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.

[bashy]

Yeah its ok now m8 thats strange, i come back form work and its now fine lol

There was loads of cells on the right hand side and the opacity was not working
Oh well, thanks anyway!!

[da420]

Yeah, I noticed that when installing it, but after a few threads were made I realized it was filling up... so it looks good now on my end as well.

[MPDev]

Originally Posted by bashy

Yeah its ok now m8 thats strange, i come back form work and its now fine lol

There was loads of cells on the right hand side and the opacity was not working
Oh well, thanks anyway!!

Go figure; my car is like that when I take it to the shop!

[ForumDog]

Finally (don't you just love updates to custom jobs! ) got my little changed version of your mod going. Works like a charm, looks great. Thanks for your work!

[theChronic]

For some reason mine doesn't seem to be doing the whole live thing. When I'm on the page, it just stays how it is regardless of new posts until i refresh it. And when I refresh it, it doesn't do the one by one adding thing that looks all fancy, its just like an updated static page.

Only thing I did was change the name of the file. Any idea whats going on here?

Thanks
john

[MPDev]

If you changed the name of the file, then you need to update the code to call the new filename; that's covered in the early posts, but you can't change the name and still have it work without changing the code.

[theChronic]

sweet, I changed up the file and it works thanks a lot. awesome product.

[Pirate45]

Is there any way that someone could use this or something like it to combine content from two or more forums using vBulletin and the RSS feeds it provides?

[MPDev]

It's possible, but not simple.

I do this for vBIspy.com but had to re-engineer the whole script and support scripts to work with so many different sites.

[Pirate45]

Yes, I've seen that and that is what I am wanting to do. Not to compete with you, but to be able to do something like that for some small specialty forums.