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Ornette Board Member
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject: Outside Sessions MOD |
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MOD Name: Outside Sessions MOD
Author: Ornette
MOD Description: Allows phpBB to better deal with authenticated pages external to the forum.
Inspired by: "Integrating phpBB into my site"
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=578633
Ok this is an interesting one. I've rejigged sessions.php to stop the 'user_lastvisit' geting updated when a user views an authenticated page external to the forum (by checking for defined constant 'OUTSIDE_SESSION') - stopping new threads from being marked as read.
I've put in a bit of thought to this, and have inserted two new fields into the users table:user_lastvisit_site
user_session_time_forum
I have also fixed an annoying 'bug' of phpBB that makes user_lastvisit reflect the moment a user logged out of a forum. If a user leaves a browser window open, and logs out say an hour later, the user will loose all unread post information for that hour! Now, 'user_lastvisit' will always reflect the time of the last true activity by the user on the forum.
Basically, I skip updating of user session information whenever in login.php. This only has negative effect of not showing a registered user as 'logging on' in the instance someone is logging into the ACP
I have also removed the 60 second delay of updating page changes, as per mods:
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Dog Cow Board Member
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
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Ornette Board Member
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: Outside Sessions MOD |
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I must say, this whole mod is kinda made redundant if you have
keep unread flags
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=309059
installed on your forum! Maybe I should improve the description
Its basically a simple way to improve the handling of "unread topics" on your forum, especially if you have a 'portal' that the user might visit without actually accessing the forum.
By making phpBB take note of when the user actually visited the forum rather than an external portal, the normal way of working out what threads the user might have seen is strengthened.
My approach to stop the updating of 'user_session_time' when a user logs out also helps with this - now logging out of forum is more akin to simply closing your browser and logging back on later.
I'm all for simple fixes to the phpBB system - the keep unread flags appears to be a very complex beast of a mod, where as this one is a very simple proceedural change to sessions.php. Not only, I kinda prefer the highlighting of threads based on 'user_lastvisit' - facing a forum full of marked unread threads is off-putting, in my opinion.
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Dog Cow Board Member
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: Outside Sessions MOD |
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I looked at this MOD, and it looks like the point of it is to update the user's last activity time only when browsing forum pages, such as viewforum, or viewtopic. Another timer is then created when the user is browsing pages still powered by phpBB, but aren't related to forum messages, such as an add-on gallery, or any other sort of page connected in with phpBB.
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Ornette Board Member
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 5:46 am Post subject: Re: Outside Sessions MOD |
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Small update to this mod
I noticed, that on return from session_pagestart(), the returned $userdata array always holds the details of the users previous page session!
So I updated this to hold current details. I also removed the outside session testcase
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Murmur Board Member
Joined: 20 Aug 2009
Posts: 57 Location: California
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Outside Sessions MOD |
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Ah...Bravo!
This was on the to-do for my CMS. Of course, it's still there. But now it reads "implement" rather than "write".
Thanks.
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