[compuminus]

Hi Shawn, I've been using this mod in my forums for several months now, and many members have been reporting intermittent outages with the page. It isn't browser or location specific, but has been happening quite a lot, and I've been really struggling to isolate the cause. To make matters worse, I've almost never been able to see this happening at my end (but am 100% sure it is happening to lots of other members).

The page still loads (and the rest of the site works fine), but the latest events will appear empty and nothing scrolls. Even when they refresh, nothing appears until perhaps several hours later. No particular event/post is known to trigger this, and the digitalpoint_spy table is fully populated and is getting updated correctly. The server load is also never very high. I suspect that this could be happening on other sites as well, but my site members just use the page so heavily that they notice the 5-10% of the time that it is happening.

getXML/processXML/push aren't working under certain conditions. Could it have to do with their function timings? Any ideas? Here's some of the customized timings:

var fadetime = .25;
var pushtime = 300;
var fadetime_end = 1.5;
var pushtime_end = 4000

Any help here would be greatly appreciated...

[digitalpoint]

No, blog entries lack the hooks necessary to make it work for them. Plus, how often would you really see a new blog entry stream by compared to a new post?

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by compuminus

Hi Shawn, I've been using this mod in my forums for several months now, and many members have been reporting intermittent outages with the page. It isn't browser or location specific, but has been happening quite a lot, and I've been really struggling to isolate the cause. To make matters worse, I've almost never been able to see this happening at my end (but am 100% sure it is happening to lots of other members).

The page still loads (and the rest of the site works fine), but the latest events will appear empty and nothing scrolls. Even when they refresh, nothing appears until perhaps several hours later. No particular event/post is known to trigger this, and the digitalpoint_spy table is fully populated and is getting updated correctly. The server load is also never very high. I suspect that this could be happening on other sites as well, but my site members just use the page so heavily that they notice the 5-10% of the time that it is happening.

getXML/processXML/push aren't working under certain conditions. Could it have to do with their function timings? Any ideas? Here's some of the customized timings:

var fadetime = .25;
var pushtime = 300;
var fadetime_end = 1.5;
var pushtime_end = 4000

Any help here would be greatly appreciated...

Would be a little difficult to debug if you don't see it happening and I can't see it happening. Can you get one of them to take a screenshot or something when it happens? Maybe some error with the one of the text interfering with the XML transport or something. I've been meaning to move it over to just use the internal vB_XML_Builder class, which should solve any issues with the AJAX crapping out if strange characters somehow made their way into it.

[AusPhotography]

Installed and working on vB4.0.7

[NovoCiv]

Works. About a minute delay, but it will serve it's purpose. Thanks!

[8thos]

This would great if I could choose which usergroups are able to use this feature but since I cannot, I am uninstalling.

[SİMAR]

thanks install super man

[MonsterDK]

I have posted here previously about the problem I had with this script.
But I did not get much response.

I will try again...

I get the same BLANK page. Nothing is showing. I have the SPY template and SPY.CSS.

I have just checked my database via phpmyadmin and I can't see the digitalpoint_spy table.

It would be listed down the left side panel in phpmyadmin with the long list?

[preemz10314]

Originally Posted by MonsterDK

I have posted here previously about the problem I had with this script.
But I did not get much response.

I will try again...

I get the same BLANK page. Nothing is showing. I have the SPY template and SPY.CSS.

I have just checked my database via phpmyadmin and I can't see the digitalpoint_spy table.

It would be listed down the left side panel in phpmyadmin with the long list?

you might have installed wrong or are pointing to the wrong url , or maybe you installed it but forgot to enable it in the admincp?

mine is http://www.digitalbrass.com/spy.php and as you can see it works fine... maybe you are seeing a blank page because there is no activity on your forum? either that or you are pointing to the wrong URL to view it.

[MonsterDK]

Originally Posted by preemz10314

you might have installed wrong or are pointing to the wrong url , or maybe you installed it but forgot to enable it in the admincp?

mine is http://www.digitalbrass.com/spy.php and as you can see it works fine... maybe you are seeing a blank page because there is no activity on your forum? either that or you are pointing to the wrong URL to view it.

There is activity on my forum and I am viewing the correct URL.

thanks

[New Joe]

So a few things dp:

Will you be making any changes to this Mod?
Adding the option to choose only certain user groups to be able to use this?
Adding 'Times' on the Posts and Threads which show on the spy page?

[New Joe]

This one is the main thing I'd like to include, I have looked around in the spy.php file but don't know how to add or edit to do this:
Adding 'Times/Dates' on the Posts and Threads which show on the spy page.

I found this in the spy.php:

$output .= '<event>' .
'<id>' . $event['spyid'] . '</id>' .
'<what>' . $what[$event['action']] . '</what>' .
'<title>' . $event['title'] . '</title>' .
'<preview>' . $event['preview'] . '</preview>' .
'<who>' . iif ($event['action'] != 42, $event['username']) . '</who>' .
'<threadid>' . $event['threadid'] . '</threadid>' .
'<postid>' . $event['postid'] . '</postid>' .
'<userid>' . iif ($event['action'] != 42, $event['userid']) . '</userid>' .
'<forumid>' . $event['forumid'] . '</forumid>' .
'<forumname>' . $vbulletin->datastore->registry->forumcache[$event['forumid']]['title'] . '</forumname>' .
'</event>';
}

I tried to add time/date but as i am not a coder i really did not know what i was doing and it did not work.
Anyone could give a heads up for what code and where to add it so it will show the date and time on the spy page.
Thanks.

[digitalpoint]

Not really sure what the real value in the date/time is to be honest. If your board is busy, they would just all be streaming through with the current time and they would mostly all be the same. If your board is inactive, it would make your board appear very inactive since you could see the huge gaps in time between anything happening...

[bada_bing]

Nice will this work for vb 3.8?

[MonsterDK]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Nice will this work for vb 3.8?

be nice if it actually worked at all for me. vb 4.x