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.

[Hellmonkeys]

Very cool mod, but a few comments:
* Fix the 'on' before dates Today and Yesturday, for example: "on Today 03:07 PM" -- that just doesn't sound right.

* Somehow add a drop-down quick reply or something along this nature to reply to the post.

EDIT: Also, you should make it so the image directory goes to the image directory of the current template, and not the /images/ directory in the root vBulletin install.

EDIT #2: For thoes who want to do this manually, replace all occurances of: images/misc WITH $stylevar[imgdir_misc] in vaispy.php

EDIT #3: There are also images in the va_spy.js that show up AFTER you pause it, and it won't work to replace thoes... I dunno, I don't have time to investigate right now.

[nymyth]

^^ I was just about to post edit2...lol....

Peace

[Cheertobi]

MPDev, with your new code I got:

Username
on null

But no timestamp...

Tobi

[Get Shorty]

This is great! I wonder how much it affects server load, though. I have a pretty small forum that I'll try it on soon.

[BamaStangGuy]

Not working for me here: http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/spy.php

[Pathor]

It doesn´t work in IE6. Can anybody confirm that?

[nymyth]

^^did you make sure u uploaded the javascript files into the clientscript folder??

Peace

[BamaStangGuy]

I cant get it to work in either firfox or IE6 for my site.

[nymyth]

^^works fine in IE for me....

Peace

[Cheertobi]

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

I cant get it to work in either firfox or IE6 for my site.

You changed the name of the php file! As far as I know you also have to do this in some of the javascript files. Maybe you forgot to do this?!

Tobi