Reason for closing thread

We hope most of you can use it
Sinecure has had the idea, which i thought is something nearly everbody who has ever been a mod wanted to have for a long time
I have to thank sinecure for the good templates, and for finding the funny mistakes i have made *gg*

edit:
nuno, i think we can do something similar for deleted threads too

Ok, basicly this hack does exactly as it says. After you click the "Open/Close Thread" link you will be prompted to enter a reason for closing the thread. After you submit the reason for closing that thread, the reason will appear ABOVE the first post in that thread, in its own seperate box.

[Dark Shogun]

When it says in the instructions to find:

if ($s!=$session['dbsessionhash']) {

and replace it with:

if ($s!=$session['dbsessionhash'] && $reasonentered!=1) {

You are actually supposed to find:

$s == $session['dbsessionhash'] )) {

and replaced it with:

$s == $session['dbsessionhash'] && $reasonentered!=1)) {

That made everything show.

I am having a small problem though. When you close a topic and put in the reason it works fine but when you open it the reason stays there except it isn't in the box.

Dark Shogun

[Xenon]

Originally posted by Dark Shogun
I am having a small problem though. When you close a topic and put in the reason it works fine but when you open it the reason stays there except it isn't in the box.

Dark Shogun

That was a bug in one of the first versions of this hack, it shouldn't be in the latest version.
are you sure you've no parts of an old version in your files?

[Dark Shogun]

Xenon can you attach or tell me which version is the most up todate and how to make it so it shows who closed the topic?

Dark Shogun

[Xenon]

of course
latest version is in the attachment

to show who closed the topic:
change this line in the instructions:
$closereason=" closereason='".addslashes($reason)."', ";

into this:
$closereason=" closereason='".addslashes($reason)." (by $bbuserinfo[username])', ";

[Dark Shogun]

Works perfectly.

Dark Shogun

[X-Fan]

Originally posted by Xenon
latest version is in the attachment

Does this work on 2.2.8, because in postings.php I'm not finding...

PHP Code:

if ($s!=$session['dbsessionhash']) { 


But I am finding...

PHP Code:

// ############################### start do open / close thread ###############################
if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['action'] == 'openclosethread' OR ($action == 'openclosethread' AND s == $session['dbsessionhash')) { 


[Xenon]

yes it should work with vb228 too (it does at my forum)

the code has changed a bit from 227 to 228, so normally all should be ok if you just leave out this step:

Find:
if ($s!=$session['dbsessionhash']) {


Replace with:
if ($s!=$session['dbsessionhash'] && $reasonentered!=1) {

[ZiRu$]

Installed the latest Version....still got a problem!

When you close a thread.....then open a thread....and then go to close it again....it has the last message in there and if you replace it all and type something new then it dosent have the thread closers username there......

[Xenon]

it should be that it still have the old message until you delte it and write another one..

the username isn't included in the official release, if you use the modifications i told in the thread, they should work, but it's not 100% because i didn't test em

[C.Birch]

how can i make it so it whys why a topic was closed in the topic list of a forum?

so its something like this

topic name
why it was closed if its a closed topic