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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

[GhostHunter2010]

doesnt work on vb 4.1.10

[compuminus]

Whenever I add a post/thread using the tapatalk vbulletin app, it never appears in the spy list (and isn't added to the digitalpoint_spy table in the database). What hook code do I need to add to the plugin for it to register this event and log it to the database? Posts from tapatalk appear fine everywhere else in my forum. Thanks.

[Emeralda]

This doesn't have any options or such in Options? And what kind of things does it show? Or are those only posted and deleted posts?

Uhm... would it be possible to make it add a Tab to the navbar?

EDIT: Uhm, after checking the php file, could it also post things like, edited signature, avatar, visitor message (friends only, for you only, all, user selectable, you know)?~

EDIT2: Rawr, did you know League of Legends forum once used your mod? I'm not sure if it's still there, I saw it like, 2 years ago?

EDIT3: For people who would like to have the Spy location displayed in Who's Online, upload the plugin. Note: you will need to edit the "live" phrases to "spy" if you have kept the original naming. The two plugins should be called WOL and WOL Unknown under Digital Point Spy plugin. Kudos to Hippy for the original code.

[sross]

I'm on 4.1.11 can't seem to get a feed going. I updated the spy from 1.0 to the latest. Double checked copying files over etc, imported and overwrote.. http://www.apug.org/forums/spy.php

Thanks

[digitalpoint]

It looks like maybe you customized the SPY template? If so, you need to revert it to the default.

[sross]

Ah, i forgot about that. All good now, thanks!

[Webrunner]

Post that are put into the moderation queue are shown, even though they haven't been approved yet. Is there something that i can do to prevent that?

[sinucello]

Hi,
great mod. Could this cover social groups, too?
all the best,
Sacha

[tsptom]

This looks like a great mod. Kind of makes the activity stream look like a toy.

I'll give it a try.

Thanks!

[tsptom]

Very cool! It even filters out the private forums by permission.

If I had one suggestion it would be to call it something other than "spy". Sounds devious like we're spying on members. Maybe something friendlier like 'activity stream', but of course that was taken.

How about 'Forum Monitor" or "Live Action?" Just say'in.

Great mod! Thanks again.