Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple Account Registration Prevention

*Note* This requires the Multiple Account Login Detector (AE Detector) in order to function. Big thanks to MPDev for the AE Detector hack, I have used/modified his code for use in parts of this mod (with permission).

*Note 2* My forum's servers are driving me nuts right now, big load times, etc and I'm about to cut myself from waiting for a page to load - so I haven't thoroughly tested all the new goodies I've added. If you find that something doesn't work please let me know.

Description
When an user registers, this plugin checks for the cookie that the AE Detector sets, if it exists, then this plugin will move the user to a specified usergroup (default is to the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation usergroup). This will now check the user's IP address upon registration, and if it matches any others, it will place them in the Multiple Account (MA) usergroup . Also you have the option to ban the new account if the old account was banned.

You can turn the new features on/off accordingly in the settings area.


Install / Upgrade
Download the attached XML file, and import it at
Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Product

Remember to "Allow Overwrite" if you are upgrading.

Mod Info
1 - Query
3 - Phrases
2 - Plugins
0 - Template
0 - Template Edits


v1.0.2

• Fixed some major bugs that made the last release basically useless.

v1.0.1

• There is now an option prevent account registrations based on IP addresses.
• If a banned user attempts to create a new account, the new account will automatically be banned.
• Multiple account registrations will now send a PM or make a thread

v1.0.0

• Initial beta release

Please click "Install" if you have installed this mod! Thanks!

[duditas]

I'm trying it and it seems to work. Marked as installed. Thanks :up:

[Jah-Hools]

I want to keep an eye on this and will use it when it gets updated and out of beta?

Thanks!

:up:

[The4um]

some update for this?? on 3.7 doesn't work anymore

[Kiros72]

My users are getting errors during registration, except it doesn't happen in all browsers... It seems to only happen in Internet Explorer or other browsers that extend it.

First, this appears at the very top:

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in [path]/register.php(385) : eval()'d code on line 44

Then (probably because of the first error), this appears in the vBulletin Message box:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/domain/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php
Line: 3242

Can anyone think of a solution? I've really got no idea =[

[Duncan Idaha]

Tried it and it only generated error messages.

[AndyJensen]

Does this work on 3.8.0?

[Jah-Hools]

Would be good if it did!

[CORSO]

Since we updated to 3.8 the new users can not register in the forum and we are getting continuous errors from the database, for example this is the last one received:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO logins (userid, username, ipaddress, phpdate, logintype) VALUES (, 'marcelinno', '217.124.30.141', 1232059966, '');

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'marcelinno', '217.124.30.141', 1232059966, '')' at line 1

Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Thursday, January 15th 2009 @ 11:52:46 PM
Error Date : Thursday, January 15th 2009 @ 11:52:47 PM
Script : http://www.c4atreros.com/foroc4/regi...p?do=addmember
Referrer : http://www.c4atreros.com/foroc4/register.php?do=register"

[Kiros72]

I had problems with this too, so I developed a modification like it that works just fine with vBulletin 3.7 and 3.8. If you're interested, check out the link in my signature.

[CORSO]

I have desinstaled:

Multiple Account Registration Prevention
Multiple Account Login Detector (AE Detector)

And installed your mod
Multiple Account Detection & Prevention

But the problem persists