Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Daily Short Term Banning by BOP5 (Ban users during part of the day or night)

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So lets say you have a member who is only disruptive at night, perhaps after they've had a few drinks, but actually contribute during the day so you don't want to ban them all day long... Or you have a user who is so addicted to your forum they literally beg you to ban them so they aren't tempted to waste time during school or work- now you have an easy way to do so.

This mod is designed to allow you to make regular short term bans of specific users... You specify the user (by username or userid), the start time of the ban, the end time of the ban, and optionally the days of the week of the ban (by default the ban reoccurs every day.)

The user will get a message explaining they have been banned from the forum only during the specific hours you have set and advise them to return during a time they aren't banned.

Tapatalk and ForumRunner Compatible!

Because vBulletin doesn't honor the time zone settings of banned users all ban times are based off the server time. In the settings page the current server time is displayed to make figuring out the hours you wish to ban them easier.

Remember the Server Time may not be your local time zone either.

I have tried to make setting this up as easy as possible- You can specify the ban by either userid or username, however in the rare case a username is only numbers or has a | in it then you must use the userid only.

You can specify the ban time in 24 hour or 12 hour format so 18:00 or 6:00 PM are both fine and valid to use as times.

Both same day bans (example- 1PM to 5PM) and overnight bans (example- 10PM to 5AM) are allowed.

Days of the week are specified by an optional 4th parameter in the ban settings, in this case a number is assigned to each day of the week, 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday... and so on until 6 = Saturday. You simply include a list of numbers for specific days.

Examples of ban settings:

BirdOPrey5 | 8:00 PM | 10:00 PM | 0456

The above means the user BirdOPrey5 will be banned from 8PM to 10 PM on Sundays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays

Another example:

501 | 20:00 | 5:00

The above means the user with userid 501 will be banned between 8PM and 5AM every day of the week.

Just be careful when doing "overnight" bans along with specific days of the week... Because if the day of the week isn't listed the overnight ban will end at 11:59PM regardless the time chosen if the next day is not listed as a ban day.

See Post #6 on how to ban guests.

This version is only compatible with VB 4.x.x. Tested on VB 4.2.x. Will not work on VB 3.x or 5.x.

Demo: http://www.qapla.com/mods/
Username: ShortBanTest
Password: iwasbanned
The above user is banned from 12:01 AM to 11:59 PM so you can see the error message you will get, and confirm it works on ForumRunner and Tapatalk as well.

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[BirdOPrey5]

Try this- in the Check if Banned - VB4 Code plugin

Find the line:

        $vbu['usergroupid']          = $vbo['bop5dsb_bangroup'];

Below that add the line:

        $vbu['membergroupids']          = '';

Save changes. See if that helps- it's the only thin I can imagine is that somehow a secondary group is overriding the ban so this will clear the secondary groups.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Try this- in the Check if Banned - VB4 Code plugin

Find the line:

        $vbu['usergroupid']          = $vbo['bop5dsb_bangroup'];

Below that add the line:

        $vbu['membergroupids']          = '';

Save changes. See if that helps- it's the only thin I can imagine is that somehow a secondary group is overriding the ban so this will clear the secondary groups.

Thanks I shall try it!

[Bounce]

Sorry that never worked, its still happening with Registered Only in a custom usergroup still being able to post in their banned time

13734 | 22:00 | 6:30

Registered user 13734 should be banned 10pm till 630am?

They have just posted at 120am :erm: