Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message.
This will be done until the old post is older than 24 hours (you can change this timespan yourself)

Nothing more to say about that, it's the quite same as my vb3.0 version.

This Mod should run with 3.6 as well


** Please make sure you ENABLE this product after you install it - it is disabled by default. **

For vb 3.8 there are two alternative updates ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203705
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204177

[xxskullxx]

Thank you Paul for the update. I will try this out now.

[Snake]

Coolio. I will definitely try this out tonight.

[dan35]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Hmm, well I installed this on my test forum last night, and yes, it has (had) two problems ;

1. The post dateline is not updated on a merge, so it doesn't get seen as unread.

2. The one everyone complains about - no ajax refresh (unless you alter the time stamp, then you get two versions of the same post).


So, since I wanted this on our forum I have fixed both locally - this is what I have done.


1. To fix the timestamp ;

Find ;

PHP Code:

// set info 


Add below it ;

PHP Code:

$dataman2->set('dateline', TIMENOW); 


2. To fix the ajax issue, use this nasty hack ;

Find ;

PHP Code:

    if ($isdoublepost)
    {
        $id = $doublepost['postid'];
        $dataman->save();
        
        //now add edited by
        if ($dp_settings['editedbymsg'] != '')
        {
            $vbulletin->db->query_write("
                REPLACE INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "editlog (postid, userid, username, dateline, reason)
                VALUES ($id, " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ", '" . addslashes($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", '" . addslashes($dp_settings['editedbymsg']) . "')
            ");
        }
    } 


Replace with ;

PHP Code:

    if ($isdoublepost)
    {
        // Ugly hack added by Paul M to fix ajax merge //
        if (!$vbulletin->GPC['ajax'])
        {
            $id = $doublepost['postid'];
            $dataman->save();
        
            if ($dp_settings['editedbymsg'] != '')
            {
                $vbulletin->db->query_write("
                REPLACE INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "editlog (postid, userid, username, dateline, reason)
                VALUES ($id, " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ", '" . addslashes($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", '" . addslashes($dp_settings['editedbymsg']) . "')
                ");
            }
        }
        $vbulletin->url = 'showthread.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "p=$post[postid]#post$post[postid]";
        eval(print_standard_redirect('redirect_postthanks', true, false));
    } 


Seems to work okay for me, feel free to try it.

After using this, I can't post any new thread. Submit new thread, it just pops up a blank page.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by dan35

After using this, I can't post any new thread. Submit new thread, it just pops up a blank page.

Well the answer is simple enough, if it don't work for you don't use it.

FYI, It works for me, on two 3.5.1 systems, and no one else seems to have a problem .....

[EasyTarget]

nm.. learned it in the readme
great hack

[xxskullxx]

@ Paul M:

When I add

PHP Code:

 $dataman2->set('dateline', TIMENOW); 


I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in c:\appserv\www\ng\forums\includes\functions_newpos t.php on line 271

Adding everything else works fine.

3.5.1

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by xxskullxx

@ Paul M:

When I add

PHP Code:

 $dataman2->set('dateline', TIMENOW); 


I get this error:
Adding everything else works fine.

Are you running RC2 by chance?

[xxskullxx]

Sorry just edited my post. Running 3.5.1. I haven't updated my profile in awhile, lol.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by xxskullxx

Sorry just edited my post. Running 3.5.1. I haven't updated my profile in awhile, lol.

Well, it worked fine for me on RC3, although I just took it out and skipped that part of the instrctions Paul gave. Since mine is set at an hour, updating the post time doesn't really make that much sense to me, anyway.

[utw-Mephisto]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Hmm, well I installed this on my test forum last night, and yes, it has (had) two problems ;

1. The post dateline is not updated on a merge, so it doesn't get seen as unread.

2. The one everyone complains about - no ajax refresh (unless you alter the time stamp, then you get two versions of the same post).


So, since I wanted this on our forum I have fixed both locally - this is what I have done.


1. To fix the timestamp ;

Find ;

PHP Code:

// set info 


Add below it ;

PHP Code:

$dataman2->set('dateline', TIMENOW); 


2. To fix the ajax issue, use this nasty hack ;

Find ;

PHP Code:

    if ($isdoublepost)
    {
        $id = $doublepost['postid'];
        $dataman->save();
        
        //now add edited by
        if ($dp_settings['editedbymsg'] != '')
        {
            $vbulletin->db->query_write("
                REPLACE INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "editlog (postid, userid, username, dateline, reason)
                VALUES ($id, " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ", '" . addslashes($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", '" . addslashes($dp_settings['editedbymsg']) . "')
            ");
        }
    } 


Replace with ;

PHP Code:

    if ($isdoublepost)
    {
        // Ugly hack added by Paul M to fix ajax merge //
        if (!$vbulletin->GPC['ajax'])
        {
            $id = $doublepost['postid'];
            $dataman->save();
        
            if ($dp_settings['editedbymsg'] != '')
            {
                $vbulletin->db->query_write("
                REPLACE INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "editlog (postid, userid, username, dateline, reason)
                VALUES ($id, " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ", '" . addslashes($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", '" . addslashes($dp_settings['editedbymsg']) . "')
                ");
            }
        }
        $vbulletin->url = 'showthread.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "p=$post[postid]#post$post[postid]";
        eval(print_standard_redirect('redirect_postthanks', true, false));
    } 


Seems to work okay for me, feel free to try it.