[rellect] Automatic Products Update Check
 

Automatic Products Update Check

If you installed this mod, please "Mark as Installed".

Every forum owner installs quite many mods to improve the system and add necessary functions. What's important is to keep your mods updated to avoid issues and security bugs.
When time pass, you forget to check your mods. Sometimes it just too much effort to check each mod manually.

What's the solution?
An automatic process that will do that for you and inform you when you're running an old version.

Compatibility:
vBulleting 3: 3.6.0 and newer.
vBulleting 4: 4.0.0 and newer.

Installations:
You don't have to change anything in the templates/files, just upload the plugin and that's all.
AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

History:

• [04-02-12] v1.0:
  - First Release
• [17-05-12] v1.5:
  - Added cache
  - New Settings: Enable/Disable, Cache time
  - Fixed the delay to load the admincp (checking for updates is now running in the background)
• [01-11-14] v2.0:
  - Code optimization, get results from vb.org faster
  - No longer checking updates for disabled products

Mark as installed & Nominated !
Thanks men ! :D

How does this mod differ from this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=255054

I didn't know about this mod. I built the mod for myself and decided to share.
As I can see, the differences are:
- hurik's required upload files - my mod not
- hurik's contain db changes - my mod not
- hurik's mod update the list once a day - my mod update the list on each load (maybe I'll change that to per hour update to make the page load faster)
- It should add a list to admincp home? I tried install this one to check and I didn't see any block.. using 4.1.10

Anyway, there are many duplicates mods in vb.org, but each one built diffrently and contain other advantages.
Mine mod advantages over hurik's mod is that my mod doesn't require upload files and my mod doesn't make db changes.
hurik's mod have also advantages over mine mod, with his mod you can get email update.

His mod also sends an email for the updated mods.

Nothing will show in the admin cp unless there are updates with his mod. No need to have a box or anything show if there are no updates.

I'll stick with his as it only runs via cron once a day which is more than enough. Checking on every page load will slow things down way too much especially if there are a lot of products.

Good work on yours, though, as I'm sure there are those that will use it.

Thanks.

<font color="Navy">Very nice thank you</font>

Is there a way to change this to maybe once a day instead of every load?

thank you
rated and installed + translated

Installed

Thanks.

Currently no, but maybe I will add this option in the next version

great mod love the install process!!!!!!!

Nice work, installed very smooth.

Thanx

G!

This mod doesn't show anything if there are no updates either, right? Because I don't see anything.

And yeah, limiting it to once a day would be nice.

Excellent thanks :) - installed but i agree once a day would make it that much better.

The mod disappeared from my admin homepage once i updated the available updates.

Installed...working on 4.1.10

hmm everytime i reload the front page, it takes well over 1min. is there anyway you can do it once a day?

Me too...uninstalled.

This is very useful, but should not be in the home page, it should be a link in the menu.

Great idea thanks for plug-in

New Version 1.5
- Added cache for faster loading of the page
- Settings added: hack active, cache time
- Page loaded much faster

is this 4.2 compatible?

Pre 4.2 it works just fine.. Now in 4.2 nothing shows up...

Yes it is. I'm running 4.2 and it works fine.
The reason it doesn't show anything may be the fact that all your mods are up-to-date. And remember that there is a cache process which runs once in a while.

To be sure it work:
1. Set the cache time to 0
2. Edit one of your mods and change the version to older value

Refresh the admincp home page couple times and see if it works.

I'm running 3.8.x and not going to upgrade to vb4 or 5.

I've got this mod installed and I'm very pleased with it. However, at this point it's telling me that I've got older versions installed from plugins which are only newer for VB 4 and up.

Could you implement an option to "exclude" certain plugins from being checked?

Yes I can, but it probably will take a while till I get the time to work on this.

That's no problem, thank you already for considering it!

Hi

After installing it I get this error , then I tray to uninstall it but I dont fined it in my products at all .

here is the error :
Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/index.php(949) : eval()'d code on line 105

Try just refresh, it should fix it.

An update....

It still reports that a plugin has an update even though I have deleted (uninstalled) that plugin.

How do I go about removing that notice from the list?

D.

Could be a cache thing, check out later and see if it's still there.

It's been there for days ;)

D.

Which mod is still showing after you deleted it? I assume you cleared your cookies, and history from your comp, and still see it?

Now this is strange...

This morning it was updated and wasn't there.

Odd

D.

Well something happened different, but regardless, glad it's sorted. :)

Where do you do this at?

If you're running version 1.5, it's at:
Options ->Updated Products in AdminCP -> Cache

A new update is released 2.0.0, mainly optimization of the code.

Thank you. Will be updating the program now.

You actually reminded me about it, I had this update ready for year+ and just forgot to release it.