Allow all members to edit first post of a thread if it has certain prefix

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Here's my first shot at it, [S]i haven't tested [/S]tested it minimally on test forum, so you can be the guinea pig

BOP5, feel free to take this and edit change it to make it work if it doesn't, i just saw this post and knew i could knock something out that may help

Thanks but I don't think that is what he is looking for. This will allow the original author to edit the first post indefinitely...

He wants to allow ALL users to be able to edit the first post- almost like a "Wiki"

My thought was to mark a thread as a "Wiki Thread" and if it was marked as a "Wiki Thread" go ahead and show the "Edit" button to everyone and then allow everyone to edit it.

In my testing so far however editpost.php does not have the hooks necessary to bypass the permissions- so what I'm trying to figure out is if I can intercept the permissions themselves somewhere to give everyone permission to edit a wiki-thread.

Unfortunately making a copy of editpost.php without the permission checks isn't working either... It's actually very very weird behavior- it seems to update the post cache but somewhere along the line another permission check must fail and it doesn't update the post... so it looks like it works but a little later when I come back all the "edits" I thought I did had been "magically" undone... so that is definitely not the avenue to pursue IMO.

The key to this is going to be if I can do a test for when vBulletin builds its permissions and override them when on a wiki-thread ($thread['iswiki'] == 1 for example).