eXtend Show Spiders

[eXtremeTim]

What this hack does is extends vbulletins base functionality for $show['search_engine']. By defualt vbulletin only recognizes three spiders well this hack extends it to around 300 or so spiders.

I would say more about this and or provide screenshots if only that was possible for this. Basicly this is using a function i made to identify spiders and modified the vbulletin show variable for spiders.

This is a great seo mod becuase it helps filter out the useless junk that spiders dont care about.

I no longer have time to support my mods here so please report suggestions and other things: http://vbhacks.extremewebtech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167

I will try to maintain the latest version of this hack on here but no promises.

[tazB.ca]

good stuff :classic:

[TheEDIGuy]

I installed this for about 3 seconds, as it made every link I clicked on my forum show just a blank page.

After uninstalling it, things worked normally, so it's definitely this.

[jerrygad]

a screenshot for this mod would be great, so people will know whether or not it is work.

[eXtremeTim]

How do you screenshot a mod that is just code changes?

It only effects what spiders see using vbulletins defualt method for that. I just extended it to support more spiders for the spider detection variable.

[eXtremeTim]

I installed this for about 3 seconds, as it made every link I clicked on my forum show just a blank page.

After uninstalling it, things worked normally, so it's definitely this.
Did you upload the files to the correct folder? If not then it could generate a white page becuase of not finding the function file.

folder path should look like so:
/yourforumsdir/ewt/core/

[ChavMagnet]

Thanks alot mate v.nice hack

[Muellmann]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/01/19.gif This is very useful if you want not to have indexed different "secret" contents on your Pages. I personally now use it to protect my Spoilers from being indexed by any spiders or mailaddresses or any private informations - a must-have!

[Snake]

Thanks man!

[akanevsky]

I believe there is an official expansion to the XML file posted over at vb.com...

[eXtremeTim]

If you took at look at this you would notice its not dealing with that spider system. Its dealing with the $show['search_engine'] variable defined in the init process using


// conditional used in templates to hide things from search engines.
$show['search_engine'] = ($vbulletin->superglobal_size['_COOKIE'] == 0 AND preg_match("#(google|msnbot|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']));

[akanevsky]

Ahh! My bad, bro. Nice hack.

[bashy]

Cheers, installed, although....in ya 300 spiders, theres 1 thats got away lol
207.171.167.25
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AMZNKAssocBot/4.0)

Can i add bots/spiders as i find them?

[eXtremeTim]

Give me a list of them and ill rebuild the function file every so often and release updated products that are using it. :)

[Spikeman]

I get the blank white page too, have uploaded all files to forums/ewt & forums/ewt/core uploaded product but blank screen everytime?

[AzzidReign]

I know when I would get blank pages, it meant that there was another mod that was conflicting with the current mod. Do you guys have the template cache mod installed? I know that was the big one that gave me some trouble...

Anyways, great hack! *installed*

[AyeCapn]

I got error messages so I uninstalled :(

[jerrygad]

How do you screenshot a mod that is just code changes?

It only effects what spiders see using vbulletins defualt method for that. I just extended it to support more spiders for the spider detection variable.

lol. Sorry, my bad. Do not think about that before I posted. Sorry :knockedout:

[eXtremeTim]

It happens. ;)

[Capper5016]

I installed this mod, but in my haste thought it was a mod that showed the Spider's on the Index page....I'm getting these error messages on my CPANEL error log

[Sun Nov 19 02:33:46 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './ewt/core/functions_spidercheck.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/hardwa5/public_html/forums/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 665

[Sun Nov 12 13:21:45 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './ewt/core/functions_spidercheck.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/hardwa5/public_html/forums/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 600

[rezapci]

yoooo

[v5etboyphc]

installed>. but don't get how this work.. anyone could tell?

[Switch02]

installed>. but don't get how this work.. anyone could tell?
ditto^^

[eXtremeTim]

This hack only effects what spiders see. Its not a noticable effect for the end user only spiders.

[FatalBreeze]

So Installed :)

just one question! Shouldn't you wrote:
$show['search_engine'] = false;
before the if statement?