IRCBrowse - no Eggdrop + no FTP!!

I looked at the "IRCUsers" hack written by eyeball (aka supreemball) using the ftp mirc script coded by Rich@home.nl and I thought wow this is cool. Then I looked at what's involved.

*It modifies global.php, meaning that EVERY PAGE of your forum loads this information even though only index.php uses it.

*It adds 1,150 lines of code to your mIRC.

*Requires 24/7 FTP access


So I thought, why not have vBulletin AND mIRC interface with a PHP file?
Thank you eyeball and Rich for the inspiration to write this!

I don't have a photo/snapshot because the PHP script runs "silent" and how the output looks all depends on your vB template.

The PHP script provides the # of total chatters, the highest # of chatters ever, and a formatted (customizable in the PHP script) comma-delimited list of users in the chat which you can insert anywhere in your templates (an example template under forumhome is provided).

The mIRC script opens a socket to your web server (HTTP) and does an "HTTP GET" to request the ircbrowse.php script. The secret is, it puts all the data in the Query line after the URL and then just ignores the page it gets back from the web server and closes the socket. This is all password-protected.

This is my first hack posted here so please be gentle.

This hack is operating on:

SereneScreen Aquarium Forum
Anime System

[Zaeolos]

I had all this working for about a month, I did not change anything and started getting this error:

Warning: fopen(http://139.81.177.86/forums/ircbrows...83&action=read) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: HTTP request failed! ?(???? in /home/therats/public_html/includes/blocks/online.php on line 27

Warning: fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/therats/public_html/includes/blocks/online.php on line 28

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/therats/public_html/includes/blocks/online.php on line 32

Any help would be appreciated.

[feldon23]

05-26-03 at 02:31 PM Zaeolos said this in Post #51
I had all this working for about a month, I did not change anything and started getting this error:



Any help would be appreciated.

Not sure why this thread didn't e-mail me with the responses.

Anyway, the ircbrowse.php file is totally missing. I'm guessing it got deleted somehow.

[orozery]

In order for the hack to work, does it mean that i'll need to stay in the IRC channel all the time?

[feldon23]

Today at 08:29 AM orozery said this in Post #53
In order for the hack to work, does it mean that i'll need to stay in the IRC channel all the time?

You'll need to keep a copy of mIRC running with the enclosed script elements added and logged into the channel at all times, yes.

[notorious]

ok i have edited all the files and added everything correctly like it said in the install files and also read what was said in here and still i can not get it to work

Warning: fopen("http://wendy.curvedspaces.com/forum/ircbrowse.php?key=5762&action=read","r") - No such file or directory in /users/curvedspaces.com/wendy/forum/index.php3 on line 15

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /users/curvedspaces.com/wendy/forum/index.php3 on line 16

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /users/curvedspaces.com/wendy/forum/index.php3 on line 20

i have installed this onto my test board so i can get everything working, so any help will be appreciated

[notorious]

so i guess no-one knows how to fix this

[feldon23]

My first guess is that the extremely intrusive javascript popups added by CurvedSpaces.com are killing the script.

I can't even visit
http://wendy.curvedspaces.com/forum/ircbrowse.php
without a popup being added.

Also, when I visit
http://wendy.curvedspaces.com/forum/...62&action=read

I am seeing a Parse error on line 46, which in my copy is:
$php_self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

If your PHP is very old, maybe you need to use
$php_self = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF'];

but I would think the script would have failed on:
$action = $_GET['action'];
earlier in the script.

[notorious]

ok thx i'll try and see if thats the problem if not i will move the test board back to my computer and run it from there

that fixed it thx now i'm getting the error

* /sockopen: 'ircbrowse' socket in use (line 49, aliases.ini)

is there anyway to fix that or is it my server

[Akex]

I will try this, thx for this hack

[feldon23]

07-22-03 at 12:55 PM notorious said this in Post #58
ok thx i'll try and see if thats the problem if not i will move the test board back to my computer and run it from there


that fixed it thx now i'm getting the error

* /sockopen: 'ircbrowse' socket in use (line 49, aliases.ini)

is there anyway to fix that or is it my server

Are you connected to the chat channel twice?

For instance #notoriousweb on EFNet and ShadowiceNet?

Does the script seem to work at all? I mean, is it updating the website?