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.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Videx

Good god man, don't you read? I mean, you're supposed to read the entire thread before you install a mod, but in this case you only have to read 3-4 posts above yours to see it works fine in vb4.

Are you with the "read-thread-first" police now?

[Mrdby]

Originally Posted by Videx

Good god man, don't you read? I mean, you're supposed to read the entire thread before you install a mod, but in this case you only have to read 3-4 posts above yours to see it works fine in vb4.

i didn't install it dude...NOW BACK UP OFF ME!

[Abhik]

Any idea when this going to be released for vbulletin 4.0.3?

[JAFRI]

Thankx This is work fine in vb 4.x

[Nano_]

Works in 4.0.3PL1

[CammyDawson]

Doesn't work for me in 3.8.5 Doesn't come up any error just doesn't work.. Can anyone tell me how to get it to work on 3.8.5?

[Kiros72]

This might seem like a stupid question, but are you sure you installed it?

Also, maybe the server logs will show some errors...

[Datenpapst]

any chance to get this one working for vb4. I am not quiet sure if it really does, there are no errors or so, but maybe due to new software the whole detection is wrongly working.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

any chance to get this one working for vb4.

It's working for me in vb404pl1 - I just had to add a regular couple to the exclusion list last night. It's not an easy one to test though.

[CammyDawson]

Originally Posted by Kiros72

This might seem like a stupid question, but are you sure you installed it?

Also, maybe the server logs will show some errors...

It started working after a few days, not sure what was wrong at least it's working, thanks.