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

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Same plug-in found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125871

There are no differences as this plug-in works with the 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7 releases 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
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. 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
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

1.0.1
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. 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
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Initial release.

[adnedarn]

Those seem to have worked for me. Thanks! I love this add-on. =)

[ozzy47]

Glad that the edits worked.

[The_Hawk]

Awesome, I have updated the original XML file with these edits and tested it as an upgrade and fresh install and it seems to work fine now under 4.2.2.

If you want to take the lazy way out, just grab the attached file

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by The_Hawk

Awesome, I have updated the original XML file with these edits and tested it as an upgrade and fresh install and it seems to work fine now under 4.2.2.

If you want to take the lazy way out, just grab the attached file

Does that work with 4.2.0 ?

[ozzy47]

Yes it will, the edits were just to fix the PHP errors.

[too_cool_3]

ozzy47, thank you so much, I will try your update and report back if it was successfull.

Here are the errors AE Detector caused after upgrading from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2:


When logging into the forums:

Warning: Function split() is deprecated in ..../includes/functions_login.php(204) : eval()'d code on line 4Warning: Function split() is deprecated in ..../includes/functions_login.php(204) : eval()'d code on line 5

and this when loging into AdminCP, therefore not allwoing me to access it

 Warning: Function split() is deprecated in ..../includes/functions_login.php(204) : eval()'d code on line 4Warning: Function split() is deprecated in ..../includes/functions_login.php(204) : eval()'d code on line 5 Unable to add cookies, header already sent. File: /home/tbmotori/public_html/testforum/includes/class_core.php Line: 5745

Attached are the screenshots.

[ozzy47]

It should fix any errors from this mod.

[too_cool_3]

Hi ozzy47. Your code changes worked to get rid of the php warning messages, thanks a lot! You've been like'd =P

Using your instructions I went to ACP --> Plugins & Products --> Plugin Manager, Find the plugin called, AE Detector: Login Checker, clicked Edit and replaced every instance of

PHP Code:

split 


with

PHP Code:

explode 


[ozzy47]

Good deal, glad it worked out for you.

[Dragaon]

I was unable to access thew admincp due to those errors so I couldn't use the fix above.
What I did was open includes/config.php and added

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

to the file and saved.

With hooks disabled I had access to admincp again, I uploaded the AE Detector xml file i edited as per ozzys' instruction replacing "split" with "explode" everywhere.
In the import product page selected Allow Overwrite (upgrade)

Went back and commented out the line I added to config.php and voila!
All good

Here's the edited product-ae_detection.xml file