Merge Posts

[Unknown553]

I searched but found nothing I was looking for, so if this hack is already existing I'm sorry. I'm looking for a hack that will merge posts together, kind of like how threads are merged together in vBulletin already. I have a lot of members that double and even triple post in a thread and they can't seem to find that edit button, so a way to merge posts together would be a great fix. The merged post should have the oldest post at the top, then maybe a few lines down and then the second oldest post, going sequentially by the post date times. Thanks.

-Marcus

[Unknown553]

Anyone? :(

[Unknown553]

Only 8 views??

[Xenon]

by the editfunction you can do this ;)

you have this problem: how to automatically detect which post is just a double, and which is a real answer...
time not only say that, you have to check if there are posts between or not.

and actually when should this be done?
with every post a user makes? (so put some sort of code in newreply.php)
or should it go like the updatecounters started in the admin-cp? (this would be harder, but you can merge old posts too)

the first part with newreply.php i think i can code if you want this type.

[Unknown553]

Editing every post and combining them would be quite a bit of work. I was looking for something like the merge threads feature. I don't want it to automatically detect which is a double post, I would do it manually, maybe just check some checkboxes and then those posts would be merged. I guess it really would be just as easy to edit the posts I guess, now that I think of it. Oh well, if anyone does make a hack like this I'd use it, but if not, I guess it's edit post time. :( Thanks for your help.

[Xenon]

Perhaps this hack can help you a bit :):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40145

thanks for the idea ;)

[Unknown553]

Thank you so much!!!