About
This is a Digg-style spy for seeing what's going on in your forum in realtime.
This is something I http://forums.digitalpoint.com/index.php?t=101069 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).