Warning Hack V1.5

Version 1.5 Note: You must have v1 installed to upgrade, the upgrade process is small so there was no need to write out a fresh install.

It has come to my attention that a "decent" warning system isn't available here on vbulletin.org, which is quite a shame, and because forums like mine, and probably yours need a simple yet advanced warning system to keep things under wraps

Anyway, i thought i might aswell release what i made, prior to me getting off my ass... lol

Administration Features:
View Warning Logs
- Displays all warnings, warned user, warned by, link to the warned post, date, warning type, and the comment specified when the warning was given, and a remove warning link
(Remove will remove the log and also put the members warning level back down in accordance to how much it was increased by the selected warning removed)
Unban Banned Members
- A simple page that you should visit every few days, it will automatically ban any auto banned users by the warning system where there ban time has expired
Warning Options
- Here you can set the following:
-- Number of warn points before member is auto banned
-- Number of days a member is auto banned for
-- View Warnign Types
-- Add Warning Type
-- Add warning type has the following fields:
---- Name/Description/Warn Points Given

Forum Features:
Every post has "Warn [Name]" and "View [Names] Warnings"
These are only accessiable by a member group which is allowed to "moderate" (Moderating groups are auto detected)
Clicking the Warn link will bring you to a page where you view the user your warning, a link to review the warned post, members current warning level, and below the warning types, has a drop down menu to select the warning type, and a text field to put your comment for why this warning is been issued
Upon completing the warning form, the warned user will be Pm'ed from the person who warned them, with the comment put down and a link to the post

View Warnings link will display logs of only that specified user's warnings, the same features as the admin cp warning logs, only just for this user

Members can access only 1 page of the warning system, which is "View My Warnings", this link is added to the quick links drop down menu
Here they simple view there warnings, just like a moderator would, only without the remove warning link

V1.5 Features:
Protectable Usergroups:
No user's in these defined groups can be warned, or banned.
Root Admin Force Protection:
Userid 1 cannot be warned, canned be banned, this is not optional, this is forced for security.
New Unban Members Set Up:
Now displays all currently banned user's, what time they were banned, what time they are supposed to be unbanned. You may unban the user even if there time has not expired (You will be notificed if they have not served the time issued upon ban, but not stopped). Upon unbanning, you choose the members 'new' warning level and the user's usergroup to move them into
Set banned usergroup:
You can now easily choose from a drop down menu which usergroup user's are sent to if after been warned they are banned.

V1.5 Bug Fixes:
- User locations in 'Users online' shown as unknown if they are warning/viewing warnings (Priority: Medium)
- Unban members system renovated and now fully works (Priotity: Maximum)
- No mysql errors upon sending a pm if the PM table had been altered (Priotity: Maximum)
- New protectable usergroups to stop any group of your choice been banned (Priotity: Maximum)
- Last time visited didn't appear when error page occured (Priotity: Low)
- Un-used global in PM function (Priority: Low)

I hope you enjoy the system, my staff teamare very pleased with it and find it of great use, enjoy the hack

- Zero Tolerance

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by fridayweb

Worked like a charm, thank you so much. Stupid me, I didn't think to comment it out, I thought I had to change it to usergroups or something. Thanks again!!

No problem, but before you actually commit to using my code, make sure you test it extensively. I've done so many changes to this hack, that even though I try everything several times before putting it here, you may still get some problems. If so, please let me know, I'll do what I can to help.

Rgds
------------
John

[Anek]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

.......

You may remove that part of the code, and use it. Just replace:

PHP Code:

if($warn_type['warn_permban']=="Yes")
            {$liftdate=0;
             }
            else
            {$liftdate=$time_unban;
             } 


with

PHP Code:

            $liftdate=$time_unban; 


That should do it.

Let me know if it works.
.....

Perfect it works!!! :up:

Only a thing: when user is banned, him user title doesn't change.
I think that is sufficient set $user[customtitle]="banned" .. is it right?

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Anek

Perfect it works!!! :up:

Only a thing: when user is banned, him user title doesn't change.
I think that is sufficient set $user[customtitle]="banned" .. is it right?

Well, to do that, find:

PHP Code:

 $liftdate=$time_unban; 


and right underneath that, add:

PHP Code:

$title="Temp. Banned" 


or "Banned" or whatever you want.

Then find:

PHP Code:

        $DB_site->query("
                UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user SET
                usergroupid = $usergroupid,
                displaygroupid = $usergroupid
                WHERE userid = $user[userid] 


and replace it with:

PHP Code:

        $DB_site->query("
                UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user SET
                usergroupid = $usergroupid,
                displaygroupid = $usergroupid,
                usertitle = $title
                WHERE userid = $user[userid] 


[Anek]

Thx a lot

This night I found a solution like yours

$liftdate=$time_unban;
                 $usergroupid=8;
				 $usertitle= "<font color=\"red\">Banned</font>";
        $DB->query(" 
            INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "userban 
            (userid, usergroupid, displaygroupid, customtitle, usertitle, adminid, bandate, liftdate) 
            VALUES 
            ($user[userid], $user[usergroupid], $user[displaygroupid],'". addslashes($user['customtitle']) ."', '" . addslashes($user['usertitle']) . "', $bbuserinfo[userid], " . TIMENOW . ", $liftdate)"); 
        $DB->query(" 
                UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user SET 
                usergroupid = $usergroupid, 
                displaygroupid = $usergroupid, 
                usertitle = '". addslashes($usertitle) . "' 
                WHERE userid = $user[userid] 
            ");

This is the first time that I play with the code, I hope that everything will work.
Thanks still for the patience ^^

[Goodspeed]

Is it possible to remove warn points after the expiration of some time? And setup different time of expiration for each violation?

Thank you.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Goodspeed

Is it possible to remove warn points after the expiration of some time? And setup different time of expiration for each violation?

Thank you.

Yes, it is possible, that's what I have in my forums. Each violation has a maturity period, when that passes, a cron script removes the violation points from the user. However, as I've said, I haven't documented the changes I've made very neatly (not at all actually), so all I can do to help you, is to send you the related files and you have to take it from there. I'll provide as much help as I can, but don't expect me to do everything.

Rgds
------------
John

[Goodspeed]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Yes, it is possible, that's what I have in my forums. Each violation has a maturity period, when that passes, a cron script removes the violation points from the user. However, as I've said, I haven't documented the changes I've made very neatly (not at all actually), so all I can do to help you, is to send you the related files and you have to take it from there. I'll provide as much help as I can, but don't expect me to do everything.

Rgds
------------
John

It would be great if you leave these files here. Thank you!

[j_86]

Such a mod has been posted in this thread, 5 - 10 pages back.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by JimpsEd

Such a mod has been posted in this thread, 5 - 10 pages back.

Try looking through the posts, I am almost sure I've posted here before. If you can't find it, let me know.

Rgds

[Cryo]

sv1cec, I added your mature warnings cron job and it doesn't seem to do anything, even though I have several warnings that are over 1 month old. Any ideas what could be wrong?