Version: 1.03, by MPDev
Developer Last Online: Dec 2016
Version: 3.5.4
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Released: 02-08-2006
Last Update: 04-16-2006
Installs: 886
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If you are like me and migrated from .threads, a common modification was an "AE detector", a simple mod that saved a cookie of a history of ids logged into on your site. If someone logged into more than one account, you got a PM letting you know that your site was being accessed from multiple accounts.
Over the years this was very helpful in identifying users who were posting under multiple accounts (alter-egos!) and users who would return after being banned.
You might be wondering why I don't use the vbcookie call - well, thats because on logout all vB cookies are cleared, so we need to store a cookie that is not effected by the login/logout process.
New Installation
1. Add New Product with attached XML
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> AE Multiple Login Detection Settings and set your specific settings.
Time to install: Easy - 2 minutes.
Upgrade
If you installed this as a Plug-in manually, you can delete that plugin and install this Product, just make sure to go into the Options and set them accordingly.
I hope you find this useful and will click INSTALL if you use it; should it prove useful to enough people I can look at making this installation more automated without the need for edits and an Admin Options page.
To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.
1.0.3
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. Added a check to ensure that users weren't deleted when reporting violations
. added htmlspecialchars_uni call to username
Note: I am unable to get the call to construct_phrase with $vbphrase['multiplelogin_alert'] to work reliably, as such the $message variable is still set manually inside the plug-in and not via the phrase. If anyone has an idea of why this might not always work, I'm all ears.
1.0.2
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id
1.0.1
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. Released as a Product (thank you PHPGeek2k3 for your help)
. Added option to post to a forum versus send a PM (or both)
. All settings moved into Admin Option
It's working as designed - it won't notify you every time the user logs into each of those accounts; only on the initial detection of a subsequent new login for that computer.
seems to be working fine... but i just got notified about the same user twice... rather then just the initial detection? once yesterday, and now again today. same message posted...
Yesterday, 01:14 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alert Bot
User1 seems to have multiple personalities using User2 and User1 sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!
Today, 12:47 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alert Bot
User1 seems to have multiple personalities using User2 and User1 sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!
Most likely that person is using two different computers; I've never had an issue with the report coming from the same machine twice, but I have had users who login to multiple accounts from home and work get tripped.
it won't notify you every time the user logs into each of those accounts; only on the initial detection of a subsequent new login for that computer.
Odd. I am getting multiple alerts as well. One user I have 4 threads since 3/14 and then another thread when the alternate user logged in on a different day, another set of users was reported twice, probably more but I pruned the threads on the 10th.
Most likely that person is using two different computers; I've never had an issue with the report coming from the same machine twice, but I have had users who login to multiple accounts from home and work get tripped.
i've emailed the users; i know it's two brothers that share a computer at home. i'll ask them to see if they're using computers at their school or something too. also, just noticed you're at EF... i'm gonna send you a PM about Jenny P - she brought too many bigwigs to my board that got too nosey and started up a bunch of shiat.
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03-23-2006, 07:46 AM
