Inline Moderation Tools (v1.2.1)

Note: Development of this hack has stopped.
The built-in version is far superior to this hack and has better controls and permission checking. For those of you who will remain on 3.0.x, I will try to support this hack as best I can, but it won't be a top priority. If you plan on moving to 3.5, I hope this hack made your life a little bit easier while you waited .

Current Version: 1.2.1 (Wed Dec 11 15:26:30 PDT 2004)

What this is?
This hack will allow you and your moderators to do your job more effectively by allowing you to mass-moderate. You can perform the same action on multiple threads and posts without leaving the current page!

What is required?
In order to use this hack, you must have cookies and JavaScript enabled! If you don't, this hack will not work. (Note: there is no "alternative display" for people without JavaScript enabled).

How many changes?
Uploads: 2
File edits: 2
And template additions/edits

Support
I will provide all support here in this thread.

Bugs
I have thoroughly tested this hack with as many different combinations I could think of. But I probably have either over looked one or two, or just didn't think of some. If you find any odd behaviour, please let me know!

Changes Since

• 1.2.0
  • Fixed problems with merging threads
  • Enhancement to the merge thread screen
• 1.1.0
  • (Hopefully) resolved all JavaScript issues
  • Merge threads
  • Removed search results moderation ability (it was too much work to maintain and a user could bypass the protection if he knew how the hack operated)
  • Bug with not updating all user fields in post merge
  • Bug with checking for the wrong permissions when deleting a post
  • Template caching
  • Selection boxes only appear when a user is a moderator
• 1.0.0
  • Fixed search results
  • Added small announcement patch

Fixes For 1.2.1
The following fixes are in in the next version:

• Instructions typo for threadbit template
• Attachments are lost when merging posts The download has not yet been updated with this fix!

On The To-Do List

• Usergroup permission for inline moderation

If you'd like a moderator action added to this hack, post it below and I'll look into it.

What are the screen shots of?

• Thread listing with inline moderation
• Post listing with inline moderation
• Merge posts screen
• Result of merging posts
• Split thread screen

Don't forget to click install!!!

[sv1cec]

Folks,

For those of you who decided to use my modification posted above, for copying posts to a new thread, please note that there were .... a few bugs in the way the database was updated. Don't panick nothing serious, it's just that in my hurry to provide you with this, I haven't taken care of all possible issues, and haven't added the required addslashes or intvals. If you haven't had an error when trying to use the copy function, you wouldn't be aware of it. If you had an error, I am sure you would have posted it here.

So, if you want to be 100% correct, please edit your inlinemod.php and find:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("
                INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post
                (
                    threadid,
                    parentid,
                    username,
                    userid,
                    title,
                    dateline,
                    pagetext,
                    allowsmilie,
                    showsignature,
                    ipaddress,
                    iconid,
                    visible,
                    attach,
                    warn_flag
                )
                VALUES
                (
                    '{$vars[newthreadid]}',
                    '{$pst['parentid']}',
                    '{$pst['username']}',
                    '{$pst['userid']}',
                    '{$pst['title']}',
                    '{$pst['dateline']}',
                    '{$pst['pagetext']}',
                    '{$pst['allowsmilie']}',
                    '{$pst['showsignature']}',
                    '{$pst['ipaddress']}',
                    '{$pst['iconid']}',
                    '{$pst['visible']}',
                    '{$pst['attach']}',
                    '{$pst['warn_flag']}'
                )"
            ); 


Replace that, with:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("
                INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post
                (
                    threadid,
                    parentid,
                    username,
                    userid,
                    title,
                    dateline,
                    pagetext,
                    allowsmilie,
                    showsignature,
                    ipaddress,
                    iconid,
                    visible,
                    attach,
                    warn_flag
                )
                VALUES
                (
                    " . intval($vars[newthreadid]) . ",
                    " . intval($pst['parentid']) . ",
                    '" . addslashes($pst['username']) . "',
                    " . intval($pst['userid']) . ",
                    '" . addslashes($pst['title']) . "',
                    " . intval($pst['dateline']) . ",
                    '" . addslashes($pst['pagetext']) . "',
                    " . intval($pst['allowsmilie']) . ",
                    " . intval($pst['showsignature']) . ",
                    '" . addslashes($pst['ipaddress']) . "',
                    " . intval($pst['iconid']) . ",
                    " . intval($pst['visible']) . ",
                    " . intval($pst['attach']) . ",
                    " . intval($pst['warn_flag']) . "
                )"
            ); 


The code in the above post has been edited with the new ... version.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Rgds

[msimplay]

i had a recent problem where when i tried to prune a users posts completely the merged posts remained and changed the merged posts status to a guest post, when what i wanted was it to be deleted as the pruning command is supposed to

[Lyricsmama]

Originally Posted by rob_daemon

When they're using the tool, at the bottom of the page there's a "Go" button; when they click it is there a number in parenthesis or not?

Hi, I'm having the same problem, both admins and mods have got a no permission message.
Yes there is a parenthesis with a number next to the go number, the number equals the number of checkboxes they've selected...

[Nordinho]

Originally Posted by Kei Kurono

One thing i felt that can be improved is the inline deletion.

It does soft deletion.

But i want to physically delete a mass of thread, which i cannot do with the inline moderation tool.

maybe you should make so when you tick the forum threads, and select inline option delete, it then prompts, soft ot physical deletion.

just an opinion.

The mod for 'physically remove threads' work like a charm, but would would it be possible to do this for posts as well. I know it's in 'thread tools' but I want to make it available to some mods as well...

[Renada]

Hi,

I've installed this today on vB 3.07 but no matter what group tries to use it (Mods, Super Mods, even Admins) they're told they don't have permission to view the page when trying to move/delete/stick etc. (in the address bar the page it's looking at is inlinemod.php)

The go button is there, it contains the correct number for the amount of boxes checked.

When trying to merge two messages I get as far as the editing screen - enter the title - am told all selected messages will be merged into one and I push "Merge Posts" only to get the error "Invalid Post specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster"

Does anyone have the answer?

Thanks,
Renada

[obsidian]

I just installed and had the same issue with permissions the first time I tried it. I hit the back button and tried again and it worked without issue. I cant seem to break it now so playing with it might fix it.

Great hack BTW..... great time saver.

[rob_daemon]

Alright sorry for not being able to reply for a while, I've managed to keep myself quite busy. I cannot reproduce the no permission error at all. I have tried it with Opera, Safari, IE6, and Firefox; all of these work fine.

[Nordinho]

hmmm...mine stopped working...each time I get the message 'Invalid inline moderation items specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster' except when I try to split/copy posts it says 'You must specify some posts to split/copy from this thread.' The post selected are checked and the 'go-button' shows the right amount of threads...any idea's??

edit: never mind, got it fixed

[Amavisca]

Originally Posted by Nordinho

hmmm...mine stopped working...each time I get the message 'Invalid inline moderation items specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster' except when I try to split/copy posts it says 'You must specify some posts to split/copy from this thread.' The post selected are checked and the 'go-button' shows the right amount of threads...any idea's??

edit: never mind, got it fixed

I got the same problem as u , how do u fix it?

[Nordinho]

Originally Posted by Amavisca

I got the same problem as u , how do u fix it?

In my case I thought it was a template error...since I came aware it worked on one of the styles, and I copied the templates from that one to all styles (using Zero Tolerances hack)...and it worked for a day. Next day I got up and all of a sudden it stopped working again (while there were no filechanges etc.), so I'm puzzled again...sorry can't help you more...