Add-On Releases - vBISpy - AJAX real-time feed of new posts/threads

After seeing the http://www.digg.com/spy application; I wondered if this could be done for vBulletin as well. I came across this webpage which had a "how to" on how they built a similiar application to do the same thing. Taking a page from their book (i.e. the code), I modified it for use with vBulletin.

During development, I also came across this post here on vBulletin.Org where the very subject had already been discussed.

So I put this together; a simple ZIP file with a single PHP script, three javascript files and 4 images.

Installation

. UNZIP the file into your forums directory
. That's it!

Virtually all the code to customize the page is in the vaispy.php script; there are no plugins, no templates and no phrases. You do not need to do anything further; this should work right out of the box.

In your browser, open the URL:

http://www.yourforum.com/forum/vaispy.php

You can see examples of this at:

http://www.viperalley.com/forum/vaispy.php
http://www.extremefitness.com/forum/vaispy.php

Note: I claim no ownership of this code except for the file vaispy.php - the rest of the files were using 'freely distributable' sources. As such, you may use these files as you wish, but please do not remove the copyrights.

This modification is for vBulletin 3.6 only, if you are running vBulletin 3.5 you will need to see this thread.

JOIN THE vBIspy Network!
Once you have this mod installed, you can join the vBIspy network to have your threads appear on this site; the vBIspy Network is a great way for people to see what's going on in various vBulletin communities and for forum owners to promote their sites and generate new traffic.

Optional add-ons

Who's Online mod for this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=126209

vBAdvanced Module: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=126421

UPDATES
1.0.4
Added buro9's code from here

1.0.5 - 9.9.06
Modified some JavaScript in va_spy.js to remove split strings

1.0.6 - 9.10.06
Added date cuffoff code from here and changed init() to spyinit() - changed vaispy.php and va_spy.js files.

1.0.7 - 9.12.06
va_spy.js: Added a forum url variable to allow for integration with portals or other products outside the forum directory
va_spy.js: Added xmldelay variable at top of script for easier configuration or repolling
Updated files: vaispy.php, vb_spy.js

1.0.8 - 9.13.06
vaispy.php - changed code for checking for forum permissions to include password protected forums, added javascript tag for script code

1.0.9 - 9.16.06
vaispy.php
va_spy.js
va_effects.js
- modified to allow for proper display in Opera browsers and moved more html into vaispy.php to allow for stylevars, trimmed va_effects.js to remove unused code (ForumDog's suggestions, except not using templates yet), changed way threads are parsed (removes html as well)

1.0.10 - 9.17.06
va_prototype.js - removed 20kb of unused code

1.1.11 - 9.25.2006
vaispy.php
va_spy.js
- added SirAdrian's mods for thread status icons and alternating row colors
- added code to prepopulate the first 10 rows with existing threads allowing for 5 new ones to be added in scrolling mode (versus scrolling starting from the first thread).
- added option to display subscribed threads only

1.1.12 - 9.26.2006
vaispy.php
- added code to add empty rows if initial pull has less than 20 rows.

[zgrkaralar]

It will work for 3.8 either ?

[sectomy]

ive seen that some forums got for example 10 topics, but only 2 are "sliding in"...how can i change that ?
the number of postings that are static and the new ones are updated live ? so for the first visit ?

you know whatta mean ?

[Lustikus]

in vaispy.php, find

PHP Code:

$limitq = ( isset($_REQUEST['do']) ? "20" : "5,20" ); 


and change 5 to whatever you want to be slided

[movslow]

Originally Posted by MPDev

Just add a link to the page in your navbar template.

How??

[ewelin]

Great MOD, works well on 3.7.4. One thing i noticed was that the hyperlinks produced by the js don't have the target="_blank" on them where as the php produced ones do. Minor fix for your next release.

[Harmachis]

this mod track whole forum
but is there any way to make it track just a single thread / or few specific thread only ???

[habibie_u2]

thanks.... installed

[compuminus]

I've noticed that in the current version if there are multiple new posts in a given thread it only shows the latest post in that thread -- ignoring all others. Does anyone know if there's a way to prevent it from dropping all of these new posts using the

$getthreads = $db->query_read(

portion of the vaispy.php code? Or any other portion of the code, for that matter?

Thanks

PS: otherwise it works fine on vB 3.8.0 gold

[ewelin]

Originally Posted by compuminus

I've noticed that in the current version if there are multiple new posts in a given thread it only shows the latest post in that thread -- ignoring all others. Does anyone know if there's a way to prevent it from dropping all of these new posts using the

$getthreads = $db->query_read(

portion of the vaispy.php code? Or any other portion of the code, for that matter?

Thanks

PS: otherwise it works fine on vB 3.8.0 gold

I noticed this exact same thing this morning. Where you able to figure out a solution?

[compuminus]

No solution yet. If anyone can help this would be greatly appreciated. It is weird because if you leave the screen open, new posts within a given thread are should individually (as I would like). However, on first load of the page, or whenever you refresh the page, only the latest post within a given thread is shown...