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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

[Brandon Sheley]

Would it be hard to pull the info on the spy.php page and place it in a widget for the cms page?

[MonsterDK]

Installed this mod and all I get is a blank page. No posts show on it vB 4.0.6

Can anyone offer any advice please?

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by MonsterDK

Installed this mod and all I get is a blank page. No posts show on it vB 4.0.6

Can anyone offer any advice please?

make sure you have a SPY template

[MonsterDK]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

make sure you have a SPY template

Hiya,

Yip, just checked, I have 'spy.css' and 'SPY' template.

Any ideas?

[Robert Waanders]

maybe a stupid question, I am looking for a mod like this for version 3.8 ... Anyone?

Robert

[KW802]

Shawn,

Any chance I could get you to add a hook so that 3rd party add-ons can add events to the $what array?

Short of adding new hard-coded event IDs in the array, I'm thinking if there were at least a hook location available for us to use then I could add new events using some really high range (eg: 9000+) for 3rd party add-on events to be recorded. There might still be a chance that multiple 3rd party add-ons might decide to use the same range but at least it'd be a start so that we can get other events in there.

[clubvr4]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

There aren't currently group permissions, although it does automatically filter stuff that the user wouldn't have access to see (if they don't have access to a certain forum, they don't see new threads/posts within it).

Will you be including this as a feature? I'd like to prevent certain usergroups using it.

Thansk
Me

[OttoBomb]

<a href="http://www.ww2f.com/spy.php" target="_blank">http://www.ww2f.com/spy.php</a> No posts seem to show up. Yes I have a "SPY" template and spy.css. Yes the forum is busy enough to display posts.

Also is there a control panel section for this? Most mods have a:
Settings >>> Options >>> DP Spy area. I take it this mod is simply installed or off?

[digitalpoint]

Do you have anything showing up in the digitalpoint_spy table?

[OttoBomb]

Not sure, how do I check this?

**Edit**
I just found this in my repair/optimize table in the admincp, looks like there is data there:
Table - Data Length - Index Length - Overhead
digitalpoint_spy - 594 Bytes - 3.0 KB - 0