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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by kabir

It's not works with vBulletin 4.0.5

Works fine for me, what error are you getting exactly?

Originally Posted by PjDaBadMan

I got this error accessing the page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting ')' in /home/patrick/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4010) : eval()'d code on line 32

There was a template parsing bug in the early versions of vB4 that was fixed in vB4.0.3. Upgrading to vB4.0.3 will fix it.

[onehost]

I like live mods in action, very cool.

I wonder if it would be possible to create a live stats mod
without having to refresh that shows stats, users, spiders, etc..
that would be cool.

[vivamexico55]

Just confirming it works on VB 4.06 =)

Any ideas why I randomly get an "Unknown" in the Thread / Post part? it's weird.

Also, what's the advantage to using this over vaispy.php? I suppose it's optimized for larger forums?

Anyway, I went with digitalpoint's version cos I trust him, dude is awesome =)

[vivamexico55]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Any ideas why I randomly get an "Unknown" in the Thread / Post part? it's weird.

edit: Disregard edited comment, it seems to happen with all sorts of users. Previously I thought it only happened to mods.

Anyway, Installed, tagged, nominated, voted etc


edit again: Ok, this is just not working. About 3 out of 5 messages just show "Unknown", no link to the post, or thread, or some just link the thread title. Maybe related to 4.06?

[digitalpoint]

Doesn't seem to be related to 4.0.6... it's what I use, and the spy version is the exact one posted here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/spy.php

Do you have any sort of mod that might delete posts from the post table? Like something that might delete one and merge it into another post automatically? That could cause problems because by the time the spy outputs it, the postid no longer exists in the post table.

[vivamexico55]

This is the only other plugin I use: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2083347

I don't think it changes postids...

[digitalpoint]

Not really sure why it would do that unless the postid in the spy table didn't match up to one in the post table. I suppose if you want to try to debug it, go look in the spy table and make sure one of the results that spews "Unknown" has a postid matching up to one in the post table.

[Nomar86]

looking very nice, tagged this post to install it later

[red-dna]

red-dna.net/forum/spy.php
Is not getting any posts, any help?

[YankForum]

tnx installed it 4 sure