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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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

There aren't any options in the AdminCP (it's fairly simple).

It can be renamed.

It can't be installed in a widget/block if that's that you mean?

[zhai]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

There aren't any options in the AdminCP (it's fairly simple).

It can be renamed.

It can't be installed in a widget/block if that's that you mean?

thank you for the response,
how do I block some sub forums from appearing on the spy page?

what needs to be edited if I want to change the spy.php file name? (other than the file name)

[digitalpoint]

Why would you want to block certain sub-forums? The system already takes into account user permissions (if a user doesn't have permission to a forum, they can't see stuff related to it on the Spy).

I have not tried to change the filename personally, but I suspect you just would need to change the filename is all.

[jeepsurf]

Installed on 4.1.5. No feed.

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by jeepsurf

Installed on 4.1.5. No feed.

Do you have posts happening recently (after you installed it)?

[jeepsurf]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Do you have posts happening recently (after you installed it)?

Yes. We went on a posting spree and nothing showed up.

[digitalpoint]

What URL do you have it installed at?

[jeepsurf]

.............

[digitalpoint]

The digitalpoint_spy.js file is missing in your setup (it's pretty important).

[zhai]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Why would you want to block certain sub-forums? The system already takes into account user permissions (if a user doesn't have permission to a forum, they can't see stuff related to it on the Spy).

I have not tried to change the filename personally, but I suspect you just would need to change the filename is all.

Because I have this "spam" subforum where users can play games like "rate avatar above you, what did u eat today, etc etc". I don't want that forum to be included as the posts there are not important.

Is that possible?