Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Change Threads/Posts Owner/Date for vB3.7

Change Posts Owner

Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

Tested on vBulletin 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

What does this modification do?
It can change the owner and date of multiple threads and post. For this, it adds another option to your mod actions on forumdisplay, showthread and search results. After selecting some threads or posts, you can choose the new owner by name or by UserID. "By name" works with the AJAX namesuggestion, we all know it from writing a PM. After changing the name, it rebuilds thread/forum counters and post counter of old and new user. Attachments will also be assigned to new user.

Installtime: <1 minutes
Difficulty: very easy (1 product)

Demo is not available, due to missing permissions on my board.

Please click Mark as INSTALLED, otherwise I will not support you.

Features
- Can change owner and date of selected posts and threads (including database attachments - it will not move file attachments)
- Can change owner to unregistered user and back
- Can accept user id and username
- Username input is driven by AJAX
- Post count of involved users will be increased/decreased
- Thread and forum counters of involved threads and forums will be rebuild
- Supports inline moderation
- Makes use of $template_hooks, hooks and simple group permissions
- Every change will leave a notice in moderation log

Features for future releases
- Incrementally change time, f.e. first posts is 12:01:01, second one will get 12:01:02h, third one 12:01:03h....
- Moving file based attachments to the new user


How to install?- Simply import product

How to upgrade?- Uninstall existing product, install new one

Changelog
v1.8, released 7. January 2009
- Apostroph in Username will be filtered out
- Fixed 12h/24h recognition

v1.7, released 4. June 2008
- Attachments will now be also assigned to the new user
- Added ability to change date of posting
- Added ability to assign post to guest user
- Added ability to set IP Address (-> AdmincP, Settings)
- Added moderation to search result (posts)

v1.6, released 19. June 2008
- Post counter of old and new user will be updated
- Added moderation to search result (threads)
- Clean up code
- Compatible with vBulletin 3.7 GOLD
- Minor fixes

[kiwivc]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Options are not displayed. How do I add them manually?
If you choose to not automatically add both options you have to add that options manually.

1. Disable automatic template edit in the Change threads/posts owner settings


2. Open the template FORUMDISPLAY.

Search for:

<option value="mergethread">$vbphrase[merge_threads]</option>

Add after it:

<option value="changethreadsowner">$vbphrase[changethreadsowner_link]</option>

3. Open the template SHOWTHREAD

Search for:

<option value="undeleteposts">$vbphrase[undelete_posts]</option>

Add after it:

<option value="changepostsowner">$vbphrase[changepostsowner_link]</option>

Running 3.6.8 Pl2 and had to follow the above instructions to manually add the options. It all showed up fine.
My test user (registered forum user - usergroup #2) was assigned moderator permissions and was able to successfully alter the thread author even though usergroup 6 was the only usergroup assigned permissions. Is there a way to prevent forum moderators from having the ability to change a threads author ... or have I bulllsed up somewhere?

[Gustafsson]

Thanks for this mod. I'm using it on my site to change the date and time for my RSS news (when an RSS feed is added for the first time all the news get the same date and time). The mod is working great, except for some minor problem with the time. For example, if I want the new time to be 6PM I need to set the time to 12.00 with this mod.

[TheLastSuperman]

I'm glad they do send the reminders regarding what you have downloaded but not installed! Sorry I forgot to click install the other week but it is done now!

Love this! Used it the first minute it was installed so BIG THANKS

S-MAN

[fly]

Looks like this hack doesn't account for apostrophes. I get a DB error when the username has one in it.

[TalkPhotography]

Works great (3.7.4), it changes the owner of a post great.

But it misses the post edit history!

[Sunka]

Installed.
Thank you!

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

*waits for the 3.8.0 release*

[MeMySelfNi]

<font face="kristen itc">useful mod, just came in handy.</font>

[Subah]

Thanks for the Update

[readjono]

1.8 seems to be working fine here. Thanks