Reason for closing thread

We hope most of you can use it
Sinecure has had the idea, which i thought is something nearly everbody who has ever been a mod wanted to have for a long time
I have to thank sinecure for the good templates, and for finding the funny mistakes i have made *gg*

edit:
nuno, i think we can do something similar for deleted threads too

Ok, basicly this hack does exactly as it says. After you click the "Open/Close Thread" link you will be prompted to enter a reason for closing the thread. After you submit the reason for closing that thread, the reason will appear ABOVE the first post in that thread, in its own seperate box.

[Xenon]

seems there is already a column name closereason...

have you run that query twice?

or installed another hack which needs such a column..

[Paul]

There appears to be a slight error in the instructions for this hack:

----------------------------------------------------
Step 6: Modifying the SHOWTHREAD Template
----------------------------------------------------

Find:
<!-- End content area table (CREATED IN HEADER!!) -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>


Replace with:
<br>
$closereason
<br>

Rather than replacing the </td></tr></table>, the $closereason should be added after that code.

Great hack, however. I'm going to attempt to alter it so that if a reason is not specified, a blank "Reason for close" box does not appear.

Paul

[Xenon]

oh, i see you're right.

damn, it would have been better if i was the person who released it, so i could change the file myself, and sinecure also can because he's the admin

ok, we'll have to wait until he comes back

[Paul]

on second thought... it appears that the table is closed in the showthread_closed... ahhh! headache.. :: stares at tables ::

Edit: Never mind. My eyes were playing tricks with me. It is an error in the instructions

Also, rather than add <br>$closethread</br>, I just put a <div></div> around the whole contents of the closethread template.

Paul

[Sinecure]

Originally posted by LoveShack
There appears to be a slight error in the instructions for this hack:



Rather than replacing the </td></tr></table>, the $closereason should be added after that code.

Great hack, however. I'm going to attempt to alter it so that if a reason is not specified, a blank "Reason for close" box does not appear.

Paul

I was getting a weird gap when I left it there, but I retried it, and for some reason I'm not now. I updated the instructions

[GameCrash]

You should change

PHP Code:

if ($thread[open]) {
  $replyclose="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/reply.gif";
  $thread[closereason]="";
} else {
  $replyclose="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/threadclosed.gif";
  $thread[closereason]=bbcodeparse2($thread[closereason],0,1,1,1);
  eval("\$closereason = \"".gettemplate("showthread_closereason")."\";");
} 


to

PHP Code:

if ($thread[open]) {
  $replyclose="{replyimage}";
  $closereason="";
} else {
  $replyclose="{closedthreadimage}";
  if (trim($thread[closereason])) {
  $thread[closereason]=bbcodeparse2($thread[closereason],0,1,1,1);
  eval("\$closereason = \"".gettemplate("showthread_closereason")."\";");
  } else {
    $closereason = "";
  }
} 


It's $closereason and not $thread[closereason] and if you don't add a reason the table will be shown, too - that doesn't look that well

[Xenon]

thanx mate!

that $thread[closereason] was an old version of the code, my fault i have forgotten it

[Crunch]

nice i love it, but can someone help me please? since i added this hack i get javascript errors in the newreply page and none of the buttons work or anything. what would be causing this? please I need that stuff working again!!

[Crunch]

hmm sry for the double post but all i had to do was reupload my .js files and everything seems to be fine now..strange

[N9ne]

When someone closes the thread, and at the top it shows the reason for it, how can I make it so it says...

Thread Closed by: Username here <BR>
Reason for Closure: reason here

If anyone can do that, I would be very grateful, this is a good useful hack!