Warning Hack V1.5

Version 1.5 Note: You must have v1 installed to upgrade, the upgrade process is small so there was no need to write out a fresh install.

It has come to my attention that a "decent" warning system isn't available here on vbulletin.org, which is quite a shame, and because forums like mine, and probably yours need a simple yet advanced warning system to keep things under wraps

Anyway, i thought i might aswell release what i made, prior to me getting off my ass... lol

Administration Features:
View Warning Logs
- Displays all warnings, warned user, warned by, link to the warned post, date, warning type, and the comment specified when the warning was given, and a remove warning link
(Remove will remove the log and also put the members warning level back down in accordance to how much it was increased by the selected warning removed)
Unban Banned Members
- A simple page that you should visit every few days, it will automatically ban any auto banned users by the warning system where there ban time has expired
Warning Options
- Here you can set the following:
-- Number of warn points before member is auto banned
-- Number of days a member is auto banned for
-- View Warnign Types
-- Add Warning Type
-- Add warning type has the following fields:
---- Name/Description/Warn Points Given

Forum Features:
Every post has "Warn [Name]" and "View [Names] Warnings"
These are only accessiable by a member group which is allowed to "moderate" (Moderating groups are auto detected)
Clicking the Warn link will bring you to a page where you view the user your warning, a link to review the warned post, members current warning level, and below the warning types, has a drop down menu to select the warning type, and a text field to put your comment for why this warning is been issued
Upon completing the warning form, the warned user will be Pm'ed from the person who warned them, with the comment put down and a link to the post

View Warnings link will display logs of only that specified user's warnings, the same features as the admin cp warning logs, only just for this user

Members can access only 1 page of the warning system, which is "View My Warnings", this link is added to the quick links drop down menu
Here they simple view there warnings, just like a moderator would, only without the remove warning link

V1.5 Features:
Protectable Usergroups:
No user's in these defined groups can be warned, or banned.
Root Admin Force Protection:
Userid 1 cannot be warned, canned be banned, this is not optional, this is forced for security.
New Unban Members Set Up:
Now displays all currently banned user's, what time they were banned, what time they are supposed to be unbanned. You may unban the user even if there time has not expired (You will be notificed if they have not served the time issued upon ban, but not stopped). Upon unbanning, you choose the members 'new' warning level and the user's usergroup to move them into
Set banned usergroup:
You can now easily choose from a drop down menu which usergroup user's are sent to if after been warned they are banned.

V1.5 Bug Fixes:
- User locations in 'Users online' shown as unknown if they are warning/viewing warnings (Priority: Medium)
- Unban members system renovated and now fully works (Priotity: Maximum)
- No mysql errors upon sending a pm if the PM table had been altered (Priotity: Maximum)
- New protectable usergroups to stop any group of your choice been banned (Priotity: Maximum)
- Last time visited didn't appear when error page occured (Priotity: Low)
- Un-used global in PM function (Priority: Low)

I hope you enjoy the system, my staff teamare very pleased with it and find it of great use, enjoy the hack

- Zero Tolerance

[lifesourcerec]

Ok.. so how to I add it Mainly just wanting mods to have access only on their mod forums and to list it in postbits. I use the legacy post bit by the way. This would help me a lot.

[sv1cec]

OK, here is what I use in my postbit templates. I do not use the legacy one, but try it and let me know how it works for you.

In your postbit (or legacy) template, find:

<if condition="$show['postcount']">#<a href="showpost.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]&amp;postcount=$post[postcount]" target="new"><strong>$post[postcount]</strong></a> &nbsp;</if>

Right above it, add:

<!-- checks for warning system -->
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND can_moderate($forum[forumid], '', $bbuserinfo[userid])"><a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'>Warn $post[username]</a> ? 
</if>
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewWarnings&id=$post[userid]'>View $post[username]'s Warnings</a> ?</if>
<if condition="$post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid] AND $post[usergroupid]==2 AND $post[warning_level]>0">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings'>View your Warnings</a> ?</if>
<!-- end of warning system -->

This is the code that makes the "Warn XYZ" and "View XYZ's warnings" appear.

For the number of points each user has, to appear in the post:

Find:

<if condition="$show['reputation']">$post[reputationdisplay]</if>

Right below this, add:

<if condition="$post[usergroupid]==2"><BR>Warns Level: $post[warning_level]</if>

Let me know if these work for you, as I said it's hard for me to remember if anything else needs to be changed, but I'll help you out to make it work for you.

Rgds

[Jag]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

After a lot of trial-and-error, I've managed to improve on Jag's script above.

The script below, will test every warning to see if it is more than a month old. If it is, it will erase the warning and reduce the points of the member by the number of points that warning had.

One question Jag, that number you used, $date = $today-240800, the 240800, where does it come from? I believe that it should be $date = $today-2592000 (for 30 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds).

Rgds

Thanks for posting that, I guess I didn't look deep enough into the hack to see what all exactly was required to remove a warn :ninja:

As for the 240800, that's why you shouldn't do math at 4am

[lifesourcerec]

Works like a charm . Just through of something. How hard would it be to make it look like this:

Warns Level: 0

But when that user has a warning, it would be:

Warns Level: 1 (have the color to be red for the non-zero number). I think it would be a condition or something. Dunno.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by lifesourcerec

Works like a charm . Just through of something. How hard would it be to make it look like this:

Warns Level: 0

But when that user has a warning, it would be:

Warns Level: 1 (have the color to be red for the non-zero number). I think it would be a condition or something. Dunno.

Change that last if, with the one below:

<if condition="$post[usergroupid]==2">
<if condition="$post[warning_level]>0"><font color='#ff0000'></if>
<BR>Warns Level: $post[warning_level]
<font color='#ffffff'>
</if>

I think it should work.

[lifesourcerec]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Change that last if, with the one below:

<if condition="$post[usergroupid]==2">
<if condition="$post[warning_level]>0"><font color='#ff0000'></if>
<BR>Warns Level: $post[warning_level]
<font color='#ffffff'>
</if>

I think it should work.

Close enough. It makes the entire warns level line red instead of just the number.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by lifesourcerec

Close enough. It makes the entire warns level line red instead of just the number.

Oh, I didn't understand you wanted just the number, here you go:

<if condition="$post[usergroupid]==2">
<BR>Warns Level: 
<if condition="$post[warning_level]>0"><font color='#ff0000'></if>
$post[warning_level]
<font color='#000000'>
</if>

I also think the black color is #000000 instead of #ffffff I had in the first code. Sorry about that.

Rgds

[rex_b]

any easier way to set multiple usergroups:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '6' AND '7' ">

[rex_b]

Where do I change the banned usergroup ID from 8 to ?

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by rex_b

Where do I change the banned usergroup ID from 8 to ?

In the "Control Warnings" page of the AdminCP.

Rgds