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.

[Ferghal]

Will this hack be released for vb3?

[joeychgo]

good question.........is there a 3.0 version of this hack?

[]|fre$h-LoRd|[]

A great hack, thx!

[drumsy]

I need this for vB3 please!

[Beorn]

That is certainly a malformed query. I've looked through the hack just to refresh my memory, and there are no references to admin/user.php, so I'm not quite sure how my hack affects that.

I'm going to be writing an updated version for vB3 this week. Should I research the DB error people have encountered, or should I merely continue with the vB3 version?

I sincerely apologize for not being able to tend to this hack as I said I would. vB hacking isn't something I do often, so consequently I rarely visit the site, and I forgot to subscribe to the thread. In the future, I will support it to the best of my ability.

- Mike Benza

[jamesk]

Not to beat a dead horse. But somebody pleeease do this for VB3.

[LancerForums]

Originally Posted by jamesk

Not to beat a dead horse. But somebody pleeease do this for VB3.

I'll second that... we could really use a system like this as it manages things fairly (expiring warnings, etc).

Mark

[yahoooh]

i need this hack to my forum 2.3.4
is it work correctly ?
if not plz fix it for us

[Tom1234]

In the warn_notifymsg template, $warningtype[title] is used, but I would also like the warning type "description" available to use here. Is it available? If so, what is the variable name? Thanks.