Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vBInfo for Windows (BETA)

I've pretty well stopped developing this as I don't really have the time (time is money) to spend on it. I figured I'd release a version of it so far in case someone found it useful to them. It's far from complete but there is some functionality.

Basically it's a windows application that lets you view real time information about your forum. Check the screen shots below for a better idea.

When you first run it, you will get an error because it will not be able to connect to your forum. A dialog then pops up asking you for information about your forum. What happens here is a php file will be uploaded to your forum that allows the application to talk to your forum to retrieve information. The php script is password protected and it does nothing but query your database so security isn't an issue.

This requires the .NET framework 2.0 to be installed on your PC.
This requires your PHP support GZIP compression

I am not going to officially support this but if you have a problem post it and I may be able to offer a suggestion.

[DJ XtAzY]

Originally Posted by scottct1

Tried that with no luck.

I also tried uploading the PHP file manually but no luck with that eaither.

I confirmed this too.. Does not work for me.

[projectego]

[high]* projectego clicks install [/high]

[Boots]

Originally Posted by scottct1

Tried that with no luck.

I also tried uploading the PHP file manually but no luck with that eaither.

Scott,

I compress the data on the server before sending it back to the application. It looks like your compilation of PHP does not have gzip support. That appears to be the issue.

[meissenation]

I had to manually edit the PHP file, I added the password and version and then it worked smoothly. Uploaded it to my vbulletin directory.

[Boots]

Originally Posted by meissenation

I had to manually edit the PHP file, I added the password and version and then it worked smoothly. Uploaded it to my vbulletin directory.

Yeah if you manually upload it the password would have to be set manually as well.

[mktrilogy]

Works. Thanks.

[Phalynx]

Great Idea, thanks for sharing.

[bitdefuser]

Originally Posted by Boots

Yeah if you manually upload it the password would have to be set manually as well.

Yea, that's what I did too. It was in the Program Directory where you installed Vbinfo.

[cmwg]

Okay thanks... but still nothing working. On the My Forum i get the view of my forum. But on the others it just tells me it needs a connection.

The Setting:

Forum Name: just a text info as to the name
Forum Index URL: the url to the index.php of the vB ? so http://domain.tld/site/ ?

Remote Adresse: ftp server address so ftp.domain.tld ?

Remote Directory: the relativ or complete path to the vB index.php ?

username / password of the ftp user

What is link password? just an extra password for vBinfo itself for the link between vbinfo.exe and vbinfo.php ?

Please set things straight if i?m wrong!

Upload does not work for the file (vbinfo.php) so manually edited and added the vblink password as entered above in the programm. Version nr. - what format should it be? 1.0B?

Also the programm does not seem to keep the settings in it?s own xml file. So i edited it as well to correspond to the vbinfo.php.

Still nothing working

[DJ XtAzY]

Originally Posted by cmwg

Okay thanks... but still nothing working. On the My Forum i get the view of my forum. But on the others it just tells me it needs a connection.

The Setting:

Forum Name: just a text info as to the name
Forum Index URL: the url to the index.php of the vB ? so http://domain.tld/site/ ?

Remote Adresse: ftp server address so ftp.domain.tld ?

Remote Directory: the relativ or complete path to the vB index.php ?

username / password of the ftp user

What is link password? just an extra password for vBinfo itself for the link between vbinfo.exe and vbinfo.php ?

Please set things straight if i?m wrong!

Upload does not work for the file (vbinfo.php) so manually edited and added the vblink password as entered above in the programm. Version nr. - what format should it be? 1.0B?

Also the programm does not seem to keep the settings in it?s own xml file. So i edited it as well to correspond to the vbinfo.php.

Still nothing working

Manually upload the vBinfo.php and change the password. The version number in the php is "1.0" NOT "1.0B". Match up the info when u run the program.