Mike's Warning System 1.0

Hello all. This is a sort of alternative to g-force2k2's Warnings System Hack. He gets all credit for the idea.

Before anyone starts to accuse me of trying to steal his glory, let me explain. The admin of a well sized board that I super-mod asked me to revise g-force2k2's warning system (it was already installed). I downloaded it, looked through it, and decided that I couldn't: he requested that people respect his hack, and not modify it. So, I didn't, and decided to take a swing at it. Since people don't like change, I made it look the same as the original, but work differently.

Features:

• Expireable warnings. Each warning type has a default length and value. (can turn this off too)
• Warning values can be selected by issuer as per severity of the offense. This can be disabled by the administrator; the default value of warning will be used.
• Warning lengths can be selected by issuer as per severity of the offense. This can be disabled by the administrator; the default length of warning will be used.
• Relatively quick install: a few file mods, template mods, and then running a script.
• Email on warning option (Never, Issuer's choice, Always)
• PM on warning option (Never, Issuer's choice, Always)
• Email on banning option (yes, no)
• Changeable banning threshold
• Which usergroups can warn, which can view the sum, which can view all the warnings
• Mostly template driven
• Add, remove, edit warnings
• Add, remove, edit warning types
• Stronger admin interface.

That's all I can think of now....

Stats:

• Queries added per page: 0
• Queries modified: 3 (indirectly: $templatesused needs to be modified)
• Queries extra per day: 3+ceil(TheNumberOfUsersWithPointsExpiringToday/10)
• Files to modify: 3
• Files to add: 3
• Install time: 10-15 minutes

Stipulations

• Support requests will take a bit (a day or two) to reply due to a somewhat tight schedule.
• Please click Install if you use it
• DO NOT install this if you have g-force2k2's hack in place. USE THE UPGRADE if you have g-force2k2's hack installed

The package is attached. Screenshots are zipped next. Please click install if you use it.

If you are upgrading from g-force2k2's verison, use MWS-Upgrade.txt, and warn-upgrade.php.

[Blizzb]

Here is what happened. In vBulletin options, I checked "Never Expire" for warning points. And I set all warnings length to 0, which means forever. Then I gave someone warning points and it said "forever" in warning length. Then the next day, I found that the warning had expired and the expiration date was the day before the warnings were issued. And when I prolonged the length into 2000 days, and after a day, the warning value decreased. I think this is abug.

[partang2]

Ok, I tried to install this one today, but I'm having some serious trouble here.... The installation did go ok, but the links in the adminpanel and in postbit will not show up at all..!?

I have trippel checked that I have done everything by the book.

Please help me with this one!

[Blizzb]

/me clicks uninstall

[Link14716]

There are bugs. It's a beta. Live with it.

0 doesn't mean forever. Set it to 99999 or something if you want that.

[partang2]

*partang2 clicks uninstall too...

[Blizzb]

Even if you set it to 99999 the warning value decreases. And it's not beta. It's a full release. And this hacker has agreed to provide support for this hack.

[Oblivion Knight]

Today at 06:23 PM Blizzb said this in Post #66
And this hacker has agreed to provide support for this hack.

Which doesn't mean they have agreed to sit in front of a monitor all day and keep a watch over the topic 24/7. People do have other commitments than providing support for us at vB.org, please appreciate that.

Be patient and I'm sure your question will be answered in time once somebody finds a fix for your problem.

[Beorn]

Blizzb: -1 means forever, 0 means nothing.

I'm sorry I can't provide instantaneous support. I even wrote in the first post that it may take a few days, or even a week to reply.

partang2: did you go to the options and make sure to turn the warning system on? It's set to off by default in the case you have a weird usergroup setup...

Mike

[volitaire]

for some reason all my mods can change the values of the warnings / times even tho in the admin cp i have it set so they cant overide the defaults.. any ideas?

[Beorn]

:-\

Are they in the normal mod user groups (5 and 7)?