Miscellaneous Hacks - Digital Point Spy

About
This is a Digg-style spy for seeing what's going on in your forum in realtime.

This is something I originally made about 4 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4 (it also now uses the bundled YUI for animation), I decided to also wrap it up as a product package and release it for the world to use.

Installation

• Put the spy.php file in your forum folder.
• Put the digitalpoint_spy.js file in your clientscript folder.
• Install the product-digitalpoint_spy.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/spy.php


1.1.0 Update

• Moved JavaScript to external file (works around template parsing bug with early versions of vBulletin 4.0.x).
• XML generation is done with vBulletin's XML Builder class (let it deal with weird characters).
• Switched JavaScript library to from YUI to jQuery (for an end user, it means better animations).
• Changed do=xml to do=feed (works around servers that are overly protective and think they are trying to be hacked and blocking the request).

[icarders]

very good

[ProFifaLeagues]

Looks good will try it out now!Thanks

[CoreyLTH]

Simple install, but i'm getting this error:

Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/baseball/public_html/spy.php on line 34

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/baseball/public_html/spy.php on line 34

Is something disabled on my server or vBulletin that I need to fix?

[wickedstangs]

installed but, I don't see anything happening? When to the link under community and nothing shows up. Do I have turn something on?

[Tryppnotic69]

Originally Posted by wickedstangs

installed but, I don't see anything happening? When to the link under community and nothing shows up. Do I have turn something on?

You have to wait until someone posts something on your forum for the spy to show it :-) It shows a live feed.

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by CoreyLTH

Simple install, but i'm getting this error:

Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/baseball/public_html/spy.php on line 34

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/baseball/public_html/spy.php on line 34

Is something disabled on my server or vBulletin that I need to fix?

Is spy.php where the rest of your vBulletin files are? It should be in the same folder as your global.php file.

[CoreyLTH]

Yes, I changed my URL to hide the /forum and didn't upload it to my forum directory like a moron. It's been a long day.

I have a few more questions if you don't mind. When you click on your forum tab a navigation of all the forums pop-up, is that a mod made by you or can I download it here? If it's yours do you plan on releasing it all in the future?

[JAFRI]

Not Show! http://www.shiaforums.com/vb/spy.php

[teenage.vn]

@Aamir: It is the same with my problem ^_^, you can upgrade your board to 4.0.3 then it should work properly .

[DragonBlade]

Whats updated from the previous version if any?