Major Additions - Banned Members Log

Hack Support

This hack is now discontinued - this means that while it will remain available for download and use, there will be no further updates, nor will support be provided as the thread is no longer monitored. You can now check out the 3.8.x version of this hack, as it also works with v3.7.3 PL1, v3.6.11 PL1 (and maybe even earlier versions).

Please click Mark as Installed if you are using this hack.


Branding

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You are NOT allowed to remove my copyright branding from this hack.


vBulletin Version Compatibility

This hack can be used with v3.6.10 and v3.7.x. This has not been tested with earlier versions of v3.6.x, but should work.


What Does This Hack Do?

This hack displays a log of all temporary and permanently banned members on it's own page, it is paginated (with page count on the permanent bans section) if there are more results than you selected per page in the AdminCP, temporary bans are only displayed on page 1 (if you have more temporary banned members than one page, you must be doing something wrong), along with a count on how many temporary and permanent banned members there are. Any users displayed on the page(s) will have links to display their profile, if clicked on.

It can also show an altered total member count on your forum's homepage (if enabled) to either show the altered members count (exclude all banned members), show the altered members and unconfirmed (Users Awaiting Email Confirmation) members count, show the altered members, unconfirmed members and banned members count, or you can disabled it altogether (so it shows the unaltered members count). Enabled or disabled, it does not generate any extra queries.

You can optionally add a link on either the navbar proper or quick links.

This hack is controlled by usergroup permissions.

As an added bonus (if enabled), if a usergroup has permissions to view the banned members log, then the banned members count on the forumhome page will be clickable and will load the banned members log if clicked on (if no permission, then it will not be clickable).


This hack was created because I liked the idea of this hack by jredrum, and as it is not supported, not phrased at all, has no pagination, and has no usergroup permissions to speak of, I decided to use the idea of that hack and rewrite it from scratch based on the ModCP file banning.php, I have also integrated my Total Member Count Excluding Banned Members hack into this one and have now retired it.

There is only one file change (to config.php), but no template changes at all and is fully phrased. This generates no extra queries on the forum homepage at all, and generates 7-9 queries (depending on options selected and if logged out/logged in) on the ban_log.php page.


Installation Instructions

The InstallInstructions.txt instructions file is included in attached .zip file.

Uninstall Instructions

1. Delete ban_log.php from your forum's root directory.
2. Delete ban_log_cron.php from your forum's /includes/cron directory.
3. Delete hooks_ban_log.xml from your forum's /includes/xml directory.
4. Edit config.php in your forum's /includes directory.
   Find and delete:
   
   PHP Code:

       // add Mosh's datastore to specialtemplates, so it is loaded on with the main datastore
    $GLOBALS['specialtemplates'][] = 'ms_datastore'; 

5. Uninstall the product in vB using the AdminCP Product Manager.

Translations

I would like to thank the following people for their translations:

• Full Italian translation (including AdminCP options) (v3.7.003) by KURTZ

NOTE: If you would like to make a translation into your language and have it posted here, then send me a PM for a list of phrases that you will need to translate.


Version History

v3.7.007 - Friday 29th August 2008
-- Final Release
-- Fixed: Usergroup permission checkboxes not working with vBulletin v 3.6.x

v3.7.006 - Wednesday 27th August 2008
-- Changed: Banned Members Log (2) plugin, to get banned members count from the new datastore instead
-- Changed: ban_log.php
-- Changed: ban_log_cron.php, added new query to cron job
-- Changed: Usergroup permissions, now checkboxes instead of comma seperated numbers
-- Added: Extra phrase
-- Added: File edit in config.php, to allow new datastore to be loaded with the main datastore
-- Added: Banned Members Log (6) plugin, for processing usergroup permissions
-- Added: Users Awaiting Email Confirmation member count

v3.7.005 - Sunday 24th August 2008
-- Changed: Banned Member Count on forumhome page, now a datastore item
-- Changed: variable name changed in Banned Members Log (3) plugin, in case of naming conflict
-- Changed:ban_log.php
-- Added: ban_log_cron.php
-- Added: Scheduled cron job

v3.7.004 - Thursday 21st August 2008
-- Changed: banned_count template
-- Changed: banned_log template
-- Changed: Banned Members Log (2) plugin
-- Changed: ban_log.php
-- Changed: AdminCP Options that displays banned members count on forumhome page
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Added: Pagination
-- Added: Page count on banned members section (if more than 1 page of results)
-- Added: AdminCP Option for amount of results per page

