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

[Mudvayne]

Just wondering did anybody notice that this hack is much resource hunger? I used to have my severload atleast 5+ with installing this hack.. Now after uninstalling this hack.. The server load is less than 1 or 1..

[Darat]

Originally Posted by Icy

Just wondering did anybody notice that this hack is much resource hunger? I used to have my severload atleast 5+ with installing this hack.. Now after uninstalling this hack.. The server load is less than 1 or 1..

Not at all - pretty hard to see how it could be since it is only "activated" when a Mod does something - perhaps if on your forum Mods were busily editing, moving, deleting posts and threads then it had some performance hit?

[Hornstar]

Is there a way to make the username non returnable because I think lots of users will try to pm me back after getting pms. I think this feature would be really great.

Maybe to be able to make the pm name 'no reply' or something, not sure what that would do tho. kinda how emails are set up when they have a no reply email address.

just a thought, ill wait until this feature can be installed, as I think this coud be a problem on a large forum.

Thanks.

[Darat]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Is there a way to make the username non returnable because I think lots of users will try to pm me back after getting pms. I think this feature would be really great.

Maybe to be able to make the pm name 'no reply' or something, not sure what that would do tho. kinda how emails are set up when they have a no reply email address.

just a thought, ill wait until this feature can be installed, as I think this coud be a problem on a large forum.

Thanks.

Perhaps you could use the option that allows you to have the PMs sent from a specific user account rather then the person moving the thread - if you create a new account just for these PMs and then set that account to not receive PMs?

[redlabour]

New PMs are not shown as Unread at the Navbar.

[vBarab]

Not Support 3.6.2

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by vBarab

Not Support 3.6.2

There are no Problems with 3.6.2 ! :tired:

[RustedBucket]

Admin Options for Recycle Bin forum states:
"Moderation Auto-PM will then send a message to the user informing them that their thread has been deleted instead of moved to this particular forum."

User is notified the thread was Moved and not Deleted as indicated above.

Also, if the Recycle Bin is included in the Exclude Forums list any move to the recycle bin doesn't send a pm. Probably not a real big deal unless you clean out your recycle bin from time to time and it happens to be inside the age limit. Just a thought.

[zooman]

Originally Posted by redlabour

New PMs are not shown as Unread at the Navbar.

I've pulled my hair out on this, anyone want to share any thoughts?

[Darat]

Originally Posted by Alan @ CIT

Nothing has changed between this versoin and the previous version with regards to the sending on PMs

What versions of vBulletin are you running?

It was in last months HotM, and is in this months

Thanks,
Alan.

Just thought this might be useful - the Zoints people have released a new product "Zoints Local" and they have had a similar bug reported regarding an auto-pm that they generate - one of their developers "Who" posted this about the bug in their product:

Who from: http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=2244
I did some more investigation, and vbulletin's datamanager runs the PM Unread query using the 'shutdown query' function, which executes the query upon script shutdown.

However, in versions less than php5 the shutdown queries aren't run on the desctruction of the vBulletin object, but rather upon calling of the function print_output(), which isn't done anywhere in the Zoints code. I've added the calling of the shutdown function the Zoints deconstruction in RC3, so it should work from then on.

I am running on PHP 4.x and my users aren't seeing the "Unread" updated.