Allow members to report own posts

What this plugin does:

vBulletin does not (no longer) allow a user to report their own posts. This plugin allows you to enable (or disable by deactivation) reporting own posts.

On some forums there are quite a few threads started and after a set period members want to report those threads to be moved by moderators. without it, members need to PM moderators and provide a link to the post and/or thread, which is a lot of make-work, especially when some members don't know how to provide links, so they'll PM something like "Go to that sub-forum, look in page 7, second thread from the top"!

This can alternatively be done by editing two templates (per template set), postbit and legacy psotbit. But you will need to make those edits to disable/enable this behavious. A plugin is much cleaner, and easier.

Installation: Upload the plugin xml file through your admincp plugin manager.


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zachery

I'd think it would just be easier to edit the template and remove the $show conditional... but thats me and all...

It would it be easier if you guys didn't disable it in the first place, it was working fine before 3.0.7

[Zachery]

The conditional to report someones post has been there since 3.0.0 and in the betas as well.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zachery

The conditional to report someones post has been there since 3.0.0 and in the betas as well.

Zachery, while we have your attention could I get you to check this for me (or forward it to the WYSIWYG guru in dev):

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83034

It's holding up the spell checkers release, and I'm stomped.

[Zachery]

Not a js guru, Scott or Kier would have to respond to that, and my poking won't help that much :\

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Not a js guru, Scott or Kier would have to respond to that, and my poking won't help that much :\

These guys are "unpokable" at the moment I take it. I'll send a PM and see what happens.

[FleaBag]

It allowed me to report my own post with RC1, but I didn't get a notification e-mail yet. That may be my server though, so I'll wait it out and post an update.

[Boofo]

This shows up in pms now but when you click it, it gives a no permissions error.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Ofcourse it will also show in pm's, since pm's use the same template. It will cause an error because clicking on it will call the report.php script, which expects a postid, and there is no postid in a pm

[Boofo]

And, Marco, what would we need to do to fix this issue?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I don't think you have access to the type of object that is using the postbit in 'postbit_display_complete', so you can not add a test to see if it is a post or a pm.

what you could do is create a 'postbit_factory' plugin, that save the $postbit_type. For example in postbit_factory:

PHP Code:

global $show;
$show['hack_postbit_type'] = $postbit_type; 


Then in the 'postbit_display_complete' you would put:

PHP Code:

global $show;
if ($show['hack_postbit_type'] == 'post')
{
$show['reportlink'] = $this->registry->userinfo['userid'];
} 


Not tested this, but something like this should work.