Nu Torrent Tracker 0.74

Finally, my bittorrent tracker for vBulletin has reached a somewhat betaish level. Meaning, it functions but some things are still missing like AdminCP Category Editing and so on. But only a few. All needed things are there and it works well as I've been running it on my board for a month now.

I decided to write this thing after firsthand witnessing the problems with VBTT and what was first meant to be quite simple turned out into a full fledged tracker with features like commenting, rating, etc.

Note that this is a beta which means it has only been tested on one system AND I won't be responsible if you go blind from the messy code. But hey, it works! :nervous:


I don't have any screenshots but you are welcome to come and check out the live demo at: http://www.tokyo-nights.com/nutt
Heck, I'll even throw in a test user for ya:

user: kjustice
pass: useme

I'll prolly be updating the distro as I find and fix bugs. When the instructions say so or if you wish to, you can uninstall it by going to /forum/admincp/nutt_install.php?step=uninstall

0.74 - Made upload use vB's new thread function to fix the nasty apostrophe issue in 0.73
Changed:
upload.php

0.73 - Improved conditions for users the tracker reports as 'unconnectable'.
Changed:
announce.php

0.72 - Added a function to fix the navbar urls.
Changed:
functions.php
nutt_global.php

0.71 - Fixed a bug in details.php.
Changed:
details.php

[Selene]

so how many have installed it? is it working well?

is it like VBTT that sqrtboy made or is it better?

@selene... please don't talk about sqrtboy.. lol

it's completely different in the structure, the functions and the integration, and my opinion of the code is that it's better... but did not tested it intensively... need some tests in the next days with 100 or more torrents... (ok, i have a big group)

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Selene

so how many have installed it? is it working well?

is it like VBTT that sqrtboy made or is it better?

It seems to be leaner yet more robust and less awkward than VBTT, though it would be nice to have:

real time ul/dl speed on the tracker, on each torrent, and for each peer
display each user upload and download statistics in user panel
ratio tracking and user banning according to some ratio rules
stats retrieved from any user, with graphs associated
the ability to keep the original file name, rather than rename to a number (and this would help avoid any seeding confusion)

[afusion]

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

1. real time ul/dl speed on the tracker, on each torrent, and for each peer
2. display each user upload and download statistics in user panel
3. ratio tracking and user banning according to some ratio rules
4. stats retrieved from any user, with graphs associated
5. the ability to keep the original file name, rather than rename to a number (and this would help avoid any seeding confusion)

1. I used to have something like that included but I removed it since most of time it was completely incorrect.
2. That's definitely coming up along with users download history
3. Well it already has a wait time system but I suppose I can add a lil cron job.
4. Isn't that basically the same as 2?
5. The browser can be tricked into thinking it's any filename you want though I think server-side they should be numbered. Otherwise it would add a query when downloading the .torrent. A rather nasty query looking at the fancy names people tend to use.

[yoyoyoyo]

I uploaded the new announce.php file, but it still won't let me connect to other users - it says that I am not connectable. I am able to connect using other torrent sites, as well as at afusion's site, so I don't think it is a firewall issue here. As I said I added the updated announce.php file, but it still doesn't seem to be connecting when I try to download files that others have posted on my site.

Also- I noticed that one person who was trying to seed a file is showing up as a peer, and not a seed, when I try to grab the file.

[afusion]

Btw, which client were you both using?

...

me too, would prefer to have the .torrent file named as the archive itself, not with a number... like "torrentname[trackername].torrent" ...

i download from a lot of trackers, and having numbers is not really funny to have...

[afusion]

Well like I said, it can easily be made so that server-side the torrent is numbered but when downloaded, it's properly named. Anyways, gonna include that in the next update since I can't have an update over every little thing.

I'm btw looking into php scraping atm so external torrents might also be included in the next update.

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by afusion

Btw, which client were you both using?

I was using bittornado, and he is using bittorrent 3.4.2

[yoyoyoyo]

I uploaded the new upload.php file, but there seems to be a new bug with this one:

when I click on the link to my forum on the upper left part of the NAVBAR it takes me to the root because the link supplied is: "http://www.mysite.com/?" when it should be "http://mysite.com/forum"