Moderation Auto-PM v2.0.1

[jluerken]

FYI, I use this plugin with vBSEO without any issues.

Which vbSEO version?

[bollie]

Where I can find?

* Moderation Auto-PM - Message Subjects
* Moderation Auto-PM - Message Content

[Tyegurl]

did you try in the phrases?

inclludes phrases:

$phrasegroups[] = 'autopm_title';
$phrasegroups[] = 'autopm_text';

that won't help though

but hey be in the phrasegroups the 2 you are looking for....i will try to find them....

[bollie]

thx ;)
very beautiful hack

[Tyegurl]

those aren't in my phrases......help!!! lol

go to search phrases....there is a scrollbox....scroll down a little and you will find them in the types of phrase.....

[Robbed]

In the options I enter my recycle forum but the PM still says this thread was moved to and it's blank.

It says anything moved to the recycle forum should show deleted on the PM

[waleed12]

very good

but why you don't but a text area when i moderate the thread
and i can write what i want to send it
and if it empty he don't send any thing

maby it's nice idea

[Ncturnal]

In the options I enter my recycle forum but the PM still says this thread was moved to and it's blank.

It says anything moved to the recycle forum should show deleted on the PM

I'm getting the same thing. I had this installed before the vB 3.6.0 upgrade and everything worked fine. Everything else is still working, but is ignores the setting for the Recycle Bin forum and leaves the name blank just like you are experiencing. I removed the forum ID for the Recycle Bin forum setting and it's still doing the same thing. Not a huge deal, but it is a little odd. :)

[Don.Hanks]

great hack. works well on my forums, thanks Alan. will report if any problems.

[Odysseus]

problem with this version only

when the PM sent to user ,
Private Messages: Unread 0, Total 7.
Still Unread is zero .

the previus version was OK

I'm also having this problem.
The systems sends out the PMs, but the "Unread message counter" on ForumHome will not be updated.

The system becomes pretty userless without showing the user that he got a new message. ;)
I hope that issue can be fixed soon.

[Ghanem]

Hi,

I have a problem with unicode..

If I edit a post and, put the reason in Arabic (windows-1256), the edit reason is sent to the poster as:
%u062A%u0639%u062F%u064A%u0644 %u0627%u0644%u0631%u0627%u0628%u0637

Regards

[Snatch]

I habe a problem with Usernames and special characters.

The Users that UserNames contains special characters becomme no PM about moderating threads. Charackters like <<<>>>.

GreeTz
Snatch

[Ncturnal]

I'd personally not let users have usernames with those characters in it. < & > will be problematic for obvious reasons if you know the slightest about coding.

[Spinball]

Alan ,I appreciate you're not around until early September, but may I offer a functionality suggestion for you to consider during your absence?
I would like to be able to exclude certain usergroups from receiving these PMs.
Might this be a possibility?

[Darat]

I've a strange problem - it may be a bug, had this working fine in 3.5.4 - upgraded the forum to 3.6 and upgraded the product to the 3.6 version. I have some forums that we have excluded from generating auto-pms, and this works fine except for one Moderator, whenever they move/edit/delete a post or thread in that section it still generates a PM, (in fact I think this happens for this Moderator in all the excluded forums). Anyone else seen this happen?

[Chadi]

I uninstalled this and deleted the 3 files but for some resaon it still shows up in admincp. (cleared cache/cookies too)

[Snake]

I was wondering if this is gonna work on 3.6.1?

[Tom1234]

bump. Anyone using this on 3.6.1?

[SportsZone]

I am and it works fine!

[Tom1234]

ok, I used "Thread Tools" | "Move Thread" to move a thread to the designated "Recycle Bin Forum" yet the PM the thread starter received says "The following thread that you created has been moved" and lists the Original Forum and a blank for New Forum, rather than just saying it was deleted.

Is that the way it's supposed to work? This is vB 3.6.1.

