Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

Mod of the Month winner!
Top 10 most installed mods for vB3.6!

Same plug-in found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107566

There are no differences as this plug-in works with both 3.5 and 3.6 versions of vBulletin.

If you are like me and migrated from .threads, a common modification was an "AE detector", a simple mod that saved a cookie of a history of ids logged into on your site. If someone logged into more than one account, you got a PM letting you know that your site was being accessed from multiple accounts.

Over the years this was very helpful in identifying users who were posting under multiple accounts (alter-egos!) and users who would return after being banned.

You might be wondering why I don't use the vbcookie call - well, thats because on logout all vB cookies are cleared, so we need to store a cookie that is not effected by the login/logout process.

New Installation
1. Add New Product with attached XML
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> AE Multiple Login Detection Settings and set your specific settings.

Time to install: Easy - 2 minutes.

Upgrade
If you installed this as a Plug-in manually, you can delete that plugin and install this Product, just make sure to go into the Options and set them accordingly.

I hope you find this useful and will click INSTALL if you use it; should it prove useful to enough people I can look at making this installation more automated without the need for edits and an Admin Options page.

To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.

1.0.3
-----
. Added a check to ensure that users weren't deleted when reporting violations
. added htmlspecialchars_uni call to username

Note: I am unable to get the call to construct_phrase with $vbphrase['multiplelogin_alert'] to work reliably, as such the $message variable is still set manually inside the plug-in and not via the phrase. If anyone has an idea of why this might not always work, I'm all ears.

1.0.2
-----
. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

1.0.1
-----
. Released as a Product (thank you PHPGeek2k3 for your help)
. Added option to post to a forum versus send a PM (or both)
. All settings moved into Admin Option

1.0.0
-----
Initial release.

[abrecher]

"username1 seems to have multiple personalities using username1 and username1 sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!"

I get a lot of these where it's one username that's flagged and no others are mentioned ?

[Paul M]

Its a kind of bug, it happens when members have been deleted - their userid still exists in the AE cookie, but obviously this cannot display their name anymore as it no longer exists.

[abrecher]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Its a kind of bug, it happens when members have been deleted - their userid still exists in the AE cookie, but obviously this cannot display their name anymore as it no longer exists.

That makes a lot of sense but I've researched this quite a bit and these members were never deleted ?

[vitrag24]

this was gr8 plugin.
i want it for vb 3.7 also
can i have it?

[wally]

waiting also for an update for 3.7.1

in 3.6.10 pl1 it worked but after upgrade to 3.7.1 pl1 not anymore

[swatkins]

I really need this for 3.7 also ... PLEASE

[ccunnin71]

:up: Yes, an update would be appreciated. I am fighting Trolls without the proper tools.

[vitrag24]

is this working on vb 3.7?
anyone have checked?

[wally]

Originally Posted by vitrag24

is this working on vb 3.7?
anyone have checked?

if you had read some posts up you could seen the answer

[vitrag24]

Originally Posted by wally

if you had read some posts up you could seen the answer

i've checked that's y asking,.
some users saying it's working some are saying it's not.

If you know kindly reply. Don't puzzle.
Thanks.