Posting in specific forums you specify deducts or adds to post count

Posting in specific forums you specify deducts or adds to post count

This is a fairly simple hack, but it can be useful for certain forums. Feel free to expand or modify this to suit your forums.


How to use:

1) If you have a spam forum, you may want to deduct 1 from the post count each time a member posts there.
2) If you have a special forum, you may want to add more than 1 to the post count each time a member posts there.
3) Any combination of the above.


Installation:

In includes/functions_newpost.php:

Find:

PHP Code:

            $doposts = 'posts = posts + 1,'; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo['forumid']==66 OR $foruminfo['forumid']==67) 
{
            $doposts = 'posts = posts - 1,';
} else {
            $doposts = 'posts = posts + 1,';
} 


Just change 66 and 67 to your spam forumids, remove or add forumid's as needed.

Change -1 to +2 or +5 if you want to ADD to the member's post count for whatever reason. Play around with the code - this hack is meant to be customized in many ways for your forum.

[BeakerUK]

Works perfectly, many thanks

[zorab]

Is there any way to take this hack one stage further by separating new threads from replies?

I'd like to allow new threads to increase the post count but not replies - can this be done?

Cheers