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

[Latic]

I've done like a little mod to this.

I didnt like the way it displayed the text on the forum, so i decided to place icons there instead.

<a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'><img src="http://www.iconrate.net/community/images/warn/warn.gif" alt="Warn User"></a> · <a href='Warn.php?do=ViewWarnings&id=$post[userid]'><img src="http://www.iconrate.net/community/images/warn/warn.gif" alt="View Warnings For User"></a>
<if condition="$show['postcount']">· #<a

Thats the text i used i know its very basic its my first ever tweek of the code.

Could anyone look through the code and then tide this up for me?

Its a great mod by the way.

[Yuneek]

Found a solution.

[sv1cec]

Well, it looks as if I have to apologize to SnowBot (and possibly others) who asked if there is a way to eliminate the "Warn XYZ" and "View XYZ'z Warnings" from the PMs and have them shown only in the posts. Today, I went through the whole thread, and indeed I found the post where it was mentioned that this happens, but I didn't manage to find the answer.

So, if you want to remove those links from the PMs, then in your postbit, or/and postbit_legacy templates, find the part which checks if it should show the links. It should look something like that:

<!-- checks for warning system -->
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND can_moderate($forum[forumid], '', $bbuserinfo[userid])"><a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'>Warn $post[username]</a> ? 
</if>
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewWarnings&id=$post[userid]'>View $post[username]'s Warnings</a> ?</if>
<if condition="$post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid] AND $post[usergroupid]==2 AND $post[warning_level]>0">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings'>View your Warnings</a> ?</if>
<!-- end of warning system -->

All you have to do, is enclose this in another if statement, so that it looks like the one below:

<!-- checks for warning system -->
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='showthread'">
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND can_moderate($forum[forumid], '', $bbuserinfo[userid])"><a href='Warn.php?do=WarnUser&id=$post[userid]&post=$post[postid]'>Warn $post[username]</a> ? 
</if>
<if condition="$post[usergroupid]!=6 AND $post[usergroupid]!=7 AND ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewWarnings&id=$post[userid]'>View $post[username]'s Warnings</a> ?</if>
<if condition="$post[userid]==$bbuserinfo[userid] AND $post[usergroupid]==2 AND $post[warning_level]>0">
<a href='Warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings'>View your Warnings</a> ?</if>
</if>
<!-- end of warning system -->

And now of course, we can have alternatives. As you may remember, I have released some mods, which allow you to have "non-post-related warnings". One of the reason I made that change, was because someone asked for warnings to be issued when an offensive PM was send to another member. So the big question is, shall those links be left there, but take you to the "non-post-related warnings" function?

Your ideas are welcome.

Rgds
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John

[beano33]

I've installed Zero Tolerance's hack and it works as intended and will also be adding sv1cec expiration of warnings. I need help with a couple things to make it more effective for my board.

1) when members are unbanned they are sent to Coppa. How do I make it so it unbans them back to their original usergroup?

2) Can it be made to send the warning as both as PM and and Email? We don't give new users PM priveleges until they meet certain post count and length of membership criteria due to numerous incident of our PM system being used to spam.

Thanks!

[Cryo]

For whatever reason some old warnings are not expiring even thought hey have maturity dates. Any idea what could be causing this? I have warnings from August that are still active even though they only have maturity times of 30.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by beano33

I've installed Zero Tolerance's hack and it works as intended and will also be adding sv1cec expiration of warnings. I need help with a couple things to make it more effective for my board.

1) when members are unbanned they are sent to Coppa. How do I make it so it unbans them back to their original usergroup?

2) Can it be made to send the warning as both as PM and and Email? We don't give new users PM priveleges until they meet certain post count and length of membership criteria due to numerous incident of our PM system being used to spam.

Thanks!

When a user is banned, his usergroup id is preserved (at least in my code) and when he is unbanned, he is restored to the original user group. I am not sure what the original code does here, sorry.

I'll have to check the e-mail thing, I've been thinking about it too.

Rgds
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John

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Charlie O'Leary

For whatever reason some old warnings are not expiring even thought hey have maturity dates. Any idea what could be causing this? I have warnings from August that are still active even though they only have maturity times of 30.

First, make sure that your database tables have the structure below:

Field Type Null Key Default Extra
wid int(15) PRI auto_increment
warned_user int(15) 0
warned_by int(15) 0
warned_time int(15) 0
warned_reason text
warned_post int(15) 0
warned_warning_id int(15) 0
warned_status char(1) YES

warning_types

Field Type Null Key Default Extra
tid int(15) PRI auto_increment
warn_name varchar(255)
warn_points int(15) 0
warn_desc text
warn_maturity int(5) 0
warn_permban char(3)
warn_type char(3) YES

Make sure that those old warnings, do have a maturity period entered in the warning_types table. And finally make sure you have the cron script I've uploaded.

Rgds
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John

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by beano33

2) Can it be made to send the warning as both as PM and and Email? We don't give new users PM priveleges until they meet certain post count and length of membership criteria due to numerous incident of our PM system being used to spam.

Thanks!

Per your request, the notification can now be send, either as a PM or as an e-mail or as both.

Check the attached file.

Rgds
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John

[beano33]

Thanks John!

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by beano33

Thanks John!

You are welcome Sir!

Rgds