Edit posts or not to edit this is the question.

[trafix]

To allowing editing of posts in all forums with a time limit is easy, just set the defult in the admin options........

I am trying to find some easy to allow editing after this time in a particular forum (including all sub-forume of the nominated forum)

I have searched for ages...however the words "allow edit in forums" etc is to generic and results show too many results.

I dont know if this is a hack or just a matter of configuring the board options and permissions in a certain way

Any ideas???

Thanks in advance

[trafix]

Does anybody have a solution??

[EvilLS1]

I don't think there's a way to do that in the board options. Should be pretty easy to make a hack for it though.

You could either do a quick hardcoded fix by replacing this (in editpost.php):

        if ($postinfo[dateline]<(time()-($edittimelimit*60)) and $edittimelimit!=0) {
          eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_edittimelimit")."\");");
          exit;

With something like this:

        if ($threadinfo['forumid']!=1 and $postinfo[dateline]<(time()-($edittimelimit*60)) and $edittimelimit!=0) {
          eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_edittimelimit")."\");");
          exit;

.. and replace the number highlighted in red with the forum ID for the one that you want to exclude from the time limit..

Or you you could go all out and add a new setting to your board options page so that you can easily add or edit multiple forum ID's to exclude.

[trafix]

thanks ill give it a try

[Xenon]

hmm i wrote a hack long time ago, where you can set the timelimit for each forum seperately, maybe that could also help ya

[trafix]

Gee Thanks Xenon thats what I was looking for.

[Xenon]

you're welcome

i never thought someone could use it again

[Razasharp]

Where is this hack please Xenon?

I actually need the thread creator to be able to edit his/her own posts in the thread they have created in a specific section only (they'll be using the 'threads' as their homepages) But I don't mind others having the abilty to edit their 'replies' if thats all we can do :-)

[Johnny]

look at his profile you will see the hacks he created.

[Razasharp]

i did..but coudnlt see it :-(