New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is an updated version of the popular modification, previously released by Xenon. It is released with his kind permission.

Basically, if member posts in a thread where they were the previous last poster, then if the conditions are met, their new post will be auto-merged into the previous post instead of creating a new "double" post.

A number of options are provided ;

Time Limit - if more than xxx minutes have passed since the last post, no merge is done.

Timestamp Spacer - if enabled, a timestamped spacer is added between the old post text and the new post text.

Post Timestamp Update - if enabled the newly merged post will have its post time updated to the new time, otherwise it retains the time of the original post.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts.

Usergroup exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain usergroups from the doublepost merges.

Forum exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain forums form the doublepost merges.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention.


To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Phrased the post separater.
v3.8.003 : Added JS Template - removing need to edit quick reply javascript file.
v3.8.004 : Updated spacer options.
v3.8.005 : Updated timestamp spacer to fix issue with large merge times.

[mariocaz]

ok thanx

[chrissmith]

thanks for the great addon ! works like a charm

is it possible to define a background ?

thanks
chris

[Paul M]

Nope.

[jazzyname]

thank you . this was much needed for the post hoggs
*installed and nominated

[JoomlaCommunity]

Hello,

is it possible to put the date into the Timestamp Spacer?

[Kadi]

Hi,

We have been requesting this for a while. THANKS!

I tried translating through phrase manager but it doesnt change. How can I translate the phrase that appears?

---------- Post added at 02:43 pm ---------- Previous post was at 02:42 pm ----------

Thanks again.

[teou]

the phrase is pdp_spacer

[teou]

Paul, this has a big bug in our 3.8.2.

I have set it to merge posts in several days (a month, actually). It always says the previous post was yesterday, even if it has been several days earlier.
That, combined with bump makes me lose the original date of the first post.

[Paul M]

Hmmm. It was never designed for such a large merge period, so yes, that will happen.

I'll take a look at fixing it for you.

Edit: Fixed in 3.8.005

[-=Leb=-]

thx for all work paul <3