Posting in specific forums you specify deducts or adds to post count

Posting in specific forums you specify deducts or adds to post count

This is a fairly simple hack, but it can be useful for certain forums. Feel free to expand or modify this to suit your forums.


How to use:

1) If you have a spam forum, you may want to deduct 1 from the post count each time a member posts there.
2) If you have a special forum, you may want to add more than 1 to the post count each time a member posts there.
3) Any combination of the above.


Installation:

In includes/functions_newpost.php:

Find:

PHP Code:

            $doposts = 'posts = posts + 1,'; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo['forumid']==66 OR $foruminfo['forumid']==67) 
{
            $doposts = 'posts = posts - 1,';
} else {
            $doposts = 'posts = posts + 1,';
} 


Just change 66 and 67 to your spam forumids, remove or add forumid's as needed.

Change -1 to +2 or +5 if you want to ADD to the member's post count for whatever reason. Play around with the code - this hack is meant to be customized in many ways for your forum.

[lazytown]

Is there any way to make this work with the rebuild options? So it can apply retroactively? I wanted something that would have fractional post counts for off-topic forums, etc. But it can still be done with whole numbers by just multiplying everything.

-V

[oldfan]

Sorry but I'm confussed...
I have a spam forum, #20
to remove a 1 from they're post count I have to...

if ($foruminfo['forumid']==20)
{
$doposts = 'posts = posts - 1,';

??
thanks

[oldfan]

bump

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by oldfan

Sorry but I'm confussed...
I have a spam forum, #20
to remove a 1 from they're post count I have to...

if ($foruminfo['forumid']==20)
{
$doposts = 'posts = posts - 1,';

??
thanks

Correct, except you forgot a } at the end.

[Paul M]

How well does vB handle negative posts counts ?

[oldfan]

Doesn't seem to do anything :/ on 3.06

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by oldfan

Doesn't seem to do anything :/ on 3.06

I'll check when I find time to see if the code in 3.0.6 has changed.

[oldfan]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I'll check when I find time to see if the code in 3.0.6 has changed.

thank you
Just so you know, when I installed it..
The post count didn't change when I posted in ANY forum.

[ZombieAndy]

Originally Posted by oldfan

thank you
Just so you know, when I installed it..
The post count didn't change when I posted in ANY forum.

can this be based on a userID or usergroup rather than forumID? and is there a way it can be set in the admin cp?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by YodaTheCoda

can this be based on a userID or usergroup rather than forumID? and is there a way it can be set in the admin cp?

I'll modify this hack to do this via the Admin CP. Wait for it...