changed in 3.7 Beta 4.
v3.7.004 : Bug fix for days limit when reset option is enabled.
v3.7.005 : Updated to remove potential $group variable name clash.
v3.7.006 : TMS Support added, this is currently experimental.
v3.7.007 : Threads read via the archive are now recorded. Minor permissions update as well.

[Kyderoy]

I just install and I don't see it anywhere.

[bahisyeri]

Having performance issue with SQL , for big forums its not good , will you think optimize it for big forums?

[Paul M]

Sorry but just saying "performance issue" and "optimize" are not really very useful. Define exactly what your issues are, and what you mean by optimize.

[bahisyeri]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sorry but just saying "performance issue" and "optimize" are not really very useful. Define exactly what your issues are, and what you mean by optimize.

Well we are running lighttpd 1.4.19 with php 5.2.5 + mysql 5.0.51 + xcache 1.2.2 + memcached for data storage before installing your mod our MySQL usages were max %35 CPU usage , php-cgi usages max %20 CPU usage on system after installing it MySQL usage increased to %89 cpu and php-cgi increase to %70's!... but we need this mod so decided to increase our hardware added 2gb ram and changed mysql config to mysql-huge + tuned with mysqltuner now its better no huge loads... we were using mysql-large + tuned with mysqltuner and mysql was having %10 slow queries :/ ...
For big boards i can just say this upgrade your hardware...
Now our hardware:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
4 GB Ram
250GB Raid5 Disk.

[Paul M]

What size is your forum ? What settings are you using for the mod ? I run this on a forum with over 1 million posts, with a years worth of data, no time limit and some threads have over 1000 members who have viewed them, but its not causing any issues at all.

[Golzarion]

good work. . .

Does this hack work with 3.7.0 R C 4 ?

I want this in one forum area ONLY. Can this be done ? Like this changes ?

[YLP1]

Hi Paul... yep me ahgen LOL I have installed the 3.7 version on my 3.7 board but the whowhere is not showing.

I don't get any errors and the show users browsing is on.

Could it be the template edits didn't take? and if so, can I manually add them or???

Thanks in advance.

[Paul M]

There are no template edits as such, its auto added at run time.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There are no template edits as such, its auto added at run time.

Any ideas on what is causing it to not show? Thanks in advance.

[YLP1]

FYI-- I did a template search for this code <!-- end currently active users --> and I don't see any addition to code that relates to this mod. Is there suppose to be code automatically added here?