vBulletin LTS

vBPinger - Ping on new threads, articles, blogs
Mod Version: 0.0.1, by Lairston

I wrote this for my board and thought others would benefit from it.

This mod will cause vbulletin to ping a list of sites in the ACP that you add to the list. I have it set to pingomatic by default. But you can add others to the list as well. Note that I have just used it with pingomatic.

You can also disallow certain forums from being pings by listing them in the ignore forum box.

You can also choose to only ping on certain items. So you can turn on and off pinging on articles, blogs, or threads.

There is a debug option. It does not work in IE since IE doesn't like the xml that is used. It works in Firefox.

In addition, you can set your user agent to pass to the ping sites.

The hooks used are:

• blog_post_updateentry_new
• vbcms_article_save_end
• newthread_post_complete

Instructions are to

• Download the zip file
• Unzip the zip file
• Import the product file product-bvs03_vbpinger.xml through your ACP.
• Then goto the settings page and set them up to ignore your private forums and disallow any pinging that you do not want to have occur. As well as set the user agent to another value if you want.