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.

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[PixelFx]

I'm looking forward to an official update of this script maybe for vb3.6.2 ?

[ikorolis]

Me too!!!

[johon]

Originally Posted by widemind

I read once somewhere that ActiveX had some sort of software agreement issue thinger me'jigger with Microsoft and now they require you to agree to start the ActiveX controllers... anyway - it's a big long story and I don't remember it. To make it short - google the error you're getting, and there is a program you can download to get rid of it. This is an error being caused by your own computer software - not this script.

Hi widemind,

this was a good hint - even that not the downloaded patch from MS solved my problem but the search in Google did
When the problem appeared the first time, nothing about it was to found in Google, but now there was the "golden hint": The error depends on the sound which is played when a message arrives - an installed program had captured the filetype. When i set all file types in MediaPlayers options back to MediaPlayer the problem was gone!

Greetz

JoHon

[perfphysio]

Hi All,

I have installed the pager system on my forum (www.physiobob.com/forum) about a week ago now. All is working fine however I have noticed when looking at my stats for my saite that the page "/forum/pager.php" has been viewed more than 25 times that of even the forum homepage. This is like 88,000 times as against 3300 for the forum homepage. Now I have not promoted the pager system as yet and there are few if any pager messages appearing in the admin log so therefore people are not yet using it.

Why therefore is this page count so high? Is there something going on in the back ground that I am not aware of? I am considering uninstalling this feature due to my above observations as it makes me a little nervous. If someone could provide some insight I would be most appreciative, many thanks

[reficul010]

Hello, GReat hack!! It works great but...
I have one minor problem with the pager..

Once you write a reply on a pagemsg.
and you refresh your forum....the reply box is cleared again.
(yes, this happens a lot, my forum uses a autorefresh on the active topics)

Is it possible to keep the written texts in the the replybox even after a page refresh?

tia

[Harley77]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

Hi All,

I have installed the pager system on my forum (www.physiobob.com/forum) about a week ago now. All is working fine however I have noticed when looking at my stats for my saite that the page "/forum/pager.php" has been viewed more than 25 times that of even the forum homepage. This is like 88,000 times as against 3300 for the forum homepage. Now I have not promoted the pager system as yet and there are few if any pager messages appearing in the admin log so therefore people are not yet using it.

Why therefore is this page count so high? Is there something going on in the back ground that I am not aware of? I am considering uninstalling this feature due to my above observations as it makes me a little nervous. If someone could provide some insight I would be most appreciative, many thanks

It uses AJAX to poll the pager every 7 seconds or so by default. So, figure anyone who is visiting your site (and has pager access) will be "hitting" the pager.php file every X number of seconds the entire time they are on your site. This is normal behavior for this hack. And is also the source for a high level of CPU/SQL usage. You can adjust its polling interval and increase the time between checks in the AdminCP to reduce this.

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by Harley77

It uses AJAX to poll the pager every 7 seconds or so by default. So, figure anyone who is visiting your site (and has pager access) will be "hitting" the pager.php file every X number of seconds the entire time they are on your site. This is normal behavior for this hack. And is also the source for a high level of CPU/SQL usage. You can adjust its polling interval and increase the time between checks in the AdminCP to reduce this.

OK, i'll increase it to say 20 seconds and see what the effect is. On the one hand though you need it to be more frequent in order to have a pager conversation. I would think like text chat ideally you would want every 2 seconds or so. In reality the increased timing might mean that the product makes itself redundent.
That said I was not finding any performance issues at a setting of 5 seconds, more the issue was the number of page calls in my stats. Thanks for the assistance on this

[TheAllusionist]

Excuse my ignorance, but does this basically make your site statistics like number of hits in accurate in regards to your sites activity. I could see that it shouldn't effect 'Unique Visitors' but does this bump up your numer of site 'hits' to unrealistic numbers, thus making determining activity impossible due to the MOD? Curious since potential advetizers have been asking what my activity is like and this throws a whole new curve into the equation or so it would appear by the previous posts.

[spaghie]

I installed with 3.6.0 and it displays fine. i upgraded from an earlier version and have done a reinstall.
The problem i am having is that while it looks like it is there after i select who to page, it doesn't give me the popup window to type a message.
Anything i missed?

[ikorolis]

We Want new Version!!! XAXA