Forum Home Enhancements - Track Guest Visits

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

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 modification adds another section to the "What's Going On" area.
It also has seperate pages to display (1) the list of guests, and (2) the pages a particular guest has visited

Options / Features ;

* The ability to turn the whole modification on/off.
* The ability to turn just the forumhome display on/off.
* The ability to allow (or prevent) certain usergroups viewing the forumhome display.
* The ability to switch between 'Today' and Rolling 24 Hours display (default).
* 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.
* The datastore read (for spider detection) will read from the File/APC/Xcache datastore if used [note, not Memcache].
* 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.
* The option to keep a record of [and display] the most ever guests.
* Usergroup permissions are done with the standard vbulleten usergroup permissions system.
* Clicking on the main display icon will list the recent visits by all guests (if allowed).
* Clicking on a Guest type in the main display will list all recent visits by guests of that type (again, if allowed).
* Clicking on the option in the guest listing will show that guests viewing data (if enabled, and allowed).
* The main display can be set as always collapsed on initial page load (4.0.3 +)

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 files.
• If upgrading from a previous version, delete any old trg bitfield xml files from your ../includes/xml/ folder.
• Upload the new bitfields file to 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.

Note: For Spider detection to work you must set Enable Spider Display to 'Yes' in vBulletin Options > Who's Online Options.
The installation code will turn this on for you.

It is recommended that you visit your Who's Online page after installing this mod (or after updating your spiders file) to make sure your spider definitions are built / rebuilt.


History:


Beta Releases

v4.0.0.2 : 04-Jan-2010 : Initial Beta release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.0.3 : 05-Jan-2010 : Fix scope error in global hook database write.
v4.0.0.5 : 06-Jan-2010 : Second stage Beta - Main Guest List Display added.
v4.0.0.6 : 06-Jan-2010 : Fix IP display error in Guest List Display.

v4.0.1 : 08-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 09-Jan-2010 : Minor code changes and fixes.
v4.0.3 : 16-Jan-2010 : Added always collapsed option.
v4.0.4 : 20-Feb-2010 : Internal update, not released.
v4.0.5 : 27-Feb-2010 : Style code updates for vB 4.0.2.
v4.0.6 : 19-Sep-2010 : Fix bug in attachment viewing links.
v4.0.7 : 23-Oct-2010 : Fixed for WGO style changes in vB 4.0.8.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.
v4.1.8.0 : 18-Nov-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.8 onwards (only).
v4.1.11.0 : 03-Mar-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.11 image changes.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[DJ29Joesph]

Just wondering... I have a dark background on my forums, when I use the plugin, the text along with the background are white... would that be an issue with the style of the plugin... or a style issue with my style on the forum?

[Paul M]

Which text, the forumhome or the listing pages ?

[Debbi]

Love this! Great tool for admins. Thanks so very much.

[arco]

Doesn't look good on a dark style. Same with the member tracking mod.

[Paul M]

Well obviously if you have customised your style then you will need to customise the css in the mod as well. Its designed for the default style.

[arco]

Yeah I know it can be changed. I just can't understand why hard coded values needs to be used, instead of stylevars so that the output follows the look of your installed style. Anyway, I made changes to the css so it does exactly that. Feel free to use it. :up:

custom_trg.css

.vistable {
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
}

.vistable td {
    padding:4px;
    vertical-align:top;
    border-left: {vb:stylevar tabslight_border};
    border-right: {vb:stylevar tabslight_border};
    border-bottom: {vb:stylevar tabslight_border};
}

.vistable .alt1 {
    background: {vb:stylevar threadbit_background};
}

.vistable .alt2 {
    background: {vb:stylevar threadbit_alt_background};
}

.vistable .left {
    text-align: {vb:stylevar left};
}

.vistable .normal {
    font-weight: normal;
}

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by arco

Yeah I know it can be changed. I just can't understand why hard coded values needs to be used, instead of stylevars so that the output follows the look of your installed style. Anyway, I made changes to the css so it does exactly that. Feel free to use it. :up:

Im not an html/css person - I just about manage to get things working - I find the vastly over complicated vb4 stylevar system almost impossible to follow, trying to work out which one of 500+ to use, and then it might change in the next version.

However, if these work then 'll keep this post in mind for future updates.

[zeroality]

Was wondering if there was any way I could show this mod to specific usergroups without them being able to see IPs/history/etc?

[Paul M]

Did you read the main post ?

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.

[zeroality]

Ugh, my most profound apologies. Thanks.