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.

[mark99]

Can somebody show what changes are needed and where for PHP5.3 so that those of us who aren't PHP coders are still able to make the adjustments?

[Easy5s.net]

4.1.11 not work

[Alan_SP]

I don't know about 4.1.11, but it works for me on 4.1.12PL1

[z3r0]

Originally Posted by Easy5s.net

4.1.11 not work

Works fine on mine

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by mark99

Can somebody show what changes are needed and where for PHP5.3 so that those of us who aren't PHP coders are still able to make the adjustments?

I use PHP 5.3.10 and I have no issues with this mod. What issues are you having?

[mark99]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I use PHP 5.3.10 and I have no issues with this mod. What issues are you having?

This is what I am refering to above.

Originally Posted by tpearl5

If anyone is using this on php 5.3 and is getting deprecated errors with the split function, which prevents people from logging in, all you have to do is replace the split functions with explode. split occurs 4 times. Nothing else should need to be changed.

Would be good to know how to do that.

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by mark99

Would be good to know how to do that.

Edit the product XML file and replace split( with explode(

Use a good text editor like http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

[Videx]

Originally Posted by snoopytas

Edit the product XML file and replace split( with explode(

Use a good text editor like http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Right, the xml file you download from here is just a plain text file. Be careful not to change anything else - including punctuation and spaces! Then, obviously, you have to re-import the file to vb selecting "overwrite".

[Expat]

Does this work with 4.1 or later? I had this on my forum v3.8 and it worked great

[BirdOPrey5]

It seems to.