banning options for smods

this has been requested, and i've throw something together by editing options.php and making a new file with it, it only allows access to the banning options. It will also give admins access to the banning options even if they don't have vboptions access permissions so this may be useful for meny people.

i'd recormend applying this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=64034 as well to prevent smods ip banning superadmins and other privilaged users.

to check if a user id an smod, i used the can_moderate function to check the permission 'issmod' as this dosn't exist as a permission it will only return true if the user is a smod or admin if you want to allow mods to ipban you can add this permission and give it to them.

Instalation, copy ipban.php to your modcp directory.

As this is a beta i've not yet added it to any menus within the mod or admin cp if you want to do this you'll have to do it yourself until i get arround to doing more work on this.

Totally re-written addressing first few posts... lesson learn: a 'quick solution' isn't the best solution....

As always backup database and forum files before installing.

[Carnage]

Originally Posted by dbembibre

If you want make a link in you mod control panel only need make this.

Open modcp/index.php

Search:

if (can_moderate(0, 'canbanusers'))
	{
		$canuser = true;
		construct_nav_option($vbphrase['ban_user'], 'banning.php?do=banuser', '<br />');

Add:

construct_nav_option('Ban IP/Mail', 'ipban.php', '<br />');

Or create a new vbphrase and replace with this

construct_nav_option($vbphrase['banIP'], 'ipban.php', '<br />');

Excuse my broken English

basically, yes that will add a link, but access to this is controled by a none existant permission (so its not possible to give it to mods) thus only smods+ can have access. You have added it to the cp using the banusers permission which mods can have. dosn't matter too much since they will just get a permission error on the ipban page.

now to explain this a little better:

construct_nav_option('Ban IP/Mail', 'ipban.php', '<br />');

^ that one will work fine if you add it under:

construct_nav_option($vbphrase['ban_user'], 'banning.php?do=banuser', '<br />');

however if you add a vb phrase 'banIP' you can add the line below INSTEAD of the first line to use the phrase instead, its all a matter of personal preferance.

construct_nav_option($vbphrase['banIP'], 'ipban.php', '<br />');

[Zelos]

Any chance this will be ported to 3.6? I could seriously use this!