Nu Torrent Tracker 0.74

Finally, my bittorrent tracker for vBulletin has reached a somewhat betaish level. Meaning, it functions but some things are still missing like AdminCP Category Editing and so on. But only a few. All needed things are there and it works well as I've been running it on my board for a month now.

I decided to write this thing after firsthand witnessing the problems with VBTT and what was first meant to be quite simple turned out into a full fledged tracker with features like commenting, rating, etc.

Note that this is a beta which means it has only been tested on one system AND I won't be responsible if you go blind from the messy code. But hey, it works! :nervous:


I don't have any screenshots but you are welcome to come and check out the live demo at: http://www.tokyo-nights.com/nutt
Heck, I'll even throw in a test user for ya:

user: kjustice
pass: useme

I'll prolly be updating the distro as I find and fix bugs. When the instructions say so or if you wish to, you can uninstall it by going to /forum/admincp/nutt_install.php?step=uninstall

0.74 - Made upload use vB's new thread function to fix the nasty apostrophe issue in 0.73
Changed:
upload.php

0.73 - Improved conditions for users the tracker reports as 'unconnectable'.
Changed:
announce.php

0.72 - Added a function to fix the navbar urls.
Changed:
functions.php
nutt_global.php

0.71 - Fixed a bug in details.php.
Changed:
details.php

[Lynne]

Da_GoTTi, there are *legal* torrents you know.

afusion, it looks like you forgot to add some phrases. None of the ones in the usergroup permissions show up. I have the yes/no radio buttons, but not the phrase for what they are for. I looked in the phrase xml file and they aren't there.

if you get sued just because of the torrent thing, Microsoft, IBM, Bungie(our good old Halo) and other big companies will be too, because they use that protocol to spread their softwares... most of the online gaming you play with actually are using similar torrent protocol to exchange files...

the only point with torrent and legal threat is the same with any other software where you can download something... ftp, afp, etc... all files protocol have pirates on 'em...

torrent is great to share films between users... a clan of gamers can share the same films of their games when they have them on a torrent tracker per example... it's bigger for a server to host ftps...

[afusion]

^ well put, nexialys, thank you...

Lynne, and all the rest: yes, I am a moron. Updated the zip once again with some missing phrases.

@afusion, i suggest you to versionish your release, to keep us updated on the version number you are on... if you make updates, we then know...

actually, a 0.7b is good, as you're about 70% sure of the content, and is in beta stage... when you have all the content inserted and so, a 1.0b would be good ...

[afusion]

ok, changed it to 0.6 since there seems to be some weird bug with people... strange that it doesn't appear on my server...

more specifically, this query is ruining my life:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("DELETE FROM nutt_peers WHERE last_action < $deadtime"); 


either it says the table is not found or the syntax is incorrect :tired:

$DB_site->query("DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "nutt_peers WHERE last_action < '$deadtime'");

.. table prefix is missing, and protect your entry content with " ' " ...

[dsboyce8624]

Okay, I know what BT is, and what it's for. What does this do?

Pardon my noobism, but I haven't used any file sharing stuff since Napster was real.

I assume this tracks a torrent server if you're running one?

@ds... no, actually, this is the "server"...

a tracker only keep track of the hash that identify each files shared on it... a BT never host any file but the hash that identify the files...(with some details like file size, structure, url for the tracker...)

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by nexialys

@ds... no, actually, this is the "server"...

a tracker only keep track of the hash that identify each files shared on it... a BT never host any file but the hash that identify the files...(with some details like file size, structure, url for the tracker...)

So if I installed this, would it affect bandwidth WITH file transfers or just with the data ABOUT the files and ongoing transfers?

[Floris]

I have to say I think it is very lame of you to flame another user in your hack release.