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.

[Joe Blow]

Instead of starting a new thread each time there was an alert, it would be nice if it just added a new post to an existing thread.

[fortforum]

so this should work for 4.2.2?

[squidsk]

Yes.

[poita]

Thanks for the updated into to get it to work on 4.2.2

[mark99]

Brilliant work.. still love this mod.

[Barcham]

I installed this yesterday and now I am unable to log in to my Admin CP. I receive this error..

Warning: Function split() is deprecated in ..../includes/functions_login.php(204) : eval()'d code on line 4

Warning: Function split() is deprecated in ..../includes/functions_login.php(204) : eval()'d code on line 5
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/mqerfcom/public_html/includes/class_core.php
Line: 5755

I just did a few tests and I am no longer able to log on as any user at the moment. Needless to say, I'm kind of screwed right now. Anyone have any ideas?

[ozzy47]

Read the thread, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=410

[Barcham]

OK, give me a slap. I thought I had read about that problem and I went back and read every page of this thread OTHER THAN this last page. Of course...where was the solution? Yup! This last page!! I can be such a doofus sometimes!

Thanks again, Chris!

[ozzy47]

No problem, glad it worked.

[rrhill]

Eureka! After your tips I installed this great Modification with ease in V4.22. Thank you very much!