Threads that lock themselves...

Note: There is a 1.1 version of this hack that also checks
the message body of the first post. Scroll down to download the
updated zip file or click here to go to the post containing the attachment.

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We have an off topic forum in our site and sometimes users post useless
topics to bump up their post count or to start a flame war. A lot of
these threads have specific keywords or phreases in them that makes
them stand out. A few examples of these threads are, free post, sig test,
avatar test, etc...

This hack works only with new threads whose title contains the above mentioned
phrases.

This hack works with a database table of known substrings that a forbidden
thread title may contain. And if any of the table contents are detected as
a substring within the thread title, that thread will automatically get
locked with a note in the bottom of the subject, and the thread title
will also be prefixed with the words "Auto Lock".

Interestingly enough, the "meningless" thread posting has been significantly
reduced on our site.


I have created an interface through the Admin CP to add/edit/delete
these phrases.

Affected templates: none
Affected tables: 1 new table is created
Affected source files: newthread.php admin/index.php
New files: topics.php admin/topics.php

First create the following table:

create table topic (topicid smallint(5) unsigned not null auto_increment,title varchar(100) not null, primary key (topicid));

In admin/index.php
Look for the following code:

PHP Code:

// ***
makenavoption("New Posts","../mod/moderate.php?action=posts","<br>");
makenavoption("New Attachments","../mod/moderate.php?action=attachments");
makenavselect("Moderation","<hr>"); 


Add the following directly below it:

PHP Code:

// ***
makenavoption("Add Forbidden Topics","topics.php?action=add","<br>");
makenavoption("Modify Forbidden Topics","topics.php?action=modify");
makenavselect("Automatic Moderation","<hr>"); 


In newthread.php
Look for the following code:

PHP Code:

    // check for subject and message
    if (trim($subject)=="" or trim($message)=="") {
      eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_nosubject")."\");");
      exit;
    }

    $username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['username'];
    $password = $HTTP_POST_VARS['password']; 


Add the following ddirectly below it:

PHP Code:

    $bad_topic = 0;
    require("./topics.php");
    if(isbadtopic($subject)) {
      $bad_topic = 1;
      $subject = "Auto Lock: $subject";
      $message = "$message\n\n[b]<<<<< This thread has been Auto Locked. >>>>>[/b]";
    } 


In newthread.php
Look for the following code:

PHP Code:

      if ($enableemail) {
        $moderators=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT CONCAT(newthreademail,' ',newpostemail) AS newthreademail FROM forum WHERE forumid='$forumid'");

        $modtable=$DB_site->query("SELECT DISTINCT user.email FROM moderator,user WHERE moderator.userid=user.userid AND forumid IN ($foruminfo[parentlist]) AND (newthreademail=1 OR newpostemail=1)");
        while($thismod=$DB_site->fetch_array($modtable)) {
          $moderators['newthreademail'].=" $thismod[email]";
        }

        if ($moderators['newthreademail']!="") {
          $mods=explode(" ",trim($moderators['newthreademail']));
          while (list($key,$val)=each($mods)) {

            if (trim($val)!="") {
              $toemail=$val;
              $forumtitle = $foruminfo['title'];
              $threadinfo['title'] = $subject;

              eval("\$emailmsg = \"".gettemplate("email_moderator",1,0)."\";");
              eval("\$emailsubject = \"".gettemplate("emailsubject_moderator",1,0)."\";");
              mail($toemail,$emailsubject,$emailmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");
            }
          }
        }
      } 


Add this directly below it:

PHP Code:

      if($bad_topic==1) {
    $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET open=0 where threadid=$threadid");
      } 


That's it.

[spaceb]

can you post it please
and i wanted to ask i can choose in what forum the threads going to lock himselfs

[Zzed]

LOL

Funny man.

Yes, and yes to both questions...

I can't do it rigtht this minute. I'll do it in the next day or so. Hope you don't mind.

[spaceb]

thank you very much very usefull hack

[94DROPTOPZ]

This hack is awesome!

I have actually seen it used on your web-site, and I think it's great

Do you have any plans to make this available for 3.0 ? :ermm:

[dpatel304]

I see this is an extremely old mod. Would it be wise to us it on 3.6.5?