Cookie Ban ??

[aveon]

man noone doesnt kno about cookies its bad guys really bad all the other boards can do it and vbulletin should be betteer but i see noone cares...

any body there to help guys come on it been 2 weeks anyoone cant figure it out hmmmm

[aveon]

man we gave 160 for nothing no cosumer service nothing it been 2 weeks i gave to many cluee if i only knew anything about cookies i would figure it out but i cant...

[Paul M]

Just to be clear - this is not a Jelsoft Customer Service forum, this is a voluntary site for people to release vb modifications. There is no guarentee you will get any answer to your question.

[aveon]

anybody people this is so imporant please help me put with this
cant we improve ip bannning on vbulletin or how can we make ip banning process set a cookie on some ones computer from that ip and he will be blocked even if he reseta his ip come on friends

[aveon]

any idea to put a cookie to functions.php on this line

PHP Code:

/ #############################################################################
/**
* Checks to see if the IP address of the visiting user is banned from visiting
*
* This function will show an error and halt execution if the IP is banned.
*/
function verify_ip_ban()
{
    // make sure we can contact the admin
    if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'sendmessage' AND (empty($_REQUEST['do']) OR $_REQUEST['do'] == 'contactus' OR $_REQUEST['do'] == 'docontactus'))
    {
        return;
    }

    global $vbulletin;

    $user_ipaddress = IPADDRESS . '.';

    if ($vbulletin->options['enablebanning'] == 1 AND $vbulletin->options['banip'] = trim($vbulletin->options['banip']))
    {
        $addresses = preg_split('#\s+#', $vbulletin->options['banip'], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
        foreach ($addresses AS $banned_ip)
        {
            if (strpos($banned_ip, '*') === false AND $banned_ip{strlen($banned_ip) - 1} != '.')
            {
                $banned_ip .= '.';
            }

            $banned_ip_regex = str_replace('\*', '(.*)', preg_quote($banned_ip, '#'));
            if (preg_match('#^' . $banned_ip_regex . '#U', $user_ipaddress))
            {
                eval(standard_error(fetch_error('banip', $vbulletin->options['contactuslink'])));
            }
        }
    }
}

// #############################################################################
/** 


[aveon]

come on coders cat anybody figure anything out??

[aveon]

is there anybody out there that can help me with this im not good at coding any good coder can help me with this come on guys vb must be better than smf:ermm:

[Mythotical]

aveon, got your PM, I will test a few things with your code as it will have to be placed in a plugin. I'll make a post within the next 12-18 hours to let you know.

[aveon]

Originally Posted by Steve M

aveon, got your PM, I will test a few things with your code as it will have to be placed in a plugin. I'll make a post within the next 12-18 hours to let you know.

thnx bro

[aveon]

it been 5 months since i requested this mod is it time that u guys help me on this??