Limit posts per thread
 

Is there a way I can limit the amount of posts in a certain time frame someone can post to a particular thread??? In other words say I want to limit a user names bob to only be able to post in the same thread once every day is that possible??

Can that be possible?

Sure it's possible.

Add a check with something like this in your newreply.php

$lastpost = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT dateline FROM post WHERE threadid = $thread[threadid] AND userid = $bbuserinfo[userid]");
if (vbdate("Ymd", $lastpost[dateline]) == vbdate("Ymd"))
{
eval(print_standard_error('error_posttoday'));
}

you would have to add an errorphrase "error_posttoday".

Also, enclose the whole thing with a check if it's the forum or thread you want.

I appreciate the help but I dont know if I am good enough with PHP to do this... I would be willing to pay someone to make a hack for me that I can use from my admincp or something.

I'll contact you per PM then :)

Is there a way to limit the posts per hour, per thread? I'd like to set up a user so he can only post once per hour per thread instead of an entire day.

Add a check like this:

$lastpost = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT dateline FROM post WHERE threadid = $thread[threadid] AND userid = $bbuserinfo[userid]");
if (vbdate("YmdH", $lastpost[dateline]) == vbdate("YmdH"))
{
eval(print_standard_error('error_posttoday'));
}

this wil allow users to post at 10.55 AND at 11.05 though. Just not again till 12.xx

Hi, I'm getting
when I used your code. It doesn't seem to get the threadid variable from PHP.

funny... I guess you don't have table prefixes, do you?

You might try this:

$lastpost = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT dateline FROM post WHERE (threadid = $thread[threadid]) AND (userid = $bbuserinfo[userid])");

I need something a little different. We have a validation period were all posts from a user are validated before going to the board.

We have a Polls forum, and some of the validating users try to scape the period by posting there a lot.

I want to allow just 1 post on the whole Poll forum per day for all users that are on a particular usergroup (in my case Validating Members).

Is this possible? If yes, how?

Thanks.