[Mudvayne]

Just wondering did anybody notice that this hack is much resource hunger? I used to have my severload atleast 5+ with installing this hack.. Now after uninstalling this hack.. The server load is less than 1 or 1..

[Darat]

Just wondering did anybody notice that this hack is much resource hunger? I used to have my severload atleast 5+ with installing this hack.. Now after uninstalling this hack.. The server load is less than 1 or 1..

Not at all - pretty hard to see how it could be since it is only "activated" when a Mod does something - perhaps if on your forum Mods were busily editing, moving, deleting posts and threads then it had some performance hit?

[Hornstar]

Is there a way to make the username non returnable because I think lots of users will try to pm me back after getting pms. I think this feature would be really great.

Maybe to be able to make the pm name 'no reply' or something, not sure what that would do tho. kinda how emails are set up when they have a no reply email address.

just a thought, ill wait until this feature can be installed, as I think this coud be a problem on a large forum.

Thanks.

[Darat]

Is there a way to make the username non returnable because I think lots of users will try to pm me back after getting pms. I think this feature would be really great.

Maybe to be able to make the pm name 'no reply' or something, not sure what that would do tho. kinda how emails are set up when they have a no reply email address.

just a thought, ill wait until this feature can be installed, as I think this coud be a problem on a large forum.

Thanks.

Perhaps you could use the option that allows you to have the PMs sent from a specific user account rather then the person moving the thread - if you create a new account just for these PMs and then set that account to not receive PMs?

[redlabour]

New PMs are not shown as Unread at the Navbar.

[vBarab]

Not Support 3.6.2

[redlabour]

Not Support 3.6.2

There are no Problems with 3.6.2 ! :tired:

[RustedBucket]

Admin Options for Recycle Bin forum states:
"Moderation Auto-PM will then send a message to the user informing them that their thread has been deleted instead of moved to this particular forum."

User is notified the thread was Moved and not Deleted as indicated above.

Also, if the Recycle Bin is included in the Exclude Forums list any move to the recycle bin doesn't send a pm. Probably not a real big deal unless you clean out your recycle bin from time to time and it happens to be inside the age limit. Just a thought.

[zooman]

New PMs are not shown as Unread at the Navbar.I've pulled my hair out on this, anyone want to share any thoughts?

[Darat]

Nothing has changed between this versoin and the previous version with regards to the sending on PMs :)

What versions of vBulletin are you running?

It was in last months HotM, and is in this months :)

Thanks,
Alan.

Just thought this might be useful - the Zoints people have released a new product "Zoints Local" and they have had a similar bug reported regarding an auto-pm that they generate - one of their developers "Who" posted this about the bug in their product:

Who from: http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=2244
I did some more investigation, and vbulletin's datamanager runs the PM Unread query using the 'shutdown query' function, which executes the query upon script shutdown.

However, in versions less than php5 the shutdown queries aren't run on the desctruction of the vBulletin object, but rather upon calling of the function print_output(), which isn't done anywhere in the Zoints code. I've added the calling of the shutdown function the Zoints deconstruction in RC3, so it should work from then on.


I am running on PHP 4.x and my users aren't seeing the "Unread" updated.

[zooman]

Thank you, I intend to upgrade our PHP and Database very soon (within the next two weeks) so I will see what happens then.

I have found a separate issue.

In exclude forums I have excluded a heavily edited forum (100 odd edits a day, we do have 100k members who just love to be edited), but the hack is still PMing the poster.

Any thoughts on this?

[vbreal]

needed this
thanks

[jndeakin]

Couldn't get this working at first. First I thought it was because I didn't have an exclude forum (early bug mentioned in this thread), then I found you fixed it later. Then 180-odd posts in I found you don't PM when the thread originator moves their own thread!!!!
I don't know about you, but when trying it on our test forum, that seemed the easiest thing to do :( Could you make it optional maybe? Or at least make it clear in the documentation?

It seems to be working at the moment, but I think there's a legacy message problem from a previous similar hack... Off to keep digging

Jim Deakin

[itsatonline]

please help for installed 3.6.3 ?
support?
worked on 3.6.3?
new ver ?

