2-for-1 special on thread views?!?

[Shredfest]

Every time I enter a thread, then hit the back button on my browser, the "Views" for that thread has increased by two! I am the only one on the board. Any fix for this?

Thanks!

[reveltaion456]

This is one of the reasons I recommended there only be one view counted per user no matter how many time he visits the thread.

It didn't go through so now you know.

[Shredfest]

OK, but I still don't understand why entering a thread, then backing out of it causes the views to increment by two. I'm only loading the page that displays the thread once.

When I do the same thing here, the views only increment by one.

Help!

[reveltaion456]

Maybe its because conincidentially, someone else viewed the thread at the same time?

[Mike Sullivan]

It's a strange issue that's cropped up once or twice before. The one time, I remember, had something to do with something the guy put in his templates. It made no sense why it was happening, but try reverting your header/footer/phpinclude/showthread templates and see if that helps...

[Freddie Bingham]

And try changing this in showthread.php

if ($noshutdownfunc) {
  $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET views=views+1 WHERE threadid='$threadid'");
} else {
  $shutdownqueries[]="UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY thread SET views=views+1 WHERE threadid='$threadid'";
}

to

if ($noshutdownfunc) {
  $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET views=views+1 WHERE threadid='$threadid'");
} else {
  $shutdownqueries[]="UPDATE thread SET views=views+1 WHERE threadid='$threadid'";
}

[Shredfest]

Thanks for the ideas. Freddie, I made the code change you suggested, but it didn't fix the problem. The only two templates I had changed were the header and footer. I reverted the footer back to the original - not fixed. I then reverted the header back - FIXED!

Here's the modified header code that was causing the problem:

<!-- logo and buttons -->
<center>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
  <td valign="top" align="left" background="#000000"><a href="/index.htm"><img src="images/vBulletin_logo.gif" border="0" alt="$bbtitle"></a></td>[COLOR=red]</tr>
  <tr>[/COLOR]<td valign="bottom" [COLOR=red]align="center"[/COLOR] nowrap background="images/menu_background.gif">
   <!-- toplinks -->
   <a href="usercp.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img src="images/top_profile.gif" alt="Here you can view your subscribed threads, work with private messages and edit your profile and preferences" border="0"></a>
   <a href="register.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=signup"><img src="images/top_register.gif" alt="Registration is free!" border="0"></a>
   <a href="calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img src="images/top_calendar.gif" alt="Calendar" border="0"></a>
   <a href="memberlist.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img src="images/top_members.gif" alt="Find other members" border="0"></a>
   <a href="misc.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=faq"><img src="images/top_faq.gif" alt="Frequently Asked Questions" border="0"></a>
   <a href="search.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img src="images/top_search.gif" alt="Search" border="0"></a>
   <a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img src="images/top_home.gif" alt="Home" border="0"></a>
   <!-- <a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=logout"><img src="images/top_logout.gif" alt="Logout" border="0"></a>  -->
   &nbsp;
   <!-- /toplinks -->
  </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /logo and buttons -->

<!-- content table -->
<table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
  <td valign="top">

Basically all I did was center the buttons. Can anyone spot anything that might cause the doubling up of the page views?

Thanks,
Kevin

EDIT: I also put the buttons in another table row to put a little more space between them and my site's logo and the area for a banner ad.

[k2webfusion]

Did anyone ever find a fix for this issue? One view actually is being counted as 2 on my forum as well. Just posted a new thread about it because I could not find an answer to the question after searching the forums for similar issue. It appears it happens a lot, but no explanation yet. If there's a fix, I haven't found it yet.

[almighty one]

Originally posted by k2webfusion
Did anyone ever find a fix for this issue? One view actually is being counted as 2 on my forum as well. Just posted a new thread about it because I could not find an answer to the question after searching the forums for similar issue. It appears it happens a lot, but no explanation yet. If there's a fix, I haven't found it yet.

i have the same prob however i have swutiched to he holiday theme for now and all is fine but if i switch to mystandard tems then double views once before it gave 3 to1 instead of 2 to 1 when i upgraded from 2.03 to 2.2.8 it fixed it but then somewhere something was edited and it screwed back up i just take out views and forget it as i consider it another lost feature