Miscellaneous Hacks - EPC Massive User Creator :: Using PHP and .NET (ALL SOURCES)

Massive User Creator v1.0 DONE .NET STYLE

1st of it's kind on vBulletin.org for sharing a .NET source (that I know of) to work with the forums via creating massive users instantly!

Floris was the one that inspired me to release this source so I'm blaming Floris. (This is a joke)

If you don't like this hack then move on, because after reading of the complainers and whiners in his thread it was sad to see the drama queens in action in there saying how unmoral it is and etc... If you don't like it then move on!!! No drama is needed here, I have a 12 year old girl that does enough of that, we don't need no grown men or women dramatizing in this thread.

So no drama please!

Consider this as a learning curve on how .NET works with xmlrpc and the likes!

Unleashing the power of .NET, XMLRPC and just clicking a button = faster way to fill up your forums in no time at all. This is not just for anybody. You will need the following tool under requirements or hire a .NET coder that can do it for you. Because you'll need to enter in the hard coded part of the URL that's needed to be changed in Proxy.vb.

I'm not making this as a version to where you can simply enter the URL to where the script (rpc_users.php) is for liability reasons. I'm giving you sources ONLY!

The rest is up to you, you could donate to the cause of this and I can make a build for your forums personally.

Also, if you are a .NET guru you have the right to expand this project if you like, just credits should be given back and upload here your sources ONLY after I approve of them, so don't go uploading stuff until we approve of it.

Requirements:

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 or higher

Instructions:

Simple if you have .NET 2003+

1. Open up the project file. (Massive User Creator.vbproj)

2. Edit Proxy.vb in code view

3. Edit one line below within the quotes "http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/rpc_users.php":

From Proxy.vb source code:

<XmlRpcUrl("http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/rpc_users.php")> _

4. Leave the rest of the code alone unless you know what you are doing.

5. Upload your rpc_users.php tor your forums root after making any necessary changes too such as referrer and such...

6. Build your solution in .NET (Ctrl+Shift+B), you may wanna run a Debug (F5) to test it from there first before you make a bin/

7. Enter in a username | email@emailaddress.com | Click the Generate as the screenshot shows to give a random password.

8. Once done with setting up one click the big o' button Create Users! and if all is correct in your path within Proxy.vb you'll have a new user instantly.

Do note, you will need the matching amount of usernames and email addresses to properly make this work. Meaning you have 50 user names, you will need 50 email addresses, then click generate passwords. Simple enough?

After this, it's endless you can simply create literally thousands of users in a matter of minutes. Where they will actually show up in your member list. I have included 1,000 email addresses that are (fake) so you have that part covered. Just generating usernames is the rest that you'll need. Because built a password generator on there for you already. Easy enough because there are name/word generators in Google for free so go check our friend Google!

I can't see no reason for upgrades due to the fact it's been working since 3.5

Zip Contents:

Also included in the zip folder you will find the following ONLY, no .exe will be included:

rpc_users.php
README.txt
FAKE-EMAILS\ FOLDER
1thousand.txt
EPC MASS FAKE USERS SRC\ FOLDER
AssemblyInfo.vb
carbon_too.ico
CookComputing.XmlRpc.dll
HtmlAgilityPack.dll
Massive User Creator.sln
Massive User Creator.suo
Massive User Creator.vbproj
Massive User Creator.vbproj.user
MassUsers.resx
MassUsers.vb
Proxy.resx
Proxy.vb
RF User Creator.sln
RF User Creator.suo
bin\ FOLDER
CookComputing.XmlRpc.dll
HtmlAgilityPack.dll
obj\ FOLDER
Debug\ FOLDER
temp\ FOLDER
TempPE\ FOLDER
Release\ FOLDER
Temp\ FOLDER
TempPE\ FOLDER

Once again there are NO Executables in this package.

Now, a bit of the PHP file, you can expand this to your likings if you see as follows:

PHP Code:

            $userdm->set('username', $username); // NO NEED TO TOUCH THIS.
            $userdm->set('email', $email); // NO NEED TO TOUCH THIS.
            $userdm->set('password', $password); // NO NEED TO TOUCH THIS.
            $userdm->set('usergroupid', 2); // Registered Users Group ID
            $userdm->set('ipaddress', '127.0.0.1'); // NO NEED TO TOUCH THIS.
            $userdm->set('referrerid', 'SomeNameHere'); // PUT A USERNAME OF SOMEONE AS A REFERER HERE
            $userdm->set('timezoneoffset', '0'); // TIMEZONE
            $userdm->set_bitfield('options', 'adminemail', 0); // RECIEVE E-MAIL FROM ADMIN? YES OR NO 1 OR 0 WE PUT IT AS 0 FOR YOU
            $userdm->set_bitfield('options', 'showemail', 0); 


Where you can put more options within here that you would want to use with your forums if you so desire, this is a standard format that we use, so you can expand this later once you get the grips on it.

