Allow members to report own posts

What this plugin does:

vBulletin does not (no longer) allow a user to report their own posts. This plugin allows you to enable (or disable by deactivation) reporting own posts.

On some forums there are quite a few threads started and after a set period members want to report those threads to be moved by moderators. without it, members need to PM moderators and provide a link to the post and/or thread, which is a lot of make-work, especially when some members don't know how to provide links, so they'll PM something like "Go to that sub-forum, look in page 7, second thread from the top"!

This can alternatively be done by editing two templates (per template set), postbit and legacy psotbit. But you will need to make those edits to disable/enable this behavious. A plugin is much cleaner, and easier.

Installation: Upload the plugin xml file through your admincp plugin manager.


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

[tamarian]

Plugin updated with this

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'showpost') $show['reportlink'] = $this->registry->userinfo['userid']; 


[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just looking back at this line now, why do you put the userid in a boolean variable?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Just looking back at this line now, why do you put the userid in a boolean variable?

Not intended as userid, just a quick way for setting true or false. The intended results is saying "If this is a registered member, show the darn report button".

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Then just use:

PHP Code:

$show['reportlink'] = ($this->registry->userinfo['userid'] ? true : false); 


[tamarian]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Then just use:

PHP Code:

$show['reportlink'] = ($this->registry->userinfo['userid'] ? true : false); 


It's the same thing.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Not really, what if some script somewhere will do a real boolean test, and you put a number in there?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Not really, what if some script somewhere will do a real boolean test, and you put a number in there?

Another script won't go through it, since this explicitly runs for showthread and showpost.

BTW, this code is stock from vBulletin, prior to disabling the ability to report own post. It could be done as if/then/else or iif, or left as is.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

PHP Code:

        $show['reportlink'] = ($this->registry->userinfo['userid'] AND $this->registry->userinfo['userid'] != $this->post['userid']); 


That is the stock code, which will evaluate to either true or false.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

PHP Code:

        $show['reportlink'] = ($this->registry->userinfo['userid'] AND $this->registry->userinfo['userid'] != $this->post['userid']); 


That is the stock code, which will evaluate to either true or false.

No it's not. This is the current stock code, where you cannot report your own post.

Originally Posted by tamarian

BTW, this code is stock from vBulletin, prior to disabling the ability to report own post.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

PHP Code:

        $show['reportlink'] = ($this->registry->userinfo['userid'] AND $this->registry->userinfo['userid'] != $this->post['userid']); 


That is the code from 3.5 Beta 1.

So i guess you are talking about implementing 3.0.x code into vB3.5

I think we better stop this discussion because i have the feeling it is turning into a i am right, no i am right one.