UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? ... create access logs for certain forums?

I would like to be able to have logs of certain forums to show who accesses that forum and when.

Is there a way to do this?

That's possible but will require some hacking.
You could use a function similar to the admin_log functions that generates the log file in the admin area.

Yes, that is pretty much what I had in mind... similar to the log file for the admin area. As a matter of fact, it's my admin forum that I would like to log. It appears as if I might have a breach in that private forum... or else a leak, which I don't even want to think about.

Does anyone know of any ways to breach private forums? If there is a way and a hole that I need to plug, can you please send me a private message or email me?

Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.

It's hard to say Sasha, I suppose there could be a couple of factors. Could it be someone who's been removed from that forum is still able to see it or that someone who has known access is sharing info outside of it? I know that I have had issues removing people, it's easy to miss a step (for me anyway ) If someone is not part of that group then access is very unlikely as it's quite secure and there isn't any known vulnerabilities.

Eric... that's kinda what I was afraid of. I know that the private forums are pretty secure... I've tested them many times in many ways... I guess I just didn't want to consider that perhaps I have someone who is "leaky"...

I've done an access log thing like this logging everyone who went into a specific forum. - the code was simple. I'll dig it up and post it tonight.

That'll be a neat tool to have Josh

Josh... that would be MUCH appreciated!! Thank you!!

OK - all I did - quick and dirty logs access to the postlist page of a particular forum.

In postlist.php

Below the // Get the user info and authenticate() function - add this:



Where I have UBB25 above - substitute the keyword of the board you want to log. Then in your admin log directory - you'll have a file named 'access.log' with all the access into that forum.

Note this isn't fancy and doesn't rotate the logs etc.... so you'll want to rename them/delete them from time to time so you don't end up with huge log files.

Josh... this is exactly what I needed!!

BUT... I can't view the log from the admin control panel where I view my other admin logs. The access.log is not available in the drop down menu of admin logs to view.

The logging is being done but in order to view the access.log itself, I have to download it to my hard drive by FTP and open it with notepad.

What did I do wrong?

Well to do that, you'd have to have it writing to the admin logs.

If you use the above example access.log - then there's no script which reads that. The script you are talking about reads the admin logs.

So you could have your thing write to the admin log instead then you could read it with the admin log stuff, or you you could duplicate the script which reads the admin log - and tweak the filename that it reads, and add a link for it in the admin menu.

That's what I did. I can't post it as it's pretty much almost an identical copy of the script which reads the admin log with just the filename changed (and it's a copyrighted script), but that gives you the idea.

Gotcha! Thank you much!!