Warning Hack V1.5

Version 1.5 Note: You must have v1 installed to upgrade, the upgrade process is small so there was no need to write out a fresh install.

It has come to my attention that a "decent" warning system isn't available here on vbulletin.org, which is quite a shame, and because forums like mine, and probably yours need a simple yet advanced warning system to keep things under wraps

Anyway, i thought i might aswell release what i made, prior to me getting off my ass... lol

Administration Features:
View Warning Logs
- Displays all warnings, warned user, warned by, link to the warned post, date, warning type, and the comment specified when the warning was given, and a remove warning link
(Remove will remove the log and also put the members warning level back down in accordance to how much it was increased by the selected warning removed)
Unban Banned Members
- A simple page that you should visit every few days, it will automatically ban any auto banned users by the warning system where there ban time has expired
Warning Options
- Here you can set the following:
-- Number of warn points before member is auto banned
-- Number of days a member is auto banned for
-- View Warnign Types
-- Add Warning Type
-- Add warning type has the following fields:
---- Name/Description/Warn Points Given

Forum Features:
Every post has "Warn [Name]" and "View [Names] Warnings"
These are only accessiable by a member group which is allowed to "moderate" (Moderating groups are auto detected)
Clicking the Warn link will bring you to a page where you view the user your warning, a link to review the warned post, members current warning level, and below the warning types, has a drop down menu to select the warning type, and a text field to put your comment for why this warning is been issued
Upon completing the warning form, the warned user will be Pm'ed from the person who warned them, with the comment put down and a link to the post

View Warnings link will display logs of only that specified user's warnings, the same features as the admin cp warning logs, only just for this user

Members can access only 1 page of the warning system, which is "View My Warnings", this link is added to the quick links drop down menu
Here they simple view there warnings, just like a moderator would, only without the remove warning link

V1.5 Features:
Protectable Usergroups:
No user's in these defined groups can be warned, or banned.
Root Admin Force Protection:
Userid 1 cannot be warned, canned be banned, this is not optional, this is forced for security.
New Unban Members Set Up:
Now displays all currently banned user's, what time they were banned, what time they are supposed to be unbanned. You may unban the user even if there time has not expired (You will be notificed if they have not served the time issued upon ban, but not stopped). Upon unbanning, you choose the members 'new' warning level and the user's usergroup to move them into
Set banned usergroup:
You can now easily choose from a drop down menu which usergroup user's are sent to if after been warned they are banned.

V1.5 Bug Fixes:
- User locations in 'Users online' shown as unknown if they are warning/viewing warnings (Priority: Medium)
- Unban members system renovated and now fully works (Priotity: Maximum)
- No mysql errors upon sending a pm if the PM table had been altered (Priotity: Maximum)
- New protectable usergroups to stop any group of your choice been banned (Priotity: Maximum)
- Last time visited didn't appear when error page occured (Priotity: Low)
- Un-used global in PM function (Priority: Low)

I hope you enjoy the system, my staff teamare very pleased with it and find it of great use, enjoy the hack

- Zero Tolerance

[Tayeb]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Hello Tayeb,

Make sure you follow the instructions in the readme: running the installer is just one step, some files have to be edited too. Also note that ONLY the default Style will get the new warn templates (unless it's parent of all other Styles). -^

I forgot to do a page refresh F5 and saw nothing in the adminCP.

Thanks for your response and help. I did exactly what's said at the beginning of this thread. Do I need to edit files etc that aren't mentioned in the zipped files?

I see the templates in Style Manager of Admincp. What puzzles me where the link ought to be? Shouldn't I have to edit the Forumhome templates?

Also in Admincp there's isn't any Warning system link, so it seems v.1.0 installer (found in Warning_System.zip) doesn't install everything correctly?

I thank antecipately any help.

[TCB]

It's a great hack..... But the fact that the 'warn (user)' and 'view (user)'s warnings' links are visible for anyone (instead of only the ones that are allowed to warn) makes it a bit messy.

I would also welcome it when you could select in the control panel what usergroups in what forums can warn users.

[Tayeb]

Originally Posted by Tayeb

Thanks for your response and help. I did exactly what's said at the beginning of this thread. Do I need to edit files etc that aren't mentioned in the zipped files?

