Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Change Threads/Posts Owner/Date for vB3.8

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

[Phalynx]

Try to input hours as minutes and minutes as hours. Seems your time settings are different than the script expects them.

[macc]

thanks for reply and help ... but still time diference (6 hours ) - how to fix that?

regards

macc

[SEW810]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

What exactly does not work? Wrong date, error message, etc....
Provide me a temporary admin account so I can take a look.

Thanx, please check your Inbox :up:

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Thanx a lot Phalynx, it works perfect with vb 3.8.1
It's pretty cool that we can sett the user group that will use the hack.
Please check out your Moderation pop up menu. There's the option to change date,hour and author of any thread or post.

[Sebastiano]

Very good hack, thank you Phalynx.
However, I think I found a little bug: if you change the author of a post in a forum where post counts are deactivated, the post count of the user you assign the message to will increase however.

[nat.n]

Wow!!! It's really great!!!:up:
I'm a newbie at vBulletin but very familiar with phpBB (which included the "change poster" feature)... so, thank you for having done this for us!!!

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Darkshenron

Very good hack, thank you Phalynx.
However, I think I found a little bug: if you change the author of a post in a forum where post counts are deactivated, the post count of the user you assign the message to will increase however.

It uses the vBulletin API to recount the postcount, so I don't see a bug in it.

[Sebastiano]

Am I wrong or the 12h/24h recognition works only when changing post time and not when changing thread time? I mean: if a thread was posted at 23:46:18, when I want to change its time it shows 11:46:18.
At least this is what happens to me (my date format is H:i:s).

Originally Posted by Phalynx

It uses the vBulletin API to recount the postcount, so I don't see a bug in it.

Sorry for replying only now.
So this is something like a "design issue"? Because, also if this is not a bug, I think you agree with me in saying that it's not much correct that a post is counted in post counts when it shouldn't.

[smirkley]

I may be missing something, but how can I block the option from showing up in the moderator options pull down if that usergroup doesnt have permissions to use it?

Right now it shows up, but of course permission is denied when a non permissed staff usergroup tries to use it. I just want to hide it if they dont have permission.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Darkshenron

Am I wrong or the 12h/24h recognition works only when changing post time and not when changing thread time? I mean: if a thread was posted at 23:46:18, when I want to change its time it shows 11:46:18.
At least this is what happens to me (my date format is H:i:s).

Yes, this depends on the time settings. I will _probably_ fix this for the next version.

Originally Posted by Darkshenron

So this is something like a "design issue"? Because, also if this is not a bug, I think you agree with me in saying that it's not much correct that a post is counted in post counts when it shouldn't.

Fixed in next version.

Originally Posted by smirkley

I may be missing something, but how can I block the option from showing up in the moderator options pull down if that usergroup doesnt have permissions to use it?

Right now it shows up, but of course permission is denied when a non permissed staff usergroup tries to use it. I just want to hide it if they dont have permission.

Fixed in next version.

[dominiqueC]

Hi !

Thanks for your great hack.

Unfortunately, when i try to change a date to an whole topic, all posts are inverted (the last in first, the first in last) or in the disorder.

An idea about my problem ? :/