PM+Email Warning For User

having to send warning PMs and Emails 'manualy' everyime I wanted to let my users know they'r breaking the forum's rules
made me make this small hack to automaticaly send a PM and a email with a preset msg for the type of rule he broke.
It also changes the user's info to make the PM popup. I commented it out of the script.

This is how I did it:

I created a new file named 'warnuser.php' (you can also very easily enter it in 'user.php') with this code in it:

PHP Code:

<?php
// alter table user add column warnings int default 0;
error_reporting(7);

require("./global.php");

## Edit Vars: ##
$ban = 1; // 0 = Never ban nomatter what; 1 = Ban after $numwarn has been passed
$numwarn = 3; // Number of warnings till user gets banned
$bannedgrp = 13; // Group id for banned users
## End Vars ##

$warning["new_spammer"]["title"] = "[Warning] Spamming On holev.com Forums!";
$warning["new_spammer"]["msg"] = "Considering you are a relatively new member I am letting you know that this forum does not tolerate spammers. Either you stop spamming or you will be banned.";

$warning["spammer"]["title"] = "[Warning] Spamming On holev.com Forums!";
$warning["spammer"]["msg"] = "I am letting you know that either you stop spamming or you will be banned.";

$warning["flamer"]["title"] = "[Warning] Flaming On holev.com Forums!";
$warning["flamer"]["msg"] = "I am letting you know that either you stop flaming or you will be banned.";

if(isset($touserid)) {
    $DB_site->query("update user set pmpopup='1',warnings=warnings+1 where userid='$touserid'");
    $useri = $DB_site->query_first("select * from user where userid='$touserid'");
    if(($useri[warnings] == "1") or ($ban == 0)) {
        $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO privatemessage (touserid,userid,fromuserid,title,message,dateline,showsignature,iconid,messageread,folderid) VALUES ($touserid,$bbuserinfo[userid],$bbuserinfo[userid],'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($warning[$why][title]))."','".addslashes($warning[$why][msg])."',".time().",'1','0',0,0)"); 
        mail($toemail,$warning[$why]["title"],$warning[$why]["msg"],"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");
        echo "User Warned.";
    } elseif($useri[warnings] > $numwarn) {
        $bannedtl = "[holev forums] You have been banned.";
        $bannedmsg = "You ignored the warnings and got yourself banned. congrats.";
        $DB_site->query("update user set usergroupid=$bannedgrp where userid='$touserid'");
        $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO privatemessage (userid,touserid,fromuserid,title,message,dateline,showsignature,iconid,messageread,folderid) VALUES ($touserid,$bbuserinfo[userid],$bbuserinfo[userid],'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bannedtl))."','".addslashes($bannedmsg)."',".time().",'1','0',0,0)");
        mail($toemail,$bannedtl,$bannedmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");
        echo "User BANNED.";
    }
} else {
    echo "eeek";
}
?>

then I opened up 'user.php' and right above this line of code (near line 200):

PHP Code:

<li>".makelinkcode("Send email to $user[username]","mailto:$user[email]")."</li> 


I added:

PHP Code:

<li>Warn ( $user[warnings] ): ".makelinkcode("Spamming","warnuser.php?touserid=$user[userid]&why=spammer&toemail=$user[email]")." | ".makelinkcode("First Spam","warnuser.php?touserid=$user[userid]&why=new_spammer&toemail=$user[email]")." | ".makelinkcode("Flaming","warnuser.php?touserid=$user[userid]&why=flamer&toemail=$user[email]")."</li> 


Ran This SQL command:

alter table user add column warnings int default 0;

Updates
=======
v0.3 - Fixed a silly PM sending mistake
v0.2 - Added a warning counter that bans the user when counter exceeds the limit
=======

Hope this comes in handy for some of you.
please post any suggestions / improvements you might have.[PHP]

[Allstar DC]

is it also possible to undo the warnings?

like when you want to give that user a second chance?

so, bring the warnings back to 0

[Joshua Clinard]

I too would like to ba able to add this to the moderators CP. Does anyone know how to do this?

[inetd]

Why this hack in beta forum?

[X-Fan]

Still waiting on an answer regarding the person issuing the warning getting the PM instead of the person being warned.

Also, whether it's possible to enable this in the Moderator CP?

And I'd also like to see the ability to remove warnings from those that have since "redeemed" themselves.

[Zcyllah]

X-fan, this was answered already by risestar on the first page.

[BlackxRam]

Any word on if this hack will have an option to remove one or ALL warnings?

Can this hack be added to the MODCP? I think we can just add it to the user file in the MODCP..and it would work.

Is there a way to show HOW many warnings a person has in the profile or postbit? This hack could be one of the GREAT ones, but there is little support behind it. I SUPPORT IT 100%. Lets get this moving.