Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into 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, attachments will be added to the old post as well.
This will be done until the old post is older than 1 hour (you can change this timespan yourself)
by changing $do_bump in the script, you can define wether the post's time will be altered or not.

Enjoy, and don't forget to click install

Notice: If you have installed the Proxy ip to real ip conversion or Proxy Detector v3.1 Hack, then you should probably take a look at this post.

[Goodspeed]

Great hack Xeon! Thank you! Going to install it...

But at first I have a question: what I need to do to switch off double post prevention after some time left? Is it possible to merge posts during appointed time?

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by Xenon

very easy, just remove that line:

AND dateline > " . (TIMENOW - 3600) . "

and that part:

PHP Code:

AND $threadinfo['lastpost'] > TIMENOW - 3600 


Xenon,

That worked an absolute treat.

Thanks ever so much for this.

JD.

btw. JD clicks Install

[Xenon]

@Goodspeed: hmm, i'm not sure if i get what you want.
If you want the merge just within the first xxy hopurse, use the default, if you want the merge whenever there's a doublepost show the code i posted for sinclair.

or do you mean that within 10 minutes no post should be merged, and then during the next hour it should?
everything is possible by changing just the conditions

[Goodspeed]

I'm sorry for my english Xenon, still not too good in it

Yes, I want to merge posts only during last 10 minutes, after that new post in thread by the same user should appear as new.
What kind of conditions should I change?

And one more question: is it possible to mark added text after merge? For example by adding line: Added by User at some time...

Thank you!

[Xenon]

no prob

just replace

AND dateline > " . (TIMENOW - 3600) . "

with

AND dateline > " . (TIMENOW - 3600) . " AND dateline < " . (TIMENOW - 600) . "

as well as replace

PHP Code:

AND $threadinfo['lastpost'] > TIMENOW - 3600 


with

PHP Code:

AND $threadinfo['lastpost'] > TIMENOW - 3600 AND $threadinfo['lastpost'] < TIMENOW - 600 


as for the merging text addition:
in

PHP Code:

$post['message'] = $doublepost['pagetext'] . "\n\n" . $post['message']; 


replace the "\n\n" with for example:

PHP Code:

$post['message'] = $doublepost['pagetext'] . "\nAdded at " . vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], TIMENOW) . "\n" . $post['message']; 


[Goodspeed]

I did everything, checked it twice, but merge not work after those changes.
Now, posts appear one by one without merging.

Update
After couple of tests I understood that is problem in first two changes. I removed them and it works but without 10 min limit.

Addition with update date working GREAT! Thank you very much!

I changed it a little bit: added update time.

PHP Code:

$post['message'] = $doublepost['pagetext'] . "\n\n<strong><i>Added at " . vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], TIMENOW) . ", " . vbdate($vboptions['timeformat'], TIMENOW) . "</i></strong>" . "\n" . $post['message']; 


[bjornstrom]

Works great - thanks a lot /Martin

[Snatch]

What do this hack if the Maximum number of sings per post reached and the Memver must creat an new one to complett the post ?

[Xenon]

since the newest version it checks if the merged post is still a vald one.
If it is, then the post will be merged, if it's not valid anymore (too much chars/images or whatever) it will create a new post just as it would do without the hack

[HappyPike]

Looks like a cool hack, Xenon. Does it have any impact on forum performance on a large forum?