It prevents full table scans which can bring huge sites to their knees.

Sounds fair enough; although running on a 1m post forum I'm not seeing any kind of problem, it's worth adding anyways. Thanks!

Off-Topic: Michael, did you get my PM on PhotoPost.com? The issue still exists, and it's possible it's not limited to only me.

I have installed this and using the free option. Thank you. But I felt quite surprised to read that more URLs would mean I have to buy a package, ranging from $20 a month to $1500 a year. But I kind of feel bad now knowing my site content won't get the priority like others, unless I put money down; and therefor show up later or less frequent. I also don't see why someone would like to pay $20 to get their content listed for a few seconds until it is being replaced by someone else their content. Is it being indexed too, is there an archive link or osmething to listed content that you paid for?

Good luck with your business, and I am going to consider keeping this installed or not.

lol thats a joke I guess just another way for someone to make money. Ashame when they truely didnt even write the script.

Thanks, Floris; your account is already active and posting. Right now everyone is in a rotation for every 3 minute updates; however, my ability to scale this to hundreds of sites means being able to offer a "minimium" level of priority. Of course you are quoting a wide range of spectrum that covers upwards of a years service.

Assuming every site scan takes about a half second to process, then you can see how this will add up over time. By being up front from the start I feel that I am being honest from the start and will hopefully avoid the pitfalls of having to scale the system as it grows.

As I just posted setting the bar at a reasonable level from the start means being upfront enough to say that I can offer some level of service reliably as the system grows.

I didn't write all of the script; but I did write alot of code to support this kind of setup.

Hi

I have just updated and now, it dont work, I then tried to update all the files and still dont work, It just does not pull posts at all

Any ideas please?

http://www.bashys-place.com/forums/vaispy.php

It's only two days old; I've made some changes to allow up to 10 URLs and no paid options at this time, we'll see how the polling times are effected as the network grows; but how would you suggest one manage a growing number of sites and people's desire to have more frequent updates?

I think this is a fun way to get people to see a network of sites with common interests and drive traffic to member sites.

Bashy, it's working for me when I click on your link.

Yeah it is now, thats really weird..
I have to do my blooming edits again lol :(

Cheers MP

And you're up on the network, too.

Cheers!

Just got the email, thanks again....Great work, well done :)

Without the date cut, you scan the hole tables for threads/posts, then you simply select the first 10.
That's really bad, if you have a huge board, it could bring your server to it's knees... very easy.
The date cut will lower A LOT the table scans, because you select only a small segment of threads/posts.
So yes, it is a performance increase.

I made 2 comments there at the top, to explain how to set the date cut, depending on how busy is your board.

So, what do have to do to get on this rotation??

To be honest, I am kind of lost with all this talk about a paid Mod, etc....

goto the vBIspy Network in MP's signature, there is a block on the left about adding your url/site its near the top

Doesn't accept international forums?

so how far back does this thing search for in post?

It only grabs the last 10 posts in the past (you can change the LIMIT if you want).

As for foreign sites on the vBIspy Network; I'm trying to figure out how to support them, seems like I'll need to develop some kind of language filter so users can elect which feeds they see - no sense sending posts that users can't read.

This is not a paid mod; there was reference to some ideas I am tossing around for vBIspy.com, but that isn't related to this mod or your ability to use it as-is.

Nothing showing up for me at all. Could you please check my site?

http://www.warmislands.com/tropical_...ums/vaispy.php

In IE 6 I am also getting a script error that says

Line 308
Object Expected

It doesn't appear you uploaded the clientscript/ files; I get Page Not Found when I try to bring up the link the to va_*.js files.

Man I feel stupid. Got it fixed.

How can this help me with building traffic besides joining your VBiSpy Network? ( I have joined waniting approval)

MPDEV - awesome mod. Thanks a million!!

Are you currently in the works of developing this as a CMPS vbAdvanced module?
This would be GREAT!

Dude, this is good stuff. *thumbs up*

Is there an advanatage to have a link to the Vbspy page on your home page?

If you want to offer this to your users as a way to monitor your site, yes; the mod by itself isn't necessarily going to drive more traffic to your site, but it does give those who spend alot of time on your site an alternative to clicking REFRESH all day long.

We have members who spend much of their day glancing at our site, they love this mod because they just glance at the vBIspy tab to see whats going on throughout the site quick and easy.

You mean like this?

http://www.viperalley.com/index.php

I want to see this mod upgraded with Floren's (TECK) suggestion for performance improvement..... whole table look-ups are a definite NO-NO for big boards....

Please fix this oversight ASAP and notify those who have clicked the install button?

If you read the UPDATES section you'd see it's already in the download.

Right you are, there you go; that should fix it.

Or on the FORUMHOME?

http://www.viperalley.com/forum/

How can I do that? I'd like to have it on my CMPS main too.

The inability to use $stylevar[imgdir_misc] is a real thorn in my side at the moment too. :D

Something to add to the pile...

In vaispy.php,

FIND:
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

ADD ABOVE:
$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'iSpy';
$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);

Voila, breadcrumb. Should change <title>iSpy</title> to <title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - iSpy</title> for consistency too.

Edit: The closing body and html tags are missing too, I'm sure you can guess where they go. :D

Love the mod, give yourself a thorough pat on the back.

The thing I don't like about stylevar is having to explain to everyone that they have to copy those images to all their style directories. This is much more simplistic.

Thanks for the other changes; I'll add them in the next update.

will there be any issues renaming vaispy.php to some other name ?
any changes which might be required for this ?

You'd have to change the name of the script in the va_spy.js script, too.

thanks for quick reply :)
thats a very small change overall.

Will test this script now.

Other than that one, minor annoyance this is a nice add.

On my site, in Firefox or IE, it only works for guest.

If I log in and run vaispy.php?do=xml under Firefox, everything looks to be in order, I see exactly what I would expect to see but it doesn't display anything on the vaispy.php page.

If I log out in Firefox, browse to vaispy.php it works.

If I open a new tab and log in, it continues to work in the 1st tab.

If while I'm logged in on the 2nd tab I refresh the first tab it continues to work but it doesn't show me as logged in.

If I log in to the working instance on tab 1 it stops working.

I read all 5 pages and saw this problem mentioned 4 or 5 times, did I read past the answer somewhere?

Very cool for my guests though.

One last question, how can i remove the event and by columns completely from this script ?

Looks wonderful :) how i missed this modification.

regards,

/me nominates this for MOTM