Digital Point Spy
 

About
This is a Digg-style spy for seeing what's going on in your forum in realtime.

This is something I originally made about 4 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4 (it also now uses the bundled YUI for animation), I decided to also wrap it up as a product package and release it for the world to use.

Installation

• Put the spy.php file in your forum folder.
• Put the digitalpoint_spy.js file in your clientscript folder.
• Install the product-digitalpoint_spy.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/spy.php


1.1.0 Update

• Moved JavaScript to external file (works around template parsing bug with early versions of vBulletin 4.0.x).
• XML generation is done with vBulletin's XML Builder class (let it deal with weird characters).
• Switched JavaScript library to from YUI to jQuery (for an end user, it means better animations).
• Changed do=xml to do=feed (works around servers that are overly protective and think they are trying to be hacked and blocking the request).

Tagged looks good,I will be trying this in the morning!
Top work

Nice work but what about the CPU load, ok probably it uses AJAX but if too many people use this page maybe the load will be increased.

CPU load is minimal. It uses it's own tracking table for recent events so that SQL queries are kept very simple. We run this on a large, high traffic forum and the server load between running it and not running it isn't something you can tell the difference between.

Also, if you want to test the server load manually, just go to spy.php?do=xml and reload as fast as you can (or setup a process to hit it continuously). That is the underlying AJAX call used to get new events.

Outstanding Shawn... look forward to installing a little later.

Thanks interesting mod

hi, how is this different to vbispy?

1. It works with vBulletin 4.

2. vbispy was made a few months after mine and "borrowed" my code, so mine was actually the original. Beyond that, I don't know... I made my original version before vbispy existed, so I never installed or downloaded it to compare.

Nice Release!

tagged and thanks

can viewing be restricted to a certain group?