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

[Phalynx]

Nadeemjp, why do you ask in 3 different threads of 3.7 hacks where you could take a look at the 3.8 hacks and find it there? Yes, it is compatible, just check the 3.8 mod section.

[wtb]

Well, not sure what the problem is but I entered: 02 / 15 / 2009 into the boxes and the date returned as 03/02/10

What the ????

RESOLVED: I was entering the typical M/D/Y format into the boxes but realize now that the extension's boxes are in D/M/Y format. I just have to remember to do the date a little differently. I did have to go in and fix the "futuristic" listings via PhpMyAdmin but the issue is resolved and it's working as intended.

[Phalynx]

Great you "solved" it for yourself.

[robf23]

Works a treat. Thanks!

Allows me to change the date of calendar threads and move them into the news section so they appear after the event as a news item and aren't buried under threads more recently created.

Now, if I could find some bright spark who could create the code to do it automatically, that would be superb, but this is a good short term solution.

[wfouly]

Thank you, Bravoooo

[Daisyboo]

I've been using this with no problems, however I've just gone to use it today and I've got a whole load of code on the inlinemod.php page (or else it says it cannot display)

At the very beginning it says -

Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in [path]/inlinemod.php(382) : eval()'d code on line 176
Called eval in [path]/inlinemod.php on line 382
in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 235
#0 vb_error_handler(256, Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in /***/local/home/***/***/forum/inlinemod.php(382) : eval()'d code on line 176
Called eval in /***local/home/***/***/forum/inlinemod.php on line 382
, /***/local/home/***/***/forum/includes/class_dm.php, 235, Array ([existing] => ,[line] =>
Called set_existing in /***/local/home/***/***/forum/inlinemod.php(382) : eval()'d code on line 176
Called eval in /***/local/home/***/***/forum/inlinemod.php on line 382


*** is deleted info

Help please, this mod is so useful!!

[Phalynx]

It seems the script has a problem with a user. Did you tried after that to assign other user?

[Daisyboo]

Oh this is weird! It happened when I used me as the new post owner so I've just tried to change it to my other admin and it worked fine, so I've just tried changing it to me again and it went through fine!
How strange, I've not changed anything, but at least I have it working again!
Thanks!

[Phalynx]

Hmm, seems something bad happened by delivering variables to the final script. Hopefully this was singular.

[Allnick]

A question please....
Has anyone tried this with 3.6.5
I appreciate the template edits are needed, and see that it works with 3.6.8

But 3.6.5 ????