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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

[kkk333]

Hi ,
thank you for this great Mod.
could you help me to add 2 features.

1) how can I make quick reply AJAX without forword to thread page
win click on any post show quick reply box in spy page.

2) Also, I want use it to feed on one thread only
(Admins,Moderators can choose any thread/threads to spy by members)
I want this feature for thread about any event like real-time soccer match.
we have many posts and want easy way to browse new posts.

thank you again for this great hack.

[ActiveZone]

Really nice job.

It works great! Thank you.

1.
Can we limit it to display only new posts and not edited posts and deleted posts?
2.
Can we add time stamp on each message that comes down the list?

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by kkk333

Hi ,
thank you for this great Mod.
could you help me to add 2 features.

1) how can I make quick reply AJAX without forword to thread page
win click on any post show quick reply box in spy page.

It's not possible.

Originally Posted by kkk333

2) Also, I want use it to feed on one thread only
(Admins,Moderators can choose any thread/threads to spy by members)
I want this feature for thread about any event like real-time soccer match.
we have many posts and want easy way to browse new posts.

thank you again for this great hack.

The next version which isn't released yet allows you to show a spy feed just for a specific threadid if you want.

Originally Posted by ActiveZone

Really nice job.

It works great! Thank you.

1.
Can we limit it to display only new posts and not edited posts and deleted posts?

You could disable some of the plug-ins for it in the AdminCP (for example you could disable Log Post Edit).

Originally Posted by ActiveZone

2.
Can we add time stamp on each message that comes down the list?

No, sorry.

[c.c.]

Quick question. How do we make it that only paid members can use this mod. I've seen other boards do this, but for the life of me I can't figure out how they do it?

[ActiveZone]

thanks Digital Point.
I managed to be able to keep it showing only the new posts and threads but here is another problem i have.

Up to now i was using Vaispy for the 3.8 platform. Now, i use yours. It happens that my forum has to sections. One is for a specific usergroup and the other is for all the members including this usergroup as well.

Now the rest of the members are not able to see the section for the specific usergroup but all, event this section's posts are displayed in the Spy list when they are posted, although the simple members when they click on the link are not allowed to access. But it's really annoying to have the posts of this section "fall" into the spy feed for ALL the members as in this way they can see the review.

I would like to limit the usersgroup section to be included in the Spy list only for the usergroup members to see. For the rest, these posts should not exist and should not appear.

Any clue?

[digitalpoint]

That's already how it works (at least it should)... users can only see posts from threads they have access to. Are you SURE they are seeing something they can't access?

[ActiveZone]

it seems that with a little more effort it works fine now.

Thanks!!

[digitalpoint]

What extra effort was that exactly? It's how it works out of the box...

[itforumz]

Good one

[itforumz]

What`s it going to help the user?