Reason for closing thread

We hope most of you can use it
Sinecure has had the idea, which i thought is something nearly everbody who has ever been a mod wanted to have for a long time
I have to thank sinecure for the good templates, and for finding the funny mistakes i have made *gg*

edit:
nuno, i think we can do something similar for deleted threads too

Ok, basicly this hack does exactly as it says. After you click the "Open/Close Thread" link you will be prompted to enter a reason for closing the thread. After you submit the reason for closing that thread, the reason will appear ABOVE the first post in that thread, in its own seperate box.

[Boofo]

Yes, it is another hack (although I'm not sure which one ). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by Sinecure
Well judging by looking at that it seems you either have a hack installed, or maybe an older version of vBulletin, I'm leaning more towards a hack installed.

Maybe Xenon would know how to intergrate that code you have there, with the code neccesary to run this hack.

[Sinecure]

Originally posted by FireFly

Look at head_newpm template. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.

What are you implying Chen? That I'm not a rocket Scientist?

[JohnWoo]

Oh... can someone add a little action for this hack.

When i click in Admin Options -> Edit thread, i can edit Reason for closing thread

10x a lot... sorry for my english

[Sinecure]

Originally posted by JohnWoo
Oh... can someone add a little action for this hack.

When i click in Admin Options -> Edit thread, i can edit Reason for closing thread

10x a lot... sorry for my english

I'm not 100% sure what you are asking. Are you asking to have a place to edit the reason for closing? If you want to edit it, you coudl simply just open the thread, and then close it again

[Boofo]

I think he's asking for an option in the amin cp.

Originally posted by Sinecure


I'm not 100% sure what you are asking. Are you asking to have a place to edit the reason for closing? If you want to edit it, you coudl simply just open the thread, and then close it again

[JohnWoo]

>I'm not 100% sure what you are asking. Are you asking to have a place to edit the reason for closing? If you want to edit it, you coudl simply just open the thread, and then close it again

Yes, u right, but it`s not good idea that mods open and then close thread again with new reason. Maybe u try to do this

>I think he's asking for an option in the amin cp.

Nope. Not in admin cp. Mods dosen`t have permission to login into admin CP.

[Lesane]

A Suggestion:

You say this in the instructions:

PHP Code:

---------------------------------------------------- 
Step 6: Modifying the SHOWTHREAD Template 
---------------------------------------------------- 

Find: 
<!-- End content area table (CREATED IN HEADER!!) -->    
    </td> 
</tr> 
</table> 


After that, ADD: 
<br> 
$closereason 
<br> 


If there is no reason then you have 2 <br>, means 2 new empty lines. It's better to put those 2 <br> in the showthread_closereason template.

And here is a little addon wich also displays the user that closed that thread:

Execute this query:

PHP Code:

ALTER TABLE thread ADD `who` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL; 


Open root/postings.php and find:

PHP Code:

$closereason=" closereason='".addslashes($reason)."', "; 


Change it to:

PHP Code:

$closereason=" closereason='".addslashes($reason)."',who='".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."', "; 


Then open the template: showthread_closereason

Find:

PHP Code:

$thread[closereason] 


Add after it:

PHP Code:

By: $thread[who] 


Done.

[Xenon]

@Lesane: Thank you, so i don't have to write it
but i would change it to that:

[sql]ALTER TABLE thread ADD `whoclosed` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL;[/sql]

PHP Code:

$closereason=" closereason='".addslashes($reason)."',whoclosed='".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."', "; 


then use By: $thread[whoclosed]

@Sinecure: you can update the install file *gg*
It grows faster and faster as i thought of

Originally posted by Boofo

if ($thread[open]) {
  $replyclose="{ replyimage}";
  $thread[closereason]="";
} else {
  $replyclose="{ closedthreadimage}";
  $thread[closereason]=bbcodeparse2($thread[closereason],0,1,1,1);
  eval("\$closereason = \"".gettemplate("showthread_closereason")."\";");
}

in what I already have here (and can it be done)?

if ($thread[open]) {
  eval("\$replyopenclosed = \"".gettemplate("showthread_replyopen")."\";");
} else {
  if (ismoderator($thread[forumid],'canopenclose')) {
    eval("\$replyopenclosed = \"".gettemplate("showthread_replyclosedmod")."\";");
  } else {
	eval("\$replyopenclosed = \"".gettemplate("showthread_replyclosed")."\";");
   }
}

use this:

PHP Code:

if ($thread[open]) {
  $closereason="";
  eval("\$replyopenclosed = \"".gettemplate("showthread_replyopen")."\";");
} else {
  $thread[closereason]=bbcodeparse2($thread[closereason],0,1,1,1);
  eval("\$closereason = \"".gettemplate("showthread_closereason")."\";");
  if (ismoderator($thread[forumid],'canopenclose')) {
    eval("\$replyopenclosed = \"".gettemplate("showthread_replyclosedmod")."\";");
  } else {
    eval("\$replyopenclosed = \"".gettemplate("showthread_replyclosed")."\";");
   }
} 


[Xenon]

Originally posted by JohnWoo
Oh... can someone add a little action for this hack.

When i click in Admin Options -> Edit thread, i can edit Reason for closing thread

10x a lot... sorry for my english

Well let's see what we can do

optional add to the hack:

edit template threads_editthread
after

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" width="73%"><normalfont><b>Moderator Notes / Thread Summary:</b></normalfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" width="27%"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="notes" value="$threadinfo[notes]" size="50" maxlength="250"></normalfont></td>
</tr>

add this code:

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" width="73%"><normalfont><b>Close Reason:</b></normalfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" width="27%"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="closereason" value="$threadinfo[closereason]" size="50" maxlength="255"></normalfont></td>
</tr>

then open postings.php
find this line in editthread section:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET visible='$visible',open='$open',title='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."',iconid='".addslashes($iconid)."',notes='".addslashes($notes)."' WHERE threadid='$threadid'"); 


replace it with:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET visible='$visible',open='$open',title='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."',iconid='".addslashes($iconid)."',notes='".addslashes($notes)."',closereason='".addslashes($closereason)."' WHERE threadid='$threadid'"); 


i haven't tested it, but it should do what ya want

[JohnWoo]

2Xenon:
Ohh... greate thanks... i go to test this addon....