Allow users to delete themselves

This one was requested by Webhost. Personally I can't see the use for this, but a hacker's gotta do what a hacker's gotta do.

Anyway, this one is really simple.

First, create a new template named "deleteself" with this:

<center>Are you sure you want to delete your user account from this message board?<br>
All of your current posts will be set to "Guest".
<b>This is not revertible!</b>

<form action="member2.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="killme">
<input type="submit" value="    Yes    " class="bginput">
</form></center>

Now open the attached text file, and add the code from it to member2.php right after this code:

  eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("subscribe")."\");");
}

That's it. Now people can go to member2.php?s=&action=deleteme, and if they click Yes there their profile (and the rest of the data associated with that user) will be deleted.

I put in a nice 'done' message, I'll post a screen shot in a minute.

[QiQme]

How can i prevent that the posts of a deleted user turns on "ignore list" ?

If a user deletes himself all his posts turn on my "Ingore list"

I want posts of deleted users to act as normal posts

[Fargo]

I know this hack isnt really supported, but could someone help me out just a hair?

I've got everything done as needed, however, I would like to include the link in the users cp on "My vBHome". I've created a template for that block, however, Im unsure how to call it. I know it would be placed after $threadslist in the usercp template. My question here is, what is necessary to define the "$<name>" style variable? If I wanted to call it $deleteacct, where would I define it so it knows to insert my usercp_deleteacct template?

I realize that I could easily insert the full code in the usercp template, but I don't learn anything that way

[Fargo]

scratch that request - I found my answer here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60964

[discore]

If anybody cares, I modded this a bit to confirm password before deleting...

In the attached text file from 1st post add this after include('./global.php');

    $password = $HTTP_POST_VARS['password'];
    $dbpassword = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT password FROM user WHERE userid='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo['userid']))."'");

    if($dbpassword[0] != md5($password)) {
        show_nopermission();
    }

And in the deleteself template add this after <form action="member2.php" method="post">

Enter Password: <input type="password" name="password" size="20"><br><br>

That's all!

[Bryan Ex]

Has anyone bothered to update this to work with vB3 at all? I've been searching for this exact hack since RC4. :ermm: