Integration with vBulletin - vbulletin-xml-rpc-server for instant Desktop Notification

Let's take a look at following screen-shots first.









Yeah.. these look like Gmail Notifer application which is actually vbulletin-desktop-notifier application. As a forum admin, you might want to offer such application to your members.



== Video tutorials ==
Editing
Uploading
Installation

You can use vBulletin Desktop Notifier as dekstop client or free to build your own following API-DOC .



== Demo watch video ==
I'm offering demo in my forum. Here're the steps.

Download vbulletin-desktop-notifier and install in your machine.

Run vbulletin-desktop-notifier and login using
username: priti
password: 123456

Create a new thread at Demo vbulletin-xml-rpc-server threads or reply to existing thread.

You'll see notification in your desktop within few seconds.

Request: Please do not change password for user Priti. If somehow the login does not work you can try by creating a temporary user.



== Coming up next ?.. ==
Based on feedback I'm listing few of the enhancements that will be part of upcoming releases.

• [S]Server Compatibility check script[/S]
• [S]Options to select forum ids in User CP[/S]
• Display avatar of the person who made post in the notification window
• [S]Unread private message notification[/S]
• [S]Support for PHP4[/S]

Alfa1 came up with these ideas which hopefully will be integrated sooner or later in future releases:

- friends coming online

Which of the following events does this notifier alert to:
Member notifications:
- profile messages awaiting approval
- requests to join your social groups
- invitations to join social groups
- unread picture comments
- picture comments awaiting approval
- group messages awaiting approval

Moderator notifications:
- post awaiting approval
- threads awaiting approval
- events awaiting approval
- attachments awaiting approval
- members awaiting approval
- blogs awaiting approval
- blog comments awaiting approval
- profile comments awaiting approval
- group comments awaiting approval
- pictures awaiting approval
- picture comments awaiting approval

== Ongoing Discussions ?.. ==
discussions on release-02 starts here

== HOT FIX [release 2.0]?.. ==
Rename all files in system/application/models directory into lowercases. i.e:
Forum.php => forum.php
Settings.php => settings.php
Token.php => token.php
User.php => user.php

[dvsDave]

the popups are just text, right?

could they be formatted as a url so that a user could click on the link and their default browser would open a new tab/window to go to the url of the message?

[Ozidoggy]

Ah thanks!!!.. renaming those files worked

[Ozidoggy]

I keep box appearing saying:

[B]Server returned error message
"token has expired"

Try again?

[sf.nsuers]

@dvsDave, yes. The pop-ups are text. Thanks for your idea

@Ozidoggy, right! that's a bug. It can be fixed by editing system/application/models/token.php. You need to replace update_count() function with this code:

PHP Code:

function update_count()
{    
$this->_add_life();
$this->db->set('use_count', 'use_count+1', false);
$this->db->where('value', $this->token);
return $this->db->update('tokens');        
} 


[Ozidoggy]

@Ozidoggy, right! that's a bug. It can be fixed by editing system/application/models/token.php. You need to replace update_count() function with this code:

PHP Code:

function update_count()
{    
$this->_add_life();
$this->db->set('use_count', 'use_count+1', false);
$this->db->where('value', $this->token);
return $this->db->update('tokens');        
} 


[/QUOTE]

Thanks for that

I more request.. Can you make the login box remember username and password?

[todin]

Hi,
I get a popup box with the message:
Server returned error message:
"Failed to parse servers response: Expected methodRespones element, got html"
Try again?

How can I fix that?
Regards,
todin

[sf.nsuers]

@Ozidoggy, okie!

@todin, did your setup passed the Test ?

[todin]

Originally Posted by sf.nsuers

@todin, did your setup passed the Test ?

Yes it did, I found the bug, in the forum.php there are the db tables name hard coded with the vb_ prefix, I changed that, and now it's working.
Regards,
todin

[sf.nsuers]

@todin, aw! great! I should have make a note about db prefix too! Thanks!

[ercollins]

I keep getting this error, read this entire thread.

The XML data receieved was either invalid or not in the correct form for XML-RPC. Turn on debugging to examine the XML data further.

So I turned Debug on: (this is the error i got)

DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Config Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Hooks Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> URI Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Router Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Output Class Initialized
ERROR - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Severity: Warning  --> fopen(/var/www/vhosts/myjeepclub.com/httpdocs/vbulletin-xml-rpc-server/system/cache/ad61ab143223efbc24c7d2583be69251) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied /var/www/vhosts/myjeepclub.com/httpdocs/vbulletin-xml-rpc-server/system/codeigniter/Common.php 56
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Input Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Global POST and COOKIE data sanitized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Language Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Loader Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Plugin loaded: vbulletin-db_pi
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> XML-RPC Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> XML-RPC Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> XML-RPC Server Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Controller Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Helper loaded: url_helper
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> XML-RPC Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> XML-RPC Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Final output sent to browser
DEBUG - 2008-12-10 06:38:04 --> Total execution time: 0.3696

Can not figure out why access is denied to that file.