Miscellaneous Hacks - April Fools - Ban User

A slight modification of an in house experiment described here.

Users are prompted with the option to ban any user they choose for a period within 3-30 days. Upon submitting, there is a half second pause, then the username switches with their own name followed with another half second pause, before the script finally submits. Don't worry -- the user input here is completely ignored.

The entered username is completely ignored, and the user submitting the form is banned for the period they entered.

Refer to attached screenshots for more info.

It's up to you to link to this file, and you can also view ban.php?do=view for a list of banned users.


... you may want to unban some of these users the next day. No pressure though.

[Kestryll]

Hi,
I am terribly new to this type of stuff but this looks too good to pass up!
Just to be clear, if I change the line Lynne mentioned to read this:
$liftdate = TIMENOW + (60 * $days);
they will be banned for minutes as opposed to days?
For example someone bans somebody else for 5 days it will in reality ban them for 5 minutes, is that correct?

Also how do you install this?

I've not played with any of these so I'm really new at this.
Thanks!

[rungok]

A bit late now, but a good idea would be to display the user they actually tried to ban on each line (on the view-page) to annoy the senders even more.

[fly]

Oops, don't accidentally install this on 3.6.

[Magnumutz]

It works on 3.6 as well.

About 1 hour ago, i had 40 of my members banned

But now i unbanned them and let them know

[cheat-master30]

So far working good, and currently about two people were silly enough to try and ban someone...

[Reeve of shinra]

This is the most hilarious hack I have ever seen.

Mega props, we've knocked off 10 members in about 2mins.

[Audentio]

This really screwed my board up.

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/audentio/public_html/forums/includes/config.php
Line: 1

Cant view threads, I cant get into the acp, nothing. WTF did this mod do?

[Adrian Schneider]

Remove whitespace at the top of your config.php file. It has nothing to do with this mod.

[Audentio]

I didn't touch the config.php file, and there is no blank space at the top.

[pete_brady]

quality stuff