Thread Torrent

Description

After discussion with the Serence development team and several members of this community including cloudrunner would wrote KlipFolio Integration, I have decided to release Thread Torrent for Serence KlipFolio and vBulletin, moreover This hack was essentially requested by Koutaru here to provide a way to display newest threads. KlipFolio is a desktop application that allows you to easily view and manage live, automated and customizable channels to unique information sources called Klips. A Klip is a live, automated and customizable channel to a unique information source that runs in KlipFolio. For more information you can reference the KlipScript Guide for documentation (Also see Klip Tags). The basics are essentially self explanatory; let me know if you have any more questions concerning this topic.



Installation Information

Files to edit: (2) vbTT.php, vbTT.klip
Files to upload: (2) vbTT.php, vbTT.klip
Queries to Run: (0) nada
Templates to edit: (1) nada
Templates to add: (0) nada
Time to install: approx 3 minutes

[alesis404]

Kriek I am wondering if this is at all possible...our forum is private and used by few close freinds and we love this hack as it provides excellent way to share news *but* we have few concerns about the security and possibilty others might find our klip and view the headlines and see the related links.

What I mean is say if we have the klip farely well hidden down a few directorys such as home/dir1/dir77635/dir5343/vbtt.klip it is unlikely someone could find the klip and even if they did we do not allow registrations but the problem we find is even if you are logged out and all cookies erased etc it is still possible to refresh and see the new post headlines in klipfolio if the location of the klip is known but you cannot access the actual content but still we are concerned about non members even reading out topics to klipfolio

I could possibly be a non registered user and see the topic's and associated links..we would like to avoid this and make it so no matter what the headlines are not able to be viewed or refreshed *unless* you have a username/password to login and are cookied ,I am not sure this is possible and maybe there is a easy fix for this...I appreciate any info you might be able to provide regarding this and am simply looking for a way in the unfortunate event someone discovered out klip they wouldnt be able to even see our headlines.

Thanks again for your time

[Kriek]

Alesis, just so you know -- your above request is under development

[alesis404]

Thank you very much Kriek and might I say again...EXCELLENT hack!!!

[Cloudrunner]

Just curious Alesis....

Have you taken into account the refresh rate at which your board flushes it's cookies?

i.e. do you log out, then login in and goto the who's online without waiting for the board to flush the unused sessions?

Just curious like I said.

[alesis404]

Cloudrunner, we tried various scenarios just to be sure and that was one of the first things I kinda thought might affect it was the sessions but i am using multiple computers for testing as well as people in other locations so I would delete cookies and as well give enough time for the session to time out...sometimes not trying till the next day and then I would reinstall the stock vbTT.klip and we noticed in many occasions that it was still possible to view the thread topics but not actually access them without using a username/password...not that much of a security risk but we would be even better if the topics could not be seen...as I mentioned this is a small private site and we are just worried that someone could casually view our klips.

**I'm not sure what tthe default session timeout is set at and would prefer not to set it any lower if it might cause problems accessing the rest of the site during a visit

*Don't mind you being curious at all...might give me clues to fix

**Will be gone till Saturday and cant reply to this thread till then, thanks again

[alesis404]

Hello again, just wondering Kriek if it is possible for a person to stop posts from a specific forumid= or multiple forumid's?

The reason I ask is I would like to add the NNTP gateway news hack but if I do all the posts that get added everytime the script is refreshed these will fill up my max threads in klipfolio, so if I could simply block those from making it to klipfolio things would be sweet

[Kriek]

Alesis, make sure you have a updated version, then open vbTT.php and find

PHP Code:

$reply = 'Replies';
$description = 'Active Threads';
$showthreadnumber = '10'; 


Replace with the following

PHP Code:

$reply = 'Replies';
$description = 'Active Threads';
$privateforum = '50';
$showthreadnumber = '10'; 


Edit to your prefrences, then find

PHP Code:

$dosql .= 'SELECT threadid,title,lastpost,replycount,postusername,thread.forumid';
$dosql .= ' FROM thread LEFT JOIN forumpermission USING(forumid) WHERE visible=1';
$dosql .= ' AND forumpermission.forumid IS NULL ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT ' . $showthreadnumber; 


Replace with the following

PHP Code:

$dosql .= 'SELECT threadid,title,lastpost,replycount,postusername,thread.forumid';
$dosql .= ' FROM thread LEFT JOIN forumpermission USING(forumid) WHERE visible=1';
$dosql .= ' AND forumid NOT REGEXP ' . $privateforum;
$dosql .= ' AND forumpermission.forumid IS NULL ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT ' . $showthreadnumber; 


[alesis404]

Thanks again Kriek, I will try later tonight

[Kriek]

No problem

Keep in mind there are several methods.

[alesis404]

Kriek...after adding that code it *appears* all posts are blocked from reaching klipfolio.

all I have changed is $privateforum = '50'; to $privateforum = '9'; but now test posts from other forums do not show on the klip.