v3.7.003 - Wednesday 20th August 2008
-- Changed: banned_none template again
-- Changed: banned_log template
-- Changed: ban_log.php
-- Changed: Query that calculates members and banned members on forumhome page
-- Changed: Different messages now, when there are no temporary and/or banned members
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Added: Counts for temporary and permanent banned members on the Banned Members Log page
-- Added: Extra AdminCP Options on display order of permanent banned members on Banned Member Log page
-- Added: Couple of extra phrases

v3.7.002 - Tuesday 19th August 2008
-- Changed: banned_none template
-- Changed: SQL queries in ban_log.php
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Added: Message if no banned usergroups have been defined
-- Added: AdminCP Option to display or not display the split member count on forum home page
-- Added: AdminCP Options on display order of banned members on Banned Member Log page

v3.7.001 - Monday 18th August 2008
-- Initial Release


Show Your Appreciation

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[Mosh]

Originally Posted by NeitherSparky

That's okay Mosh.

I do have something new to report though that happened when I installed the latest version - it reset my Most Members Ever Online number back to 0. I saw a way to reset it to a specific number (which one of my moderators remembered), so I'm not fussed, I just wanted to report it. Again, I bet it's just my board, lol...

I have replicated that. It should only happen once, if at all. To save the one extra query on the forumhome page, to prevent a file edit I added my datastore item on to the maxloggedin datastore item, as that is used on the forumhome page, using the userstats datastore item really buggers things up, so I am stuck with that quirk unless I create my own datastore item, which would require an edit to /includes/config.php (and that would only ever need to be done once).

So, I may release another version with the file edit[s], and also leave the current version up too, so that people can choose for themselves if they want to do the edit or not[/s].

[Mosh]

Update: v3.7.006
-- Changed: Banned Members Log (2) plugin, to get banned members count from the new datastore instead
-- Changed: ban_log.php
-- Changed: ban_log_cron.php, added new query to cron job
-- Changed: Usergroup permissions, now checkboxes instead of comma seperated numbers
-- Added: Extra phrase
-- Added: File edit in config.php, to allow new datastore to be loaded with the main datastore
-- Added: Banned Members Log (6) plugin, for processing usergroup permissions
-- Added: Users Awaiting Email Confirmation member count

This requires a file edit now, but it will no longer do anything with vBulletin's datastore items. The edit will only ever need to be made once, even when upgrading vBulletin to a new version.

But as an added extra bonus, I added in an unconfirmed member count to make up for the file edit.

It also means that other hacks that I create or update in future that will use the datastore, will be added to my datastore array, so all my hacks that use it will use less queries.

[Mosh]

Update: v3.7.007
-- Fixed: Usergroup permission checkboxes not working with vBulletin v3.6.x

[Zachariah]

Mosh !!! I am going take this baby for a spin.
If it catches fire I'll take photos .

Looken good.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

Mosh !!! I am going take this baby for a spin.
If it catches fire I'll take photos .

Looken good.

Thanks for the compliment

Let me know how it works out for you

[anestetic]

Display Banned Members Count On Forumhome?

- Yes, but only just the altered and banned members count OK

but forumhome view

Konular: 14.986, Mesajlar: 147.658, ?yeler: 6.512, Banned:0 ,

0 = 89

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by anestetic

Display Banned Members Count On Forumhome?

- Yes, but only just the altered and banned members count OK

but forumhome view

Konular: 14.986, Mesajlar: 147.658, ?yeler: 6.512, Banned:0 ,

0 = 89

Originally Posted by 1st Post

Hack Support

I will not be providing any support at all to people who have not clicked Mark as Installed.

I will provide support and respond to feature requests for this hack in this thread only.

Please do NOT PM me for support/feature requests unless I have specifically asked you to do so,
as I will more than likely ignore and delete the PM without a response.

Read the above.

[Mosh]

This hack is now discontinued - this means that while it will remain available for download and use, there will be no further updates, nor will support be provided as the thread is no longer monitored. You can now check out the 3.8.x version of this hack, as it also works with v3.7.3 PL1, v3.6.11 PL1 (and maybe even earlier versions).