So enjoy what you have here and happy adding! Click install if you like this.

Disclaimer:

I claim no responsibility and neither does anyone else in your mishaps and etc... If you decide to cripple your forums because of your stupidity actions don't come crying here on vbulletin.org about how you made your board die after opening up 10 instances sending 50 million users to your forums in a matter of seconds. You think we are responsible for you burning your own house down?

[0tolerance]

I think this is a brilliant modification...
my only problem is having to get out the install disc for all my .NET application .
Never the less, i think you are a bright minded talented person to think of this.
because just think if you have 100 members people arent going to sign up
if you have 2000 members, people are going to think, wow this site looks active, i want to take part!

I bow to you sir!

[blogtorank]

HAHA, well you better dust off the disk and the case, cause you'll like this guaranteed it's pretty nifty. I would say it's endless, because some admins of forums should be able to take a service to the forums owner telling them they can increase the member ratio (only until I get this other idea worked out for auto-content) for a small charge of such and such. Just a bit of insight for the ones that wanna make a bit extra $ if they wanted.

I'm not here to profit off my toys, I'm here to share some innovations!

[gforce75]

Lol, nice concept

[Magnumutz]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

I'm not here to profit off my toys, I'm here to share some innovations!

My hat off to you.

P.S.: I've nominated this for MOTM... hope you don't mind

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by Magnumutz

My hat off to you.

P.S.: I've nominated this for MOTM... hope you don't mind

Ahhhhhh man that's cool dude thanks!

How about when part II is done cause we are working on the content solution now for these new so called "members."

[lazytown]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

HAHA, well you better dust off the disk and the case, cause you'll like this guaranteed it's pretty nifty. I would say it's endless, because some admins of forums should be able to take a service to the forums owner telling them they can increase the member ratio (only until I get this other idea worked out for auto-content) for a small charge of such and such. Just a bit of insight for the ones that wanna make a bit extra $ if they wanted.

I'm not here to profit off my toys, I'm here to share some innovations!

Nice of you to share. I'm not trying to create drama, but just informing others out there who may not know any better. Doing that would probably be illegal or could possibly result in a lawsuit here in the US -- unless you fully disclosed exactly what you were doing to your client (even then it's a little iffy).

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by vissa

Nice of you to share. I'm not trying to create drama, but just informing others out there who may not know any better. Doing that would probably be illegal or could possibly result in a lawsuit here in the US -- unless you fully disclosed exactly what you were doing to your client (even then it's a little iffy).

Well that's up to the owner and the person that's offering it! Just like posting a disclaimer:

Disclaimer:

I claim no responsibility and neither does anyone else in your mishaps and etc... If you decide to cripple your forums because of your stupidity actions don't come crying here on vbulletin.org about how you made your board die after opening up 10 instances sending 50 million users to your forums in a matter of seconds. You think we are responsible for you burning your own house down?

[iogames]

Originally Posted by vissa

Nice of you to share. I'm not trying to create drama, but just informing others out there who may not know any better. Doing that would probably be illegal or could possibly result in a lawsuit here in the US -- unless you fully disclosed exactly what you were doing to your client (even then it's a little iffy).

You're right, a single Advertiser can sue you big time!


Anyways, nice cheating!

[0tolerance]

Im not sure how adding members to your own forum can give some one the grounds to sue you...
vBulletin allows you to create members using the control panel.. so i dont see how using a program to do the same thing is illegal in any way.

i nominated this for mod of the month

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by vissa

Nice of you to share. I'm not trying to create drama, but just informing others out there who may not know any better. Doing that would probably be illegal or could possibly result in a lawsuit here in the US -- unless you fully disclosed exactly what you were doing to your client (even then it's a little iffy).

No it's not "DRAMA" it's called just thinking outside the box, but who the hell said it's illegal to create new users on your own forums as other 0tolerance stated and it's been like that since Day 1 with vB creating users from the admin side without capturing IPs and etc.... So I would check your "law books" on this once more to see if your George Bush passed this as a new Law