Major Additions - [AJAX] vB Pager 3.0.4

This modification currently contains a vulnerability. You are hereby advised to uninstall this modification until such time that the author provides a fix.
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[AJAX] vB Pager 3.0.4

Hack Version: 3.0.4
vB-version: 3.5.x
Developer: WwW.UAEWEB.CoM
Install-difficulty: Few minutes!

Introduction:
vB Pager is a text-based instant messaging system over your community between members. Users can exchange short & quick messages amongst each other. Unlike the regular private messaging system, the paged user is guaranteed to read your message & reply to it (if you choose this option) instantly & easily.

• Features:
  • Uses AJAX Technology to Send pager messages / Get pager messages / Add & Remove a member to buddy list / Add & Remove a member from Ignore list. (No Refresh Required)
• Main Features:
  • vB Pager Buddy List ?pop-up? window is used to keep track of the friends you wish to interact with. By going to your "vB Pager Buddies", you'll be able to see which of your friends are currently online and offline, and be able to send them a pager message. Adding people to your buddy list also allow you to send pager messages to multiple forum members at the same time. You may add any member of the forums to your buddy list by clicking the icon next to their names in the vB Pager Online Members Page or Clicking the Manage Buddies Link to add/remove members into your list.
  • vB Pager Ignore List ?pop-up? window lists are used for those people who's messages you wish not recieve from.
  • Received Pager Messages are Draggable Inline Popups.
  • Sending a message opens up a small window where you can type in message to be sent.
  • Optional Anonymity: you can choose to hide your username when paging another user on the forum, & define which Usergroup can utilize this option.
  • The window comes in with a built-in character counter to enable the user to keep track of the characters typed.
  • Logs of all incoming and outgoing pager messages ?Inbox/Sent Items? member has, can be viewed and deleted.
  • Download Stored Messages as XML, CSV, TXT.
  • Members can turn the vB Pager Off anytime they wish not to receive pager messages, and they can select the option to receive pager messages from those who are in their Pager Buddy List only.
• Admin CP Features:
  • vB Pager Options
    • Switch the paging system on or off anytime you wish!
    • vB Pager AJAX Check Period control.
    • Set to mark all read messages as deleted messages after being read by end users and prune them automaticly every one hour with cron job.(v3.0.4)
    • vB Pager Display Window Refresh Period control .
    • Set Floodcheck - Minimum Time Between Pager Messages.
    • Set Maximum Pager Messages Per-Page in inbox/sent items.
    • Allow vB Code in Pager Messages control.
    • Set the Sizes of Width and Height of the vB Pager Buddy List Window.
    • Set the Width Size of the Received Pager Message Box.(v3.0.1)
    • Enable Notification Sound on New Received Pager Message.(v3.0.1)
    • Enable/Disable the display of Avatar.(v3.0.2)
    • Banned Users.
  • Pager Message Statistics
    • Mass prune stored pager messages (All, Unread, and Deleted Messages).
    • search for users with X number of pager messages.
    • Delete pager messages for user x.
• Usergroup based Permissions:
  • Can Send Pager Messages. (Yes/No)
  • Maximum Stored Pager Messages.
  • Minimum Number of Posts Required Before Can Send Pager Messages.
  • Minimum Number of Posts Required (Per Day) Before Can Send Pager Messages.
  • Maximum Number of Pager Messages Can Send Per Day.
  • Maximum Recipients to Send Pagers at a time.
  • Maximum Characters Per Pager Message.
  • Can Hide Their Username When Paging Another User. (Yes/No)
  • Can Use Allow Reply Option When Sending Pager. (Yes/No)
  • Can Send Pager Message to All Users. (Yes/No)
• Other Features:
  • XML Product.
  • Fully Phrased.
  • No file edits.
• Screenshots, Updates, FAQs & Add-Ons:
  • See second & third post.
• Contents of vbpager.zip:
  • README.txt
  • Uploads
    • pager.php
    • pager_sound.wav (v3.0.1)
    • admincp
      • pageradmin.php
    • includes
      • xml
        • bitfield_pager.xml
        • cpnav_pager.xm
    • images
      • statusicon
        • vbpager.gif
        • vbpager_icon.gif
        • vbpager_user_buddylist_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_buddylist_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_ignorelist_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_ignorelist_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_offline.gif
        • vbpager_user_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_remove.gif
• Contents of xml Product:
  • vB Pager Templates
    • PAGER
    • PAGERBUDDYLIST
    • pagerbuddylistbit
    • pager_messagelist
    • pager_messagelistbit
    • pager_multipager
    • pager_newpager
  • vB Pager plugins
  • • vB Pager (cache_temlates)
    • vB Pager (parse_templates)
    • vB Pager (profile_updateoptions)
    • vB Pager (template_groups)
    • vB Pager (userdata_doset)
    • vB Pager (userdata_start)
    • vB Pager (cron_script_cleanup)
  • vB Pager phrases
    • Many of 'em
  • vB Pager Database Modifications
    • New Tables (pagerreceipt, pagertext)
    • Alterd Tables (user, usergroup, usertextfield)

How to Install:

• Simply download the zip file, Unzip it to a directory on your computer and follow the steps from the README.txt
• Remember to Change vB Pager Pemrissions from the Usergroup Manager.
• Make sure that you got your forum url filled in the Help Site Name / URL / Contact Details under your vBulletin Options. See this post
• Make sure that you got your forum directory name filled in the Forum Directory Name under your vB Pager Options.
• Please Read This Post befor asking for help.

