Prevent Doubleposting

This is why i really want a Mini-Hack section here, please Chen

What this hack does:
When a User posts to 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 would not be done, if he has an attachment in his new post or the old post is older than 1 hour (you can change this timespan yourself )

Known bugs: None

Hope someone can use it, i do

Believe this hack includes just 1!! codehack.

[Xenon]

hmm, yeah i know that "bug".
but i wasn't sure if it would disturb or not... at least sometimes that could have been the reason for the "doublepost"

for a quickfix use this:

before:

PHP Code:

            $DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET dateline='" . time() . "'" . $editedbysql . ",pagetext='" . addslashes($lastpost[pagetext] . "\n\n" . $message) . "' WHERE postid=" . $lastpost['postid']); 


add this:

PHP Code:

$newmessage = $lastpost[pagetext] . "\n\n" . $message;
  if (strlen($newmessage)>$postmaxchars and $postmaxchars!=0) {
    eval("standarderror("".gettemplate("error_toolong")."");");
  } 


[yxboom]

Thanks a lot for the hack and help. On my board the post limit has its reasons cause of too many people making too many points that by the time someone responds they have to deal with 30 points instead of a simple 2-3 point rebuttal so this helps significantly.

[jancarlo]

ok anche in vb 230

bello script!!!

jancarlo



ok also in vb 230

beautiful script!!!

jancarlo

[sabret00the]

installed and works great, should really be default to vB, very awesome hack Xenon

and you're an admin now, add the mini section

[Opie]

Can someone let me know how to exclude some forums from the hack? I only want it on a few.

Also a way to stop if from counting points(store hack) if it was a double post?

[Xenon]

for the storehack i can't help ya, because i don't use it.

i think all you have to do ist to put the add to storpoint part of newreply under the user post count update part.

to exclude forums:
change this:

PHP Code:

if($lastpost['userid'] != $bbuserinfo['userid'] OR (time() - $lastpost['dateline']) > 3600 OR ($attachmentid and !$foruminfo['moderateattach'])) { 


into this:

PHP Code:

if(in_array($threadinfo['forumid'], array(x,y,z)) or $lastpost['userid'] != $bbuserinfo['userid'] OR (time() - $lastpost['dateline']) > 3600 OR ($attachmentid and !$foruminfo['moderateattach'])) { 


and change x,y,z into the forumids you want to exclude

[Boofo]

Is the guy who wrote this (in the message above)

$threadinfor['forumid']

the same guy who got me on the nothing and anything words the other day?

Is this a new variable in vb3?

[Xenon]

mine is just a typing, yours was sensechanging

but yeah i try to convince the devs to add this as a new vb3 var

[Boofo]

Today at 05:06 PM Xenon said this in Post #148


mine is just a typing, yours was sensechanging

Yes, but I'm allowed to butcher the English language because it is my native language.

but yeah i try to convince the devs to add this as a new vb3 var

Great! Then you don't ever have to worry if it is misspelled again huh?

[solent]

small easy and cool hacks by Xenon. this is vey cool as most of the users dunno what the edit button does and most of the times the reply 3-4 times with a newreply instead of editing.