Annoy the free iPod spammers with referral ID replacement

[Annoy the free iPod spammers with referral ID replacement]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.0.6
  
  
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
  
  
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
  
  
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• [high]Credits:[/high] I would like to thank the following people who contributed to the making of this modification.
  • ManagerJosh - his idead

What does this modification do?
Getting annoyed by those pesky free iPod spammers? You're not the only one. Get a free iPod in the process by replacing their ID with yours

Installation

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Find in includes/functions_showthread.php:

PHP Code:

// hide edit button if they can't use it 

Above it add:

PHP Code:

$refid['freeipods'] = 0;
$post['message'] = preg_replace('/www\.freeiPods\.com\/(?:default\.aspx)?\?(r|referer)=([0-9]+)/i', 'www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=' . $refid['freeipods'], $post['message']);
$post['signature'] = preg_replace('/www\.freeiPods\.com\/(?:default\.aspx)?\?(r|referer)=([0-9]+)/i', 'www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=' . $refid['freeipods'], $post['signature']); 

Be sure to change the value of $refid['freeipods'] to your referralid otherwise this won't work!

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coming from Dean C, i'm questionning his affection to the Mac world.. lol

this "hack" is not a single way related to vBulletin, and btw, i think Dean will have to learn why there is a Replacement system in the board...

[ManagerJosh]

Originally Posted by nexialys

coming from Dean C, i'm questionning his affection to the Mac world.. lol

this "hack" is not a single way related to vBulletin, and btw, i think Dean will have to learn why there is a Replacement system in the board...

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128426

*clicks install*

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by nexialys

coming from Dean C, i'm questionning his affection to the Mac world.. lol

this "hack" is not a single way related to vBulletin, and btw, i think Dean will have to learn why there is a Replacement system in the board...

The replacement system does not support parameters last time I checked :smoke:

hum... yeah... maybe it's time to edit it, add some regex to it...

[yoyoyoyo]

very cool! and this could also be very easily adapted to other services that use referral ID's, such as amazon, etc.! nice one!

[Dean C]

Give me the URL and i'll write the replacement for it

[ManagerJosh]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Give me the URL and i'll write the replacement for it

Hey Dean..does this work if they omit the "www" ?

[Dean C]

Nope - fixed Also it's now case-insensitive. Gotta love these regexp's

[Link14716]

Make spammers work for you, eh Dean?