Soft Deleted Archive

Soft Deleted Archive v3.2

If you have a forum where you disallow your Moderators to Hard Delete posts, you might want to look over exactly what posts they have deleted, in case of disputes between staff and members. But running a huge forum with hundreds of threads, this task can get tiring.
This is where the Soft Deleted Archive comes in handy!

Features:

• Seperate threads and posts
• Name and link to forum of the thread/post
• Username that posted the post
• Username that deleted the post
• Reason for deletion, if any were inputted
• Date of thread/post deletion
• For threads, link that takes you directly to the thread in question
• For posts, link that takes you directly to the post in question, for manual managing
• Limit the number of total entries to show per page
• Ability to choose Sorting Order (Ascending or Descending)
• Flagging Threads and Posts seperately
• Fully phrased
• Ability to Hard Delete selected threads/posts
• Ability to Restore selected threads/posts
• NO Code Modifications needed!
• More efficient forum counter rebuilding.

Screenshots attached.

Install instructions:

1. Click install (you want your precious support, don't you?).
2. Upload the files.
3. Import the Product XML file through your ACP.
4. Enjoy.

Additional Credits:

• The revised cpnav_softdel.xml is thanks to Oblivion Knight.
• The product-soft_deleted_archive.xml is thanks to mtha.

If you use this mod,

Click it!

[eclectica]

You can get this to work for your super moderators as well. Here is how you do it. After installing it on the board, you edit the file softdeladmin.php. Find the following and delete it:

// ######################## CHECK ADMIN PERMISSIONS #######################
if (!can_administer('canadminthreads'))
{
print_cp_no_permission();
}

Then save the file and upload it into the forum/modcp directory.

[tommyxv]

Originally Posted by telc

Will this retain users posts counts the same way if you mass prune threads, in the admincp it retains users posts counts?

Good question! Can anyone answer this?

[gonon]

After installing was amazed to see how many soft-deleted threads and posts we had....

Thanks for the product!

[Megareus Rex]

Excellent. Loved it in 3.0, and now I have it in 3.5.

*installed*

[webwheeling]

Originally Posted by eclectica

You can get this to work for your super moderators as well. Here is how you do it. After installing it on the board, you edit the file softdeladmin.php. Find the following and delete it:



Then save the file and upload it into the forum/modcp directory.

I did that and I don't see the Soft Deleted Archive menu in the modcp. Is there something else that needs to be done for that to appear?

[username12]

I was just looking at some deleted posts that really should have just been moved to appropriate forums, which led me to wonder how often this happens.

*installs*

[MThornback]

Is anyone having a problem with this interfereing with images displaying? I think its conflicting with something I installed cause as soon as I disabled it all works fine again?

[lucky64]

Works great, thanks

Maybe a new feature.....ability to search by post content, thread name, soft deleter (mod/super/admin) or the creater perhaps?

[eclectica]

Originally Posted by webwheeling

I did that and I don't see the Soft Deleted Archive menu in the modcp. Is there something else that needs to be done for that to appear?

Oops, I just read your question now. Yes, something else has to be done in order to put a visible link in the moderator control panel, but that is beyond my abilities. Despite that you could just provide a list of useful links for your moderators to use or to bookmark, of which one would be /forum/modcp/softdeladmin.php.

[FleaBag]

Moved host and this is finally working like a dream for me on 3.5.4. Must have been the old hardware at fault. Thanks for a very useful hack Revan!