Miscellaneous Hacks - Digital Point Spy

About
This is a Digg-style spy for seeing what's going on in your forum in realtime.

This is something I originally made about 4 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4 (it also now uses the bundled YUI for animation), I decided to also wrap it up as a product package and release it for the world to use.

Installation

• Put the spy.php file in your forum folder.
• Put the digitalpoint_spy.js file in your clientscript folder.
• Install the product-digitalpoint_spy.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/spy.php


1.1.0 Update

• Moved JavaScript to external file (works around template parsing bug with early versions of vBulletin 4.0.x).
• XML generation is done with vBulletin's XML Builder class (let it deal with weird characters).
• Switched JavaScript library to from YUI to jQuery (for an end user, it means better animations).
• Changed do=xml to do=feed (works around servers that are overly protective and think they are trying to be hacked and blocking the request).

[sebbbl]

Hi,

I don't want to see new users registrations, how can I can get rid of that ?

And I get � instead of accents (french forum).

Edit :

Originally Posted by PHP FAN

fixed

PHP Code:

        /*$event['preview'] = htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ( 
            fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(
            strip_bbcode(strip_quotes($event['preview']), false, true),
            $vbulletin->options['threadpreview']
        )), 
        ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
                
        $event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')));
        */ 


Where do you insert this code ?

__________________________________________________ _________________________

I don't either see message description...

And finally : it shows "unknown" in the threads/posts list, so I can't see the message posted.

Link : http://frenchcinema4d.fr/spy.php

[Yellow Slider]

does this work with utf8 (hebrew) \ rtl?

Thanks

[PHP FAN]

hmmmm


OK forget about my last post!


The solution that worked for me in none English Characters with UTF-8 encoding is:



Open spy.php



Find:

PHP Code:

$event['preview'] = htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ( 
    fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(
    strip_bbcode(strip_quotes($event['preview']), false, true),
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview']
)), 
ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
                
$event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'))); 


Change to:

PHP Code:

$event['preview'] = htmlspecialchars(htmlentities ( 
    fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(
    strip_bbcode(strip_quotes($event['preview']), false, true),
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview']
)), 
ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
                
$event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlspecialchars(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'))); 


[mrt12345]

Thanks for the mod this should be interesting.. PS i have been a big fan of your site:up:

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by PHP FAN

hmmmm


OK forget about my last post!


The solution that worked for me in none English Characters with UTF-8 encoding is:



Open spy.php



Find:

PHP Code:

$event['preview'] = htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ( 
    fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(
    strip_bbcode(strip_quotes($event['preview']), false, true),
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview']
)), 
ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
                
$event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'))); 


Change to:

PHP Code:

$event['preview'] = htmlspecialchars(htmlentities ( 
    fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(
    strip_bbcode(strip_quotes($event['preview']), false, true),
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview']
)), 
ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
                
$event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlspecialchars(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'))); 


What did you change? It looks the same to me.

[PHP FAN]

Originally Posted by Boofo

What did you change? It looks the same to me.

Changed htmlnumericentities with htmlspecialchars in both lines:

PHP Code:

$event['preview'] = htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ( 

In to

$event['preview'] = htmlspecialchars(htmlentities ( 


And

PHP Code:

$event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')));  

In to
                
$event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlspecialchars(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'))); 


[sinucello]

Hi,

this is a great mod, thanks for sharing it. Would be nice to have it in a sidebar block with some more options. That way users could be easily informed about everything they are interested in: new replies, PNs, post in subscribed forums without having to look at the "What`s new" page.

Another idea would be to use it as a tool for moderators with mod-options shown behind each entry.

all the best,
Sacha

[sticky]

I am getting this error for some reason:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting ')' in /public_html/includes/class_core.php(4010) : eval()'d code on line 32

[digitalpoint]

What's your site URL?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

What's your site URL?

www.bimmerboost.com