[skoenig]

Great MOD. Works fine on 3.6.2. with vbSEO.

Some of our active threads can generate multiple PMs per paricipant's post in the thread when they get moved depending on how late a moderator gets to the thread. Thus a user can receive a great many PMs depending on their activity in the that thread.

Is there anyway, for the Thread level PMs to be sent just once per user ids that are participating in the thread? Or somehow combined in one PM for that user?

~ Steph

[Makc666]

Is there any quick change so this MOD also PMs when some thread or post was copied?

[NameClan.com]

is it working with vb 3.64? thanx

[Snake]

Yes it does.

[rjmjr69]

Thank you this is a very useful feature. I remember going to post or read the post's in one of my threads a few times and found the thread either deleted or altered and not knowing WTF was going on that would really get my blood boiling. I think its only respectful to notify someone when what they posted is altered or deleted. Well thank you again for this mod installed and working fine on 3.6.4

[zompus]

Thanks.

<- Installed!

[blogtorank]

Nice hack!

[toddos]

hi there,
i am using this hack and actually its great.
But if i delete a posting, only sometmes the author of this posting gets a PM. Not usually, only sometimes.

Thats not wright.

Just for info: in th ACP i saw at the options of mdoeration Auto-PM that there is written (at the options of postings): Send PM if thread is deleted. But it muste be "if posting" is delted" ;)

Maybe thats a reason? i dont know...
Does anybody knows?

I am german, sry ^^

[toddos]

someone who can help me please?

[toddos]

plz be so kind

[toddos]

nobody? :(

[toddos]

reallly nobody?

[kal-L]

I am assuming this doesn't work for 3.6.4, as I have installed it and it did nothing.
Uninstalled re-installed 13 times so far. Still nothing.

Any ideas on how to fix this? I could so use this mod.

[Naco]

Doesn't work in the 3.6.4

[Exitilus]

Working perfectly fine for me in 3.6.4

[RyanC]

Doesn't work for me in 3.6.4 at all... upgraded and got nothing... uninstalled and reinstalled and got nothing...

[Exitilus]

Try installing it on a vanilla VB

[rjmjr69]

Works just fine in my heavily modified site....... 3.6.4

[manofphat]

I just tried installing it on 3.6.4 and nothing showed up in the AdminCP section and PM's aren't being sent :(

[karanlikdunya]

3.6.4 not sent:(

[bollie]

Work for 3.6.4 i use

[manofphat]

Yeah I got it working on 3.6.4 as well. I made a stupid mistake.

[Black Tiger]

Can you share with us how you fixed it manofphat? Because I'm running 3.6.5. and it's still not showing up in my admincp.

[Black Tiger]

Ah found it... just under vbulletin options, no seperate section. Maybe this would be a nice feature to put it in the admincp like arcade is and icash and things like that.:)

[manofphat]

Ah found it... just under vbulletin options, no seperate section. Maybe this would be a nice feature to put it in the admincp like arcade is and icash and things like that.:)

That's the exact mistake I made. Here here to vBulletin n00bs haha

Confirmed working on 3.6.5 btw

[Alan @ CIT]

Hi all :)

As you have probably noticed, I no longer develop software for vBulletin. However, as this modification appears to still be popular, I would love to see someone continue its development!

If you are interested in developing this mod further and taking on all rights / ownership of this modification, please e-mail me at alan@citconsultants.co.uk.

Thanks to everyone :)

Alan.

[Makc666]

It came to "our" attention that there is some strange situation with this MOD:
Original discussion here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1204833&postcount=39

In brief:
There is the difference between messages sent to me by that mod in behalf of user and sent from that user himself.

By Mod:
a:1:{s:3:"bcc";a:1:{i:1;s:7:"Makc666";}}

By User:
a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:1;s:7:"Makc666";}}

It must be s:2:"cc" only?

Can you post a note here. If no just say and I will ask developers.

