Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message, attachments will be added to the old post as well.
This will be done until the old post is older than 1 hour (you can change this timespan yourself)
by changing $do_bump in the script, you can define wether the post's time will be altered or not.

Enjoy, and don't forget to click install

Notice: If you have installed the Proxy ip to real ip conversion or Proxy Detector v3.1 Hack, then you should probably take a look at this post.

[Rampag33]

Nice job Xenon

INSTALLS

[The Quibbler]

I have a question: where would I change the time before people can double-post?

And is it possible to make it so people can NEVER double post, or at least not for a really long time - like a month, or even a year?

Edit: I think I fixed it, just by deleting:

AND dateline > " . (time() - 3600) . "

that part of the code.

[Weasel]

There are a couple of bugs in this hack that will cause a mysql error on forums with table prefixes in their database.

To fix

[FIXES APPLIED]

[Xenon]

Thx, i've applied the fixes.

seems i forgot a prefix in one of my queries

btw. i edited tyour post, as i want to keep that thread clean, and two screen posts don't help there

[FleaBag]

Excellent as always Xenon, thanks.

[Taco John]

I hope this isn't a dumb question... But I just want to make certain I understand this correctly...

This hack is to prevent a user from posting back-to-back messages, correct? And if they do, are they sent anywhere that they are told anything? (ie "doubleposting is turned off, please edit your previous post if you would like to add to your statement, or wait for someone to respond)

If not, It would be a really nice thing to be able to turn it on and off in the admin cp, as well as set a message for users...

Thank you.

[Zelda-King]

If you doublepost, the doublepost is inserted into the previous post as an edit. Thereby, it counts as an edit on a new line rather than as a new post.

[Gio Takahashi]

I installed it and it works.

I have a question, however.

When someone double posts within an hour, how would I make "DOUBLE POST" appear above the second post IE:
Bob:

Hello

Double Post

How are you

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Gio Takahashi

I installed it and it works.

I have a question, however.

When someone double posts within an hour, how would I make "DOUBLE POST" appear above the second post IE:
Bob:

Hello

Double Post

How are you

It has to do with this code:

PHP Code:

   // Update DB
   $DB_site->query("
    UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post
    SET pagetext = '" . addslashes($doublepost['pagetext'] . "\n\n" . $post['message']) . "',
     attach = attach + $totalattachments
    WHERE postid = $doublepost[postid]
   "); 


You could simply modify what it sets the pagetext field to, i.e.

SET pagetext = '" . addslashes($doublepost['pagetext'] . "\n\n" . $post['message']) . "',

becomes

SET pagetext = '" . addslashes($doublepost['pagetext'] . "\n\n<b>Double Post</b>\n\n" . $post['message']) . "',

I am not sure if that would work exactly, but at 1:39am I am entitled to mistakes

Satan

[Xenon]

instead of <b> you have to use [b] but the rest is correct

[The Keeper]

One of my moderators just brought this to my attention. Is it possible to have the query which updates a post in the case of a doublepost to also update the post dateline so that users are aware there is new content?

[The Keeper]

Not sure if it's already a feature, but I've managed to edit the code to do this. If anyone wants it, it's fairly simple.

[Xenon]

i will add it to the next version.

be sure you also update the thread/forum's lastpost info if you change the dateline

[idwf]

Originally Posted by The Quibbler

Great hack! *clicks install*

aye...thats a fine hack!

[idwf]

infact...I've changed my mind......that is by FAR the greatest hack Ive ever...EVER seen! Well dont lad! Its saved me no end!