Allow Mods a temporary ban of users

Hi
I´ve wrote a little hack upon request of my "Main"-Moderators.
This hack allows them to temporary ban a given user per Userid. Simply userid, reason and how many hours. The banned user will see a modified no-permission screen when he tries to login. The User can automaticly access the board again, when the entered time is over.
For the other hackers: Feel free to modify the hack and distribute a "better" version of this if you want.

Sry for my bad english.

[Hotte]

Originally posted by NerdNations
well if you allow guests to view the board, all they have to do is logout

Yes, but they don?t have a logout-link on the page If they want to view, the user has to delete the cookie manually and most user don?t do that.

Originally posted by MarkG
if you want ban in days and not hours, just add *24 after every 60*60 in the banuser.php

Don?t forget the /24 in action==edit at line 36

[Boofo]

Is there a way to add an option to ban them for hours, days, weeks or months? Some reasons for banning may be more severe than others.

Originally posted by Hotte
Don?t forget the /24 in action==edit at line 36 [/B]

[ladyfyre]

Ok...i have looked and looked and looked...and still am just not seeing it....

Where is the link to allow the bans to be set?

I mean...there has to be some interface into the existing scripts....if i try to go straight to the script itself, it gives me just a blank grey screen.

So where are the links supposed to be? There are none mentioned in the install file.

[Smoothie]

You can add the link in your forums/mod/index.php file

[Smoothie]

Look for code

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Ban","user.php?action=find","|"); 


and add below:

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Temp Ban","banuser.php?","|"); 


[Boofo]

Do you need to have the banuser.php in the mod directory then? And how would you link to it in the admin cp?

Originally posted by Smoothie
Look for code

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Ban","user.php?action=find","|"); 


and add below:

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Temp Ban","banuser.php?","|"); 


[Smoothie]

This hack I just learned can be quite harmful. What stops a mod, super mod, from banning an admin?

[Boofo]

Any way to do a check to see if it is a mod, super mod or admin before it allows you to ban them?

Originally posted by Smoothie
This hack I just learned can be quite harmful. What stops a mod, super mod, from banning an admin?

[ladyfyre]

Nope...that isn't the answer.

I know how to make those types of links, but did as you said, and it still just gives me a blank grey page.

Since i am not editing the banuser.php at all, then i can't have mis-installed it.....

Something is just not working right here.

[Boofo]

Did you add the necessary code to the phpinclude template?

Originally posted by ladyfyre
Nope...that isn't the answer.

I know how to make those types of links, but did as you said, and it still just gives me a blank grey page.

Since i am not editing the banuser.php at all, then i can't have mis-installed it.....

Something is just not working right here.