Move Posts from One Thread to Another

This was requested on vbulletin.com and it's a very simple hack,
which essentially combines the split and the merge admin options

Open postings.php and find (Around lines 756-757):

  	$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,views,iconid,notes,visible) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes($title)."','".addslashes($threadinfo[lastpost])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[forumid])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[open])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[replycount])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[postusername])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[postuserid])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[lastposter])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[dateline])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[views])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[iconid])."','Thread split from threadid $threadid by ".addslashes($bbuserinfo['username'])." on ".vbdate($dateformat." ".$timeformat,time()).". ".addslashes($threadinfo[notes])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[visible])."')");
  	$newthreadid=$DB_site->insert_id();

Replace it with:

[high]  // move posts from one thread to another
  if(trim($movetothread)=="") {[/high]

  	$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,views,iconid,notes,visible) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes($title)."','".addslashes($threadinfo[lastpost])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[forumid])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[open])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[replycount])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[postusername])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[postuserid])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[lastposter])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[dateline])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[views])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[iconid])."','Thread split from threadid $threadid by ".addslashes($bbuserinfo['username'])." on ".vbdate($dateformat." ".$timeformat,time()).". ".addslashes($threadinfo[notes])."','".addslashes($threadinfo[visible])."')");
  	$newthreadid=$DB_site->insert_id();

[high]  } else {
	// get other threadid
	$getthreadid=intval(substr($movetothread,strpos($movetothread,"threadid=")+9));
	if ($getthreadid==0) {
	  $getpostid=intval(substr($movetothread,strpos($movetothread,"postid=")+7));
	  if ($getpostid==0) {
	    // do invalid url
	    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_mergebadurl")."\");");
	    exit;
	  }
	  $getpostid=verifyid("post",$getpostid,0);
	  if ($getpostid==0) {
	    // do invalid url
	    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_mergebadurl")."\");");
	    exit;
	  }
	
	  $postinfo=getpostinfo($getpostid);
	  $newthreadid=$postinfo[threadid];
	} else {
	  $getthreadid=verifyid("thread",$getthreadid,0);
	  if ($getthreadid==0) {
	    // do invalid url
	    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_mergebadurl")."\");");
	    exit;
	  }
	  $newthreadid=$getthreadid;
	}
	
  }
  // / move posts from one thread to another[/high]

Save and upload.

Open template threads_splitthread and find:

$postbits

Right BEFORE it add:

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor }"><normalfont><b>OR Merge Posts into Thread:</b></normalfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor }"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="movetothread" size="55"></normalfont></td>
</tr>

(remove the space after and before [high]{ }[/high] in the above code)
That's it

Cheers,

Bira



<< edit: you don't have to put spaces in between the {replacementvars} if you have checked 'disable smilies in this post >>

<< edit 2: ok apparently i lied...chen did you remove that here? >>

[Stretchr]

Excellent, bira. Thank you!

[Figment]

Thank you, works a treat

[X-Fan]

Great hack, thanks bira!!!

[over]

excellent hack idea, some peeps in my forum keep on posting a new thread instead of a reply by accident gonna install it cheers.

[inetd]

Good idea and good hack!
Thanks!

[Lucky]

Works great!!!

Thank you.

[LaNder]

has anybody tested, if it works with 2.2.4?

i tried it and lost the moved threads - new threadid was set to 0.

had to restore it manually with phpmyadmin.

LaNder

[FWC]

Originally posted by LaNder
has anybody tested, if it works with 2.2.4?

i tried it and lost the moved threads - new threadid was set to 0.

had to restore it manually with phpmyadmin.


LaNder

I'm using it on 2.2.4 with no problem.

[LaNder]

i checked everything, but i get the same error again und again:

"No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster"

http://...../showthread.php?s=&threadid=0

the moved threads a stored in the db with threadid=0

Help needed...

[LaNder]

i tested it with an unhacked v.2.2.5 bad got the same error