What I want is a count of how many users visit a particular forum so that we can judge it's popularity. I don't need this to be visible to anyone other than admin and moderators though. It is really like a web tracker process but by forum instead of by site.
if you look at the active users code, you can see whaere it adds the records to m_BROWSE, you could write some code here which logged forum visits to a different table, or just write some code in inc_top which logs the forum_id and a count
I might add a count column to the forum_forum table and check against the forum id's in forum_forum as to whether to increment count or not... what do you think?