New Posting Features - Prevent Doubleposts

**Deletion Notice: Although we understand the modification was released in good faith, the fact still remains that Xenon has not given permission to re-release.**

All credit should go to Xenon. He created this hack for 3.x and 3.5.x series. If you've been an old vB member like me. Then you'll remember him and his great work he did back in the day.
I haven't seen an update for this hack on vB 3.7.x. So I decided to put on up, as people in the previous thread wanted one.

This is the same hack pretty much as Xenon made, but with a few minor changes.
When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message.
This will be done until the old post is older than 24 hours (you can change this timespan yourself

However, I've added a few extra features.
You can now add BBcodes to your automerged thread. So you can color, change the size, align etc.. etc..

Features to come?
I noticed someone wanted to "exclude" automerged threads from certain forums. So, I'll try to get that added asap.
If you have any feature suggestions, please post/pm me and I'll do my best to get them working.

A thanks also goes out to vietdjclub and troybtj.

PS: I tested this on a FRESH board vB 3.7.3 PL1 and it worked perfectly.

Thanks.

[Namaless]

Thanks.. have any screenshots?

[Skavenger]

Thanks!

It would be nice to have the option to edit the following form the ACP instead of editing the plugin:

--------- New Post Merged on 18/9/2008 at 08:52:37 --------

Also, there is some text I had to translate in the plugin, could you add phrases so we can translate the text easily?

[gwerzal]

Thank you

I always have people double posting in my forums to get the post count up.

[ShawneyJ]

Excellent a 3.7 version thx

[ShawneyJ]

Originally Posted by Namaless

Thanks.. have any screenshots?

this is 4 posts in a row lol. dont mind the smiles

[FreshFroot]

Originally Posted by jaycob

this is 4 posts in a row lol. dont mind the smiles

Thanks for the screenshot, appreciate it!

Originally Posted by Skavenger

Thanks!

It would be nice to have the option to edit the following form the ACP instead of editing the plugin:



Also, there is some text I had to translate in the plugin, could you add phrases so we can translate the text easily?

Thanks for the suggestions. I will add phrases and an option to change the format of the automerged text.

Originally Posted by Namaless

Thanks.. have any screenshots?

Yes, check jaycob's post below

[Mosh]

Did Xenon give you permission to release an update?

[GaiLoan]

Originally Posted by Mosh

Did Xenon give you permission to release an update?

its matter ? Xenon didnt even updates from the version 3.5.3 Released: 20 Sep 2005 https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96602 almost 3 years.

i belive alot of users waiting for this mods

[FreshFroot]

Originally Posted by Mosh

Did Xenon give you permission to release an update?

I haven't been able to reach him. I waited, but like everyone else gave up. So, I decided to work on it with others help.

It seems like he was here in April, but he hasn't updated it. I bet he's very busy with work and his life.

Hence, why I did state "All credit should go to Xenon".

Xenon made the core system, I'm just adding on to it and/or adjusting code to make it work properly.

I agree with GaiLoan, I don't see what the major issue is over? I didn't steal the code and claim it was mine or anything.

This is a hack many people needed/wanted and no one responded. I needed it badly and decided to do something about it.

I didn't disrespect Xenon at all either, I credited him and understand he probably is busy with life. Hence, why he isn't able to put time into updating it. It's understandable.

PS: I am working on the features, so if you have other suggestion post them