Set it up with no problems! Thanks again for such an awesome hack and awesome work ;) I'd expect no less from you. :p

For those who want to use a template for the PM send to the warned user, all you have to do is to create a template called "warn_pm" with the following contents:

Then in the warn.php file, comment out the following lines:

In case your message looks different than mine (I might have changed it), please comment out the two lines which start with $messageb.

Right below those two lines, add the following:

Of course the template can be edited at will.

I hope this helps.

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John

One issue I had with this hack, is the fact that it uses a separate table, to maintain those members which get banned. If you do that, then you have to manually change their status to unbanned, when the banning period expires.

Why can't we use the normal table, in which vB stores the banned users, called "userban"? In that way, we can have the vB's cron job take care of the unbanning.

For those who are interested in this, all you have to do, is the followings:

In your warn.php file, find the following line:

Replace it, with the followings:

Of course, in this case, you do not use the option "Unban banned users" in your AdminCP, since the bans will no longer be in the table this hack is using, but in the table vB is creating.

Also, it is obvious, that if you use this mod of mine, any future improvements by the author of this hack, might not work, so use at your own risk.

I'll try to help anyone who has issues with the above mods, but I can't promise any response times.

Rgds
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John

* jd clicks install *

I have been testing this for a while, it is great just installed it on my live forum.

I have made a few changes mostly conditionals so only staff can see the warn and view warn text in the postbit template, also added a Warn Level indicator for everyone (except staff) to see, also added the same in the MEMBERINFO template.

Thank you.

JD. :)

I get SQL errors when trying to send the message using both the original method by Zero Tolerance, and the template method by sv1cec

Here is the error with the stock code:
I also can not use the ban fix created by sv1cec two posts up. I get an invalid T_VARIABLE on line 250, which happens to be the first instance of the code below:If anyone knows how to fix these problems I would appreciate it, I've tried quite a few different things but I'm a novice at this sort of thing.

Thanks!

Mind sharing the code for the changes? I was thinking to do the same.

To use my modification for this hack, you have to add some more fields in the tables. For example, I have a field which says if the warning relates to an offence which deserves a permanent ban (such as for a troll). I'll try to help you, if you give me the exact error you get in my code and the line of the code it generates it (the line is not only the part you show above, give me the whole code statement).

Rgds
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John

Thanks for the offer to help, John.

I have attached my Warn.php file so you can see exactly what it says.

When I change Warn.php so that it adds a user to the normal vB banned usergroup I get this error and this error only when attempting to warn a user or view their warning level:
Here are some lines from my Warn.php file
When I change the private message function so that it uses the template instead of the stock way it notifies a user of a warning I get this mySQL error:
Thanks again for any help,

Matt

Matt,

The first error is easy, you need to add a semicolon at the line which says:

$usergroupid=8

Change that to

$usergroupid=8;

As far as the second mistale is concerned, have you commented out both lines starting with "$messageb=...."? There are two lines there, looking like:

You have to comment these lines, add two // in front of each one of them, or just delete them. Then, add a row like:

in their place.

My warn.php looks like that, in that area:

Let me know if these help.

Rgds
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John

i'd still like expirable warnings