Deleted Post & Thread Management

[Tigga]

This is a fairly simple hack. It finds all posts & threads that have been deleted on your forum and displays them for you in your Admin CP. It would be nearly impossible to find every thread and post that has been deleted on your forum by browsing it, so this hack will make it a little easier for you to keep track of exactly what is happening on your forums.

[Erwin]

Very good idea. :)

[Zachery]

nice work again, and this time i get to click the install :D

[Tigga]

Thank you. :)

I'm assuming vBulletin will come up with some type of system to manage everything soon enough... If not though then I'll look into beefing this up a little more when I have some time. ;)

[MGM]

It better have that option :p

having to click on each template individually to view them is a bit of a..... drag lol

* MGM clicks Install

MGM out

[romanticyao]

installed.

[Gio Takahashi]

Nicely done and very useful. Installed.

[thuffner]

Couldda used this when 200+ threads of mine were randomly deleted after an upgrade to RC2. Who knows what happened to them...

Anyway, this is great. Thanks! *installs* :)

[gmarik]

Threads are not deleted fully when I delete them or what>?

[Zachery]

theres a soft delete in vB3 :)

[Natch]

Wow - thanks for this ...

[Oblivion Knight]

This is great.! :)
If Jelsoft hadn't thought of such a feature, I'm sure they have now..

[M.C.]

i think that shoud be defoult for soft deleted threads in Final Release!
Is that hack show fully deleted threads as well?

[TheEDIGuy]

I must be the only one having a problem with this. The install went with no problems, but when I choose "view deleted", it just hangs for a while and then gives this error:

Action canceled

Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

Click the Refresh button, or try again later.

If you have visited this page previously and you want to view what has been stored on your computer, click File, and then click Work Offline.

For information about offline browsing with Internet Explorer, click the Help menu, and then click Contents and Index.

Internet Explorer

[TheEDIGuy]

Ah, I found the problem. I had SO many deleted threads and posts that it was timing out on me.

Tigga, this would be much improved if you added a "hard delete" button at the bottom of each thread or post displayed. If you ever decide to make changes.

[M.C.]

nice one, just want little bit more - to have options:

- keep "soft" deleted
- cansel delete (recover post)
- permanent delete post

and all like in postings.php?do=managepost

even if i can edit post straight from AdminCP - it`ll be cool! ;)

and why in deleted posts management links not to posts - just to threads...???

Anyway usefull hack! Thanks!

[ImportPassion]

you can already do those 3 things. When u do a soft delete, you can click the "Manage" link to do all that

[Christine]

<font color="red">* Christine clicks Install
</font>
Thanks -- this is really useful!

[M.C.]

7thgenCivic.Com, yes, but it`ll be cool to have all together ;)

[ImportPassion]

i see, ya. easier management

[Charlie Argueta]

Excellent idea :devious:

[M1th]

a 'pagination' would be a good idea for this hack. :)

[mtha]

nice one, just want little bit more - to have options:

- keep "soft" deleted
- cansel delete (recover post)
- permanent delete post

and all like in postings.php?do=managepost

even if i can edit post straight from AdminCP - it`ll be cool! ;)

and why in deleted posts management links not to posts - just to threads...???

Anyway usefull hack! Thanks!Consider adding a Manage thread/Post link into title (delete.php), so that you can go straight to the thread/post and do what you want:

around line 43

$title = 'Thread: <a href="' . $vboptions['bburl'] .'/showthread.php?' . $session['sessionhash'] . 't=' . $posts['threadid'] . '" target="_blank">' . $posts['title'] . '</a> - <a href="' . $vboptions['bburl'] .'/postings.php?do=editthread&' . $session['sessionhash'] . 't=' . $posts['threadid'] . '" target="_blank">(Manage thread)</a>';

around line 81
$title = 'Post: <a href="' . $vboptions['bburl'] .'/showthread.php?' . $session['sessionhash'] . 't=' . $posts['threadid'] . '" target="_blank">' . $posts['title'] . '</a> - <a href="' . $vboptions['bburl'] .'/postings.php?do=managepost&' . $session['sessionhash'] . 'p=' . $posts['postid'] . '" target="_blank">(Manage post)</a>';




I would suggest designing the template as

- Forum(board) name
- Thread title
- Post title (if delete post)
- Deleted by (name of the one who delete) on (deletion date <-- need addon)
- Reason:
- Message:


check Moderate post/thread for references.

[mtha]

- Deleted by (name of the one who delete) on (deletion date <-- need addon)
For Deletion date (time), I am thinking about adding a column (deletiontime) on deletionlog table, and adding "TIMENOW" when someone execute the deletion. (dont know where to add yet, do you have any idea?)

It's always good to answer all the: (Who - When - Why _delete What_)

[Oblivion Knight]

Thank you. :)

I'm assuming vBulletin will come up with some type of system to manage everything soon enough... If not though then I'll look into beefing this up a little more when I have some time. ;)Any updates on "beefing this up a little"? It doesn't seem as though Jelsoft have any plans to include this feature..

[clearchannel]

I installed the hack in vB 3.03 easy enought.

May I suggest maybe intgreating it in the search so admins can find deleted threads/posts by username?

[Megareus Rex]

Very nice hack :)

*installs*

Oh, just one thing...smilies don't show up in the posts when viewing them using this hack. Not that its a big deal or anything, just thought I'd let you know. :P
(I'm an aesthetics guy)

[sv1cec]

Also, for me, it would be more convenient if the deleted threads are viewed in reverse date order. I know I should add something like "Decending" in on of the queries, but I am not exactly sure of the syntax.

Any help would be appreciated.

Installed.

CANCEL that request, one has to add DESC at the end of the query. Trying some customization now. Thanks for a nice hack.

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John