Mike's Warning System 1.0

Hello all. This is a sort of alternative to g-force2k2's Warnings System Hack. He gets all credit for the idea.

Before anyone starts to accuse me of trying to steal his glory, let me explain. The admin of a well sized board that I super-mod asked me to revise g-force2k2's warning system (it was already installed). I downloaded it, looked through it, and decided that I couldn't: he requested that people respect his hack, and not modify it. So, I didn't, and decided to take a swing at it. Since people don't like change, I made it look the same as the original, but work differently.

Features:

• Expireable warnings. Each warning type has a default length and value. (can turn this off too)
• Warning values can be selected by issuer as per severity of the offense. This can be disabled by the administrator; the default value of warning will be used.
• Warning lengths can be selected by issuer as per severity of the offense. This can be disabled by the administrator; the default length of warning will be used.
• Relatively quick install: a few file mods, template mods, and then running a script.
• Email on warning option (Never, Issuer's choice, Always)
• PM on warning option (Never, Issuer's choice, Always)
• Email on banning option (yes, no)
• Changeable banning threshold
• Which usergroups can warn, which can view the sum, which can view all the warnings
• Mostly template driven
• Add, remove, edit warnings
• Add, remove, edit warning types
• Stronger admin interface.

That's all I can think of now....

Stats:

• Queries added per page: 0
• Queries modified: 3 (indirectly: $templatesused needs to be modified)
• Queries extra per day: 3+ceil(TheNumberOfUsersWithPointsExpiringToday/10)
• Files to modify: 3
• Files to add: 3
• Install time: 10-15 minutes

Stipulations

• Support requests will take a bit (a day or two) to reply due to a somewhat tight schedule.
• Please click Install if you use it
• DO NOT install this if you have g-force2k2's hack in place. USE THE UPGRADE if you have g-force2k2's hack installed

The package is attached. Screenshots are zipped next. Please click install if you use it.

If you are upgrading from g-force2k2's verison, use MWS-Upgrade.txt, and warn-upgrade.php.

[exTracT]

I did some testing.

When i goto the banned by warnings user and save settings his account it changes his user title to banned.

when i update the counters for user titles it also changes the users name to banned.

but it does not change the user group automatically after the user has been banned

[Spiro]

hey man, im getting this error in the top of all my threads, and in alot of em i cant get in, any idea

ERROR:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ffx2com/public_html/global.php:435) in /home/ffx2com/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 1881

[C.Birch]

i get a database error when i try to edit someones usergroup that as been banned by the system, also can it be made so when a warning runs out that puts them back under the banning total there auto unbanned?

the error i get is below btw:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='1983-03-24',options='15',usergroupid='2',username='~*~Vick y_Bob~*~',email='psychadelicwildchild@hotmail.com' ,styleid='1',parentemail='',coppauser=0,homepage=' http://',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',signature='[movel]:angel: See my halo,bright \'n\' shiney,mess wiv me, \'n\' I\'ll kick you\'re hiney :bum:[/movel]
:bum:\"We are the Cheeky Girls-Touch My Bum\":bum:

Bah! As if you\'d wanna touch their asses!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:wave: To Lil Miss No Pea\'s :augh:[sig=954]

[sig=874]
[movel]:banana: Nev \'n\' Norma,Fab \'n\' groovy,The only narna\'s that can boogie!:banana:[/movel]',adminemail=1,showemail=0,invisible=0,usertitle=' <img src=\"images/smilies/pinkie.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"> Northern Nutter! <img src=\"images/smilies/pinkie.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">',customtitle=1,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP(' 2003-05-15 05:32:23'),cookieuser=1,nosessionhash=1,daysprune= '-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-11-11 21:44:05'),lastactivity=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-11-11 22:22:48'),lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-11-11 20:41:05'),posts='4170',timezoneoffset='0',emailno tification=0,receivepm='1',emailonpm='0',ipaddress ='80.194.33.204',pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND =1,pmpopup,'') WHERE userid=1997
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '=1,pmpopup,'') WHERE userid=1997' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Tuesday 11th of November 2003 10:35:36 PM
Script: http://forums.lisascottlee.com/admin/user.php
Referer:

[mcyates]

everything works EXCEPT the link it the postbit.

[drumsy]

Originally Posted by TutorialForums

I noticed a few minor problems that may have caused some issues for some users...

In the MWS-Upgrade.txt, it instructs at the end to upload...
The modified versions of:
admin/index.php
admin/functions.php
admin/template.php
global.php

... but member.php & showthread.php were left out. To the tired hack-installer who just wants to get finished installing and on with life, and thus follows the exact instructions he reads, it may slip his mind that not all the needed files are listed.
I believe the absence of member.php is what caused drumsy's insane server load problem (the same happened to me, and the problem was gone the moment I uploaded member.php).... before I uploaded it, my load on my finely tuned dedicated server (with dual scsi drives, 1gb ram, dual-xeon 2ghz processors)... was instantly over 25 points.

The absence of showthread.php makes the warnings/options not show up in posts, potentially causing a wild goose chase to figure out what's gone wrong hehe


Anyhow on another note.... would it be possible to have the Warning Level: 0 be automatically masked out on the posts of moderators/admins? It's not an especially big deal, though it would be an improvement, as having it shown implies to members that the forum staff can be warned, which could potentially degrade their awe/respect for them a bit (well, hypothetically).

Thanks!

Hmmm, good call. I'll see if I can set this back up tonight! :thumbup:

[Jakor Sevel]

Someone has informed me that the Warning Level = 0 remains at 0 even after a person has been warned. I checked all the instructions and its all in order. how can i fix that?

[etones]

really great hack. Im also using geforces but this looks to have alot, if not more potential.

Any chance of an updated for version 3?


Cheers
Taz

[msimplay]

I'd like this version made for Vbulletin 3 i currently am using erwins version but none of the new versions are as good as this one

that i used for ages for vb2.x.x

[Kaelon]

This is a great hack. I've enjoyed it immensely. Does anyone know how to enable users to see their own warning system?

[msimplay]

Originally Posted by Kaelon

This is a great hack. I've enjoyed it immensely. Does anyone know how to enable users to see their own warning system?

its in ur admin cp settings