Moderators Functions - Moderation Auto-PM v2.0.1

Moderation Auto-PM
Version 2.0.1

What is it?
Moderation Auto-PM will automaticly send a Private Message to the user whenever their thread, post or attachment is moderated using the Thread Tools or Inline Moderation Tools.

It has support for the following types of moderation:

• Thread: Move
• Thread: Delete
• Thread: Undelete
• Thread: Stick
• Thread: Unstick
• Thread: Open
• Thread: Close
• Thread: Approve
• Thread: Unapprove
• Thread: Title Edit
• Post: Edit
• Post: Move
• Post: Delete
• Post: Undelete
• Post: Approve
• Post: Unapprove
• Attachment: Approve
• Attachment: Unapprove

All options can be turned on/off in the AdminCP. Moderation Auto-PM will not show the user where their thread is being moved to/from if they do not have permission to view the forum. You can also set a "master" exclude list of forum IDs that will never be touched by Moderation Auto-PM.

What's new in Version 2.0.1?

• Added support for opening and closing threads by double-clicking on the thread icon
• Fixed a bug caused by a missing phrase

Credit for this release goes to ConqSoft, as he notice the missing phrase bug, and suggested the new Ajax open/close feature

What's new in Version 2.0?

• Fully compatible with both vB 3.5.4 and vBulletin 3.6 Beta 2 or above! :banana:
• Support for editing posts / titles using the ajax quick edit bits
• Support for deleting posts via quick edit
• Don't send a PM if you are moderating your own thread
• Send a Delete PM instead of a Move PM if moved to a particular forum (ie, a recycle bin type forum)
• Age Cutoff Point - if the item is over a certain age, a PM won't be sent
• A couple of tiny bugfixes that no-one noticed

How do I install / configure it?
Please see the install.txt file contained within the zip.


How do I upgrade?
If you are upgrading from a previous version of this mod (any version), just upload the 3 PHP files, making sure to overwrite the old ones and re-import the Product XML, making sure you set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

If you are upgrading from PM on Thread Move, please uninstall that hack first, then install this one following the instructions in install.txt


Thanks go to redlabour for kindly providing a German translation for the phrases and to everyone who nominated this mod or voted for this mod in HotM June

Important: Unfortunately, my leased vBulletin licence has now expired, and I won't be renewing it until September which means I will be unable to reply to this thread, or update this mod until then. I'm hopeful that the great vBulletin.org community will step in to answer any questions in my absence though See you all in early September!

Note The screenshots below are only an example of the messages. The message text is fully editable

[mfyvie]

Ok, I figured it out. I discovered that there was actually no plugin to handle the case where someone edits a thread thread via the Edit Thread option on the Thread Tools menu. Since I frequently change thread titles via this method (rather than from the forum view via AJAX) I was really missing these functions.

Therefore, effectively the following functionality was missing when using the edit thread option:

Title edit notification
Stick/Unstick notification
Open/Close notification

The attached plugin fixes these issues. It's tested on my setup only which is VB 3.6.7 PL1, using Auto-PM v2.0.1.

I'm sorry - I don't know very much about writing plugins, so I can't actually support this add-in. Hopefully it will be picked up by the author and included into the standard build. I'll send him an email to let him know.

Next I'm going to try and work on an integration between Auto-PM and the vbRecycle mod.

[mfyvie]

For those people running vBRecycle I've just released a bridge mod between vBRecycle and Moderation Auto-PM. It extends the functionality of Moderation Auto-PM to also generate PMs to users when the recycle function is used.

You can find this mod here.

Please note, this has nothing to do with the XML file attached to my previous post - the previous post concerns providing some functionality that was missing from the original file.

It would be good if the functionality in both of these modifications were rolled into an updated version of Moderation Auto-PM so that support for vBRecycle could be provided automatically.

[Alan @ CIT]

Hi Mfyvie,

Thanks for the additions / updates to this mod, I'm sure they'll come in very useful to others here

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I cannot add them to the original mod. Along with not owning a vBulletin licence, I lost most of the code to my mods a while ago after a PC replacement. Also, I'm afraid that I cannot edit this mod post either (due to the lack of licence) so I cannot add your mods to the description either

However, as mentioned in this post, the offer still stands for someone to take over this mod

Thanks,
Alan.

[mfyvie]

Hi Alan,

Thanks stopping by! I must say this sounds like a great shame. I think you did a fantastic job with this mod, and it has made life on my board SO much better!

I guess there is some good news and some bad news. The good news is that since I already have the current version, it would be relatively easy for me to roll all my changes into it (including support for vBRecycle (if installed)) and to export it again as a new version. There is just a very small bug - but if you could give me some advice on it I'm sure it won't be a big issue.

As much as I'd love to take over your mod for you, I'm afraid I just don't have the technical skills (with VB and PHP in any case) to answer any requests for feature enhancements or support it properly. I just wouldn't be able to do it justice.

If we can figure out some other way to get the files updated (I PM'd one of the admins to ask for help), I'd be more than happy to repackage a new version though.

Regards,
Mark

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Alan @ CIT

I'm afraid that I cannot edit this mod post either (due to the lack of licence) so I cannot add your mods to the description either

Hmm, that's an oversight in the permissions. When we gave members of the coders group permission to reply in their own modifications (to continue supporting them) it should have included the ability to edit their replies as well, but it seems that got missed. Try now.

[Gwendolin]

I have a problem with exclude forums.

I changed in class_autopm_checker.php

var $exclude = false;
to
var $exclude = true;

Now in the excluded forums will don't send a pm if a thread is deleted, but if posts will deleted it sends a pm, it works just with threads.

Did I need to change more things?

[zooro]

Is it work with 3.6.7 ?

[Niels84]

Originally Posted by zooro

Is it work with 3.6.7 ?

It seems to be working on 3.6.7 on my board. Nevertheless, for some mysterious reason, PMs are sent, but the pmtotal and pmunread counters aren't updated... Anyone knows how to solve this?

[Makc666]

Originally Posted by Niels84

It seems to be working on 3.6.7 on my board. Nevertheless, for some mysterious reason, PMs are sent, but the pmtotal and pmunread counters aren't updated... Anyone knows how to solve this?

[S]Those PMs are sent as a system one. In other words they have system flag. That is why they didn't not count.[/S]

[Niels84]

Originally Posted by Makc666

Those PMs are sent as a system one. In other words they have system flag. That is why they didn't not count.

Hi Maxim,

is there any way (in code) to alter the flag?