Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message.
This will be done until the old post is older than 24 hours (you can change this timespan yourself)

Nothing more to say about that, it's the quite same as my vb3.0 version.

This Mod should run with 3.6 as well


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For vb 3.8 there are two alternative updates ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203705
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204177

[eoc_Jason]

i would love it if when someone double posts and it is merged it would time stamp the merge

The problem with that is whatever time would only be relevant to a particular time zone. So people in other TZ's would only be confused. You might want to consider that. Some people suggested adding the time difference so it would be like (added 1hr later...)

[Paul M]

The Timezone problem can be got around (like here for example).

[eoc_Jason]

The only way though would be to NOT cache the posts though. Because otherwise whoever viewed the post it would be parsed & cached for their time zone.

About the only way I can see doing this and leaving caching on would be to make some sort of javascript?

[Paul M]

The system we use works whether posts are cached or not, and has no reliance on Javascript.

[too_cool_3]

Originally Posted by Kalina

I achieved what you're looking for by editing the "Main Doublepost Prevent Engine" plugin. You can replace all the code in it with the following.

PHP Code:

// ########### Xenon's prevent doublepost modification #########

$vbulletin->GPC['xen_isdoublepost'] = false;

// parse custom conditions
$custcond = true;
if (trim($vbulletin->options['xen_dp_custcond']) != '')
{
    eval('$custcond = ((' . $vbulletin->options['xen_dp_custcond'] . ') ? true : false);');
}


// at first check if there is at least the possibility to be a doublepost
if ($custcond AND $type != 'thread'
    AND $dp_threadinfo['lastpost'] > TIMENOW - $vbulletin->options['xen_dp_timespan'] * 60
    AND $dp_threadinfo['lastposter'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['username']
    AND $dataman->fetch_field('attach') == 0)
{
    // we are here, so we may have a doublepost -> do more exact checkings
    $doublepost = $vbulletin->db->query_first("
        SELECT post.*
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post
        LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(deletionlog.primaryid = post.postid AND type = 'post')
        WHERE post.threadid = $threadinfo[threadid]
            AND post.dateline > " . (TIMENOW - $vbulletin->options['xen_dp_timespan'] * 60) . "
            AND post.visible = 1 AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
            AND post.postid <> $post[postid]
        ORDER BY post.dateline DESC
        LIMIT 1
    ");

    if ($doublepost['userid'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $doublepost['attach'] == 0)
    {
        // we truely have a doublepost, now check if the merged post still fits the rules!
        $dpdataman =& datamanager_init('Post', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');
        $dpdataman->set_existing($doublepost);
        $doublepost['message'] = $doublepost['pagetext'] . "\n\n[SIZE=\"1\"][COLOR=\"Silver\"]" . $vbulletin->userinfo['username'] . ' added ' . intval((TIMENOW - $doublepost['dateline'])/60) . ' Minutes and ' . ((TIMENOW - $doublepost['dateline']) % 60). ' Seconds later...' . $vbulletin->options['xen_dp_spacer'] . "[/color][/size]\n\n" . $post['message'];

        // set info
        $dpdataman->set_info('preview', $post['preview']);
        $dpdataman->set_info('parseurl', $post['parseurl']);
        $dpdataman->set_info('posthash', $post['posthash']);
        $dpdataman->set_info('forum', $foruminfo);
        $dpdataman->set_info('thread', $dp_threadinfo);

        // set options
        $dpdataman->setr('showsignature', $post['signature']);
        $dpdataman->setr('allowsmilie', $post['enablesmilies']);

        // set data
        $dpdataman->setr('pagetext', $doublepost['message']);
        $dpdataman->setr('iconid', $post['iconid']);

        $dpdataman->pre_save();
        if (!$dpdataman->errors)
        {
            // merged post is ok, so actually do the merging by editing old post
            $vbulletin->GPC['xen_isdoublepost'] = true;

            if ($vbulletin->options['xen_dp_bumpthread'])
            {
                // bump thread, so change the post's dateline
                $doublepost['dateline'] = TIMENOW;
                $dpdataman->setr('dateline', $doublepost['dateline']);
            }
            $dpdataman->save();

            // as we have edited an old post, we can now delete the new created post
            $postman =& datamanager_init('Post', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_SILENT, 'threadpost');
            $postman->set_existing($post);
            $postman->delete($foruminfo['countposts'], $threadinfo['threadid'], $removaltype = true, array('userid' => $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], 'username' => $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], 'reason' => $vbulletin->options['xen_dp_editedby'], 'keepattachments' => false), false);
            unset($postman);

            $doublepost['oldmessage'] = $post['message'];
            $post = $doublepost;
            $id = $post['postid'];

            //now add edited by message
            if ($vbulletin->options['xen_dp_editedby'] != '')
            {
                $vbulletin->db->query_write("
                    REPLACE INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "editlog (postid, userid, username, dateline, reason)
                    VALUES ($post[postid], " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ", '" . addslashes($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", '" . addslashes($vbulletin->options['xen_dp_editedby']) . "')
                ");
            }

            // last step update counters
            build_thread_counters($post['threadid']);
            build_forum_counters($foruminfo['forumid']);
        }
    }
} 


Thank you SO much Kalina for solving my problem. Just tried your method and it works perfect!

My double posts now show up as:

MarcGSR added 1 Minutes and 2 Seconds later...

But still no one has answer if there is a way to time stamp them like this:

--------------- Added 17 Oct 2007 at 7:17pm ---------------

???

[eoc_Jason]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The system we use works whether posts are cached or not, and has no reliance on Javascript.

Could you please elaborate, or better yet post some code?

[Mafialife Chris]

Can someone give me a step by step in dummies terms to make this happen on my forum. This includes any actions i would need to do with my FTP and files on the server. I just do not know what to do, sorry. help?

[eoc_Jason]

Install the product via the XML upload. Configure settings in your new additional admincp options. That's it...

[coolgus]

any fix for the quick reply refresh problem ?

[Jikdor]

*installed*