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 rex_b

I'm using zero tolerances version and I didn't know there was another version within this thread. that's the problem I have.

Well, Zero Tolerance has stopped adding features at his version 1.5. From then on, several other features have been added by me. Unfortunatelly, not in a very well documented way.

Rgds

[TCattitude]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Well, Zero Tolerance has stopped adding features at his version 1.5. From then on, several other features have been added by me. Unfortunatelly, not in a very well documented way.

Rgds

Can you make another hack (new thread) with you mod of this hack?
And in a document way?
Your mods are very useful for all, i think.

Please :ermm:

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by TCattitude

Can you make another hack (new thread) with you mod of this hack?
And in a document way?
Your mods are very useful for all, i think.

Please :ermm:

OK folks, at this moment, I am a little loaded trying to figure out an upgrade path for my site, to go from 3.01 to 3.03. I assume that will take me another day or two, since I do it at my test environment first, and then I'll do the main site.

After that, I promise, I'll add no more functionality and I'll try to do a properly documented hack. At least now I have the original files and a tool to compare them with my modified ones, so it shouldn't be too difficult. And I assume that if I forget something, you folks, will not jump to kill me.

Wish me luck with the upgrade, the sooner I am done with it, the sooner I'll start working on the fully documented hack. I'll post any announcement here too.

Rgds
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John

[SamirDarji]

Good luck! Should be pretty painless.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Good luck! Should be pretty painless.

LoL, yeah on a simple forums site, with the standard software installed, it is painless. Try that with about 15 hacks installed, and then we'll talk.

I think I am at a pretty good point right now, but it's two am here almost and I need some sleep.

We'll talk tomorrow.

Rgds

[RsX]

i need help!!
What do i need to change to make it so that Admins, Super Mods, and moderators (only in their own forums) can use the "Warn 'User'" link and that the "View 'User's Warnings" Can be used also by Admins, Super Mods, moderators (only in their own forums) AND registered users (in my case usergroups 2,10,9) if it is their post...

Thanks alot in advance!

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by RsX

i need help!!
What do i need to change to make it so that Admins, Super Mods, and moderators (only in their own forums) can use the "Warn 'User'" link and that the "View 'User's Warnings" Can be used also by Admins, Super Mods, moderators (only in their own forums) AND registered users (in my case usergroups 2,10,9) if it is their post...

Thanks alot in advance!

If I am not totally mistaken, that's how it works (except the supermods thing). Admins can see both links everywhere. Mods can see them everywhere, but can only warn in their own forums. Registered users can see only their own warnings. What more do you want?

[RsX]

a moderator in my forum warned someone for a post outside his forum

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by RsX

a moderator in my forum warned someone for a post outside his forum

RsX,

Which version of this hack are you using?

My version does not allow a moderator to warn someone unless the post is in one of the mods forums. If you are using the original Zero Tolerance's hack, I am sorry, I can't be of much help.

Rgds

[RsX]

im using 1.5