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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Ombra]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I think the only other DP mod does something like "Posted x days, hours, mins ago" rather than the actual date and time.

I would prefer this. Members say the time on the automerge being different from timestamp they see on the posts is confusing. Is there an easy way to edit the phrase to say "Posted x days, hours, mins ago" instead?

[Paul M]

No, you would need to edit the code to actually calculate those values.

[Zaiaku]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Unfortunately, its last on my list, as it involves javascript, which I am not very knowledgable about, and is also not likely to be an easy change as the quick reply system has changed in 4.0.

I was able to get this to work easily on vb4. It's been running on my site for since about 30mins after that post. It works great!

[SABRSox]

I can't even get it to install, let alone work on vb4.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by SABRSox

I can't even get it to install, let alone work on vb4.

Correct.

The person above edited the dependancies in the xml file in order to install it.

[chrisvonc]

Works like a champ, thank you!

[RedHacker]

Paul M it is worked with vBulletin 4 .....?

[Paul M]

No, it doesnt work properly on vbulletin 4.

First of all, unless you fudge the product file, you cannot install it on 4.0

However, if you do install it on 3.x , then it will only work in a fashion, in so much as it will merge the posts, however the [ajax] display code will not work, so you will get multiple copies of the post displayed.

JFYI, Im currently testing a 4.0 version.

[chrisvonc]

Originally Posted by Paul M

however the [ajax] display code will not work, so you will get multiple copies of the post displayed.

JFYI, Im currently testing a 4.0 version.

I saw those same issues on a 4.0.0 install with no products added when ever I would quote someone. I had to disable ajax to correct that

[s0lidgr0und]

Thanks for your hard work, Paul.