Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins

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|| Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Co-Author(s) : Xenon
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jun 01, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

This hack gives your board staff a few advanced post editing options that are available in New Thread, New Post and Edit Post interfaces. Since this is a port of Xenon's Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins Hack, credits for the original idea (but not for the port cause it has a lot new features that were not present in the original ) belong to him.

Note that this hack may interfere with other hacks that make use of posting functions. If such problems appear, place the following code in the very beginning of the problematic script:

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define('BYPASS_AEO', true);
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This should eliminate whatever problem appears. If it does not, please feel free to mention it.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Basics:

• Post Editing Hierarchy (available to mods, s-mods, admins and s-admins):
  Superadministrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above), admins (and above), or superadmins only.
  Administrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above) or admins (and above).
  Supermoderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above) or supermoderators (and above).
  Moderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above).
  
  
• Post Author (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom author of any post. Guests (non-existing users) can also be specified.
  
  
• Post Date/Time (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom date and time for any post.
  
  
• Post IP (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom ip address for any post.

Advanced:

• A system-wide switch that defines the minimal editlevel required to use the hack.
  It can be found in vBulletin Options -> Advanced Editing Options for Mods and Admins.
  
• A per-user editlevel override, available via admincp user options.
  
• Color-coded listing of users to whom a custom editlevel has been applied.

Note:
To make the subject of the override clear for you, here is an example. If you turn you take a regular registered user and set the override to "Administrator" in that user's profile, then that user will be able to use hack options that would otherwise be available only to administrators.

VERSION HISTORY

2.1.0
[+] The hack is now compatible with vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Eliminated all template edits. The difference in template edits between different vBulletin versions is handled automatically.
[+] Added support for attachments for posts with custom user setting. These attachments are now saved, and their ownership is set to whatever custom user is specified.
[+] When a post is submitted with a custom user setting, that user's activity dates are updated if they are older than the post's date. The dates of the user's activities are never set to the future. If a new post is made with a date in the future, the user's activity dates are set to present time.
[+] When a post is submitted with a custom dateline, last post information in forum and thread is now rebuilt properly.
[+] If a post is submitted with a custom dateline, the thread's firstpostid and creation date are now set to match whatever posts is now the first one in the thread.
[+] In the event that you have installed "vS-Hide Hack Resurrection," and you are changing the ownership of a post that has been thanked, the ownership of thanks is updated automatically, and so are the users' thanked counts.
[+] Removed a lot of redundant code, so the hack should now work faster than it did before.

2.0.2
[+] The hack is now officially compatible with vBulletin 3.6.
[+] Added a workaround for hacks that use new post functions. See description for details.
[+] Unlike before, adv_editform form elements now use vbulletin styles.

2.0.1
[F] Removed extra queries from showthread and showpost.
[F] "adv_editform" is now cached.

2.0.0
[+] A "superadministrator" editlevel.
[+] A system-wide switch that defines the minimal usergroup required to use the hack.
[+] A user-level override of system permissions that defines the editlevel associated with any particular user.
[+] A listing of users for whom an override was defined (with color key). Located under "Users" in the control panel navigation menu.

1.0.2
[+] When you make a post, you have a new checkbox available. That checkbox is off by default, and it allows you to choose whether to use the custom dateline in your post.

1.0.1
[F] Lastposters were not updated on newthread and newreply when replied by admin.

1.0.0
First Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[Mutt]

I only want to to appear on the edit page. how can I disable it for new reply & new thread?

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Mutt

I only want to to appear on the edit page. how can I disable it for new reply & new thread?

You can't.

[Mutt]

ok, I moved it to the bottom of the page so it's not such a big deal. thanks

[dizzy100]

Think i've found quite a serious bug here.

Any posts with attachments in them will get their attachments deleted.

I had mine all deleted over the last day, couldn't place why and then realised it was because of using this hack (which i found handy instead of logging in and out). But looking at the posts with no attachments (where there should have been) proves it was whilst using this hack the attachments went astray.

Anyone have the same findings ?

[dizzy100]

Yes confirmed. The attachment is deleted but i hadn't noticed as the page was cached.

Needs addressing.

[dcpaq2xx]

Im trying to install this on Vb 3.6.4 and while trying to edit the templates it is not finding any of the text that your telling me to look for. What gives? I cant get by the template editing steps because of this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Doug

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by dcpaq2

Im trying to install this on Vb 3.6.4 and while trying to edit the templates it is not finding any of the text that your telling me to look for. What gives? I cant get by the template editing steps because of this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Doug

It's there in standard vBulletin templates and compatibles. If your skin has templates that do not contain the code, then something is seriously wrong with that skin, and I cannot help you.

[dcpaq2xx]

To make sure that I am looking in the correct location, what is the exact path to the templates I need to edit? Maybe I am just not looking in the correct ones.

Thanks

Doug

Update... Actually I found it in the "editpost" template, I had to look for it manually among all the text, the search/find feature in the admin cp is not finding what im putting in there.

PHP Code:

<form name="vbform" action="editpost.php" method="post"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return vB_Editor 


[Tulsa]

Your directions call for this in the "edit post" template.

<form name="vbform" action="editpost.php" method="post"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return vB_Editor['$editorid'].prepare_submit(0, $vboptions[postminchars])"</if>>

The actual code is:

<form name="vbform" action="editpost.php?do=updatepost&amp;p=$postid" method="post"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return vB_Editor['$editorid'].prepare_submit(0, $vboptions[postminchars])"</if>>

It's missing the blue text in a stock 3.6.4 template

Everyone can just look for

<form name=

and they find it just fine. It's the only instance of this in the "edit post" template.

Just like

<form action=

is the only instance of this in the "new post" template.

Excellent mod though! :up:

[dcpaq2xx]

Tulsa,

Thank you so much for the information. I was not aware of that. Usually in most cases I can copy and paste the first line and the find feature with find it. But for some reason it wouldnt work this time so immediately assumed the code wasnt there.

Thanks

Doug