Post count

[Peter Duggan]

If you delete your own posts from a non-counting board (like the test forum here) it lowers your post count for the counting boards correspondingly! So I had 781 posts earlier, but deleting three of my own tests has reduced me to 778...

I suppose I could report this via the bug tracker, but:

1. I've just been there!
2. I'm not sure if it's a bug proper or a necessary evil!

Anyone care to comment?

[Spaceman-Spiff]

yes, it is a bug, tested it on cbeta

[Peter Duggan]

yes, it is a bug, tested it on cbeta

Assuming that means you've *just* tested it and didn't know about it already, I've just submitted it to the bug tracker (yes, that was me, not 'nobody', but I didn't log in again first and it didn't 'remember' me from earlier). My apologies if you're trying to tell me that it was already a known issue!

[[Unknown]]

The problem is that ModifyMessage doesn't take *anything* into account. ( stupid thing!)

I fixed this, imho the best way, by just deleting ModifyMessage.php and making Post() do all the work.  It also does Polls, chops, and even blends.  Plus, the ;title=Start+New+Thread business is gone too.

However, it's a bit more difficult to do this in the current 1.5.1.....

-[Unknown]

[David]

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=712321&group_id=57105&atid=482971

[Peter Duggan]

It's not actually a big deal as far as I'm concerned (after a moment of panic when I started to wonder if some of my other posts had been censored!) but, since it appeared to be an undiscovered bug and had the potential to upset someone, I thought you'd like to know...

It also almost certainly explains how both Risto and I ended up with mysteriously negative post counts (fixed through phpMyAdmin before we went 'live') while we were setting up and testing Pixelparity!

[[Unknown]]

Fixed.

I've fixed a ton of things like this in my secret project, by way of redoing the methodology.... I think any more like this can just be left in 1.5.1....

-[Unknown]

[Peter Duggan]

So this *was* fixed, but appears to be a problem again in both my 1.5.2 boards!

[[Unknown]]

Make sure you have this in ModifyMessage.php:

Code Select Expand

      if ($row['ID_MEMBER'] != '-1' && $row['count'] != 1)
         $request = mysql_query("UPDATE {$db_prefix}members SET posts=posts-1 WHERE (ID_MEMBER=$row[ID_MEMBER] && posts > 0) $doLimitOne;") or database_error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

(don't worry.... illogically enough (count == 1) means it *doesn't* count.)

-[Unknown]