[Tutorial] Make spider thread views not count

[Nathan Malcolm]

I have seen it in many forums, even here on MyBB.com, that thread views pile up because of heavy spider traffic.

I don't see the point on these counting, as they aren't legit views. Here's the very simple way to prevent this happening.

Open showthread.php with a text editor, find:

Code:

if($mybb->settings['delayedthreadviews'] == 1)
{
$db->shutdown_query("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."threadviews (tid) VALUES('{$tid}')");
}
else
{
$db->shutdown_query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."threads SET views=views+1 WHERE tid='{$tid}'");
}

and replace with:

Code:

if($mybb->settings['delayedthreadviews'] == 1 && $session->is_spider == false)
{
$db->shutdown_query("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."threadviews (tid) VALUES('{$tid}')");
}
elseif($session->is_spider == false)
{
$db->shutdown_query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."threads SET views=views+1 WHERE tid='{$tid}'");
}

Thanks for reading.

[Fábio Maia]

Very cool.

[Josh H.]

Hmmm. I might need to do this in the next couple of days.
*places in list of things to do*

[BleepyEvans]

Thanks for this.

[Josh H.]

Actually, I think this modification should be core, if it isn't already planned.

[Ansem]

(02-09-2012 04:33 PM)GamerVoid Wrote:  Actually, I think this modification should be core, if it isn't already planned.

[crazy4cs]

I made a plugin for this some time back, forgot to release, would do soon.