Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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.

[mano1.com]

"click"

thanks!

[Dr.Viggy]

*installed

[EdQ]

Still can't get it to post in a forum.

[Milesian]

Originally Posted by Milesian

Yes, I'm having a problem with it reporting the same users everytime they log in.

Any fix for this? It's a nuisance to have to keep deleting threads and posts for users I already know about.

[VBUsers]

Originally Posted by Milesian

Any fix for this? It's a nuisance to have to keep deleting threads and posts for users I already know about.

same with me i keep PMing people that have been talked to by otehr admins. will this be fixed?

[Paul M]

Add them to the hacks exceptions list.

[MPDev]

There is no database interaction here; depending on how the user has their computer configured the reporting of multiple attempts is most likely the result of their cookies being reset. There isn't really a way to compensate for that except, as Paul pointed out, to add them to your exception list.

[alshehi]

thanks

[Jon_Simmonds]

after i upgraded i didnt get any alerts, I had to downgrade to get the alerts again (both pm and forum post in admin staff room didnt work)

[Phillip Chapman]

Originally Posted by Jon_Simmonds

after i upgraded i didnt get any alerts, I had to downgrade to get the alerts again (both pm and forum post in admin staff room didnt work)

Yes, I've had the same problem too. I was running 1.00 and 1.01 and it appears 1.03 isn't working properly. I tried uninstalling the original files and importing 1.03 new, but still nothing.

Any advice would be most appreciated.