Make moderated posts go into private forum instead of queue?

[joeschmoe]

Okay, it allows the post to go through now, but the post goes into the main forum, not the moderated subforum.

Thanks for your patience and help!!

[Logician]

Originally posted by joeschmoe
Okay, it allows the post to go through now, but the post goes into the main forum, not the moderated subforum.

Thanks for your patience and help!!

According to your code, forum 48 and 49 should be set as moderated and new threads posted in these 2 forums will appear in forums 53 and 54.. I can not know which forums you set as moderated or which ones are subs or main..

[joeschmoe]

Got it! Works like a charm! Finally, thank you!

One last thing though: the reason I wanted to use a forum/subforum system instead of the moderation queue was to avoid having to get multiple moderators to go into the queue (and we'd be getting over 100 new threads each day); how can I modify the code to have the subforum act as the moderation queue for each forum?

[Logician]

Originally posted by joeschmoe
how can I modify the code to have the subforum act as the moderation queue for each forum?

it seems to me that the hack works like this at the moment. What difference are u asking for?

[joeschmoe]

I'm sorry, I wasn't being vague on purpose

I meant that I want to forego the moderation queue entirely and use the hack to have the subforum of each forum act as the queue.

Ideally, any posts in a forum would automatically go into the private subforum without the moderators having to go through the moderation queue in the Admin CP. So I just want to skip the moderation queue altogether.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the hack, your help and patience, however the way it works at the moment isn't exactly as I'd like it to be. I hope I'm not being too much trouble.

[Logician]

So if u replace the hack code:

PHP Code:

$oldforumid=$forumid; 


as:

PHP Code:

$oldforumid=$forumid;$visible=1; 


and replace:

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo['moderatenew']!=0) {$forumid=$oldforumid;} 


as:

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo['moderatenew']!=0) {$forumid=$oldforumid;$visible=0;} 


Then make your sub-forums private, the posts should apprear in sub forums as normal posts, instead of going into moderation queue. Then all you have to do is to move the thread to the main forums if you approve them. This would save you going into the Mod. CP.

However I'm not sure what might be the consequences of this change. There may be subtle clashing issues like thread subscription etc. You better check it in a test board for a while to see if it will work.

And even if it works ok, please remember that a moved thread will lose thread subscribers (this is not related to the hack, it's default vb behaviour) so when you use this structure, your moderated threads will not save thread poster's subscription when it's approved.

Hope this helps.. :glasses:

[joeschmoe]

Excellent, works like a charm! Thanks so much for everything! "I'm not worthy!" haha

Thread subscription may not be an issue with what we're planning for the forum (we'll have to see), but I am noticing that the "last post" column doesn't seem to update for some of the forums, on some of the pages. Could this be one of the consequences you mentioned?

[Logician]

yep it is