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About LinkBacksDoes anyone know how to determine if a vbulletin visitor is a bot in php?
EG: condition $show['member'] & $show['guest']
but bot version in PHP.
I want to make a mod that doesn't interfere with SE bots.PHP Code:if ($visitor != BOT) {
// do stuff here
}
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if ($visitor != BOT) {
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10-02-2008 10:12 AM #1Senior Member
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if ($visitor != BOT) {
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10-03-2008 09:28 AM #2Senior Member
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am I looking for something that doesn't exist?
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10-03-2008 10:30 AM #3Senior Member
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There's $show['search_engine'] but only knows 3 bots: google|msnbot|yahoo
You can extend this in includes/init.php.
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10-03-2008 12:01 PM #4Senior Member
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this is probably a bad idea. you can run into cloaking penalties
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10-03-2008 12:54 PM #5Senior Member
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do you get penalties if the contents is exactly the same? What I'm trying to do only affect function rather than contents.
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10-03-2008 04:11 PM #6Senior Member
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if the display is the same, google/etc won't ever know the difference.
What exactly are you trying to do?
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