[RyanC]

For the life of me I can't get this one to work in 3.6.5

Anyone else having issues? Are there any quick fixes? I miss this feature.

[Black Tiger]

What do you mean you can't get it to work? Does it not send messages or do you see failure notices?
I have it installed in 3.6.5 without problems, the only thing I did not do yet is to check if pm's are send.

[RyanC]

I had it on 3.5 with no problems at all... worked great... However, with 3.6.5 no pms are sent on moderation.

I do have vbseo installed, but have tried disabling it and the moderation pms still did not work.

[PinkDaisy]

Works like a charm!! Thanks.. :D

[DJ Teac]

How do i add the German phrases ?
I really got no clue at all :)

[kanxue]

Hi,

I have a problem with unicode..

If I edit a post and, put the reason in Arabic (windows-1256), the edit reason is sent to the poster as:
%u062A%u0639%u062F%u064A%u0644 %u0627%u0644%u0631%u0627%u0628%u0637

Regards



bug:

product-cit_mod_autopm.xml
find
fetch_censored_text($vbulletin->GPC['reason']))

modify:
fetch_censored_text(convert_urlencoded_unicode($vb ulletin->GPC['reason']))

[Konstantinos]

what about adding an option to the usercp if the person wants to notified , meaning choosing yes or no and type of notification pm or email ?

[mfyvie]

I've been running this mod for a while (2.0.1), everything works perfectly, except no PMs are sent when thread titles are edited.

I've run various versions of VB, but at the moment I'm on 3.6.7. I also run VBSEO 3.0 gold, previously I used 2.4.0 - but this behaviour has been the same the whole time - no PMs sent on thread title changes.

Anybody have any idea how I could begin to debug this?

[mfyvie]

I think I realise what the issue is here. If I edit a thread title via ajax, a PM is sent. If I edit it via the thread tools drop-down menu, no PM is sent.

Since there are similiar functions already in place, does anyone know how this mod could be changed to trigger them PM in both of the editing methods instead of just one?

[mfyvie]

Ok, I figured it out. I discovered that there was actually no plugin to handle the case where someone edits a thread thread via the Edit Thread option on the Thread Tools menu. Since I frequently change thread titles via this method (rather than from the forum view via AJAX) I was really missing these functions.

Therefore, effectively the following functionality was missing when using the edit thread option:

Title edit notification
Stick/Unstick notification
Open/Close notification

The attached plugin fixes these issues. It's tested on my setup only which is VB 3.6.7 PL1, using Auto-PM v2.0.1.

I'm sorry - I don't know very much about writing plugins, so I can't actually support this add-in. Hopefully it will be picked up by the author and included into the standard build. I'll send him an email to let him know.

Next I'm going to try and work on an integration between Auto-PM and the vbRecycle mod.

[mfyvie]

For those people running vBRecycle (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=138106) I've just released a bridge mod between vBRecycle and Moderation Auto-PM. It extends the functionality of Moderation Auto-PM to also generate PMs to users when the recycle function is used.

You can find this mod here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=148034).

Please note, this has nothing to do with the XML file attached to my previous post - the previous post concerns providing some functionality that was missing from the original file.

It would be good if the functionality in both of these modifications were rolled into an updated version of Moderation Auto-PM so that support for vBRecycle could be provided automatically.

[Alan @ CIT]

Hi Mfyvie,

Thanks for the additions / updates to this mod, I'm sure they'll come in very useful to others here :)

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I cannot add them to the original mod. Along with not owning a vBulletin licence, I lost most of the code to my mods a while ago after a PC replacement. Also, I'm afraid that I cannot edit this mod post either (due to the lack of licence) so I cannot add your mods to the description either :(

However, as mentioned in this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1201867&postcount=310), the offer still stands for someone to take over this mod :)

Thanks,
Alan.

[mfyvie]

Hi Alan,

Thanks stopping by! I must say this sounds like a great shame. I think you did a fantastic job with this mod, and it has made life on my board SO much better!

