Admin. 2 Admin. Notes VIA AdminCP Index

Hello Fellow vBulletin.org Members,

I bring greetings from Appleworld. Lol. Sorry, it's been awhile since my last AdminCP related hack. This time I'm turning more towards Administrator to Administrator communication via quick posting software under the vBulletin AdminCP backend. I don't know, why else would I post it here. Lol. Anyways, here's what it is.

Admin. 2 Admin. Notes Hack is a small hack but can help very greatly especially for those forums who have many Administrators who are always on the go and really don't have the time to post a quick thread. I believe there are more than enough of you out there. This hack is almost portraying itself as a "dry-erase" board for quick messages to leave for your close "vBFamily".

I'm currently unable to take screenshots so if any of you would be willing, I'd love ya da death. Lol. Since it is an Administrative feature, I'm ofcourse, unable to show you a working system, basically why I need someone to install and take screenshots. Well, with all that said and done, the only thing you have to do is click install and download. It comes with a detailed MSNotePad version of the Installation and only requires one table on your database.

Enjoy and thank you.

- Anthony AKA Crater Seraph

UPDATED! ONCE AGAIN! LOL!

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Many years later...
An update for 2.3.x is underway.
Emails have been sent on the news.
Lemme d/l the software and I'll get it out as quick as possible.
This time, it'll be titled 'Administrator Notes' :nervous:

[TraceyPRO]

OK, this is my first time here at vBulletin.org so I wanted to make this a good first post

I have attached a new anotes.php file which fixes the PHP errors that some of you were having after a note was posted.

Also, I have added an Delete Button Add-On of sorts that a few people were requesting. The delete button will ONLY show up when a message is posted (credit of the PHP code goes to Boofo due to the fact that it's pretty much the same code as his).

In your /admin/index.php file find this:

PHP Code:

maketableheader('Administrator To Administrator Notes');
echo "<tr class='".getrowbg()."' valign='top'>\n<td><font size=1><p>". makelinkcode("Leave A Note","./anotes.php","0") ."</p></font></td>\n<td><p></p></td>\n</tr>\n";

$bbcodeon=iif($forum[allowbbcode],$ontext,$offtext);
$imgcodeon=iif($forum[allowimages],$ontext,$offtext);
$htmlcodeon=iif($forum[allowhtml],$ontext,$offtext);
$smilieson=iif($forum[allowsmilies],$ontext,$offtext);

$notes = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT notes,userid,timestamp,username FROM adminnotes LIMIT 1");
$note = stripslashes($notes['notes']);
$timestamp = $notes['timestamp'];
$userid = $notes['userid'];
$author = $notes['username'];
$time_posted = vbdate('n-j-y, g:i:s a',$timestamp);
makelabelcode($note);
makelabelcode("Author: <a href='$bburl/member.php?s=&action=userinfo&userid=$userid'>$author</a> | Posted On: $time_posted"); 


Replace this chunk of code with:

PHP Code:

$notes = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT notes,userid,timestamp,username FROM adminnotes LIMIT 1");
$bbcodeon=iif($forum[allowbbcode],$ontext,$offtext);
$note = stripslashes($notes['notes']);
$timestamp = $notes['timestamp'];
$userid = $notes['userid'];
$author = $notes['username'];
$time_posted = vbdate('n-j-y, g:i:s a',$timestamp);

maketableheader('Administrator To Administrator Notes');
echo "<tr class='".getrowbg()."' valign='top'>\n<td><font size=1><p>". makelinkcode("Leave A Note","./anotes.php","0") ."";

if ( $note != "" ) {
echo "". makelinkcode("Delete","./anotes.php?action=delete","0") ."";
}
echo "</p></font></td>\n<td><p></p></td>\n</tr>\n";

if ( $note != "" ) {
makelabelcode($note);
makelabelcode("Author: <a href='$bburl/member.php?s=&action=userinfo&userid=$userid'>$author</a> | Posted: $date_posted at $time_posted");
} 


Once that is done, simply overwrite the original anotes.php file with the altered anotes.php file I attached.

That's it! Once again, this modification/fix should also be partially credited to Boofo for his PHP modification

[Boofo]

Excellent addon (with the delete button). Thanks! Try this code and let me know what you think.

PHP Code:

// Administrator To Administrator Notes Hack
doformheader("","");
$notes = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT notes,userid,timestamp,username FROM adminnotes LIMIT 1");
$bbcodeon=iif($forum[allowbbcode],$ontext,$offtext);
$imgcodeon=iif($forum[allowimages],$ontext,$offtext);
$htmlcodeon=iif($forum[allowhtml],$ontext,$offtext);
$smilieson=iif($forum[allowsmilies],$ontext,$offtext);
$note = stripslashes($notes['notes']);
$timestamp = $notes['timestamp'];
$userid = $notes['userid'];
$author = $notes['username'];
$date_posted = vbdate('l, F jS, Y',$timestamp);
$time_posted = vbdate('g:i a',$timestamp);

maketableheader('Administrator To Administrator Notes');
echo "<tr class='".getrowbg()."' valign='top'>\n<td><font size=1><p>". makelinkcode("Leave A Note","./anotes.php","0") ."";

if ( $note != "" ) {
echo "". makelinkcode("Delete","./anotes.php?action=delete","0") ."";
}
echo "</p></font></td>\n<td><p></p></td>\n</tr>\n";

if ( $note != "" ) {
makelabelcode($note);
makelabelcode("Author: <a href='$bburl/member.php?s=&action=userinfo&userid=$userid'>$author</a> | Posted: $date_posted at $time_posted");
}
echo "</table></td></tr></table></form>\n";
// End of Administrator To Administrator Notes Hack 


[TraceyPRO]

The only problem with the facelift you showed me is that it doesn't seem to work for my AdminCP It's odd too, because I'm using vB 2.2.9. But oh well, lol...anywho. I'm back with another bug fix for this. It's a rather small one, but it's a bug none the less.

In /admin/index.php find:

PHP Code:

Author: <a href='$bburl/member.php?s=&action=userinfo&userid=$userid'>$author</a> | Posted On: $time_posted 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

Author: <a href='./user.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=edit&userid=$userid'>$author</a> | Posted On: $time_posted 


The original code would take you to a blank page when you click on the author's username because the Action 'userinfo' doesn't exist. Well at least it doesn't work on vB 2.2.9 anyway if it does exists, lol.

Also, if you guys are interested I've done a few more add-ons to this great hack. If you would like for me to post them, I would be more then happy to! Thanks!

[Boofo]

That actually should be:

PHP Code:

Author: <a href='$bburl/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=$userid'>$author</a> | Posted On: $time_posted 


You really don't want Admins editing Admins profiles.

I'd be interested in any other fixes or addons you have.

[Poggyuk]

Can someone help me...
When i ever i leave a note, i always get the following message:

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/webn/public_html/forum/admin/db_mysql.php on line 154

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/webn/public_html/forum/admin/adminfunctions.php:19) in /home/webn/public_html/forum/admin/anotes.php on line 34

(But the note i posted, is still shown when you return to the control panel home)

Thanks in advance!

[sonic3d]

just to make sure. is the code suppose to appear on the left side?

l8er
sonic

[gmarik]

Could somebody, please - put it ALL together for 2.3?!

[kabresh]

yeah id like to see this all put together for vb2.3 also

[shovel]

Alrighty, I think I'll update it for 2.3.x.
Gimme a couple of days.
Gotta download the software on dial-up. :ninja: