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This is something I originally made about 4 years ago.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).

[Regs]

I'm guessing a security update.

Check your email as you should have gotten a notification concerning this... you have marked this installed, right?

[DragonBlade]

Yeah, I got that email but it was vague of course :P

[AlexanderT]

Originally Posted by Regs

I'm guessing a security update.

Check your email as you should have gotten a notification concerning this... you have marked this installed, right?

Yup. The version before didn't sanitize an input variable properly, potentially resulting in an SQL injection exploit.

[spillage]

This would be great as a Widget for the Home Page.

Any thoughts?

[COL NIL SATIS]

works brilliant on 4.0.3..many thanks

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by spillage

This would be great as a Widget for the Home Page.

Any thoughts?

Already on the "to-do" list for a future version.

[PHP FAN]

Hi

nice mod

but not working with UTF-8

http://www.arabvet.com/community/spy.php

[jgruberman]

CMPS module coming?

[ChopSuey]

Originally Posted by jgruberman

CMPS module coming?

No a vBCMS Widget.

[PHP FAN]

fixed

PHP Code:

        /*$event['preview'] = htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ( 
            fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(
            strip_bbcode(strip_quotes($event['preview']), false, true),
            $vbulletin->options['threadpreview']
        )), 
        ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
                
        $event['title'] = str_replace ('&', '&', htmlnumericentities(htmlentities ($event['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')));
        */