| Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #14918] |
Tue, 25 November 2003 06:23  |
JasonBirch
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Hi,
I haven't been able to figure out where in the code the view count is incremented, but I'm assuming that this is done with a database write. If so, I would very much like to have the ability to turn off view counting and the display of the view count.
I would also like to see the ability to disable forum/topic subscriptions to avoid mail problems. Perhaps this could be done with user permissions?
I love all of the features in FUDForum, but some of them look like they might force me to upgrade to a dedicated server, which isn't in the books right now.
Thanks,
Jason
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| Re: Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #14920 is a reply to message #14918] |
Tue, 25 November 2003 13:10  |
Ilia
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Turning off view counting & subscriptions will require you to make heavy modifications to the code...
You'll need to modify imsg.inc, imsg_edt.inc, post.php, th.inc and the templates for thread.tmpl threadt.tmpl, tree.tmpl, msg.tmpl and likely others.
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| Re: Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #14963 is a reply to message #14962] |
Wed, 26 November 2003 03:55 |
Ilia
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Uhm I think you're missing the point of your provider's rules (maybe). FUDforum does not track every request only the views of topics are actually countend and then the process is very fast. I believe your provider is trying to prevent you using databases for log analysis etc...
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| Re: Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #15000 is a reply to message #14963] |
Thu, 27 November 2003 01:57 |
JasonBirch
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The text from the TOS is as follows: "No database may be used to act as a 'hit counter,' or for logging of information distributed nightly in the raw web logs (including but not limited to browser and page referrer information)."
In their user forums they have confirmed that this includes software packages that log message views to the database, as their main concern is to prevent a large number of (relatively expensive) write operations on their shared database servers.
Having inspected your code and database structure fairly thoroughly I'm inclined to believe that the efficiencies there make up for the database writes when compared to many other forum packages, but I don't think that would work as an argument if they decided I needed to upgrade to a higher service level. I don't mind hacking the code to do this, I just hate losing the easy upgrade capabilities.
Jason
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| Re: Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #15001 is a reply to message #15000] |
Thu, 27 November 2003 02:59 |
Ilia
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Regardless of the situation every single request results in @ least 1 query, for registered users @ least 1 write query. Removing trivial code is not going to change that.
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| Re: Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #15004 is a reply to message #15001] |
Thu, 27 November 2003 05:47 |
JasonBirch
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Yes, I fully expected that to be the case. The view counting is just a very visible indication that writes are happening on message displays, and I'd prefer to disable it.
Is the write for registered users because you are storing last-viewed information in the database?
Thanks,
Jason
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| Re: Disable view counting and subscriptions [message #15006 is a reply to message #15004] |
Thu, 27 November 2003 15:41 |
Ilia
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You can just modify the thread display templates and remove the views column. That said I guarantee that as far as load is concerned simple SQL hit counter (should be) much faster then any forum application in existance.
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