Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message, attachments will be added to the old post as well.
This will be done until the old post is older than 1 hour (you can change this timespan yourself)
by changing $do_bump in the script, you can define wether the post's time will be altered or not.

Enjoy, and don't forget to click install

Notice: If you have installed the Proxy ip to real ip conversion or Proxy Detector v3.1 Hack, then you should probably take a look at this post.

[Xenon]

sounds very confusing ^^

to make it short it just works in one thread, so he can start 4 new thread and nothing will be merged, just if someone makes a post in a thread where he already has the last post and it's not that long ago, then it will be merged

[cinq]

Ah yes, that's what I thought too....I think my members are rather confused though. Will explain it to them

Thanks

[Sel]

Hi

Some of the users on the forum I moderate have pointed out a way to get around the hack.

If a user posts more than the max number of allowed smilies, a new post is added and the double post hack does not work.

For example the smilie limit on the forum is 3...

A user makes a post with 2 smilies, then the same user posts straight after with another 2 smilies, this breaks the smilie limit and causes a new post to be added rather than the 2 posts being merged.

Don't think this has been pointed out already so I thought I’d mention it. :nervous:

Thanks

[Xenon]

@Sel: well, yep thats know, but it's how the hack is designed.

i did it without the check before, and that lead to non editable posts after the merge, so this smilie check has to be in

i'd increase the ammount of smilies allowed

[Sel]

Nice one, thanks for the quick reply. Think I will increase the smilie limit then, three is a bit harsh!!

Great hack by the way!

[Xenon]

thanks

[sbp]

Thank you Xenon

[Paul M]

If you have previously installed Proxy ip to real ip conversion or Proxy Detector v3.1 then these install instructions will not work (or if you manage to find the block of code to replace, and then replace it as specified, your proxy hack will cease to function correctly).

This is because both proxy ip hacks add an extra field to all new posts. To fix this, edit the install instructions as follows.

find ;

PHP Code:

showsignature, ipaddress, iconid, visible, attach) 


and replace with;

PHP Code:

showsignature, ipaddress, proxyip, iconid, visible, attach) 


also find ;

PHP Code:

'" . addslashes($post['ipaddress']) . "', $post[iconid], $post[visible], $totalattachments) 


and replace with ;

PHP Code:

'" . addslashes($post['ipaddress']) . "','" . addslashes($post['proxyip']) . "', $post[iconid], $post[visible], $totalattachments) 


You can then apply this hack.

[Xenon]

Thx for mentioning Paul, i included a link to your post in the first post

[Baptizer]

When someone double posts, is there a way to put a message above the merged post stating when the user double posted?