Advanced Editing Options For Mods & Admins

Ok, another one of my vb2 Hacks has been ported over and Optimized

This hack allows mods and Admins to restrict the edit permissions on a levelbased system.
Admins can disallow everyone to edit that post, while mods just can restrict editing by the author. Supermods can restrict editing by normal moderators as well.

Admins also have additional features:
- Editing the Timestamp of that Post
- Editing the Author
- Editing the IP

Nothing more to explain i think, look at the screenies if you need more infos.

Please don't forget to click install

[the Sandman]

Thanks much for the super quick response - that seems to have fixed it! Sweet hack!

[the Sandman]

Sorry - one more question. How would you restrict the Advanced Editing Options to Admins only?

[Xenon]

very easy as well

you just have to replace these appearances:

PHP Code:

$bbuserinfo['editlevel'] > $editlevel['author'] 


with

PHP Code:

$bbuserinfo['editlevel'] == $editlevel['admin'] 


not tested, but should do the trick

[the Sandman]

Thanks Xenon - now it's perfect!

[Xenon]

you're welcome

[Natch]

We've had some issues with this hack:

It seems for my SuperMods that when they are editing a post, prior to having used the ModCP (having logged in the second time) they cause the post edited to lose all timestamp and Poster info - timestamp is reset to the unix Epoch, and the poster is reset to Guest - this causes the thread to seem like it's been started by a Guest, with a post that's replying to posts below it ...

Any thoughts why this might happen ?

[Natch]

Originally Posted by One of my SuperMods

Just noticed what happens when i edit my own post and not being logged in as a moderator.
If i edit the post before the timelimit of aprox 1 min, the timestamp is ok.
But if i wait longer or edit the post "second time around" the timestamp resets and shows 0-0-1970.
Forgetting to change it will cause the error of moving the post to first place.

I hope this helps ...

[Xenon]

hmm, very wierd...

i cannot reproduce it, and did not get such reports before.

I'll check it out a bit more, maybe i can reproduce it somehow...

[Natch]

Is it possible that it's linked to either or both of the "Doublepost check" hack and/or the "Editing Heirarchy" hack - or a combination of them ?

[Xenon]

Hmm, maybe, i already got reports the the Message editing hierachy hack doesn't work together with this hack.

I will have to check this out, it's a bit wierd, as i don't see why they shouldn'T work together, but maybe i have overseen something..