vB Report Manager 2.0 (Admin CP) - Report to Email, PM, Staff Forum as a new Thread!

vB Report Manager 2.1 (Admin CP) - Report to Email, PM, Staff Forum as a new Thread!

By Dr Erwin Loh

What does this hack do?

When a member reports a post, the report goes to:

1) Email (as per normal)
2) PM
3) A new thread in your private Staff Forums
4) In the report, there will be a link to the new thread in your private Staff Forums

Or ANY of the above combination!

The thread title now has the Date/ Time of Report, Originating Forum and Reported Poster!

There is now Admin CP support under vBulletin Options - you can choose to switch on or off any of the notification methods, and set the FORUM ID for the Staff Forum you want the posts to appear in.

All you need to do is run install_vbreport.php and modify 1 file - report.php.

Update Version 2.0

1. Added Admin CP support - choose to switch on and off each notification method. Also specify your Staff Forum ID in Admin CP.

2. Added more info to the THREAD TITLE - now with NAME OF FORUM, USERNAME OF POSTER, AND DATE/ TIME OF REPORT!

Update Version 2.1

1. Fixed email option bug

2. Fixed URL parsing bug

To upgrade, it's easiest just to reinstall this hack over a CLEAN REPORT.PHP file.

Admin CP installer and install instructions in HTML file in ZIP below.
Screenshots attached.

Enjoy!

[WoodiE]

I was running the older version of this on 3.0.1 and a while back I upgraded vB to 3.0.7 and today installed 2.1 of this hack, however now when someone reports a post I have it setup to the mods get a PM. They receive the PM with the title: REPORT: FORUM NAME - Problem member name but the body of the PM is blank - what do I need to do?


-Michael

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by WoodiE

I was running the older version of this on 3.0.1 and a while back I upgraded vB to 3.0.7 and today installed 2.1 of this hack, however now when someone reports a post I have it setup to the mods get a PM. They receive the PM with the title: REPORT: FORUM NAME - Problem member name but the body of the PM is blank - what do I need to do?


-Michael

Did you make the phrase changes?

[WoodiE]

In the zip file it only said for one phase change... reportbadpost - and I did change it.

-Michael

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by WoodiE

In the zip file it only said for one phase change... reportbadpost - and I did change it.



-Michael

With a version upgrade old phrases may have been deleted - do the phrase change again and see.

[WoodiE]

Erwin,

I guess I'm not understanding - your html file only calls for one phase change (reportbadpost), upon upgrading to your new version 2.1 I also replied that one phase change - the body of my PM's are blank.

-Michael

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by WoodiE

Erwin,

I guess I'm not understanding - your html file only calls for one phase change (reportbadpost), upon upgrading to your new version 2.1 I also replied that one phase change - the body of my PM's are blank.


-Michael

I suggest uninstalling and totally reinstalling the hack again. Obviously something went wrong.

[WoodiE]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I suggest uninstalling and totally reinstalling the hack again. Obviously something went wrong.

It doesn't look like your install script has an UN-install feature - what do I need to do to completely remove this hack then?



-Michael

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by WoodiE

It doesn't look like your install script has an UN-install feature - what do I need to do to completely remove this hack then?



-Michael

When I mean reinstall, I mean redoing the code changes to a completely unhacked private.php

To get rid of the Admin CP settings bits, run vB in debug mode so you can delete settings easily.

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by WoodiE

Erwin,

I guess I'm not understanding - your html file only calls for one phase change (reportbadpost), upon upgrading to your new version 2.1 I also replied that one phase change - the body of my PM's are blank.


-Michael

If you add phrases to the Master (if running in debug) they get overwritten with upgrades of vB.

[David Bott]

Hello Erwin...

I am looking for a way to have the e-mails that come in to have the RETURN or REPLY TO address be the member who sent it and NOT the site admin. Right now if a mod clicks REPLY to send a note back to the member who reported the post, it is addressed to the admin.

It would also be good to be able to include all the moderators in on the reply to the e-mail. I had this done in VB2, but have no clue how to make it happen in Vb3 which AVS Forum just moved to last Sunday.

Thank you.