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

[j_86]

Thank you sv1 - this did it!

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by beano33

Is there any way to carry over bannings from a previous system? We use a 3 strikes protocol and it would be nice if I could enter the users prior bans when switching over.

There are always ways to do things, after all we are talking about computers here.

How do you plan to import the rest of the information? Is there a script you would run? It's not easy to tell if I do not know the other system and I have no experience with any other one.

The number of times a user has been already banned, is stored in his record in the user table, in the column called warning_bans, if that's of any help.

Rgds

[Kmaster]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

It doesn't matter how many members you have, iwhat makes the difference is how many warnings you have issued. And yes, as far as I know they will all show in one page (haven't looked in that). Now for paging, I am not sure if my knowledge will allow me to do that, I'll give it a try tomorrow morning. If I'll come up with something, I'll let you know. I'll have to create at least 30 or 40 warnings in my test system to test that, so it might take some time.

Rgds

Hello sv1cec

any good news? no mean to push you, just let me know some information.
thanks a lot.

rgds,

[Blam Forumz]

How can I stop my Super Mods warning my Admins?

[beano33]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

There are always ways to do things, after all we are talking about computers here.

How do you plan to import the rest of the information? Is there a script you would run? It's not easy to tell if I do not know the other system and I have no experience with any other one.

The number of times a user has been already banned, is stored in his record in the user table, in the column called warning_bans, if that's of any help.

Rgds

Our other system is all done manually. We recorded the info in usernotes and in a private forum. There's zero importablility. Past bans would have to be entered manually. Ideally there should be a field for this similar to the reputation field in User Manager in AdminCP that's editable by admins or others with permission. It's no biggie, this is going to save us a lot of time and work regardless of whether we can add in prior bans.

[WAR]

@beano33:

I was using what sounds like a similar system involving the usernotes and the built-in ban feature of vbulletin up till now. What we did was create an "instant ban" warning type titled "Previously Banned" and in the description we put "see user notes for details".

Then we just applied this warning to everyone that was previously banned.

Thought that that might be helpful...

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by beano33

Our other system is all done manually. We recorded the info in usernotes and in a private forum. There's zero importablility. Past bans would have to be entered manually. Ideally there should be a field for this similar to the reputation field in User Manager in AdminCP that's editable by admins or others with permission. It's no biggie, this is going to save us a lot of time and work regardless of whether we can add in prior bans.

Oh, then it's easy. Do the following changes in your admin/user.php file.

Search for:

PHP Code:

// PROFILE FIELDS SECTION
    print_table_header($vbphrase['user_profile_fields']);
    $profilefields = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "profilefield ORDER by displayorder");
    while ($profilefield = $DB_site->fetch_array($profilefields))
    {
        print_profilefield_row($profilefield, $userfield);
    } 


Right below that, add:

PHP Code:

    print_table_break('', $INNERTABLEWIDTH);
    
    print_table_header("Warnings Information");
    print_input_row('Warning Level', 'user[warning_level]', $user['warning_level']);
    print_input_row('Bans', 'user[warning_bans]', $user['warning_bans']); 


Two more fields are added, in the page you get when you are looking at the details of one of your users, the Warning Level of the user at that moment, and how many bans he has already. Edit to your heart's desire.

I hope this helps.

Rgds

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Kmaster

Hello sv1cec

any good news? no mean to push you, just let me know some information.
thanks a lot.

rgds,

Sorry, didn't have the chance to look at that. It's not something I've done before, and I have to research code from other places in vBulleting to impelent it. But before doing that, I'll have to transfer my database from my production system to my test system at home, and that is not something I enjoy doing.

I'll post here if I get any result on the paging thing.

Rgds

UPDATE: I spend about 5 hours trying to figure that out, using admincp/user.php as an example. Unfortunatelly, I didn't manage to finish it. I have managed to display the first x warnings of y, but then I can't make it continue to the rest of them. If I don't manage it tomorrow morning, you will have to live with a long list. I am fed up (not with you, with the bloody code).

Rgds

[sv1cec]

OK, the paged layout for the Warning Logs is done.

You have to add a new column in your warning_options table, using the following SQL Query (remember to use the TABLE_PREFIX if you are using one):

alter table `warning_options` add warnings_per_page int(3)

After you've done this, use the attached admin_warn.php file. Sorry I can't provide a detailed step-by-step mods write-up, too many changes to make it viable.

Let me know if it works.

Rgds
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John

[Blam Forumz]

Is it possible to make it so I can set out a system like this :

5 - Warnings = 3 day ban.

After those 3 days are up, then another 5 warnings = 10day ban

Thanks

/Blam