Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Change Threads/Posts Owner/Date for vB3.7

Change Posts Owner

Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

Tested on vBulletin 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

What does this modification do?
It can change the owner and date of multiple threads and post. For this, it adds another option to your mod actions on forumdisplay, showthread and search results. After selecting some threads or posts, you can choose the new owner by name or by UserID. "By name" works with the AJAX namesuggestion, we all know it from writing a PM. After changing the name, it rebuilds thread/forum counters and post counter of old and new user. Attachments will also be assigned to new user.

Installtime: <1 minutes
Difficulty: very easy (1 product)

Demo is not available, due to missing permissions on my board.

Please click Mark as INSTALLED, otherwise I will not support you.

Features
- Can change owner and date of selected posts and threads (including database attachments - it will not move file attachments)
- Can change owner to unregistered user and back
- Can accept user id and username
- Username input is driven by AJAX
- Post count of involved users will be increased/decreased
- Thread and forum counters of involved threads and forums will be rebuild
- Supports inline moderation
- Makes use of $template_hooks, hooks and simple group permissions
- Every change will leave a notice in moderation log

Features for future releases
- Incrementally change time, f.e. first posts is 12:01:01, second one will get 12:01:02h, third one 12:01:03h....
- Moving file based attachments to the new user


How to install?- Simply import product

How to upgrade?- Uninstall existing product, install new one

Changelog
v1.8, released 7. January 2009
- Apostroph in Username will be filtered out
- Fixed 12h/24h recognition

v1.7, released 4. June 2008
- Attachments will now be also assigned to the new user
- Added ability to change date of posting
- Added ability to assign post to guest user
- Added ability to set IP Address (-> AdmincP, Settings)
- Added moderation to search result (posts)

v1.6, released 19. June 2008
- Post counter of old and new user will be updated
- Added moderation to search result (threads)
- Clean up code
- Compatible with vBulletin 3.7 GOLD
- Minor fixes

[xorex]

Great hack !!

russian translate attachment


installed nominated

Phalynx update first post please

[FleaBag]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Next version will do that.

Great - I have lots of mp3 threads where I had to upload the files due to PHP timeouts, and I would like to assign them to their' rightful owners!

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

See settings, there you can set the usergroup permission.

OH!...i thought we don't have any acp vb option for that...co'z i did't see any image to it here...you might add this screenshot to your start page...if you want it...

once again...thanks....

[Phalynx]

Thanks for russian translation and image from ACP. Added this to the hack.

[GoodKarmaKid]

Originally Posted by Junkie

What general purpose can this MOD serve? What reasons would there be for the original post owner be changed to someone else?

Originally Posted by echo2kk5

Maybe I'm missing something here...why would you need/use this?

One example, is that I use both the "admin" account (for some admincp functions) and also my personal account. Occassionally, I'm accidently logged in as "admin" and reply to a post or start a new thread, this mod would easily enable me to change it to my normal user acct.

I actually looked for this in the standard Vbulletin and was expecting to find it, seems like it is something that would come up fairly often. I'm happy to find this mod and give it a try.

Thanks,
Jason

[Fabsboards]

My main account was deleted and the messages created under that account were changed to "Guest". Is there any way to do a mass search and replace on these messages?

[Phalynx]

No, this modification does not work with guest posts.
Instead, you will have to run a query to assign the posts to a user.

[Fabsboards]

It does work on guest posts. I tried it. Problem - I have to do it all manually.

How would I do this with a query?

[Phalynx]

update post set userid=X where username="Username"
update thread set postuserid=X where postusername="Username"

X = UserID

[Super Jinni]

ok, when change the thread owner, the posts in the threads by the old owner change to the new owner, right?

or they don't change and only the thread changes?

thanks for the good work