Major Additions - [AJAX] vB Pager 3.0.4

This modification currently contains a vulnerability. You are hereby advised to uninstall this modification until such time that the author provides a fix.
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[AJAX] vB Pager 3.0.4

Hack Version: 3.0.4
vB-version: 3.5.x
Developer: WwW.UAEWEB.CoM
Install-difficulty: Few minutes!

Introduction:
vB Pager is a text-based instant messaging system over your community between members. Users can exchange short & quick messages amongst each other. Unlike the regular private messaging system, the paged user is guaranteed to read your message & reply to it (if you choose this option) instantly & easily.

• Features:
  • Uses AJAX Technology to Send pager messages / Get pager messages / Add & Remove a member to buddy list / Add & Remove a member from Ignore list. (No Refresh Required)
• Main Features:
  • vB Pager Buddy List ?pop-up? window is used to keep track of the friends you wish to interact with. By going to your "vB Pager Buddies", you'll be able to see which of your friends are currently online and offline, and be able to send them a pager message. Adding people to your buddy list also allow you to send pager messages to multiple forum members at the same time. You may add any member of the forums to your buddy list by clicking the icon next to their names in the vB Pager Online Members Page or Clicking the Manage Buddies Link to add/remove members into your list.
  • vB Pager Ignore List ?pop-up? window lists are used for those people who's messages you wish not recieve from.
  • Received Pager Messages are Draggable Inline Popups.
  • Sending a message opens up a small window where you can type in message to be sent.
  • Optional Anonymity: you can choose to hide your username when paging another user on the forum, & define which Usergroup can utilize this option.
  • The window comes in with a built-in character counter to enable the user to keep track of the characters typed.
  • Logs of all incoming and outgoing pager messages ?Inbox/Sent Items? member has, can be viewed and deleted.
  • Download Stored Messages as XML, CSV, TXT.
  • Members can turn the vB Pager Off anytime they wish not to receive pager messages, and they can select the option to receive pager messages from those who are in their Pager Buddy List only.
• Admin CP Features:
  • vB Pager Options
    • Switch the paging system on or off anytime you wish!
    • vB Pager AJAX Check Period control.
    • Set to mark all read messages as deleted messages after being read by end users and prune them automaticly every one hour with cron job.(v3.0.4)
    • vB Pager Display Window Refresh Period control .
    • Set Floodcheck - Minimum Time Between Pager Messages.
    • Set Maximum Pager Messages Per-Page in inbox/sent items.
    • Allow vB Code in Pager Messages control.
    • Set the Sizes of Width and Height of the vB Pager Buddy List Window.
    • Set the Width Size of the Received Pager Message Box.(v3.0.1)
    • Enable Notification Sound on New Received Pager Message.(v3.0.1)
    • Enable/Disable the display of Avatar.(v3.0.2)
    • Banned Users.
  • Pager Message Statistics
    • Mass prune stored pager messages (All, Unread, and Deleted Messages).
    • search for users with X number of pager messages.
    • Delete pager messages for user x.
• Usergroup based Permissions:
  • Can Send Pager Messages. (Yes/No)
  • Maximum Stored Pager Messages.
  • Minimum Number of Posts Required Before Can Send Pager Messages.
  • Minimum Number of Posts Required (Per Day) Before Can Send Pager Messages.
  • Maximum Number of Pager Messages Can Send Per Day.
  • Maximum Recipients to Send Pagers at a time.
  • Maximum Characters Per Pager Message.
  • Can Hide Their Username When Paging Another User. (Yes/No)
  • Can Use Allow Reply Option When Sending Pager. (Yes/No)
  • Can Send Pager Message to All Users. (Yes/No)
• Other Features:
  • XML Product.
  • Fully Phrased.
  • No file edits.
• Screenshots, Updates, FAQs & Add-Ons:
  • See second & third post.
• Contents of vbpager.zip:
  • README.txt
  • Uploads
    • pager.php
    • pager_sound.wav (v3.0.1)
    • admincp
      • pageradmin.php
    • includes
      • xml
        • bitfield_pager.xml
        • cpnav_pager.xm
    • images
      • statusicon
        • vbpager.gif
        • vbpager_icon.gif
        • vbpager_user_buddylist_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_buddylist_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_ignorelist_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_ignorelist_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_offline.gif
        • vbpager_user_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_remove.gif
• Contents of xml Product:
  • vB Pager Templates
    • PAGER
    • PAGERBUDDYLIST
    • pagerbuddylistbit
    • pager_messagelist
    • pager_messagelistbit
    • pager_multipager
    • pager_newpager
  • vB Pager plugins
  • • vB Pager (cache_temlates)
    • vB Pager (parse_templates)
    • vB Pager (profile_updateoptions)
    • vB Pager (template_groups)
    • vB Pager (userdata_doset)
    • vB Pager (userdata_start)
    • vB Pager (cron_script_cleanup)
  • vB Pager phrases
    • Many of 'em
  • vB Pager Database Modifications
    • New Tables (pagerreceipt, pagertext)
    • Alterd Tables (user, usergroup, usertextfield)

How to Install:

• Simply download the zip file, Unzip it to a directory on your computer and follow the steps from the README.txt
• Remember to Change vB Pager Pemrissions from the Usergroup Manager.
• Make sure that you got your forum url filled in the Help Site Name / URL / Contact Details under your vBulletin Options. See this post
• Make sure that you got your forum directory name filled in the Forum Directory Name under your vB Pager Options.
• Please Read This Post befor asking for help.

