Add/Change posting data

[Replicant]

Originally Posted by ndoktoruser

I am working on the possibility of saving with the actual userId, but I see a couple of problems:

1. The routine that fetches last poster / topic creator;
2. The count of posts made by the user;
3. The search of posts made by a user.

Now I see that all of those features would need to take the new table into account.

I've been thinking about this and maybe updating the node table with the anonymous user info is the way to go. Adding logic to the template to determine whether or not the post belongs to a specific user shouldn't be too difficult for editing purposes. There will also need to be an undo script added to the uninstall procedure to revert the changes made by the mod.

EDIT:Ya, after thinking about it, I don't like this idea. If something in the mod or uninstall script were to go awry, the anonymous posts would be irreversible, unowned and I still think it's a bad idea to modify the node table directly. Also the future vbulletin upgrade scripts are not going to take the changes into account and could cause issues there as well.