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Multiple account login detector (AE Detector) · **Released**: 02-08-2006

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

1.0.0
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Initial release.

Hemanth · #**222** 04-17-2006, 06:58 AM

Great Hack.. Thank you.

Spinball · #**223** 04-17-2006, 07:45 PM

Finding this hack very useful right now as the same banned pillock keeps re-registering.
I'm banning him before he even has chance to activate his new account.
Any chance of having an option to pick a particular user, and if someone registers with that cookie, they are automatically sent to coventry with a PM of such info sent to admin?
Thanks for a great hack.

speedracer68 · #**224** 04-17-2006, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPDev

What version of PHP are you running? Haven't seen the warning before.

PHP5

I so want to install this.

CodeRed · #**225** 04-18-2006, 02:26 AM

update.... it does work 3.5.1

thanks for the work!

Nathan2006 · #**226** 04-18-2006, 03:43 AM

Thank you for the update MPDev

BANDiT600 · #**227** 04-18-2006, 12:57 PM

MPDev, wow, after upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 all works great, withiut errors, what I've posted above.

MorrisMcD · #**228** 04-18-2006, 01:55 PM

Great hack.. Was working fine on .2 for me, but I upgraded anyway..

Thanks for this hack.. A lot

MPDev · #**229** 04-19-2006, 12:06 PM

Excellent, glad it's working for you.

BANDiT600 · #**230** 04-19-2006, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPDev

Excellent, glad it's working for you.

What was the problem with me, if not secret???

MPDev · #**231** 04-19-2006, 05:06 PM

I don't know, honestly; not a whole lot changed between the two versions.

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