Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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Same plug-in found here:

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

There are no differences as this plug-in works with the 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7 releases of vBulletin.

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.

[jambo_1969]

Update - I just got a trigger....

I set up to send PM's AND alert in the forumid.....

[tab503]

I'm wonder, what not supported mean?



This mod looks very nice, but that sign scare me a lil

[Videx]

Originally Posted by tab503

I'm wonder, what not supported mean?

That's a pretty clear indication the author doesn't have time (or the inclination) to help us with any issues we may have.

That doesn't mean the mod is nonfunctional. In fact, it works part of the time for everyone.

A shame the author can't find an active coder to take over the mod and fix it so it works 100%. Or at least tells us why it doesn't.

[captainbohica]

Originally Posted by ndut

installed on ver 3.7.3 and works

i have 1 question.
can this add ons, create a threads, instead PM?
can you guide me, how to do it?

thank you

i can't get it to work on v 3.7.3 PL1.... what are your settings for the mod?

[captainbohica]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I used a slightly different solution to this when I first noticed this (long time ago) - I added a line to the thread creation code to set the ip address to '0.0.0.0'

Paul - could you post exactly how you did this? i'd like to implement the same solution over on my forum

[jambo_1969]

I'm on 3.7.2 PL2, and when I first installed it did not work...

I firstly created and assigned on of my private forums as the destination for the threads, then I assigned my RSS_Feed bot userid as the alerter...

I checked this but it was still not working, so then I checked the Send PM box as well, and lo and behold, it worked.

Been working fine ever since.....

[tab503]

Originally Posted by Videx

That's a pretty clear indication the author doesn't have time (or the inclination) to help us with any issues we may have.

That doesn't mean the mod is nonfunctional. In fact, it works part of the time for everyone.

A shame the author can't find an active coder to take over the mod and fix it so it works 100%. Or at least tells us why it doesn't.

ty

[Videx]

Now that it's (quite inexplicably) started working again on one of my boards, I've been able to at least figure out how to test it.

1. In options make sure all users and usergroups are set to trigger.
2. Now log out of your board and remove all cookies from the site. There's a Firefox add-on that makes this easy - "Remove cookies for site".
3. Now if you log in to one of your accounts, then log out and log in to a second account, you will trigger the detector.

You will not trigger the detector again until you remove cookies. Apparently there's a toggle built in that prevents triggering multiple times.

[Pottsy]

Originally Posted by captainbohica

Paul - could you post exactly how you did this? i'd like to implement the same solution over on my forum

In the xml, or in the plugin manager (AE detector), find:

$threaddm->do_set('visible', $visible);

And add after:

$ipzero = "0.0.0.0";
$threaddm->do_set('ipaddress', $ipzero);

[PhotoshopJunkie]

I was wondering if any version of ae detector is compatible with vb 3.7.3