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
Works on 4.1.2, just remember to disable the PM message feature and only use the topic posts option as some have said that the PM stuff no longer works in vB4.
I've had a user who I've confirmed is using the same IP address register twice but no thread is created and no notification of any kind is sent.
This is not an easy mod to test since it deals with cookies, which are handled differently on different systems and in different browsers. Your simple test above - simply using the same IP address - is not at all what this mod is meant to do. Rather, it tries to trip when someone uses the same computer and same browser with two different logins, but it should still trip even if they were on different IP addys.
To test it, make clone yourself. You need to use same browser on same computer.
Also, check that you as admin isn't in protected usergroup so you can be detected. And then you'll see if it detects you or not. Check all settings and understand what each means.
This is not an easy mod to test since it deals with cookies, which are handled differently on different systems and in different browsers. Your simple test above - simply using the same IP address - is not at all what this mod is meant to do. Rather, it tries to trip when someone uses the same computer and same browser with two different logins, but it should still trip even if they were on different IP addys.
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03-29-2011, 12:32 AM
