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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

[sulasno]

off topic

I register at the site and have to make an additional click;

I have never registered under a different username.

How do I add this to my forum? tia

[Michlerish]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

It currently adds a link to the "Community" drop-down menu in the lower navigation (when you are anywhere within the forums).

If you really want it to have it's own main navbar button could you do something like so (this is off the top of my head, I didn't actually test it to make sure it works, but it should).

Plug-ins To Add
Location: process_templates_complete

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'spy') $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'spy';
$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= vB_Template::create('spy_navbar_link')->render(); 


Location: cache_templates

PHP Code:

$cache = $cache[] = 'spy_navbar_link'; 


Template To Add
Location: spy_navbar_link

<li<vb:if condition="$vboptions['selectednavtab'] == 'spy'"> class="selected"</vb:if>>
	<a class="navtab" href="spy.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase directory}</a>
</li>

Oh thanks! I actually didn't see it added under Community... I had some users ask for a NavBar link, I will let them know about the link under Community and see if that satisfies them.

If not, I will try your code above. Thanks so much for the work and quick reply

[Haywire0311]

It works for the most part but the spy.php page displays weird (i think?)

The spy works but at the top of the page, there is a check box and a blank icon that links to spy.php.

Also, I can't seem to find where to edit the settings for this?

This is a link to my site: http://www.m3orpg.com/spy.php

The other thing it does is when people post, it says "Who Knows" instead of new thread. It does recognize editing a post though.

[digitalpoint]

Seems like maybe the phrases that it comes with did not get installed or used? Did you edit anything manually?

[Haywire0311]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Seems like maybe the phrases that it comes with did not get installed or used? Did you edit anything manually?

Nope....didn't touch a thing on the mod. I installed as directed and that's what happened. Didn't touch a thing. I thought there might be settings to fix it but I can't find settings for it anywhere.

[digitalpoint]

Strange... it really looks as if the import product process simply didn't import any phrases at all. Do you have a phrase category named "Spy" in your language/phrase system?

[Haywire0311]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Strange... it really looks as if the import product process simply didn't import any phrases at all. Do you have a phrase category named "Spy" in your language/phrase system?

Nope. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling also and still no luck.

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by Haywire0311

Nope. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling also and still no luck.

I really have no clue to be honest... and without a setup that I can see myself that actually omits the phrases when you import the product package, it's impossible to try and debug. I skimmed vBulletin's import function, and I didn't see anything in there that would cause that part to not happen based on a setting or something, so I'm not sure.

Do you have any other product/plug-in or anything else that does anything at all with the language system? Maybe try installing it with plug-ins disabled or something?

Sorry I can't be of more help...

[JAFRI]

nice work ,,, Thanks

[fluidswork]

nice mod ...........