How to Uninstall:

• Simply remove all uploaded files, revert your edited templates, and uninstall vB Pager Product from the Manage Products under the Plugin System in your ADMINCP.

Known Issues:

• Permissions are not being inherited from secondary usergroups.

Thanks to aberg for the Dutch translation.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN!
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[blind-eddie]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Would some one please tell me what I need to do to get pager messages pop-ups on
vBadvanced pages....Again I was getting pager messages pop-ups on those pages before I upgrade my pager. Thank You in advance

Anybody?

[hotwheels]

You may want to check over at vbadvanced........I believe they had a mod for it over there.....

[blind-eddie]

Thank You for the info, but I have and they sent me back here. Can someone please tell me what to add in the Portal Output Global Variables box. Cause I tried everything.

[sillystuie]

This hack is absolutly fantastic! (installed)

I've been using it on my forum for about a week now and i've only encountered 1 problem. The problem isn't with the hack itself - it's with my members. To put it nicely most of them aren't all that competent at figuring things out for themselves.

So here's a suggestion:
I've compiled my own set of instructions on how to use and customise vb pager for my members but im still getting questions everyday. I think it would be a good idea if they could find these instructions upon receipt of a vB pager message.

Is there a way I can add a clickable link to the inline "new pager message" popup window that will direct my members to the thread I have posted the instructions in?

Once again thanks for this fantastic hack - we are all extrelemly happy with it!

[hotwheels]

Quick question for those that have this working.

I too have this on my site and am just curious to see how people have these item's set on thier sites:

vB Pager AJAX Check Period ?
vB Pager Display Window Refresh Period ?
Floodcheck - Minimum Time Between Pager Messages ?

I have mine set at 30, 50, 0...........sometime's it takes up to 8 hrs before i actually recieve the pager message......I can in no way, have a conversation using this system......It function's correctly as far as all of the page's and no error's, but you just can't use the system....

[badboyz]

im not able to go to the sent item i am not able to click on it any help

[sillystuie]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

Quick question for those that have this working.

I too have this on my site and am just curious to see how people have these item's set on thier sites:

vB Pager AJAX Check Period ?
vB Pager Display Window Refresh Period ?
Floodcheck - Minimum Time Between Pager Messages ?

I have mine set at 30, 50, 0...........sometime's it takes up to 8 hrs before i actually recieve the pager message......I can in no way, have a conversation using this system......It function's correctly as far as all of the page's and no error's, but you just can't use the system....

I have my Check period set to 120, refresh at 50 and floodcheck at 30. It's also a good idea to have them auto-deleted every hour. In terms of the slow operation, i had the same problem initially and fixed it by making sure that my forum directory was correct (for me it was "/vb/")

[bandare]

has anyone had any issues with installing this and 3.6. It all works great apart from one thing.....

If I use the readme and add the code below:

In the template: postbit_legacy (Optional)
=============================
FIND:
=============================
<if condition="$show['reputationlink']"><a href="reputation.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reputation.gif" border="0" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_to_xs_reputation]</phrase>" /></a></if>
=============================
Add BELOW:
=============================
<!-- [START HACK='vB Pager' AUTHOR='UAEWEB.COM' VERSION='3.0.3' CHANGEID= 7 ] -->
<if condition="$vboptions['vbpager_active'] AND $bbuserinfo['userid']">
<a href="#" onclick="window.open('pager.php?do=buddylist&amp;p userid=$post[userid]','pagerbuddylist','statusbar=no,menubar=no,toolba r=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=$vboptions[vbpager_width],height=$vboptions[vbpager_height]'); return false;"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/vbpager_icon.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[pager_send_pager_message_to_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></if>
<!-- [END HACK='vB Pager' AUTHOR='UAEWEB.COM' VERSION='3.0.3' CHANGEID= 7 ] -->

What happens is I get text at the bottom left with the other symbols saying send vbpager message to person and not the little icon yet the icon is uploaded...

How can I fix that for 3.6 please ?

[G2place]

Originally Posted by G2place

I really like this product, and so do my users.

I have one problem, which I cannot resolve, after viewing the templates.

When viewing the screen of "Pages/Messages", and all "page/messages" are listed...
we cannot see the text of any message... all we see is a white box.
But if we mouseover and hilight it we can.

This suggests the font color for the "page/message" text is the same as the
background color for the "page/message" box. (in our case, both white).

How can I change the font color for the "page/message" text
for this particular facility ?????

Note... when actually sending a page/message, all is fine.
It is only when viewing all your page/messages that my problem arises.

Thanks for any help.

I finally figured out what to do....
Edit the Template/Style for the "Page" CSS.
Change the foreground color from white to black,
leave the background as "transparent".

That did it

[EasyTarget]

is there a way to make it so the postbit icon doesn't show up unless they're a member of a usergroup that has permission to use the pager?