Warning System, Automatic Ban, Make Posts Invisible, Edit Signature/ Avatar/ Picture

Warning System, Automatic Ban, Make Posts Invisible, Edit Signature/ Avatar/ Picture - Version 1.1

Okay, this is my private forum's custom warning/ suspension/ banning system and postbit moderator system. This is a fairly involved hack, so it is crucial that you follow the instructions closely. It would benefit experienced hackers the most. The following instructions are for an unhacked board. If you have hacked your board, or use different moderator usergroups, just make the appropriate changes.


With this hack, your staff and you will be able to:

1) Add/ Substract/ Reset Warning Points for a Member from a Popup Window in Postbit.

2) When the Member has Warning Points that reach a set level (up to you), the Member will be Automatically Banned.

3) Easily View a Member's Warning Points in the Postbit.

4) Have the ability to easily Edit a Member's Avatar/ Profile Pic/ Sig/ Reputation comments from a Popup Window in Postbit.

5) Suspend temporarily or Ban permanently a Member from a Popup Window in Postbit.

6) Have 2 categories of Banned Members -

..... a) Normal Banned members where the posts all remain, and

..... b) Troll Banned members, where all the posts in this usergroup

.......... i) Automatically becomes Invisible from all other members! You no longer have to manually search and delete their posts. They virtually disappear from your forums when they get put in this usergroup. Also, Troll Banned members get

.......... ii) Fake 404 errors and can no longer access your site.


Please be aware that this hack is designed for my private forums. If you want additional features, or customization, you have permission to do this yourself. Please do not expect me to customize this hack for your site.

FWIW, I've had this system running for 2 years now (obviously with different code). Time for me to share...

The installation instructions are in the HTML file in the ZIP file below. The warn.php is also in the ZIP file.


Screenshots:

1. Options available with the dropdown menu for staff.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=15463


2. Popup window from postbit to warn members.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=15466


3. Popup window from postbit to suspend or ban members.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=15465


4. Popup window from postbit to edit signature.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=15468


5. Popup window from postbit to edit avatar.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=15469


NOTE: You can also edit profile pictures, reputation comments, etc. but I can't be bothered making screenshots of all the features.

Enjoy!

With Erwin's Permision I've made an HTL Version of this hack.

HTL version (thanks to Dan) here:

Attached FilesWarning_System_Automatic_Ban_Make_Posts_Invisible_ Edit_Signature_Avatar.htl

Normal version here:

[The Realist]

1) I have twice
2) I was refuring to a member that has been banned and no figure shows.

[bad-dvir]

i have a problam
i installed this hack but i don"t have the dropdown username
i have the 3 options on my control panel but not in the dropdown username?
what i can do?

[The Realist]

Do all other dropdown menu's work?

[bad-dvir]

the dropdown in the navbar work but not in the username!

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by The Realist

1) I have twice
2) I was refuring to a member that has been banned and no figure shows.

I can't understand why it wouldn't since many more members have installed it and it does work.

[Natch]

One thing I have noticed recently - the /modcp/ and /admincp/ directory names are hardcoded into the templates - shouldn't this pull the variables from the includes/config.php ?

[The Realist]

I'll have another go.

Originally Posted by Erwin

I can't understand why it wouldn't since many more members
have installed it and it does work.

[The Realist]

Re installed this hack and now I have points showing between the brackets. But I still have the "Ban or Suspend user" I get a blank page "404 error"?

Also

If I click "Unban or Unsuspend" I get "Invalid User Specified"

Any ideas?

[SnowBot]

I have just upgraded to 3.0.3 and all is working fine apart from the warning points. They do not seem to increase when you add a point, any ideas as i have checked the code and the templates were from before the upgrade so are ok.?

[Erwin]

Don't know why it wouldn't work.

Anyway, I'm going to update this hack to add a proper warning system, with automatic PM, automatic notification of which rule is broken, a warning list page... I'm doing this for my site, and will release it once it's finished.