Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

If you are like me and migrated from .threads, a common modification was an "AE detector", a simple mod that saved a cookie of a history of ids logged into on your site. If someone logged into more than one account, you got a PM letting you know that your site was being accessed from multiple accounts.

Over the years this was very helpful in identifying users who were posting under multiple accounts (alter-egos!) and users who would return after being banned.

You might be wondering why I don't use the vbcookie call - well, thats because on logout all vB cookies are cleared, so we need to store a cookie that is not effected by the login/logout process.

New Installation
1. Add New Product with attached XML
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> AE Multiple Login Detection Settings and set your specific settings.

Time to install: Easy - 2 minutes.

Upgrade
If you installed this as a Plug-in manually, you can delete that plugin and install this Product, just make sure to go into the Options and set them accordingly.

I hope you find this useful and will click INSTALL if you use it; should it prove useful to enough people I can look at making this installation more automated without the need for edits and an Admin Options page.

To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.

1.0.3
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. Added a check to ensure that users weren't deleted when reporting violations
. added htmlspecialchars_uni call to username

Note: I am unable to get the call to construct_phrase with $vbphrase['multiplelogin_alert'] to work reliably, as such the $message variable is still set manually inside the plug-in and not via the phrase. If anyone has an idea of why this might not always work, I'm all ears.

1.0.2
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

1.0.1
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. Released as a Product (thank you PHPGeek2k3 for your help)
. Added option to post to a forum versus send a PM (or both)
. All settings moved into Admin Option

1.0.0
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Initial release.

[sbirish96]

So, I'm pretty illiterate with this kind of stuff.

What do I edit in the plugin to set:

1. What Forum to create the thread in? (I.E. where do I plug in the Forum ID. Do I have to somehow set who is making the thread? Just kind of a step-by-step of "Change this to person's name. Change this to the Forum ID.")

and/or

2. Who to PM it to?

Thanks and sorry.

[Thomas P]

This settings are all done via the ACP (clickable)

You don't have to fiddle with code.

[abrecher]

Does this work on 3.7 ?

[chonk]

Thank you Soup Nazi

[bryanb]

Originally Posted by abrecher

Does this work on 3.7 ?

Running this on 3.7.0 Release Candidate 4 with no probs.

[zlos]

I do have strange problems with 3.7.0 - sometimes it works, but mostly not.

[Joey805]

I'm having problems with in on 3.7 as well. It detects mutiple logins but it also says that other users are part of what got detected and they really arent.

Weird stuff

[bryanb]

Is there a way to have a review for an upgrade? The last release is about two years old

I rely on this plugin, and I don't want to have any ass-clowns flying under the radar.

[MPDev]

This is the 3.5 release; you would want to be using the 3.6 release for vb 3.6 and above.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125871

[TFEX]

Thanks for the great mod, installed!