Censorship per Forum

This hack enables you to disable the censorship for certain forums through the admincp.

Special thanks to KirbyDe and Live Wire for their two excellent posts on the Product Management System and How to add options per forump

Pretty easy to install, just import this through your product management system.

And if you wish, one template edit to add a line to the Forum Rules box denoting whether the censor is on or off for that forum.

Screenshots of the admincp and forumrules included.

UPDATE - Included a version to have the censor off on default.

If you have already installed the first version (Default ON), and want the Default OFF, uninstall the old one, then install the Default OFF version.

[EasyTarget]

great idea

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

great idea

Nice, think i'll use this for my mods forum. Many thanks

[Barakat]

great idea thanks a lot and install

[Boofo]

What would I need to change in the product file to have this default to censor off in the forums?

[Cyricx]

So that new forums were set to default off when they are created?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

So that new forums were set to default off when they are created?

Yes and the ones already there, too.

[Cyricx]

Tomorrow I'll update the hack with a version for default on and a version for default off.

For now, after installing this plugin just run this query in your admincp to set the default to No censor.

ALTER TABLE `forum` CHANGE `censor` `censor` SMALLINT( 3 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

Then run this query to update all the forums to disable the censor.

UPDATE `forum` SET `censor` = '0';

If you use a table prefix include it just before the `forum`

For example, I use a prefix of vb3_

So the second query for me looks like this

UPDATE `vb3_forum` SET `censor` = '0';

I'll update this hack in the morning and create two versions

[Boofo]

Thanks! I'll go ahead and wait for the update then.

EDIT: I just thought of something ... couldn't I just chnage the 1s in the queries in the plug-in to zeros?

[Cyricx]

Well... yes and no.

No because the admincp area of the forums would show up backwards.


Yes would be no, no would be yes....

The Edit forum spot uses the print yes no function, which interprets 1's as Yes and 0's as No.

Hypothetically, you could change the 1s to 0s and change the phrase to say something like "Enable censor in this forum?"

But that would be alot of rework when all your needing to do is change the default value in the database to what you need

Running those two queries will take ya about 10 seconds

Reworking the phrase and the code would take ya about 5mins



I prefer the quick and clean route