I second that questoin. :p

Something like that would be great. Can you help me with that?

Ok for all that were getting problems with connecting and getting the server name,

I had this, what i done is placed the ventrilotest.php on my host, then filled in the info, it didnt work said i had the wrong path.

So I went and cheched with my host what the absolute path is, added that in and now it works.

Glen

Any updates on this? Would be a great mod for all of us using CMPS

ok i followed all the steps and now on my forum i'm getting the following message above my forum:

Warning: popen("/www/cgi/forum/ventrilo_status -c2 -t208.100.14.165:3945", "r") - Resource temporarily unavailable in /includes/class_ventrilostatus.php on line 320

and when i hover over the ventrillo status link i get the message:

ventrilo://208.100.14.165:3945/servername=

can anyone help me with what i'm doing wrong?

vBAdvanced Module support please :) :)

Great hack, with a few modifications i got it to work perfectly on my forum running 3.6.8 ;)

One question though, how do i get it to go below another hack im using (who visited the forum today)

WTB vBa CMPS version!

Seems to have stopped working with 3.0.

As stated previously, and proven by many others in this thread, it works fine with the entire vBulletin 3.x series.

I think he means Vent Server version 3...I have followed all of the steps listed with no success. If you are able to assist please IM me headmetal79@yahoo.com (yahoo ID is headmetal79) or email to fishern@macewan.ca

as quoted before, i'll go ahead and confirm as well. upgraded my vent server to 3.0. havn't had any problems with this not working, and it didn't stop working either.

make sure your ventrilo server is set up to allow status requests.

works on vent 3 for me as well.

I've been trying get this ventrilo Mod to work on my vBulletin I followed the install process
my host server Linux OS I get this error every time??

Thanks Guys
Bundy

You host has rather strict PHP settings. Unfortunately, this modification requires the ability execute shell commands and unless you can have these restrictions lifted I'm afraid this will not work for you.

Many thanks magnus for your reply, I'll contact my host about it.


Bundy

A bit belated, but if and when I get time I'll be making a vba version of this. Thanks for the release!

I got the script to load on the page but i cannot figure out how to set it up so it properly shows the users that are connected.

could someone visit http://www.conceptart.org/forums/ and let me know what im doing wrong?

when i click the "ventrilo server" link
it takes me to ventrilo://voice402.hurricanehost.com/servername=
how do i set the servername...?

All configuration is through the AdminCP, see the original post for screenshots.

i have the admincp information setup correctly, and it has a section for the ventrilo information on the site, but it says there are zero users connected and when i click "ventrilo server"
it gives me ventrilo://voice402.hurricanehost.com:4042/servername= which gives me an error...

If there is something i need to do in my servers cp to make the information register please let me know.

Hi Magnus,

Great plug mate! Finally got it working on the board.
By any chance, do you know how to get the info to a vbadvanced frontend? I'd also like to see on the frontpage who's online.

Thanks!

does it work with 3.7?

It should work fine.

I am confused as to where exactly to get ventrilo_status.exe The only file I find close to that is ventrilostatus.php in the PHP Ventrilo Status Scripts package.

All information is included in the original post:

Well, after getting vB updates that this is OK to use, I tried again. I tried 4 times in the past and no workie. I understand that all have different issues and most can be resolved with time and patience.

First, let me say I have 2 other Vent status working fine
www.jettclan.net and www.jettcommunity.com

The server host is configured properly or I would not be getting correct information on my pages. I thought this would be cool and never can get it to work.
See attached config for your script and associated screenshots.

Again, I understand that their will be different issues, but when a lot of the posts here say they have the same issue, one must assume that either it dosnt work in some configs, or instructions are not clear enough. I am not trying to come off as a ass and I apoligize if I am, but this script would be cool if it worked with my site and config and it dosnt.

So, I either do not understand the instructions or it will not work with my config and the other vent status scripts that ARE working on my site is a act of god. :D

Again, I apoligize if I am coming across like a ass, I realy am one but do not want to be one to you.
I also talked with my host for the page, used the right ventrilo_status for BSD and they said it should work, for whatever that means.

This hack is nothing more than a frontend for the Ventrilo Status Scripts. If you believe the problem lies within this hack, I would suggest downloading this package and getting ventrilotest.php to report everything is OK. If after that this hack still does not work, we can proceed further.

The setup on this can, at times, be tricky -- which makes it hard, if not impossible, to dutifully suport. All I can say is, try getting the scripts in the link above (namely ventrilotest.php) to work first -- be sure you have permissions set correctly as well as the absolute path. If you do get it working, the same settings used in the configuration file can be applied to the hack settings within vBulletin.

Without direct access to the server myself, that's really the most I can offer.

If someone's username, for example, is </er> it is rendered as html. could lead to an interesting exploit... needs some htmlentities() loving

Aside from the fact that this was patched in the 1.1 release, the Ventrilo client/server packages do not allow specific characters in usernames as well they have character length limits. So, unless someone writes a custom Ventrilo client and/or server with these restrictions removed, the exploit is basically theoretical.

Giving this a shot but thus far i am unable to figure out why it doesnt work properly. Here are somethings that might be useful for support.

I use ventrilo.org I have emailed them and they said I should be good to go as they have preconfigured their servers so that the status script can do its job

My host is unix based. I have downloaded and tried I think all server files and have tried each of the ventrilo_status files in each one just to make sure i didnt miss anything and yes I have put cmod them to 755.

I guess the best i can hope for in this situation is to be told exactly which ventrilo_status to use, then ill just have to do some more trial and error maybe somehow I wrote down the path to the status file incorrectly.

thank you in advance.

Have your webhost open the outbound port of your ventrilo server port

I will try that. I am speaking with them now, and ill post the outcome.

Any idea on which is the correct status script to use? I guess i can try them all to see which one works but then again none are working right now so knowing the correct one will help when troubleshooting my current problem.

***Edit***
My webhost said they would not open that port for me.

That is very unfortunate. Although some web hosts won't do it, many others will. I use hostgator and they opened the ports without any problems

Thanks for your help. i have 2 months prepaid on my host then ill try out yours seems good

Any luck on getting this to work in a sidebar box as of yet? I was messing around seeing if I could get it do display on a sidebar box on my forums rather than down at the bottom of my forums but no luck as of yet.

I attached a image showing what I mean (well, where I'd like to figure out how to place it).

If anyone has done this or if it is even possible I'd love to know.

I tried messing with the scripts and everything like I said, but no luck, once I move the code to a different part of the template it stopped function. I'm somewhat new to vB so that might be part of it -- just upgraded from PhpBB3.

Thanks

Attached files below:

Oh, and I'm still editing my skin, so don't hate. =/

Awesome mod btw.

I have poblem after installing this mod

How how to fix this problem?

will this work on 3.7 Gold

Your script doesn't work because it doesn't define the "servername" variable.

EDIT: I read all of the posts and I don't see the script actually pulling the servername from the server itself. I will mention that I'm using the latest version of Ventrilo and my host is Typefrag.

I'd be willing to kick in a couple of bucks to get this updated to a 3.7 ready version.

It works fine on 3.7. For those who are having troubles:

You need to configure an ip that are allowed to run status query on the VT servers.
FilterGen=
FilterDetail=
then test out the ventrilo_status. If ventrilo_status can't get the data neither will this script.