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Member Bots 1.0 - Allow bots to act as members
Version: 1.00, by trilljester trilljester is offline
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--------- Member Bots 1.0 ---------
Written by Trilljester - http://www.trilliummud.com

This small mod allows you to treat search engine robots (i.e. GoogleBot, Yahoo Slurp) as registered users instead of guests, as they are treated by default in VBulletin.

This is handy if your site allows limited access to guests, but full access to registered users. By default, a search engine robot would only be allowed to index what a guest could see, but with this mod, it would allow them to fully index your site as a registered user.

This mod uses the spiders_vbulletin.xml file for determining if a visitor is a bot or not, so make sure you have that file up to date. The one that comes with VB is pretty sparse, but it works. If you're only interested in GoogleBot, then the default file works great.

WARNING! This mod requires a very small edit to a VBulletin core file. This means whenever you upgrade to a new version of VBulletin, you'll need to re-do this edit, if you overwrite this file. If the idea of editing a VBulletin core file bothers you, don't install this mod! I won't be held responsible for your forum being fouled up. This mod is very safe however, so don't fret.

Install Instructions:

1. Unzip the product-memberbot.xml file on your system.

2. Go to your VBulletin AdminCP and click on Manage Products under the Plugin Manager section.

3. Click on Add/Import Product.

4. Click on Browse on the first line (Upload the XML from your computer) and locate the product-memberbot.xml file. Click on Import to upload it to the system.

5. Click on Plugin Manager, and ensure that the new plugin named Bot Checker, which is found under the init_startup hook, is enabled.

6. Now the fun part, you'll need to edit the core VBulletin file init.php which is located in the includes directory under your forum home.

For example, if your forum home is located in /home/blah/forum, then init.php is in /home/blah/forum/includes

If you can edit the file on the server without having to download it, more power to you.

In init.php, find this line (should be near the very bottom of the file, it was line 403 in mine):

Code:
if (!empty($db->explain))
Add ABOVE this line:
Code:
if ($is_bot == 1) {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] = 2;
}
NOTE: My registered users group is ID #2. Yours may be different, you may change this to any group ID you like.

7. Save init.php and upload back to your server if you had to download the file to edit it.

If you're editing on the server, save it, and that's it!

================================================== ========
That's it! Search Engine bots should now "see" your forum as a regular user, not a guest.

Questions, comments, improvements are more than welcome. Please use this thread as a cental support site. It makes it easier for me to help out. Also, you may visit my site and fire me off a PM for help, or just send a quick thanks or shout out.

Enjoy!
// trilljester

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  #162  
Old 05-08-2008, 04:59 AM
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Anyway we can allow multiple usergroups in? I have another usergroup other then regular registered that i'd like to have searched.
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Old 05-15-2008, 12:38 PM
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Thanks for this wonderfull modification.
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is working for me on 3.7 with instructions I post here :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=148
i added these changes and it still doesnt work on my 3.7 =/
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Old 05-24-2008, 11:08 PM
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3.7 dont work any new mod for bots ?
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Old 05-24-2008, 11:11 PM
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i added these changes and it still doesnt work on my 3.7 =/

try this maybe is the difference why works for me .
go to vbulletin.com and download the latest spider list .
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Old 05-25-2008, 08:11 AM
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Ok it is working fine ...

But there is a problem .. I can't exclude some spiders :|

I want all spiders to work normal except media-partners to act like a member .. is it possbile ?
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Old 05-30-2008, 05:48 PM
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Uninstalled


although it was a good one but I needed some support
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Old 06-05-2008, 08:16 PM
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how many people have this mod running on a 3.7 site?
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Old 06-05-2008, 10:53 PM
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I do running with 3.7
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Old 06-27-2008, 07:19 AM
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try this in init.php look for :

Code:
if (!empty($db->explain))
{
	$db->timer_stop(false);
}

/*======================================================================*\
and replace with :





Code:
if ($is_bot == 1) {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] = XX;
}
if (!empty($db->explain))
{
	$db->timer_stop(false);
}

/*======================================================================*\
change the 2 XX in red with the usergroup you want.

When ever I make this change, it appears that the bots can now get in, but I am unable to log into my admincp. I am running vb 3.7

Any ideas?
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