[beta 1.5.4]Advanced Visual Warning Mod

[Grudge]

Hey,

I couldn't work out which thread to post this in so I thought I'd make another

Anyway - this is a mix between the post moderation and visual warning mod. It adds post moderation as a warning level between basic warning and muting of a user.

The mod basically works the same as the visual warning mod so should be dead easy to use. The only change is the addition of a "post moderation" section on the admin menu for approving posts. Installation instructions are included. If you have installed either of the other two mods all you need to do is uninstall them using boardmod and install this one and upload the files. You need to run the db file but it will report errors - just ignore them

www.p0stwh0res.com/bins/mod/visual/AdvVisual.zip

Note: No supermod version here this time I'm afraid, Wiziwig will probably add the changes himself if he deems the mod worthwhile

PS - I done *some* testing on this combined version but as always PLEASE report any errors that may exist although it should be bug free

[Surfy]

wow, a dream Mod!!  

thank you, ill see if i could test it soon!

Surfy

[Anguz]

what are the db errors you mention?

[Grudge]

what are the db errors you mention?

The db errors will only be chucked up when you run the db script that gets run once when you install the mod. These will ONLY happen if you have previously installed either the post moderation mod OR the visual warning mod. It's just becaue the columns that this mod uses would have been created when you installed the previous mod and hence it will say the column already exists.

Once you have ran the script the first time you should never see a db error again

[Anguz]

cool

btw, I tried to see the screenshots in the page you linked to in the original Visual Warning post, but only the first picture is shown... could you fix them? I'd like to see them all

[Grudge]

Fixed

I changed server from windows to linux so capital letters were causing me a headache or two

PS - The page is based off the standard visual warning mod but it is pretty similar...

[Anguz]

I love it

you know how interested I was in this mod when it was still an idea and we were talking about it together with GWP

I was wondering if you could include a couple of features more:

1a)
have the warning level move one down after a set period of time so one can forget about it after giving it, instead of having to check the admin page for that, but still have that page to see all the members with warning levels and to do changes manually if wanted

1b)
in the window to apply a warning, have an extra field to set a number of days the warning level will remain before going one level down automatically, this way you can have different levels inside each level (it isn't the same to mute someone for 2 days than a week)

2)
send an IM to the member for every change in their warning status, not just when first applied

question: is the muted member still able to send IM or is that muted as well?

[Grudge]

OK, many points

Firstly, muted members can send IMs - that way they can argue their case etc

At the moment members are only sent IM's when they receive an increase in warning but this will happen every time their warning level is increased (ie they get one if they go from moderated to muted). I *can* change this so when the reverse happens (ie they lose a warning level) they get a PM.

When you say about being able to adjust the amount of time before the user has their warning downgraded do you mean asigning the time for each user individually or do you mean assigning it on a level by level case (for example, a first level warning lasts 2 weeks, moderation lasts 1 week, mute last 1 week). The latter would be a lot easier than the former. Assuming you want to only downgrade warnings one level at a time you would have to decide how long each warning would last on a user by user basis (time consuming)

As far as the whole automated idea goes I agree it is a good one. However, the amount of time it will take to go through all the users in the database is probably quite high. I could set up some method where every 12 hours the database is checked and the warning levels lowered. As part of this IM's would be sent out - but probably NOT emails as this would slow it down even more.

I can try and work on this but it won't be tonight for sure - maybe I'll get a look at it tomorrow

[Anguz]

about the time set for the warning, I think there should be a default value in days for each level separately in the mod settings, but also the option to change this value when applying the warning

about the script to change downgrade warning levels and send IM (I agree it's better than sending an email, they'll be notified of the IM anyway)

the auto-check to lower warnings could be done at a time with little traffic, once a day should be enough... maybe the time to do it could be specified in the mod settings too, every forum has it's own low traffic hours

does Visual Warning have it's own table to store the members warned and the level and date warned and stuff? if not, maybe it'd be the best thing to do, that way you have everything in one place and can check their status much much faster than searching the whole members table

[Grudge]

For everything else I should be able to sort that out in a day or two I hope

does Visual Warning have it's own table to store the members warned and the level and date warned and stuff? if not, maybe it'd be the best thing to do, that way you have everything in one place and can check their status much much faster than searching the whole members table

It has both

The members has a warning column to make it quick when pulling up the member warning in display and profile. There is also a warning table with everything you could possibly need to know to know in teh issuing warnings section etc. When I make these changes everything will happen in the visualwarnings table.

[Anguz]

However, the amount of time it will take to go through all the users in the database is probably quite high.

There is also a warning table with everything you could possibly need to know to know in teh issuing warnings section etc.

then updating the warning levels automatically shouldn't take so long... I don't think the warnings table will grow huge... well, maybe yes, if you save every warning even though it's been lifted

maybe it would be good to actually save old warnings in that table, that way you could be notified of previous warnings the member has received when you apply a new one (or ask for this info in the viewprofile page)

For everything else I should be able to sort that out in a day or two I hope

you rock

[Surfy]

you rock

Yes, very great Mod  

I love it! go ahead  

Thanks 4 your work!


Surfy

[Grudge]

FYI, I think I have done all the extras Anguz asked for and have PM'd him a link so that hopefully he can test it for me as my board is too quiet to test it well.

Hold on a few days Surfy and hopefully I'll update the link here

[Anguz]

sure, I'll test it

do you prefer I do a clean install and test it there or do you want me to test it in my active forum?

about the automation, how does one make a script run at a certain time everyday? is that done with PHP or with some Apache thing? just curious

[Surfy]

about the automation, how does one make a script run at a certain time everyday? is that done with PHP or with some Apache thing? just curious

Good Question, I`m using a W2K / IIS Webserver.

When i look at the mute User log, it looks like it gives away inside of MySQL / PHP.

Surfy