User trace ComponentModulePlugin

[Description Back-end]
This extension stores informations about all people connected to your site.
- Userid
- Username
- Requested URL
- IP address
- User agent
- User referer
- Date and time.
Very useful in finding your customers interests and useful in tracing your customers navigation paths.
You can decide which column to show and the ordering of the columns.

The plugin delete all users that did not activate account for N days.

[Description Front-end]
All users can see all the articles that did not read, the articles that have been updated ( updated = article read and updated ) and the articles read.

[Export data]
You can export data in .CSV format

[Installation]
First install component and then install the module.
Install plugin (optional)

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byvitus on November 18, 2009
A should have tool on your web site.

Installs easily and works well. Great support after requested solutions to 'Invalid Token' return on delete data.

Some good suggestions below. Keep developping!

Thanks

Guy
bydownunder on November 16, 2009
Loads well and promises to fill a gap in my site management tools.

Issues: Configuration settings do not stick. When you go back to the settings after disabling a couple of columns, they all revert to the default of all YES.

Clicking on CLEAR brings up "invalid token."

Pros: Really like the plug-in to disable unverified users after N days. The Russian hackers are really going to hate this. Just need to combine with the ability to block the IP in the future. Also the csv export.

Please take the criticism as positive feedback as I do believe you have done a really good job so far...
Owner's reply

Hi,

thank you for your feedback.
Some users have experienced this problem.
You can avoid it just editing the code:
open administrator/components/controller.php and find

function clear() {
JRequest::checkToken() or jexit( 'Invalid Token' );
if(!UTAdminController::_getEntriesNum()) {
[...]

And delete "JRequest::checkToken() or jexit( 'Invalid Token' );"

Regards
Enzo

bygurdip on November 13, 2009
Installed the component and module without issues. From the frontend, noticed that the Read status did not change even after being on a page for a length of time. I do not see anyone here observing the same so am wondering if something is causing this issue on my site. Hope the developer can provide a solution to this.

Otherwise a great extension!
bymarkxcool on October 2, 2009
i just installed the component and module and it was so easy (for me, a noob) and they work great. Now i can see the ip addresses of people who come to my site!

i strongly recommend this to everyone - even if you don't think you need it, you will find that you end up using and enjoying it.

there was one little bug i found that does not hamper functionality but that may be listed to fix.... when i select the component name without choosing one of the components submenu options, i get a error message "500 - An error has occurred. View not found [name, type, prefix]: utadmin,html,utadminView" this is so minor, thou, that one should not think twice about installing it. i did not test the plugin, because i don't need its functionality
Up in minute, and from back-end you can trace all movement on your page. Definitely worth to have that sort of sensor.

Great work!
byrushtovijay on August 21, 2009
This is great ! thanks.

Configuration parameters are missing i guess, something like keep the last 500 entries(auto-delete?). Choosing which columns to store, could be another.
Owner's reply

Configuration parameters added since version 2.4.1

byArmored on August 8, 2009
An excellent extension! Straight forward setup and works from the beginning without any need for hacks.

The only thing I had to add myself was the ability to export the entries to a CSV file for analysis. Another interesting add-on would be a digram feature for statistics-junkies like me. Nonetheless, an excellent extension!

Thanks for sharing!
Owner's reply

Hi,

first of all thank you for using our extension.

CSV file data export added since version 2.1.0 (by Cristian Lupu)

Regards

I was using this tool in my site http://www.ictTrends.com and enjoyed for the first two day. But immediately my problems were piled. There were so lot of records that I hardly could manage. Every time going to database and clearing database was not a paid job. Finally had to disable the module to get rid of it. But still the need to know the user trends was persistent.

Now from this 2.0.1 version of user trace, it has grown into a really useful tool! Thanks to the developer. Now clearing records as well as navigating between records are great easy.

I would like to add a small request. I'm using sh404sef for SEF URLs and I found that the records in user trace is displayed not as displayed to user but that of joomla internal urls which is bit difficult to identify which page user visited without really copying the url and pasting on browser. So if user trace too displayed same url as is displayed on browser, this would be great convenience.

Thanks a lot and waiting for updates!
byMeawNoi on July 22, 2009
Great Extensions.....

I plug this extension to my website but I have a little issue. The "Date and Time" information is not the same date and time of my locale setting in my website.

Anyway, thanks for this useful extension.
fast and simple, easy to install what else do you want?

Thanks Vincenzo for your work and time! :-D
byawk on June 9, 2009
All in all, a very nice component,
one request please improve Graphically

Keep it up

All the best

Regards,
I have been several days looking for any statistics extension to trace my community builder users with no luck.
This extension logs the required data to track users logins and access to any menu item. I can then use this data to generate the required statistics and reports.

It could improve a lot should it process a little bit more the data (reports or stats generated from the data, say vists per user, visits per URL, etc) and should it provide backend maintenance for the database (it generates a lot of data so you have to be cleaning the database frequently), but I still give it 5 stars for being the only extension doing this I have found.
byEclectic on November 14, 2008
I've tried to install this to no avail.. I receive User Trace error. I've posted this in their forum a week ago, still no answer. I guess no one is driving this bus.
This would be great and extremely useful if it didn't produce a single immensely long page which then takes an eternity to load due to it's sheer size. There's no means either of emptying the list, other than perhaps regularly going to the database itself and emptying the table - that is, if one has access to the database to be able to do so, which not everybody has.

If the above could somehow be fixed in some way, plus have an additional feature to not include certain IP numbers or search bots, it would be worth using for those who need to trace users.
Owner's reply

Pagination added in version 2.0.0

bysybil on January 2, 2008
Installs in a second, does what it says.