I guess there is some good news and some bad news. The good news is that since I already have the current version, it would be relatively easy for me to roll all my changes into it (including support for vBRecycle (if installed)) and to export it again as a new version. There is just a very small bug - but if you could give me some advice on it I'm sure it won't be a big issue.

As much as I'd love to take over your mod for you, I'm afraid I just don't have the technical skills (with VB and PHP in any case) to answer any requests for feature enhancements or support it properly. I just wouldn't be able to do it justice.

If we can figure out some other way to get the files updated (I PM'd one of the admins to ask for help), I'd be more than happy to repackage a new version though.

Regards,
Mark

[Paul M]

I'm afraid that I cannot edit this mod post either (due to the lack of licence) so I cannot add your mods to the description either :(Hmm, that's an oversight in the permissions. When we gave members of the coders group permission to reply in their own modifications (to continue supporting them) it should have included the ability to edit their replies as well, but it seems that got missed. Try now.

[Gwendolin]

I have a problem with exclude forums.

I changed in class_autopm_checker.php

var $exclude = false;
to
var $exclude = true;

Now in the excluded forums will don't send a pm if a thread is deleted, but if posts will deleted it sends a pm, it works just with threads.

Did I need to change more things?

[zooro]

Is it work with 3.6.7 ?

[Niels84]

Is it work with 3.6.7 ?
It seems to be working on 3.6.7 on my board. Nevertheless, for some mysterious reason, PMs are sent, but the pmtotal and pmunread counters aren't updated... Anyone knows how to solve this?

[Makc666]

It seems to be working on 3.6.7 on my board. Nevertheless, for some mysterious reason, PMs are sent, but the pmtotal and pmunread counters aren't updated... Anyone knows how to solve this?
Those PMs are sent as a system one. In other words they have system flag. That is why they didn't not count.

[Niels84]

Those PMs are sent as a system one. In other words they have system flag. That is why they didn't not count.

Hi Maxim,

is there any way (in code) to alter the flag?

[bc3tech]

would like to see this implemented in a future release as well :)

[Niels84]

Those PMs are sent as a system one. In other words they have system flag. That is why they didn't not count.
Actually, after diving in to the code again, I'm unsure about the flag-thing. Code (in class_dm_pm.php gets executed until the counters need to be updated [which is the latest command when saving a PM]). The query is correct (I've been scanning all SQL queries), the code runs through that query, but the user record is not updated...
And that's really weird...

[Makc666]

Hi Maxim,

is there any way (in code) to alter the flag?

I will answer you tomorrow.
I made some test today, but I need more time and want home now :D

[Makc666]

Actually, after diving in to the code again, I'm unsure about the flag-thing. Code (in class_dm_pm.php gets executed until the counters need to be updated [which is the latest command when saving a PM]). The query is correct (I've been scanning all SQL queries), the code runs through that query, but the user record is not updated...
And that's really weird...
Yes. What I wrote is nonsense :(
There is no any flag.
I fully agree with you words.

There real thing is here:

When some one uses 'Advance Edit' to change my post a get a PM about that and "Private Messages: Unread 1, Total 1." are updated.

When some one uses 'Quick Edit' to change my post a get a PM about that but "Private Messages: Unread 0, Total 0." are not updated! :(
But! When I check ANY PM in my Inbox folder and for example use 'Mark as read', then "Private Messages: Unread 0, Total 1." get updated.

I am trying to look throw it.

[Makc666]

I get a good answer from vBulletin's support team.
Here it is:

When you make a "Quick Edit" only the changes of the post are updated at the server. Nothing changes with the user session because the page is not reloaded in the browser.

With the "Advanced Edit" there are several page loads. Each page load will update the user's session record.

That it.

[Niels84]

Hi Maxim,
thanks for looking into it. So I guess there's no way to update the counters when a moderator edits a post via the quick edit?

[stinger2]

can future versions have an option to exclude certain members from it...like exclude admin based on members ID?