Allow all mods to view deleted threads

Requested: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100108

This little mod allows moderators of any forum to view all soft-deleted threads. (usually they can only view soft-deleted threads in forums they moderate).

This (should) work as long as the user is a moderator of ANY forum. Doesn't matter which forum, just as long as they're listed as a moderator of at least 1.

I've done as much (limited) testing as I can with just me and my test board, so let me know if it causes any problems

Important: Unfortunately, my leased vBulletin licence has now expired, and I won't be renewing it until September which means I will be unable to reply to this thread, or update this mod until then. I'm hopeful that the great vBulletin.org community will step in to answer any questions in my absence though See you all in early September!

Version 1.4: Fixed the pagenav bug
Version 1.3: Now supports search results + fixed a minor bug
Version 1.2: Added support for mods to view all soft-deleted posts as well as threads
Version 1.1: Fixed a bug that broke most of the links in forumdisplay.php

[Alan @ CIT]

Product XML updated, it now shows soft-deleted posts in search results if the user is a mod

[SoftWareRevue]

Very nice hack!

/me does the dance of joy. :banana:

[fridayweb]

When I had this plugin running and then created a new forum, the $forumid for just that forum kept being reset it f=0 and was totally messed up. When I disabled this plugin, it was fine again. I'm not sure what part of this plugin caused that error, but it's something I thought I'd let you know about in case anyone else was affected.

[Alan @ CIT]

The plugin sets the $forumid to 0, then resets it back before it displays the page. I thought I'd found all the spots where it needed to be reset back, but apparently not. Exactly where is it set to 0? ie, what links are displayed on the page with f=0 attached to them?

[fridayweb]

Everything was great until I added a new forum. It only affected that particular one for some reason.

If I tried to hit "new thread" it returned "no forum specified" or some similar error, and I could see that it was trying to draw on f=0

Also I guess it's 'pagenav' where it has Page 1 of 20, and if I tried clicking on any of the numbers or the forward or back arrows it was drawing on f=0

[SoftWareRevue]

Originally Posted by Alan @ CIT

The plugin sets the $forumid to 0, then resets it back before it displays the page. I thought I'd found all the spots where it needed to be reset back, but apparently not. Exactly where is it set to 0? ie, what links are displayed on the page with f=0 attached to them?

I haven't tried creating a new forum to see. But, I do see this happening when I'm in a forum that has multiple pages of threads. Clicking on "Last" or "First" will give the Invalid Forum error.

Appears to be because there is no forum

xxx.com/forumdisplay.php?f=&sort=threadstarted&order=desc

[Alan @ CIT]

Hmm... I added another plugin to v1.3 to fix this bug, but it appears it didn't fix it at all

will investigate more tonight

[SoLo OnE]

Originally Posted by fridayweb

Also I guess it's 'pagenav' where it has Page 1 of 20, and if I tried clicking on any of the numbers or the forward or back arrows it was drawing on f=0

Yep totally breaks any page navigation...

Had to uninstall it after finding this out. :ermm:

[Alan @ CIT]

Panic not folks, been away but I'm back now - working on a fixed version as we speak. One that (hopefully) doesn't need to cludge the forumid

[Alan @ CIT]

Version 1.4 has been released. This mod no-longer cludges the forumid to 0, which means there shouldn't be any more problems with broken pagenav, etc

Any problems, please let me know