I see the templates in Style Manager of Admincp. What puzzles me where the link ought to be? Shouldn't I have to edit the Forumhome templates?

Also in Admincp there's isn't any Warning system link, so it seems v.1.0 installer (found in Warning_System.zip) doesn't install everything correctly?

I thank antecipately any help.

I'm becoming blind! Didn't read the instructions on installing v. 1.0 so didn't work. Have sorted out and it's wroking now and improving reading all other contributions. Thanks TosaInu for the clues.

[TosaInu]

You're welcome Tayeb.

Make sure you read the other posts TCB especially sv1cec, it's not as easy as just running an installer, but it's not hard to do. I'm not a coder at all, but just reading and experimenting will give you the result you want.

This post seems to be the most important one for you. It did help me a lot
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=192

His code only allows moderators to warn user in their own forum, and admins being global mods in all forums.

Not really my business, but I think you want to give this only to moderators/supmods. You risk a civil war on your site when people who are not staffmembers can warn.

If you need it, just edit the code from sv1cec:

<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND can_moderate($forum[forumid], '', $bbuserinfo[userid])"><a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'>Warn $post[username]</a> ? 
</if>

to something like

<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND ($bbuserinfo[userid]== 10 OR can_moderate($forum[forumid], '', $bbuserinfo[userid]))"><a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'>Warn $post[username]</a> ? 
</if>

Where you should replace 10 by the ID of the group you want to give warn.

[TosaInu]

Tayeb, upgrade 1.5 has extra install instructions too. Need to update the SQL database by running a query and have to edit a file.

[TosaInu]

And a suggestion for v2.0 of this great hack.

It forces sending a PM, very good thinking here. But it's possible that the user disabled (accidentely or not) the message system. It's luck if he sees the message then. It would be nice if it did also forcefully sent an e-mail.

sv1cec's code -^ will allow staff and warned members to check their status which also includes the PM. I added a flag in the forumview that will notify staff and warned members instantly:

In Postbit (or legacy) find:

<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon]</div>

Above that add

<if condition="$post[warning_level]>=3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 OR ($post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid] AND $post[warning_level]>0)"><BR>Warn Level: $post[warning_level]</if>

or to make it flag for staff too (faster spotting):

<if condition="$post[warning_level]>=3 OR (($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 OR $post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid]) AND $post[warning_level]>0)"><BR>Warn Level: $post[warning_level]</if>

$post[warning_level]>=3 makes the warning level visible to everyone once level 3 is reached. Our staff feels that the first warnings should be a private afair between mods and user, level 3 and beyond should get some public pressure.

I also updated the moderator comments in Warn_AddWarn template to get a larger box for composing the PM:

		Moderator Comments:</td>
	<td class="alt2"><textarea name="comment" rows=10 cols=50 class="bginput"> </textarea>
	</td>
</tr>

It works, but I'm not entirely sure whether it's proper code

[Tayeb]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Tayeb, upgrade 1.5 has extra install instructions too. Need to update the SQL database by running a query and have to edit a file.

Thanks TosaInu, I did do the upgrade to 1,5 and followed the instructions and also took care so that only Admin and Moderators (these ones in their own forums) can warn.

[venomx]

Just posting here so Ill get an update when V2 is out... Will wait for it before I install.

[Blam Forumz]

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL: CREATE TABLE `warnings` (
`wid` int(15) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`warned_user` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`warned_by` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`warned_time` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`warned_reason` text NOT NULL,
`warned_post` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`warned_warning_id` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`wid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM;
mysql error: Table 'warnings' already exists

mysql error number: 1050

Date: Sunday 05th of September 2004 10:55:20 AM
Script: http://xxxxx/forum/admincp/install_warn.php
Referer: http://xxxxx/forum/admincp/install_warn.php
Username: Blaminator
IP Address: xxxxxxxx




help

[SnowBot]

Zero Tolerance I have one problem with the hack, maybe you or another member can help

OK the hack is GREAT but lets say the member DOES NOT post but just sends a PM, there is no way you can add a warning for them

Is there a way we can include this?

Thanks for any help on this.

Snowy