Request for "last login" mod facility

[Simon F]

G'day all,
(I know I requested the following a year or so ago but.....)

Recently I've found that the forums are getting confused about my "last visit" times and so aren't correctly keeping track of what I have and haven't read. For example, this morning it came to the conclusion that my last visit was the same current time.

Would it be possible to add a set of, say, 3 "links/buttons" that can reset the last visit time to 1hr, 1 day, or 1 week in the past?

Apart from being a work-around for the aforementioned problem, this would be quite convenient for the times when, say, you are only looking for a specific topic and would like to come back later to browse at your leisure.

Cheers
Simon

 

[Saem]

I've had simillar problems with the forums not being able correctly tell when my last vist was.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Thats usually just a cookie error, or possibly an issue with the security settings. However, regardless of how you set the 'last visited' its likely to be suseptible to the same issue - I don't believe any last visit times are stored on the database.

I'm loathe to go far beyond the default configuration of the board because mods are a nightmare for support when new versions of the forum are released - I have enough trouble with the templates alone.

 

[Simon F]

Dave,
Having looked further into the problem, it may be something to do with the
"phpbb2mysql_sid" cookie.

According to Netscape, this is supposed to only last a session but I've noticed that its string seems to stay constant for some number of sessions. While this is the case, the "last visit time" stays constant.

If I forcibly delete it (or it magically vanishes of its own accord) the forum seems to set the last visit time to "now" and so no new posts appear.

I thought about trying to decipher the format of that string to see if I can set it to an earlier time/date, but it doesn't appear to have any discernable pattern.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Do you visit other forums that use phpb2 Simon? I'm wondering if he cookie is picking up other session and getting confused. The "phpbb2mysql_sid" cookie is the default value for phpbb2 so I wonder if changing it to something more unique would help (although, it might screw up everyone else when they first visit again).

 

[Simon F]

Do you visit other forums that use phpb2

No.... but perhaps the computer gets bored and reads the "what peripheral" boards from time to time;-)

Anyway it is associated with www.beyond3d.com so I don't think it should get confused. I did notice another temporary B3D cookie appearing occassionaly but that just seems to be a variant of the one that logs you in/identifies the visitor.