The script sits in the root of your Pligg CMS site and first checks if the person accessing the script is logged into a “god” level account. If they aren’t it will redirect them to the Pligg login page. If a user is logged in as a “god” level user it will then connect to Pligg’s MySQL database. It then sends header information to your browser letting it know that it’s receiving a Microsoft Excel document and it should open the data as such. Lastly the script generates the data for Excel by grabbing information stored in the pligg_users table. The end result gives you an easy to read Excel data sheet with usernames, email addresses, registration dates and other useful information. The script is very easy to modify so if you don’t like the default data being used it’s not difficult to add your own columns.

I’ve pasted the script below for anyone to use on their own website. Just copy these lines into a new file and rename it to whatever you want, just remember to add a .php extension to the end of the file name and store it in the root directory where Pligg CMS resides. You can also get a copy of the code from this pastebin post.

<?php
include_once 'libs/dbconnect.php';
include_once('Smarty.class.php');
$main_smarty = new Smarty;
include_once('config.php');
include(mnminclude.'html1.php');
include(mnminclude.'smartyvariables.php');

force_authentication();
$amIgod = 0;
$amIgod = $amIgod + checklevel('god');
$main_smarty->assign('amIgod', $amIgod);

if($amIgod == 0){
	header("Location: " . getmyurl('login', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
	die();
}
$main_smarty->assign('isAdmin', $canIhaveAccess);

mysql_connect(EZSQL_DB_HOST,EZSQL_DB_USER,EZSQL_DB_PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(EZSQL_DB_NAME);

header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
$filename = "Website_User_Data_" . date('d-m-Y') . ".xls";
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=\"$filename\"");

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".table_prefix."users ORDER BY user_id") or die('MySQL query attempting to select user data failed!');
while(false !== ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))) {
	echo $row[user_id]."\t";
	echo $row[user_names]."\t";
	echo $row[user_login]."\t";
	echo $row[user_email]."\t";
	echo $row[user_url] . "\t";
	echo $row[user_date] . "\t";
	echo $row[user_lastlogin]." \n";
	//echo implode("\t", array_values($row)) . "\n";
}
exit;
?>

In addition to the security update, this release includes a new “Spam Trigger” module. We will be providing a video demonstration of this module in the next few days.

Pligg CMS 1.0.3 Changes

Below is an abbreviated changelog. To see the full list of changes please view our SVN logs.

• Security fixes
• Inline comment CAPTCHA fix
• Added new Spam Trigger module
• Deleting a comment now recalculates the story comment number
• 404error.php URL Method 2 fix
• Added Italian language
• Fixed admin language module removing UTF characters
• Fixed some RSS urls that had an extra forward slash at the end
• Fix for using quotes within HTML tags in stories
• Same name category fix
• Fixed JS in multibox_admin
• Removed /cache line from robots.txt to allow robots to crawl cached sitemap
• Login cookie fix for previously untested server configurations
• Fix for escape slashes in stories
• Register invalid characters fix for servers where PCRE was compiled without UTF-8 support

1.0.3 Template Changes

Template upgrades will be required for users seeking to move from 1.0.2 and below to 1.0.3. The important changes are simple 1 line additions to add some new security measures to Pligg forms. A slightly more complex update is required for users who want to fix the problem with inline comment CAPTCHAs. The important security template changes apply to the following template files:

• edit_group_center.tpl
• editlink_edit_center.tpl
• group_story_center.tpl
• recommend_small.tpl
• submit_groups.tpl
• user_center.tpl

As usual, we highly recommend that you use a program like Winmerge to compare the Wistie template from 1.0.2 to the latest 1.0.3 version to see all of the template changes since the last release.

In addition to the store-wide 25% discount we will be rotating some great discounts on individual items throughout the day, so keep coming back to see what items are going on sale at Pligg Pro because these deals won’t last.

The Status Update module page on Pligg Pro includes several screenshots of the module including the settings page and an image of the Status Update module in action on a site using Wistie. This collection of images as well as the detailed description provided should give you a pretty good idea of how the module works prior to making your purchase. If you have any questions though, feel free to ask us by replying to the Status Update announcement thread on the Pligg Forums.

