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.

[Sean James]

Originally Posted by Bram H

I am wondering the same, one of the most useful mods ever made imo!

Edit: reinstalled on vB 4 and seems to work fine

So this 3.7 mod works with vb4.0? just double checking i as i need this for my board

[mark99]

Same, does it really work in vB4? That would be amazing!

[Boots]

Other people using this on 4 ok?

[jonty]

seems to work on VB4 ok

[Veer]

Yes, its working on vb4 gold

[cnutter]

Reinstalled it last night on vb4.0.1.

Seems to be working fully. It has detected Multiple logins and have sent myself and everyone I set it to send a PM to a PM about the Multiple Logins that it has detected. IT has also posted to the forum I have assigned it to post the Multiple logins to.

So for now it seems to be working fully.

[RedFoxy]

great I installed it on vB4 too

[Sonic625]

Got a problem and has been happening for awhile just never looked into it....
I have it set to create a new thread when someone tripes it and that works perfectly, however say I wanted to search the forum for a username... that is where I have the problem, when I search for a username it shows no results. I can do this with any name (I copied and pasted names from the post to make sure I had it correctly) and it never finds a result.
vB 3.8.4 and has happened since 3.7

[Videx]

I too can confirm it works in vb 4.0.1. The author should ask that this thread be moved to the vb4 forum.

Sonic, if you're having a problem with the vb search, you should ask over at vb.com. That wouldn't be a problem with this mod.

[Sonic625]

Cool, I will work on it