There are posts all through this thread about creating a template for this hack.

Besides that, why are my backgrounds changing when I report but not creating the threads?

Older posts maybe - before it was a product it was necessary to create the templates, since it was upgraded to a product it is not, the product import creates them. If you have created templates and imported the product, you may have created a problem.

I have no idea and I'm not entirely sure I understand you. Do you have screenshots to illustrate what you mean ?

Good to know! lol Now I need to figure out how to get rid of the template.

The first screen shot is the default colors, etc. for the main index. The second is what happened after I reported a post on the board with that background. Still no threads being created though.

Any rogue templates can be got rid of by reverting them. After you have done that - reimport the product, with overwrite set to yes, and make sure you have a master template called "Report_post". Also make sure the plugins are loaded.

Okay, that was weird but it works now! lol Thank you!!!

As I said - creating a manual template almost certainly caused a problem. Getting rid of it has solved the problem. :)

Sorry to bother you with this again but I just installed this on a friend's forum and am having the same problem with the backgrounds changing after a post is reported. I didn't do anything unnecessary, i.e., creating a template so I have no idea why it is doing this again. I even tried it twice but the backgrounds are still messing up.

I still don't really understand what you mean, your screenshots were too small for me, and you never really explained what they were supposed to be showing. That said - this doesn't alter what's displayed when a post is reported anyway, all it does is change the resulting action - so I don't see how it can affect any background anyway.

The screen shots were supposed to show before and after I reported. The before shot was the main index with the default background, the after shot was the main index with the board's (with the post I reported) background. For some reason, when I reinstalled on my own forum, it worked. But that isn't the case with the forum I'm working on now. Is it possible this hack is conflicting with another one or a template with certain settings?

I'm still completely confused - how can your forum have two backgrounds ? are they different styles ? What is the url of the site ? Can you create a test account so I can see what you are talking about, because I really just don't follow, esp given what I have alreay pointed out - that this does not alter the actual post reporting process, only what happens to the report.

Nice hack :)

Is it possible to implement the reported forum also?

We have plenty of active forums (300+) with over 40 moderators, it would be nice for them to see from which forum the post which is reported originally was....

If you look back in the thread there are instructions on how to add the forum name - with the one minor problem that some special charecters don't get displayed correctly.

Nice, but I prefer reported posts to be PMed to mod. I have a big forum, several hundreds boxes and mods, hundred thoundsands members, lots of argument between fans. It would be a mess if every reported post going to one predefined forum

and it's not a mess with them all going to mods ?

It's about music, USUK/Korea/Japan/China/German/Russian/French/Vietnam ...etc, each has several dozens of boxes for singers and bands. The same with pop/rock/dance/dj/classical ... etc. So it's a big forum with hundreds of small boxes, each has its own moderators. It's just that we need lots of moderator to run their own boxes, so reported posts should be sent to who in charge, not to one forum where all mods have to look at piles of report unrelated to them, and dig out reports from their own boxes

i got a suggestion.. it would be great if the report button would creat posts in a certain thread.. to reduce the mess it would creat for very very many threads.. would it be possible?

Sure, if you want to write it then it's perfectly possible. It's not going to happen with this hack though. :)

ohh.. sory.. if i may request it from u.. since you are the author of this hack and its almost that same.. and i dont have much knowledge in coding hacks..

Thank you, it works perfectly. I'm positive that any future reported posts will be given a much faster response time as opposed to an email.

Sorry, you will need to find someone else to do this for you.

Hm, all of the sudden this isn't working for me. Actually the last thread made for me was at the end of November, so I'm not sure how long it hasn't been working. I just tried to reinstall the product with overwrite on and it didn't help. I also tried giving permissions to a group so that they could post there and it didn't help.

Once you hit submit on the form, it just goes to a blank reports.php page.

I'm on 3.5.2.

Ok, reports aren't working at all and neither is the Report Own Posts hack. I'll be back.

Thanks a ton, I am so tired of staff moaning... LOL

not workin when upgraded to 3.5.3

Works for me i updated to 3.5.3 last night

Works fine on 3.5.3 :)

Yeah, working for me too in 3.5.3 :nervous:

The problem I was having, vBulletin has forgotten to close the form in the reportbadpost template, so if you have a form in the footer with similar inputs (name="do" value="process"), it breaks.

great hack, no use, yet, for it, but installed it on 3.5.3 - flawless! works perfect as it should.

Now you can click on install then. :)

Awesome hack clicked install

wont work on my 3.5.3 because the name of the report_post template has changed.

Not really sure what you mean, changed by who ?

Sorry, I can't make you a user ID. My forum is too private for that. I will deal until something better comes out.

How do I enable email reports since this hack disables that?

installing today, thank you.

I've always liked this hack.

/me installs

Hey, So have I :up:

fantastic!

I'd like to add the name and link to the forum in the actual report - in the template
Report_post

I'd like it to say:

On Board: (here goes the name of and a link to the forum that the reported post is in)

This should be vBulletin standard option. Good work Paul.

P.S. Since this hack turned out into a product, you might need to uncheck the 'Template changes' box.

Since it adds templates I think that option should be ticked. :)

So is there an easy way to add board name in the report_post template?