There are no differences as this plug-in works with both 3.5 and 3.6 versions 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.
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you will see an option for PM's or to post a new thread in any forum you select.
Thanks, but...
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Originally Posted by styleforum
So... how about that "new version" of this that was supposedly being tested?
Mainly, I'd just like to be able to have it add replies to a certain thread rather than make a new thread every time it trips. This would keep my PM box a lot cleaner and allow other mods to see the messages as well.
I have been using this hack with great success for a long time, but lately I am seeing false positives that it is not even funny anymore. Anyone else seeing this? I have users on different continents using differnet ISPs and that haver never ever met being reported as having multiple accounts with each other.
I have been using this hack with great success for a long time, but lately I am seeing false positives that it is not even funny anymore. Anyone else seeing this? I have users on different continents using differnet ISPs and that haver never ever met being reported as having multiple accounts with each other.
Sounds like you might have installed another hack that could be interfering with this. I would look in that direction and see if maybe that could be the problem.
I have been using this hack with great success for a long time, but lately I am seeing false positives that it is not even funny anymore. Anyone else seeing this? I have users on different continents using differnet ISPs and that haver never ever met being reported as having multiple accounts with each other.
Given how this works, I would say thats not possible.
More likely is that they are using proxy servers to access your forum, so appear to be miles apart when in reality they are not - thats something this is good at catching.
Like Paul said, not possible. There is no database back-end to this - it works totally off cookies which are machine specific (unless you use some kind of service where cookies may not be stored on the local machine).
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04-11-2008, 06:53 AM
