Forum Home Enhancements - Members who have visited Today (or in the last 24 hours).

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 - however, see this thread to track guests.

The main features of the 3.6 version are basically the same as previous versions ;

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 now be suppressed (a simple message is displayed instead).
12. The list of names can be set to be always collapsed on initial view.
13. The option to record and display the Most Ever visitors has been added (v4.43+).

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

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.

To upgrade from the 3.5 version just re-import the product with the overwrite option set to yes.


EvilHawk has also updated his WVT on a seperate page, see this post.


History:

v4.30 : First version for 3.6, a number of bits have been re-written.
v4.31 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v4.32 : Updated for Version Checking.
v4.33 : Added options to disable/change auto template insert (not released).
v4.34 : Internal code changes (not released).
v4.35 : More Internal code changes.
v4.36 : Minor phrasing changes.
v4.37 : SQL Changes to use slave.
v4.38 : Added new template for username display code, modified always collapsed code.
v4.39 : Fix uncached template.
v4.40 : Fixed table index issues.
v4.41 : Moved auto-template options to mods main settings group.
v4.42 : Usergroup display and other options added. Updated to prevent loading user data when name display is disabled.
v4.43 : Most Ever visitors (members) option added.

[TheWhite]

Originally Posted by Paul M

28,000 is an awful lot of users.

The answer (for the current release) is probably yes, I would expect it to have some sort of effect on that sort of scale - this is because even when name display is disabled, it still reads the data for all 28,000 members from the user table.

This is actually a problem I've known about since the 3.5 version (i.e. a long time) but is very low on my fix list, simply because it's a rare problem.

Since it's now been bought up, I'll take another look at changing that [over the weekend] and see if that improves it. It would be helpful to me if you could try the changed version, even if you ultimately decide not to use it, just so I get an idea on whether the improvement actually works.

Can you make a version that just lists the user visits without the relative info so that the load stays low?

Regards

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by DeiseHost

I just installed the update for this and now it doesn't work.
Any ideas?

Originally Posted by whitemike

Same, I reimported older product

You needed to check the (new) Usergroup Display options, by default this was set to include only the usergroups listed - but your list probably contained no usergroups (or just '0'). I've changed the default to include all usergroups on first install, but you should still check the option, esp if you used to only include certain usergroups .

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TheWhite

Can you make a version that just lists the user visits without the relative info so that the load stays low?

As it says ;

v4.42 : Usergroup display and other options added. Updated to prevent loading user data when name display is disabled.

That's the best that can be done.

You should note that this creates it's own index on first install - that may take some time to actually happen on large forums, so you may want to disable it until mysql has completed the index build (you may also want to install it at a quiet time).

[Skavenger]

there is a space between each username and the comma, how can i remove it?

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by Skavenger

there is a space between each username and the comma, how can i remove it?

Edit template Display_Visitors_User and remove the new lines from the beginning and end.

[Nathan2006]

Thanks for the update Paul working great!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Edit template Display_Visitors_User and remove the new lines from the beginning and end.

Indeed, they shouldn't be there, I'll remove them.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Indeed, they shouldn't be there, I'll remove them.

Can you advise when the newest version with that change is ready for download?

I want to upgrade this excellent mod from v4.41 that we're currently using...

Thanks ..

Regards,
Badger

[Paul M]

It was uploaded about 60 seconds after I posted

[BadgerDog]

Roger that .... :up:

I'll download it again....

Thanks for the update(s)...

Regards,
Badger

Edit: Installed v4.42 and working great.... :up: