Administrative and Maintenance Tools - 'Check Version' for all hacks

Description:
With this hack you can easily check all installed products for updates, it show it directly in the product manager and with one click it checks all hacks for updates.
The information is updated every night per cron job and when you want it can inform you with an admin message or an email, you can also de/activate the notification for each hack individually.

This version should work with vBulletin:
3.6.X
3.7.X
3.8.X approved
4.X.X approved

Thanks go to Andreas for his improvements and ideas.

The screenshots are from a german vbulletin.

German Version: http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=121


Translations:
Arabic: pvc_alra7ba (AR).xml


FAQ:
Why it doesn't check the newest version on each load?
Because it would take to long until the page would load. And I'm to lazy to make an async check (Too much to change ...).

It shows an error with the hack X. Can you correct this?
No, that is a fault of the hack author. He/She made an error in the version check url. My hacl has only an error if the build in version check show something different then mine (that in the drop down box ...).


Changelog:
2.0.1:
- Fixed Bug: Some problems with the phrases.

2.0.0:
- Changed: Now working with vBulletin 4.
- New Feature: Notification can be de/activated for each hack individually.
- Changed: Now vBulletin isn't shown any more, because it is in the control panel header.

1.6.4:
- Fixed Bug: Small bugfixes.

1.6.3:
- Changed: Cron improved.

1.6.2:
- New Feature: Highly improved version by Andreas.

1.5.1:
- Fixed Bug: A lot of small bugfixes
- Changed: Cron improved.

1.5.0:
- Changed: pvc.php removed and everything inclided in the plugin.ph
- Changed: Cron improved.

1.2.0:
- New Feature: E-Mail notification included.
- Changed: Overview improved.
- Changed: Adminmessage is now dynamic.

1.1.1:
- Changed: Cronjob installation improved.

1.1.0:
- New Feature: Cronjob (Static adminmessage).

1.0.1:
- Changed: Small update of the admin right management.


Installation & Update:
1) Upload all files in folder upload to ther respective directories on your webserver.
2) Go to ACP / Plugins & Products / Manage Products and import product-pvc.xml
3) Under "Product Manager" click on "Check all products for new version", that the hack can get the newest versions.
4) If you want you can activate the adminmessage or email notification, but don't forget to insert your mail address, under "vBulletin-Options" -> "Plug-in- / Hook-System".

Uninstallation:
1) Go to ACP / Plugins & Products / Manage Products and uninstall the product named ''Check Version' for all hacks'.
2) Delete the following Files
- includes/cron/pvcron.php
- includes/md5_sums_pvc.php
- includes/version_pvc.php

[hurik]

Originally Posted by Brew

I get this error when I updated:

Content Encoding Error 

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

    *   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Now whenever I go to the plugins page I get that error.

Running Vb 4.1.0 pl2

Any ideas what to do?

edit: I disabled plugins under Options and disabled this mod until I'm told what the problem may be

please try to uninstall the plugin and import it again.

[Blackbeard02]

Very useful, thanks

[Brew]

Originally Posted by hurik

please try to uninstall the plugin and import it again.

Thanks for your quick reply

I've reinstalled it quite a few times.

What happens, immediately after installing, I get that message as soon as the Plugin Manager page refreshes....right after the last plugin is displayed.

I'm really at a loss on this one.

[hurik]

Originally Posted by Brew

Thanks for your quick reply

I've reinstalled it quite a few times.

What happens, immediately after installing, I get that message as soon as the Plugin Manager page refreshes....right after the last plugin is displayed.

I'm really at a loss on this one.

do you have in the config.php a datastore cache activated?

[Brew]

Originally Posted by hurik

do you have in the config.php a datastore cache activated?

No Sir,

Here's that part of my config.php:

    // ****** DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
    // Here you can configure different methods for caching datastore items.
    // vB_Datastore_Filecache  - to use includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
    // vB_Datastore_APC - to use APC
    // vB_Datastore_XCache - to use XCache
    // vB_Datastore_Memcached - to use a Memcache server, more configuration below
// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

    // ******** DATASTORE PREFIX ******
    // If you are using a PHP Caching system (APC, XCache, eAccelerator) with more
    // than one set of forums installed on your host, you *may* need to use a prefix
    // so that they do not try to use the same variable within the cache.
    // This works in a similar manner to the database table prefix.
// $config['Datastore']['prefix'] = '';

    // It is also necessary to specify the hostname or IP address and the port the server is listening on
/*
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Memcached';
$i = 0;
// First Server
$i++;
$config['Misc']['memcacheserver'][$i]        = '127.0.0.1';
$config['Misc']['memcacheport'][$i]            = 11211;
$config['Misc']['memcachepersistent'][$i]    = true;
$config['Misc']['memcacheweight'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcachetimeout'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcacheretry_interval'][$i] = 15;

It's never been touched.

[Brew]

The lines for the memcache are commented out by the use of /* followed later by */

Everything between is not parsed by the server.

[mavigul]

installiert super danke

[DeardsGlobal]

Great hack. I have installed it and I'm now using it to secure my forums. Please keep updated. Thanks.

[dlewisr]

Installed and rated. Thank you, it's a nice mod. It picked a new update was available within seconds.
Thumbs up from me.

[BadgerDog]

Has this mod stopped working?

All I get lately is the word "error" beside mods ...

It was working fine...

Regards,
Doug