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


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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

[Cyricx]

double merging, you mean like it duplicated what you were merging into the post and put it twice?

[Xenon]

exactly

i found it a bit funny ^^

[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.

[Boofo]

Paul, then how will you know when the first post was written?

[Paul M]

You won't (unless perhaps you add it into the seperator). I don't really care as we only use a 1 hour limit for double posts anyway. If it bothers you then simply don't do step 1 - your choice.

[keymistress]

does this script work on version 3.5.1?
before your hack i tried on 3.5 and it's ok but it doesn't seem to be working for 3.5.1...
or maybe it's just me...

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You won't (unless perhaps you add it into the seperator). I don't really care as we only use a 1 hour limit for double posts anyway. If it bothers you then simply don't do step 1 - your choice.

All I did was ask a question, not complain.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Boofo

All I did was ask a question, not complain.

All I did was answer it.

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by Paul M

All I did was answer it.

Why did you call that a 'nasty' hack if it works?

Is there potential for problems?

[Snake]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

Why did you call that a 'nasty' hack if it works?

Is there potential for problems?

I was going to ask the same thing lol.