How to Uninstall:

• Simply remove all uploaded files, revert your edited templates, and uninstall vB Pager Product from the Manage Products under the Plugin System in your ADMINCP.

Known Issues:

• Permissions are not being inherited from secondary usergroups.

Thanks to aberg for the Dutch translation.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN!
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[gothicuser]

Originally Posted by caimakale

Do you have vBadvanced cmps installed? I know it had a problem with this.

I'm running vBA 2.1.0 & vB 3.5.3 with vBPager and all works perfectly here.
Maybe it's another hack thats incompatible??

[Gripemaster]

Originally Posted by caimakale

Are you sure it's this hack causing the problem? Do you have vBadvanced cmps installed? I know it had a problem with this. If you have it installed you should go check out their forums for the fix.

No I do not have vBadvanced cmps installed. But it didn't start doing it until I installed this Pager hack. The hack works fine and everyone loves the Pager, but many are having trouble with it logging them completely out, including me. It's not a problem for me, but some members have kids and they don't want them to "stumble in" by accident.

[sung]

I get this error when trying to update permissions. Any ideas?

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.3:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Administrators',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = 'Administrator',
`opentag` = '<b><i><span style=\"color:#FFA34F\">',
`closetag` = '</span></i></b>',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`forumpermissions` = '1048575',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '10000',
`pmpermissions` = '3',
`pmsendmax` = '5',
`calendarpermissions` = '63',
`wolpermissions` = '31',
`adminpermissions` = '3',
`genericpermissions` = '204234687',
`genericoptions` = '23',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '640',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '480',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '100000',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '70',
`avatarmaxheight` = '70',
`avatarmaxsize` = '20000',
`pagerpermissions` = '1',
`pagerquota` = '',
`pagerminpost` = '',
`pagerminpostperday` = '',
`pagermaxperday` = '',
`pagersendmax` = '',
`pagersendmaxchar` = ''
WHERE usergroupid=6;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'pagerpermissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Wednesday, February 1st 2006 @ 09:10:42 PM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forums/a.../usergroup.php
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/forums/admi...&usergroupid=6
IP Address : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Username : xxxxxxxx
Classname : vb_database

[Annie^.^]

I get this error in the reply box

Error: Sorry you are not allowed to use VB Pager.

Everything is set correctly

[Dennis B]

Folks,

For those of us with medium/big boards out there... be very careful when you install this hack. With a 20 sec ajax check period and a 120 sec window refresh period set in the ACP, for 150+ simultaneous users, apache processes doubled and my avg server loads went from 0.2 to 1, with several peaks of 9 during the day... And this is a dedicated server...

I have disabled this hack until the weekend when I'll be able to play with the settings a bit, but not sure if I'll keep it, even though my users love it.

[romow]

i still cannot find where i can lookup the list of members/buddies online.

[agiacosa]

Here's my experience.

This is a wonderful mod that works very well. I enabled it for admins, mods and premium members only. That about 60 people in total.

I'm on a shared host and average load was around 4. Once I installed this mod, the load shot up to 16+. Yesterday, my site was shut down by the host because load went over 20.

The host and I tried to test what was going on. My site was reset and I disabled the paging system. The load would stay aroun 4. I enabled the pager system and within a couple of hours, the load was back up past 16. I disabled it again, and down came the load.

I request of the author to check to see if there's any way to make this mod less server intensive. I really need it but can't use it at the moment.

[PJSkiboy]

uae,

i have since un-installed this hack from my forums. after i went back and un-edited everything, now my vb menu system no longer works, lol.

from the looks of things in this thread, there's a lot of fires to put out. so no rush on my issue. i'll just keep an eye on this thread and contact you again when it doesn't look so crowded in here.

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

Here's my experience.

This is a wonderful mod that works very well. I enabled it for admins, mods and premium members only. That about 60 people in total.

I'm on a shared host and average load was around 4. Once I installed this mod, the load shot up to 16+. Yesterday, my site was shut down by the host because load went over 20.

The host and I tried to test what was going on. My site was reset and I disabled the paging system. The load would stay aroun 4. I enabled the pager system and within a couple of hours, the load was back up past 16. I disabled it again, and down came the load.

I request of the author to check to see if there's any way to make this mod less server intensive. I really need it but can't use it at the moment.

I have also some increasing server loads from before under 1.0 to now sometimes up to 10, tried to disabling for a short time vbPager but saw no difference.

[PixelFx]

Got working with IE, thanks for all the support threads... I have custom style, so I had to delete CSS code in my body (style for scroll bar) and make CSS part of the file system. Now its working perfectly, hope that helps other users