[Mod] Spiders Don't Increase Topic Views

[karlbenson]

Spiders Don't Increase Topic Views
SMF Version: 1.1.3, 1.1.2, 1.1.1

Description:

SPIDERS DON'T INCREASE TOPIC VIEWS v1.0
By Karl Benson

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Introduction
When spiders are browsing your forum, they will increase the topic views in every topic they visit.  This modification basically detects most well-known spiders , and if so, it won't increase page count.

This will give you a better idea of actually how many REAL people are viewing topics.

Installation
Simple & Easy, install. (DONE!)

NO Theme edits are required whatsoever for ANY themes as ONLY source files are altered.

Support
Please use the modification thread for support with this modification.  (Please don't ask me to do the manual edits for you)

Changelog
1.0 - 3rd August 2007
o Initial public release.

Credit
Omar Bazavilvazo & his Googlebot & Spiders mod which provides the function/array to detect spiders.

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