Add-On Releases - vBISpy - AJAX real-time feed of new posts/threads

After seeing the http://www.digg.com/spy application; I wondered if this could be done for vBulletin as well. I came across this webpage which had a "how to" on how they built a similiar application to do the same thing. Taking a page from their book (i.e. the code), I modified it for use with vBulletin.

During development, I also came across this post here on vBulletin.Org where the very subject had already been discussed.

So I put this together; a simple ZIP file with a single PHP script, three javascript files and 4 images.

Installation

. UNZIP the file into your forums directory
. That's it!

Virtually all the code to customize the page is in the vaispy.php script; there are no plugins, no templates and no phrases. You do not need to do anything further; this should work right out of the box.

In your browser, open the URL:

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

You can see examples of this at:

http://www.viperalley.com/forum/vaispy.php
http://www.extremefitness.com/forum/vaispy.php

Note: I claim no ownership of this code except for the file vaispy.php - the rest of the files were using 'freely distributable' sources. As such, you may use these files as you wish, but please do not remove the copyrights.

This modification is for vBulletin 3.6 only, if you are running vBulletin 3.5 you will need to see this thread.

JOIN THE vBIspy Network!
Once you have this mod installed, you can join the vBIspy network to have your threads appear on this site; the vBIspy Network is a great way for people to see what's going on in various vBulletin communities and for forum owners to promote their sites and generate new traffic.

Optional add-ons

Who's Online mod for this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=126209

vBAdvanced Module: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=126421

UPDATES
1.0.4
Added buro9's code from here

1.0.5 - 9.9.06
Modified some JavaScript in va_spy.js to remove split strings

1.0.6 - 9.10.06
Added date cuffoff code from here and changed init() to spyinit() - changed vaispy.php and va_spy.js files.

1.0.7 - 9.12.06
va_spy.js: Added a forum url variable to allow for integration with portals or other products outside the forum directory
va_spy.js: Added xmldelay variable at top of script for easier configuration or repolling
Updated files: vaispy.php, vb_spy.js

1.0.8 - 9.13.06
vaispy.php - changed code for checking for forum permissions to include password protected forums, added javascript tag for script code

1.0.9 - 9.16.06
vaispy.php
va_spy.js
va_effects.js
- modified to allow for proper display in Opera browsers and moved more html into vaispy.php to allow for stylevars, trimmed va_effects.js to remove unused code (ForumDog's suggestions, except not using templates yet), changed way threads are parsed (removes html as well)

1.0.10 - 9.17.06
va_prototype.js - removed 20kb of unused code

1.1.11 - 9.25.2006
vaispy.php
va_spy.js
- added SirAdrian's mods for thread status icons and alternating row colors
- added code to prepopulate the first 10 rows with existing threads allowing for 5 new ones to be added in scrolling mode (versus scrolling starting from the first thread).
- added option to display subscribed threads only

1.1.12 - 9.26.2006
vaispy.php
- added code to add empty rows if initial pull has less than 20 rows.

[MPDev]

Originally Posted by tanyeri24

hey that was the problem:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=CountUp

Now I fixed the problem but it doesnt work with the countup plugin at same time, and no firefox errors more...

If i disable countup plugin, it works

You cannot run multiple timers on a page... this has been discussed before - if your header or footer uses some kind of timer, then vbispy and the other will conflict and likely neither will work properly.

[Invalid ID]

MPDev, can you please make it work on vbadvanced? Thanks

[Chadi]

I hope I can get a fix. I will pay you if you can fix this for good

[Mutt]

I'd like a modification of this script that lets me have it just grab new posts in a specific thread. every day I have a couple very busy threads that it would be prefect for. Right now, people sit and hit refresh a million times. something like this that just flashed up replies as they happened (or close to it) would work out great

has anybody done something like this?

[MPDev]

You could look at the query that grabs new threads and modify it to only pick from certain threads, I suppose.

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by MPDev

You could look at the query that grabs new threads and modify it to only pick from certain threads, I suppose.

Yeah, that didn't cut it. I'm working on it. we'll see what i come up with. i'm confident I'll get it going and I'll be sure to share it here.

[Coldhands]

Is there a way to get this to work outside of the forum root?

[ghforum]

So basically this is like a streaming chat session right?

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by ghforum

So basically this is like a streaming chat session right?

No. It's not interactive. It's more like a news ticker... but with forum threads.

[MPDev]

Exactly! It's like the Digg spy app; just lets you watch as new posts are made to a forum in real time versus hitting refresh to get a new page.