vB Report Manager 2.0 (Admin CP) - Report to Email, PM, Staff Forum as a new Thread!

vB Report Manager 2.1 (Admin CP) - Report to Email, PM, Staff Forum as a new Thread!

By Dr Erwin Loh

What does this hack do?

When a member reports a post, the report goes to:

1) Email (as per normal)
2) PM
3) A new thread in your private Staff Forums
4) In the report, there will be a link to the new thread in your private Staff Forums

Or ANY of the above combination!

The thread title now has the Date/ Time of Report, Originating Forum and Reported Poster!

There is now Admin CP support under vBulletin Options - you can choose to switch on or off any of the notification methods, and set the FORUM ID for the Staff Forum you want the posts to appear in.

All you need to do is run install_vbreport.php and modify 1 file - report.php.

Update Version 2.0

1. Added Admin CP support - choose to switch on and off each notification method. Also specify your Staff Forum ID in Admin CP.

2. Added more info to the THREAD TITLE - now with NAME OF FORUM, USERNAME OF POSTER, AND DATE/ TIME OF REPORT!

Update Version 2.1

1. Fixed email option bug

2. Fixed URL parsing bug

To upgrade, it's easiest just to reinstall this hack over a CLEAN REPORT.PHP file.

Admin CP installer and install instructions in HTML file in ZIP below.
Screenshots attached.

Enjoy!

[Starsurfer]

Tahnks, iI have done it and installed it, is there a possible way to send this to the admins asl well?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Starsurfer

Tahnks, iI have done it and installed it, is there a possible way to send this to the admins asl well?

By default, this happens only if there are no mods assigned.

[Starsurfer]

how do you change it?

[H2k]

Originally Posted by Starsurfer

how do you change it?

i have the same problems

[ambumann]

How can I add a function that sends email/PM to the reporting user containing a standard message like:

"vB.org team has received your report and will adress this matter as quickly as possible".

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by H2k

i have the same problems

It's not a "problem" this is how vB works by default. Most admins won't want to get PMed the report if there's a mod in the forum and the admin is not a mod of that forum.

[gkar]

Great one thanks a lot.

Install

[dwh]

The only thing I didn't understand about how you implemented this, fromlooking at the table rows created directly, is why you didn't seem toproperly populate the touserarray field in pmtext table. It turns outthat you are inserting this variable:
'" . addslashes(serialize($tostring)) . "'

however I don't see the variable $tostring created anywhere, unless itcame from a function. I am still looking into this, but I have afeeling this needs to be fixed. Weird thing is, PM did show up

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by dwh

The only thing I didn't understand about how you implemented this, fromlooking at the table rows created directly, is why you didn't seem toproperly populate the touserarray field in pmtext table. It turns outthat you are inserting this variable:
'" . addslashes(serialize($tostring)) . "'

however I don't see the variable $tostring created anywhere, unless itcame from a function. I am still looking into this, but I have afeeling this needs to be fixed. Weird thing is, PM did show up

I'm not populating it because I'm not using code to check who we are sending it to and checking their PM permissions etc.

[dwh]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I'm not populating it because I'm not using code to checkwho we are sending it to and checking their PM permissions etc.

as long as its on purpose

So was I just seeing things or is that variable empty?