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

NEW VERSION: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=255054

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 check all hacks for updates.
The informattion is updated every night per cron job and when you want it can inform you with an admin message or an email.

The screenshots are from a german vbulletin.

Thanks go to Andreas for his improvements and ideas.

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

History:
1.6.4 Small bugfixes.
1.6.3 Cron improved.
1.6.2 Highly improved version by Andreas.
1.5.1 Cron improved and a lot of small bugfixes
1.5.0 pvc.php removed and everything inclided in the plugin.php and small cron bugfixes.
1.2.0 E-Mail function included, overview improved and the adminmessage is now dynamic.
1.1.1 Cronjoninstallation improved.
1.1.0 Cronjob (Static adminmessage)
1.0.1 Small update of the admin right management.
1.0.0 First version.

Installation and Update:
1. Upload all in the upload folder.
2. Import the product and overwrite the old one.
1. Upload pvcron.php to "FORUMROOT/includes/cron/".
2. Import the product.
3. Under "Product Manager" click one time on "Check all products for new version".
4. When you want you can activate the adminmessage or email function, but don't forget to insert your mail adress, under "vBulletin-Options" -> "Plug-in- / Hook-System".


Sorry for my bad English!


Andreas is only the CoAuthor don't get on his nerves with question to this hack! Thanks!

[jluerken]

Nice hack but many Products appear as unsupported. How can this be fixed?

[hurik]

Originally Posted by jluerken

Nice hack but many Products appear as unsupported. How can this be fixed?

hi jluerken,

i see you are from germany. you can find a german version here: http://www.vbhacks-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6608

that many hacks are not support is because many hacks don't use the 'version checking'. so the hack authors have to include that feature in their hacks.

[Kirk Y]

"Not supportet" should be "Not Supported".

It might be a better idea if you only show the hacks that actually need updating on the page, rather than displaying all of them.

[Atakan KOC]

Nice idea. Thanks.

[hurik]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

"Not supportet" should be "Not Supported".

i have corrected this.

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

It might be a better idea if you only show the hacks that actually need updating on the page, rather than displaying all of them.

i think its better when it show all hacks. you have a better overview of your hacks and you can see for with hacks you have to search for updates your on.

i hope you understand what i mean. sorry for my english ...

Originally Posted by Atakan KOC

Nice idea. Thanks.

thanks atakan koc.

but by the way: your Separate Sticky and Normal Threads hack has a wrong version check url:
<versioncheckurl>https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=117944</versioncheckurl>
it should be:
<versioncheckurl>https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=checkversion&t=117944</versioncheckurl>


i have uploaded version 1.1.1:
i have added an cronjob witch informs you about updates or your hacks and some other little improvements.

[rmxs]

Thanks very nice

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by hurik

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads hack has a wrong version check url:
<versioncheckurl>https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=117944</versioncheckurl>
it should be:
<versioncheckurl>https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=checkversion&t=117944</versioncheckurl>

Modifications should use the product id based url check as a preference, rather than the older thread id based url.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=productcheck&pid=xxxxxx


You might want to check your own urls as well since version check does not work for this modification (you appear to have the urls the wrong way around).

[hurik]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You might want to check your own urls as well since version check does not work for this modification (you appear to have the urls the wrong way around).

ops, i mixed inadvertently the version-checkurl with the supporturl.
i have corrected it.

thanks, paul m.

[project-Buckfas]

Nice hack thanks