Add-On Releases - AJAX Spy

Introduction:
This script (addon) was developed to give your forums a new nice feature by allowing readers/contributors to have a live spy monitor they can use to watch latest forums activity. This script is supposed to be much faster and more reliable than those variants that place database hooks to watch for changes. The script works without even needing to connect to any database and relies totally on your RSS feeds already generated by the forums.

Please be gentle, our first module. Should work with all versions of vBulletin that provide RSS feeds, which I think is all of them

Installation:
Please follow all instructions carefully and back up and files modified.
1- Uploading Files
Within the folder this document is contained, a folder named "Upload" should be present Open this folder and upload the following files to the corresponding locations. Please notice that no files will be replaced.

The /tmp folder included MUST be CHMODed to 755 OR 777 because the spy script needs to write data into that folder. The data there is auto deleted so there is actually nothing you need to worry about. For your information, the data store3d there is a copy of the latest RSS feeds and is used as a simple caching system to lower the loads on the server when 10K users for example have the spy script open and monitoring.

2- Setting System Environment
In your browser (Internet Explorer/Mozilla etc..)
Go to this url: http://YOURSITE.COM/admincp/install_vbspy.php
[You will need to change the capitals within this url to meet your site's domain and forum location]

Follow the file through each step, if step 1 was configured correctly no errors should occur when running this file. Once finished you will be prompted to delete 2 specific file's, YOU MUST DO THIS.

3- Integrating The System
In your forums admin cp, go to the following destination:
Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> Edit Templates -> Expand All

Templates:
Find the template 'navbar'
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FIND:
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<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>
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UNDERNEATH ADD:
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<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbSpy.php?$session[sessionurl]">vbSPY</a></td>
::: Save Template 'navbar'

Author Notices:
While i have been coding for long, this is still my first product dedicated to the vBulleting community. If you are familiar with vBulletin codes and think you know a better way to perform some task, please let me know by leaving a comment at the codeMoxie website available at www.codeMoxie.net

Official Support:
This product is fully supported by CodeMoxie, please visit our newly released forums for more info http://www.codemoxie.net/forum

Demo
http://www.prousers.net/vBSpy.php

Release History
Version 1.21b RC1 - September 19, Initial release on vBulletin
Version 1.21b RC1 - September 22, several bug fixes.

Examples:


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Enjoy!
Keep checking http://www.codeMoxie.net for more cool products
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[codemoxie]

Still researching all, thanks for the feedback and patience.

[hilfe-forum]

Dont work with Table Prefix?



Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT user.userid FROM user WHERE user.username='';

MySQL-Fehler : Table 'foruminfo.user' doesn't exist


i dont have a "user" Tabe i have a "VB_user" table

can you help?

[codemoxie]

Next release coming shortly

[codemoxie]

Demo link http://www.prousers.net/vBSpy.php

Update release provided.

[hilfe-forum]

hmmm...
realy Cool hack!!
but dont work on my Board...

http://www.hilfe-forum.eu/vBSpy.php

[lexx27]

demo is not working

[warnmar10]

I get this error 15 times (Maximum External Records is set to 15) betwen the navbar and spy content:
Warning: eregi(): REG_EPAREN in /spypost.php on line 170

FWIW, it displays content only from forums configured with guest access.

[warnmar10]

Originally Posted by warnmar10

FWIW, it displays content only from forums configured with guest access.

Fixed that with this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127062

[codemoxie]

Hilfe-Forum
Any error messages in your log files? Anything special with your installation settings? Please keep me informaed and thank you very much for the feedback.

warnmar10
Thank you for the feedback, and for the link. It is no doubt a nice one.

lexx27
For me it does.. Isnt this loading for you?
http://www.prousers.net/vBSpy.php

[warnmar10]

Originally Posted by codemoxie

warnmar10
Thank you for the feedback, and for the link. It is no doubt a nice one.

Any thoughts about this:

Originally Posted by warnmar10

I get this error 15 times (Maximum External Records is set to 15) betwen the navbar and spy content:
Warning: eregi(): REG_EPAREN in /spypost.php on line 170

BTW, the errors are inside the spy table between the category title strip and the content, not below navbar like I said before.