Post Counts

[hello]

I want to know how to make it so that post counts are not lowered when posts are deleted without making a seperate forum which only admins and smods can see, so like editing a php file or something, but for 3.0.3

[hello]

please can someone help me i need it urgently

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by hello

I want to know how to make it so that post counts are not lowered when posts are deleted without making a seperate forum which only admins and smods can see, so like editing a php file or something, but for 3.0.3

I dont think if this is possible anyway, by default post counts will get reduced if you physically delete posts from forms, and again when you update your counters some day.

For what you want, you may need to create another field and store the values someway there, A SQL Pro can help ya here.

[hello]

so is there a sql pro lol

[hello]

please can someone help me

[grrr]

i am not much of a programmer, but i suggest a new DB table so that new post is copied to both, and when they delete they only delete from ain, and u keep showing the other?

[hello]

so how do i do that lol

[Colin F]

Why are you deleting posts?

If you don't need to save space or so, you can just soft delete them, which will not reduce the postcount.

[hello]

i don't want to soft delete them i want them gone lol, so how do i do it without making the post counts go down

[Colin F]

You'd have to look for the function that hard deletes posts.

There should be a query there along the lines of $DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user SET postcount = postcount-1 WHERE userid = $userid");

Delete that query.