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///Mink
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: How is "last visited" calculated? |
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I'm curious how a member's "last visited" date is calculated. I've wondered this for a while, actually. I'll sometimes see someone online, then look at their profile later that day and it will show their last online date of several days ago.
For example, this user:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=94201
Shows a "last visited" date of Feb 4, but he made several posts yesterday (Feb 6).
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Must be a glitch in the Matrix.
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EverettB
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///Mink
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| There is some logic built into it so it doesn't update the date every time you go to a new screen. Unfortunately several people, you included, have noticed that it doesn't always seem correct. |
So how is the online/offline indicator updated? Couldn't the "last visited" date be updated at the same time as the indicator?
Or am I oversimplifying? |
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EverettB
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I looked at the code. The last visit time is the time you last visited the site. So if you visit once per day, it would be yesterday. The reason it does this is so the site can show you what is new since the last time you visited. You would not want to mess with that variable or it would screw up what the site thinks is new to you.
There is another date/time entry that is more current as it gets updated every time you go to a new page. This is the variable used for the online/offline display as well as telling the system what section of the site you are in and some other things.
I changed the profile and memberlist pages to display that date/time instead.
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///Mink
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Nice. Thanks, Everett. It's fun to be the one reporting the bugs instead of the one researching them for a change.  |
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Plantman
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Along the same line of question as Mink. I have often, but not always, had the new post indicators show all unread posts as read, after following a link in one of the threads. Is there anyway I can prevent this from happening?
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Plantman
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Everett, It just did it again. I minimised the Samba while I checked email and all posts in all forums were marked as read. It is probably time to have the hard drive serviced/cleaned up. Wish I were capable of doing that myself.
David
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Plantman
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Thanks, I'll do that.
David
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