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

[sv1cec]

Zero Tolerance,

As I ... promised above, here is the outcome of our experiments with the hack and the discussion with our moderators:

First of all, the hack is great and we all think it is a great addition to any forum. In the interest of seeing this hack becoming even better, we would like to see the following improvements, which will make the mods and admins life easier:

1. Each offence should have a points rating (as it does now), but should also include a "maturity" period. In other words, a period after which the points will automatically be removed from the user's record.
2. Each offence should have a check-box, which will define it as an "Instant Ban" offence. In that way, each forum can decide which offences carry the heavy penalty, of instant banning the member.
3. Each offence which is an "Instant Ban" offence, should also have a "Ban Duration" field. In that way, the admins can decide that offence A deserves a ban, but only for one month, while offence B is serious enough to deserve a permanent ban. So I assume the "Ban Duration" should accept values in days/weeks/months (whatever) plus the word "Permanent". A drop-down menu with 1,2,3,4 weeks, 1,2,3,4,5,6 months, and Permanent values, maybe.
4. Of course, cron jobs should exist, which will remove the points which mature from the member's record, and the bans which expire, automatically.
5. We would appreciate if the PM message could be in a more "customizable" format, so that we can tailor it to our needs. A template maybe?
6. The phrases and params used, should made "global" so that they can be used anywhere in the vB. For example, I have the Warn Points of each user shown in postbit, but I cannot use the "$warn_options[points_before_banned]" there.
7. In the hack's setup (in Admin CP), the admin should be able to define which groups will be able to see the "Warn User" and "View User's Warnings" links. For example, in our site, I have set it up so moderators can warn a user only in the forums they moderate, but they can see every user warnings. Registered users can see the Warnings of other users, as a number only in the forumbit, they cannot see the "Warn XYZ" or the "View XYZ's Warnings" links, so obviously they cannot warn anyone, nor can they see details of how that member earned those points.
8. In the PM send to the user, we would like to see the followings:

- Who warned the member.
- For which post (it might be a good idea if the post could be copied in the offence's record, since the moderator might want to remove it from the forums. Of course, the moderator has to first warn the member and then delete or edit the post).
- Date and time.
- What the offence was (the description of the warning).
- How many points were awarded and what is the current total of the member.
- When these points will be removed.
- If the offence implied an "Instant Ban" and for how long.
- What comments the moderator has added.
- The e-mail of the admin or the super moderator, if the user has objections.

I guess this is pretty much what we would like to see in this excellent hack.

Finally, one other issue, for some reason, the redirecting screen does not always redirect. I am not sure what happens, but that page does not come up like any other redirecting page in vB, it comes up with header and navbar etc. and it just doesn't redirect. Any ideas?

Kind regards, and again thanks for the lovely hack.

John

[paulyy]

It's a good hack but if you made the additions in the above post, it would be a great hack (using current version of it), you you upgrade it can you make an update installation also?

[oldfan]

sweet, works great on 3.0.3

[hello]

It all works for me but for another admin it just loads a blank page as she is going to warn someone please can someone tell me how to fix this.

[redlabour]

@hello - the Version here is more than buggy by now. Use this one and it works : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=74

[Datenpapst]

Originally Posted by drumsy

Also, please hurry up and figure out how I can change permissions so those who I specify cannot see the Warn User link!!!

Before I download anything, mostly the wrong things, where can I find the 1.0 Version?

[Yelper]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

Before I download anything, mostly the wrong things, where can I find the 1.0 Version?

They're both on the first post. The .zip that doesn't have a version is 1.0


Zero Tolerance, you've done an excellent job with this hack. Only things that would make this flawless would be an option/template/phrase to edit the PM message and also a fix to the aforesaid "dropdown" box problem with the font being too big.

But, 'nuff said. Excellent hack.

[Cryo]

When a user is banned due to reaching the warning limit they are moved to the banned user group. When the ban expires (in my case, 7 days) which user group are they put back into?

[Cryo]

Also, another issue I found. For some reason the warnings links only work in one template vs. all. It's not the parent template either. If you use it from any other template you simply get a blank page.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Charlie O'Leary

Also, another issue I found. For some reason the warnings links only work in one template vs. all. It's not the parent template either. If you use it from any other template you simply get a blank page.

What do you mean?

I just finished the final tweaks, and it works OK for me, but admitedly, I had to do a lot of changes to make it behave as I like.

As for which group the banned users are put back in, I assume in Registered Users. I haven't banned anyone yet! :-)

Rgds

[Cryo]

I figured out the issue. It only had the templates inside the default template, which somehow ended up not being the master parent template. Needless to say the problem is now resolved.

[lucky64]

Originally Posted by Zero Tolerance

I will make them inherrit those properties from the usergroup there are been moved into upon banned.

- Zero Tolerance

You will in the next release (any eta on that?) or you did in 1.5 and/or updated the zip?

We're having the problem where it won't change their title to 'banned' so its a little annoying.

Also, what about accesses? As in, mods being able to warn in any forum even if they don't have control over it. Has this been adressed yet?

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by lucky64

You will in the next release (any eta on that?) or you did in 1.5 and/or updated the zip?

We're having the problem where it won't change their title to 'banned' so its a little annoying.

Also, what about accesses? As in, mods being able to warn in any forum even if they don't have control over it. Has this been adressed yet?

Please find below, my own version of control, under which mods can "View" a member's warnings anywhere in the site, but they can issue warnings only in the forums they moderate.

<!-- checks for warning system -->
<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 $post[username]</a> ? 
</if>
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewWarnings&id=$post[userid]'>View $post[username]'s Warnings</a> ?</if>

<if condition="$post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid] AND $post[usergroupid]==2">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings'>View your Warnings</a> ?</if>
<!-- end of warning system -->

If you want your moderators to be able to warn in any forum, use the code below:

<!-- checks for warning system -->
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)">
<a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'>Warn $post[username]</a> ?<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewWarnings&id=$post[userid]'>View $post[username]'s Warnings</a> ?</if>

<if condition="$post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid] AND $post[usergroupid]==2">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings'>View your Warnings</a> ?</if>
<!-- end of warning system -->

The last if in each piece of code, is used so that each member can see his own warnings easily (he does not have to go to the "Quick Links" menu to do that).

I haven't tried the second piece of code myself, but it should work for you. Please let me know if you have a problem.

Rgds

[Buczilla]

Great hack! Thank you!

[Megareus Rex]

I have a problem with this. In the admin CP-->Warning Options-->Warning Logs, whenever I click on Review Post or Remove Warning, it gives me a messed up link. Here's the problem:
the link for Remove is forums/index.php/Warn.php?do=(and so on for the warning ID stuff)
and the ink for review post is forums/index.php/showthread.php?p=(number of post and such)

Why is this happenning? It also happens if i go to User Warnings in a thread and try to see the post.