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

[xtreme-mobile]

does anyone know who i would go about getting the amount of warning points to go in the profile?

ive seen it on a forum so basically you dont have to click view warnings cos it shows amount of warning points in red bold text

any ideas?

dean

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by xtreme-mobile

does anyone know who i would go about getting the amount of warning points to go in the profile?

ive seen it on a forum so basically you dont have to click view warnings cos it shows amount of warning points in red bold text

any ideas?

dean

Dean,

You have to modify the memberinfo template to have the warning points shown in there. But you can also have it in each and every post of every member, by altering the postbit/postbit_legacy template.

Is that what you had in mind?

Rgds
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John

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Malice

Looking over this hack just a tad, does it have NEW database tables? Basically altering the database.

The hack does use additional tables. Two of them if you follow my approach, three according to the original hack (if memory serves me right).

Rgds
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John

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

But you can also have it in each and every post of every member, by altering the postbit/postbit_legacy template.

That's awesome! That's exactly what I'm planning to do.

[xtreme-mobile]

yeh thats it mate i just want it to show up under there post count etca evertime they post

do i just need to edit the postbit files in the template?

could you or anyone else post up the code etc to change or edit etc?

many thanks

Dean

[j_86]

Hi Sv1 - could you reiterate for me the "warning maturity"? Is this the number of days before the warning points for the warn is removed from the user's count?

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by xtreme-mobile

yeh thats it mate i just want it to show up under there post count etca evertime they post

do i just need to edit the postbit files in the template?

could you or anyone else post up the code etc to change or edit etc?

many thanks

Dean

Dean,

The code is there a few posts ago. Go to this post and download the file called temlates.txt. The changes are in there, but I cannot guarantee that they will work with the original hack's code. You might need to use my files, located in this post. Try it and see if it works.

Rgds

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by JimpsEd

Hi Sv1 - could you reiterate for me the "warning maturity"? Is this the number of days before the warning points for the warn is removed from the user's count?

YEs, the warning maturity is how many days the points from a particular warning will remain in a member's account. After those days pass, these points will be removed from the member's account, by the cron script kill_warns.php.

Remember, there are two versions there, the first, where the warnings which mature are removed completely, and the second, where the warnings which mature are just marked "Inactive" but remain in the member's history.

Rgds
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John

[xtreme-mobile]

ive downloaded the file but what do i do with them? its just a load of text and no instructions

im a bit of a newbie so dont know what to edit etc any ideas

[j_86]

Yes - read them sloweley

[j_86]

A suggestion sv1; to be able to clear warning history for a user/all users via the admin panel.

[wcbryant]

It would be nice if there were a way to set scaling bans. Meaning the first time the system bans a user, it's X days. The second time, Y days. The third time, permanent (or Z days). Sort of a couple warning shots across their bow before permanent removal.

Also, wouldn't hate to see the option for warnings to also come with reputation hits.

Just thinking out loud here, don't know how feasible something like that is.

[xtreme-mobile]

ive downloaded the templates file that you told me to downlaod and im following it all the way down

only problem is ive got as far as editing the POSTBIT templates and in postbit it asks you to find some text and replace it.

ive managed to find the first set of text and replaced that but i cant find the second half it says not found

im looking for:

Also in postbit, find the code below:

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


but this says not found

any ideas what i can do?

[xtreme-mobile]

hello SV1CEC

ive done above please disregard last post

BUT i do have one final question to complete this _

ive got 2 skins on my forum

lihghtning and pixel tech

ive managed to follow the instructions and have managed to get the Warning points to show ok in the lightning tempalte but the pixel tech template its showing fine but its a little high and is overlapping the username

please see here: http://www.extreme-mobile.com/forums...read.php?p=854

ive followed the text but i couldnt find the follwing etxt so theerfore could not change it maybe this is what is causing the problem? but how can i add it if i cant find it?

cheers mate and i promise this will be the last time i bother you lol

dean

[xtreme-mobile]

the text i could not find was this

15. Template postbit

In postbit, find the following code:

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;