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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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).

[Kaitlyn2004]

Hmm tried to install it and got:

Unable to find a class to validate: vB_TemplateParser_Curlycssfile on line 1083 in /path/to/forums/includes/class_template_parser.php

along with other errors.. and

Fatal error: Unable to find a class to validate: vB_TemplateParser_Curlycssfile on line 1083 in [path]/includes/class_template_parser.php in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 287

Edit: On vB 4.0.3 PL1, FYI...

[digitalpoint]

What version of vB are you using?

[Kaitlyn2004]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

What version of vB are you using?

Edited post later, but on 4.0.3 PL1...

[digitalpoint]

You might want to upgrade... Earlier versions of vB4 had all sorts of template parsing bugs that were fixed in later versions.

[huuquynh]

Could you please tell me more about: Switched JavaScript library to from YUI to jQuery (for an end user, it means better animations).

Thanks!

[Methok]

I have seen it done on other sites where you need to be a premium user to use Digital Spy hack.

Would anyone know how to do this? I have it installed, Just need to limit its use.

Thank you.

- Methok

[lycheepassion]

mine isn't working?

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by Methok

I have seen it done on other sites where you need to be a premium user to use Digital Spy hack.

Would anyone know how to do this? I have it installed, Just need to limit its use.

It's easy. Find plugin "Add Spy Link To Navigation" where you call link to it and use this condition around calling spy.php:

<vb:if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5,6,7)">

Now plugin should look like:

$template_hook['navbar_community_menu_end'] .= '<vb:if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5,6,7)"><li><a href="spy.php' . $session['sessionurl_q'] . '" target="_blank">' . $vbphrase['spy'] . '</a></li></vb:if>';

Of course, 5,6,7 are usergroups you want to allow access.

[Mukashi]

The same method could be used to allow registered users but not guests to use it as well?

[Alan_SP]

You put usergroups you want to see it. Any usergroups listed are able to view this link. Actually, you can use it for any link or content you want visible to selected usergroups. Link and content is inside statment.