I've updated the build to include some new code checking for password protected forums and also change the link to use goto=lastpost; try updating your vbispy.php and va_spy.js files.

the updated files, plus the code edit in post #79 works a dream.....nice!!

MPDev - please double check your code... it still is not generating the link correctly:

...showthread.php?t=1484goto=lastpost

should be:

...showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=1484

Okay, updated download, line 279 in va_spy.js was missing the &:

great. works fine!

Not sure if there's much of a difference how you use the lastpost variable, but either way works great.
(t=1324&goto=lastpost vs. goto=lastpost&t=1484)

Now how easy is it to remove things - such as the views/replies. Should be just as simple as removing the try{} command for each event?

There is no difference in the order; both variables get processed.

This is nice, but I would love to have it in my right column like I have it now. I reserve my center column for my news for my site.

If you can get this shrunk down so it fits in the right column it would be amazing.

I don't have any plans to do different designs at this time.

Hey MPDev!

Pretty awesome stuff! I added it to our forum which is

http://www.cartoondollemporium.com/forum/vaispy.php

It works fine, but I did notice that it takes almost a minute for the posts to show. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Nothing showing:

http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/vaispy.php

??

Hey mxtabs9.

Im not sure if we have the same problem but on my site it takes upto almost a minute for a post to show up. I dunno why...

I love this, but the initial refresh is quite awhile in 3.5.0

Any ideas--I'd love to use the vba block, but not if it takes a long time to load.

http://www.glorifythepast.com/forums/vaispy.php

Looks like the same problem everywhere. Maybe after the last update?

could be. I really like this. hope theres a fix to it :)

mxtabs, your site doesn't load for me at all - connection timed out.

america2, did you add the index mentioned in the first post?

Hey, Im not sure which index is that and what to do with it. My apologies.

Is this code something we can just run in PHPmyadmin?

From a server load standpoint, how has this script been running on viperalley?
I have about 500-600 users online at peak times, can I use this mod without a server meltdown?

Yep, phpmyadmin is fine.

It's works great on viperalley.com - a slight increase in overall server load, but I'm running this on a couple sites and also have vbispy.com running on the same server.

In antication of the growth of vbispy.com I have a new dual core Dell 2950 being installed tomorrow. :)

Unless you have 500-600 people using vbispy.com at the same time, I don't see it as taking your server to a crawl (assuming you have a decent server in place with that many users already).

I just checked phpmyadmin and it seems as if I already have a dateline index in the post table.

Sorry about the downtime, the site is up now, still nothing

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/vaispy.php

Never mind, found out the site was down due to the queries caused by this thing. Not sure why

See previous posts about add an index to the post table.

I really like this!

One suggest:
Is it possible to get post I already read to be normal font an unread bold?
(Or some other sign..)
To next version?

Updated to include support for Opera browsers, etc. (see version 1.08 notes at top).

Upgraded to the latest version. Congrats again on the great mod!

It looks like the font got smaller.
Very much looking forward to the templated version and future improvements.

How about the option for mods/admins to change thread titles using Ajax? That would be hot.

p.s. finally clicked install and nominated for m.o.t.m

oh, and in phpmyadmin, under INDEXES, it is showing a dateline index already, despite me not adding it manually. Do I have to do anything additional?

It's using the smallfont tag (which is was using before); there is a reason that the "template" version is not a big push - it's misleading. The formatted html is in the javascript and cannot be templated; the index page can be templated, but changing the columns and such on it does not change how the data itself is displayed.

If you have a dateline index, you are good to go.

I'm having an issue where iSpy will occasionally get the thread title wrong.
It will assign a thread title that is not the actual thread title of the post.

Picture attached:

I'm not sure why it would only do it occasionally and not consistantly; unless we can identify a common reason, I'm not sure where to look.

Could it have something to do with the same user posting within 60 seconds?
That seems to have been the case in the photo above.

I don't think so; maybe just a fluke... Is it consistant in any way?

Is there a way to prevent guests/spiders from using this?

Such a cool hack! Thank you much! :D

What would it take to have the option to only view new threads / posts in subscribed forums?

Thanks for fixing the last post issue on 3.5.

How would I go about parsing the posticons of the thread in a new column?

If you check the thread in the 3.6 area, you'll see code for this in the first couple pages.

A change to the query to look only at subscribed forums.

It would require changing the vaispy.php and va_spy.js scripts to add the new icon field, determining the url to it and passing it as part of the XML feed and then using it as part of a newly formatted table. Not trivial; but do'able.

Thanks, I will take a look at them and see what I could do :)

I've done this in the 3.6 version; but haven't done it for 3.5 as yet. Waiting to make sure the 3.6 version works as expected all around with new changes before porting them back to 3.5.

This would be HOTM material if there was an easy way to template the output.

It's definitely HOTM material anyway, but yes, a template would make this great hack even better.