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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

[Breakpoint]

XML Error: Invalid document end at Line 176

hmmm

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by Breakpoint

XML Error: Invalid document end at Line 176



hmmm

What's the URL where you have it installed and getting that error?

[skol]

Nice mod thank you,just a minor problem if you edit a post,it re-posts.

[The Vegan Forum]

With vB4.04, I always get error messages like this (see below) using this addon ? if I click on the user name of a newly registered member:

Checking if a package is enabled for an invalid package '3' on line 392 in /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/types.php
#0 /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/router.php(503): vB_Types->packageEnabled('3')
#1 /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/router.php(566): vB_Router::assertRoutes()
#2 /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/route.php(231): vB_Router::getRouteSegmentFromClass('vBCms_Route_L is...')
#3 /home/korn/public_html/forums/packages/vbcms/route/list.php(92): vB_Route->__construct()
#4 /home/korn/public_html/forums/member.php(567): vBCms_Route_List::getURL(Array)
#5 {main}


Fatal error: Checking if a package is enabled for an invalid package '3' on line 392 in [path]/vb/types.php in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 287
#0 vb_error_handler(256, Checking if a package is enabled for an invalid package '3' on line 392 in /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/types.php , /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/vb.php, 287, Array ([exception] => vB_Exception_Warning Object ([] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => Checking if a package is enabled for an invalid package '3',[] => ,[] => 0,[] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/types.php,[] => 392,[] => Array ([0] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/router.php,[line] => 503,[function] => packageEnabled,[class] => vB_Types,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => 3)),[1] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/router.php,[line] => 566,[function] => assertRoutes,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ()),[2] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/route.php,[line] => 231,[function] => getRouteSegmentFromClass,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => vBCms_Route_List)),[3] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/packages/vbcms/route/list.php,[line] => 92,[function] => __construct,[class] => vB_Route,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()),[4] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/member.php,[line] => 567,[function] => getURL,[class] => vBCms_Route_List,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => Array ([type] => author,[value] => 14807-minimal))))),[code] => 256)) #1 trigger_error(Checking if a package is enabled for an invalid package '3' on line 392 in /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/types.php , 256) called at [/home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/vb.php:287] #2 vB::handleException(vB_Exception_Warning Object ([] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => Checking if a package is enabled for an invalid package '3',[] => ,[] => 0,[] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/types.php,[] => 392,[] => Array ([0] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/router.php,[line] => 503,[function] => packageEnabled,[class] => vB_Types,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => 3)),[1] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/router.php,[line] => 566,[function] => assertRoutes,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ()),[2] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/vb/route.php,[line] => 231,[function] => getRouteSegmentFromClass,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => vBCms_Route_List)),[3] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/packages/vbcms/route/list.php,[line] => 92,[function] => __construct,[class] => vB_Route,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()),[4] => Array ([file] => /home/korn/public_html/forums/member.php,[line] => 567,[function] => getURL,[class] => vBCms_Route_List,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => Array ([type] => author,[value] => 14807-minimal))))))

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by skol

Nice mod thank you,just a minor problem if you edit a post,it re-posts.

It's supposed to since it logs "Edit Post" actions.

Originally Posted by The Vegan Forum

With vB4.04, I always get error messages like this (see below) using this addon ? if I click on the user name of a newly registered member:

Do you have a URL where it's installed that I can take a look?

[The Vegan Forum]

Enabling and disabling CMS seems to fix it.

[The Vegan Forum]

Yes, the site is veganforum.com, but the problem - when it first has occured - also happens when clicking on member profiles in other ways. I was unsuccessful at adding a CMS user name when I installed 4.04, and now it seems that if I add a plugin, I have to enable (and disable, if I don't want it active) CMS to get rid of that error message.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by The Vegan Forum

With vB4.04, I always get error messages like this (see below) using this addon ? if I click on the user name of a newly registered member:

this is a CMS issue mate ...

[skol]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

It's supposed to since it logs "Edit Post" actions.

You misunderstand me,if permissions are set in VB for usergroups, specifically staff in my case who are able to edit their own posts without displaying "message edited" within their post.

As it stands,members will now be able to see that the post has been edited.So basically i might aswell switch the display message edited on for all staff usergroups..If you see what i mean..

[digitalpoint]

Well the way it's working now is by design. If you don't want it to log post edits, just disable the "Log Post Edit" plug-in.