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

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by muscle-mustangs

cool, I'm still having troubles. I looked in my config.php file for Table_prefex and it is blank so I took it out like the instructions suggested.

I just put this in their:
add `banned_usergroup_id` int(15) not null default '0',
add `protected_usergroups` varchar(255) not null default '';


And I get this error message:
An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1064
error desc: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'add `banned_usergroup_id` int(15) not null default '0',
add `p

Any thoughts?

Yeap, just enter the two lines one at a time, they are two separate commands (where was I looking before??).

One at a time partner, one at a time. Oh and mind you of the reverse quotes and the normal ones, you can just mix and match.

Rgds and apologies.

[SamirDarji]

I'm not sure if it will make any difference, but try to make sure there are no hard carriage returns before the ending semi-colon. It seems as if the whole query never got pasted in there because the resulting db error stops at "add 'p"

[Remi]

Originally Posted by msimplay

i just gotta say thank you for everything @ sv1cec
you may not be the author of the hack but you certainly have contributed a lot of code which helped me so i'd like to thank you

Thanks @ sv1cec

[j_86]

Me too Thanks Sv1.

[Rick Sample]

Thanks for helping me out guys, but I have one a few last ?'s I hope you guys can be so kind and answer for myself.



1. Is their anyway to more organize the PM that is sent to the warned users?

I sent one to my test account and this is what it is defaulted to:

You have been warned for the post: Your Post. Your warning level is now: 5. This action was taken for the following reason: You have recieved this warning because you are bashing muslce-mustangs.com. Please reply back if you have a dispute. Rick Sample

It would be nice if it could bold stuff and orgainize it like this:

You have been warned for THIS POST
Your Warning level is now: 5
This action was taken for the following reason: You have recieved this warning because you are bashing muslce-mustangs.com.
Please reply back if you have a dispute. Rick Sample

Just to make it look more computer generated and not so much as a letter comming directly from that person.

2. One of my mods can't see the Warn XXXX or View XXX's warnings in the bar, but everyone else can, any thoughts?

Thanks to all and to all a good night. Hope someone can handle my tough questions

[Remi]

Hi

I don't know if this is posible or not, but here we go

Let us say, I have many wrning levels and I have a common one that I use most of the time.

Now, I want to creat a direct link on the "postbit" to that "common warningid" so I can click on that sort of "default" warning link without going into another page and having to chose from the "Warning pulldown menue".

If you think this is posible, PLEASE help

Thanks in advance

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by muscle-mustangs

Thanks for helping me out guys, but I have one a few last ?'s I hope you guys can be so kind and answer for myself.



1. Is their anyway to more organize the PM that is sent to the warned users?

2. One of my mods can't see the Warn XXXX or View XXX's warnings in the bar, but everyone else can, any thoughts?

Thanks to all and to all a good night. Hope someone can handle my tough questions

I have to assume you have installed only the original hack (and possibly version 1.5, as well). If you convert to my files, my mods use a template for the PM, so you can edit it to your heart's content.

As for your mod, again, if you install my version of the hack, mods can all see the "View XYZ's Warnings" link, but only those responsible for the particular forum can "Warn XYZ".

Rgds

[Ber|Art]

Installed and Running thank you very much, very nice Hack

[SnitchSeeker]

This is a brilliant hack, great job and nice work!!

I have installed it over at Harry Potter friends.

The only "problem" with it, from my point of view, is that you can only warn people from a forum post. And it is always related to a post.

We have a great need to be able to warn people from their profile, or from the admin cp directly (by just entering a member id).

A lot of our warnings are for nasty PM's, for siggie rule violations, etc. (so nothing related to any forum posts).

Any chance of a tweek to this effect?

Excited for the v-2.0 release!!

[sully02]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

For those who thanked me, gentlemen, it's been a pleasure contributing to this community. And my mods just made use of an initially great hack, so I claim no lawrels.

As for the deleting feature, I still am not sure. What we'll have? A list of all the warnings, like in the "Warnings Log", with check boxes next to each warning, so that the admin can check which ones he wants to delete? OK, then do we do any maths with the warning points accumulated by the members? This can get messy and I do not see a reason for it.

What I could easily come up with, is a function which would allow the admin to prune old, inactive warnings. Say that a questions is asked like "How many days do you want to leave in the warnings table?" (or whatever, meaning "before which date, shall I delete inactive warnings?") and then delete those warnings which were rendered inactive (i.e. either matured or were removed) before that date.

Would that cover you? That doesn't need any points mathematics, or anything.

Let me know.

Rgds
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John

Is there a way to make it so that when a warning is sent, the moderator who issued the warning remains anonymous?