To benefit users who keep up with Pligg news we are offering the Status Update module at a special introductory price of $30. This deal will only be available for a short time, so if you are interested in adding more great social networking features to your Pligg website then we encourage you to buy it now before the deal expires.

First Place: Mystique
This template by Unu immediately blew us away. Even though the original template was designed for Wordpress, we can tell that the author has spent a considerable amount of time working on this template to make it fit Pligg CMS. There are a lot of great javascript effects and overall the template works with very few bugs to speak of.

Second Place: Season
This template by Sansui comes in four different flavors which can quickly be changed due some javascript magic. We are not huge fans of the color scheme or background images, but it looks like many Pligg users are using this template. Since the community voice is important to us we choose to ignore some of our personal preferences and award this template second place.

Third Place: Galmark
The final template was designed by forum member Shakila. While the design of Galmark is very nice, it suffers from a pretty big bug in the category navigation menu that could have easily been fixed. This bug along with the user’s lack of activity on Pligg.com are what made it rank third instead of second.

Someone caught a bug in the 1.0.2 release that we would like to patch, so we will be re-releasing 1.0.2 this afternoon with a fix. The bug is related to the Groups feature for Pligg. Pagination on group published, upcoming and shared pages does not seem to work, resulting in group stories being displayed on one page rather than being spanned across many pages.

A new “Auto Update” module has been added to make upgrading Pligg easier. It will detect when a new version of Pligg CMS is available and alert you from the admin panel when you should upgrade. The module then has the capability to download and extract the latest version of Pligg onto your server and run through the upgrade script. It’s still an early module that needs some testing, but we hope that making it available will encourage users to upgrade their site more frequently and closer to the release dates. One final note about this module is that users will still need to manually update any template files that have been changed between releases. Luckily the template changes are becoming less and less with each version of Pligg because of our module system.

The final module worth noting is the XML Sitemap module, which has been updated to work with Pligg 1.0.2. It should provide search engines with a more accurate map of your site, resulting in improved search engine results.

Things are a little easier to manage on your Pligg site with the 1.0.2 update. Improvements have been made to the admin panel group, comment and story management pages. It should now be easier to mass delete bad content from your website.

The top priority for our developers now is to fight spam and we plan on creating a series of FREE modules to combat the 2 major types of Pligg spam. The first type is the most common and it’s the generic spam that every blog and forum on the internet see. It is a type of spam that is usually filled with keywords that could easily be detected and flagged as spam. We are in the beginning stages of developing a free word filter module for Pligg that will use a dictionary of words to deal with this type of spam. It could also be useful for blocking profanity on your site. The second form of spam is far more difficult because it is much better at disguising itself as a legitimate story. It comes from either software or services that allow people to submit to many Pligg (and other CMS) sites all at once. Unfortunately we are taking a while to perfect our battle strategy on how to stop this type of spam over the long haul. As we hammer out the details we will spend time developing a couple free modules to protect Pligg users from this type of spam, or at the very least slow it down. There are some already great solutions out there for battling spam, including the Submit Antispam Addon and Story Admin Email Moderation modules.

If you can’t wait for the 1.0.2 release, or if would like to test our latest SVN version you can grab SVN release 1743 here. We could use your help testing this version for bugs since we have made quite a few changes to the core and it’s always best to get a variety of users opinion on our builds before an official release. Test it out and let us know if you have any problems by visiting our IRC chat room.

One last reminder is that everyone needs to vote for Pligg as this year’s Most Promising CMS’s. There’s only 1 day left and this will be the last reminder.

We will be using the poll results as part of the criteria in selecting the winners of the template design contest. Seven of the sixteen templates are not eligible for winning this contest because the authors are Pligg developers who will be judging the entries. Voting will remain open until Sunday, November 1. Make sure that you cast your vote before Halloween is over.

If you are an author of one of these templates you will receive an email shortly with a $20 Pligg Pro gift certificate as an entry prize.

If you haven’t yet voted for Pligg, please vote for us as the Most Promising CMS in the CMS Awards competition. It only takes a few seconds to cast a vote and we really appreciate your support.