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.

[princeedward]

installed and thanks...

EDIT: ...test it by myself with other username...it seems that it's not workin with my vB3.6.8 PL2...did i missed something here...

[Austone]

Works great! Is there any chance this could be modded to leave a new POST in a THREAD when someone trips it, or is a new THREAD in a FORUM the only option?

[PHPGeek2k3]

Originally Posted by princeedward

installed and thanks...

EDIT: ...test it by myself with other username...it seems that it's not workin with my vB3.6.8 PL2...did i missed something here...

is your main login or the other login that you have logged into set to be ignored by in the admincp settings for this plugin?

if so than its working as designed.

Thanks
- James

[EvilJohn]

Updated, installed. Thank you! <3

[FreeLunchRoom]

The post to forum thing doesn't work....

[samraz972]

it wont work for me

[edongski]

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me neither.

Using 3.7.1 PL 2

[scottct1]

Same here, I get an email, but it never posts it where I want it to which is the staff forum.\

3.7.2 PL1

[SimCityForum]

This will be a great asset. Now what I need is a script that detects accounts that are being logged into via multiple computers.

[Raptor]

no posts created after upgrade from 3.6.8 to 3.7.2