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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[DJPushpu]

i am installed this mod

DJPushpu, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

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my usergroup permission
Guest Tracking Permissions
Can View the Guests Visited Display.
Yes
Can View Guest IP Addresses.
Yes
Can View Guest Visits List.
Yes
Can View Guest Tracking Data.
Yes

Can View Who's Online
Yes

Can View IP Addresses
Yes

Can View Detailed Location Info for Users
Yes

Can View Detailed Location Info of Users Who Visit Bad / No Permission Locations
Yes
Then on i am not view ip address

[BadgerDog]

Installed, along with all of Paul's mods... great stuff.... really enhances vBulletin usage IMHO ...

Anyway, we have a problem with all of his mods with our new vb4 style and I didn't know if anyone here could help us out....

All the text is "white" on a "white background" and as you can see from the pic, it can't be viewed. Well, it can be if one takes their mouse and click scans over it causing it to highlight.

So, can anyone tell us where to look to change whatever variable it is that will make this text black?

Thanks... appreciate any feedback ...

Regards,
Badger

[Paul M]

You need to change the custom css that comes with the mod.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You need to change the custom css that comes with the mod.

Thank you Paul... appreciate the guidance ...

Unfortunately, I'm an old veteran who doesn't know where to look for this. I've become pretty good at installing add-ons (yours are really easy and make me look compotent .. ), but this CSS stuff I'm even sure where to look.

I thought one of the guys here might be able to help me do that on all of your modes. Once I've done one, I can probably do the rest. I think it's got something to do with arco's post above, but I haven't been able to locate that file or where to edit it.

Regards,
Badger (Doug)

[Paul M]

The css associated with the mod is in a template called custom_trg.css

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The css associated with the mod is in a template called custom_trg.css

Thanks Paul ... :up:

That got me looking in the right area and I spent the afternoon getting an education in CSS ...

Mimicking arco's approach, I managed to modify all the "custom_" templates associated with all your mods and have fixed the color issues in each of them to work with our style.

Appreciate the support ...

Regards,
Badger

[fluidswork]

Great work ....................

[Barteh]

Been using your vB3.x version a while now and it works quite well, but I'm currently doing a test run for our vB4 + vBA migration and for some reason 'track guest visits' is not showing up on FORUMHOME, not even with the unmodified default skin.
Both 'master enable' and 'enable display' are set to yes, and to prevent old vB3 stuff from interfering I've set 'overwrite' to yes when importing the product xml. What could cause this?

[Paul M]

Nothing should cause it - unless you havent uploaded the bitfield file and set the usergroup permissions ?

[Barteh]

Originally Posted by Paul M

and set the usergroup permissions ?

Guilty as charged, thanks