Suspending a member

minx · Client Joined: Dec 25, 2003 Posts: 16

I'm running a messageboard and have had occasion to suspend a user.

If I put the user as inactive in forums admin they cant see the site or access PMs.

To get round this I created usegroups and add all members to the 'normal' group to allow them to post.
If I have to suspend anyone I remove from from the group, this way they can still read forums and PMs.

The problem with this is that if any new user joins they have to wait till I am on site to add them to user group before they can post.

Is there any other means by which I can suspend a user from posting, but allow him to view site/PMs?

Cheers:)

Raven · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:39 am

Minx,

I just threw together some code but it seems to work. Try this.

In modules/Forums/posting.php, on or about line 372 you should see these comment lines

Code:

//
// The user is not authed, if they're not logged in then redirect
// them, else show them an error message
//

Place this code right ahead of those comments

Code:

/*****************************************************/
$groupToSuspend = 33;
$sqlSuspended = 'SELECT * FROM '.$prefix.'_bbuser_group WHERE user_id='.$userdata['user_id'].' AND group_id=$groupToSuspend';
$resultSuspended = $db->sql_query($sqlSuspended);
if (@sql_num_rows($resultSuspended)) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, '<b>'.$userdata['username'].', you have been temporarily restricted from posting in this forum.<br /><br />If you feel this is a mistake, please contact the Forum Admin.</b>');
}
/*****************************************************/

Here is what you need to do now.
- Create a group to hold these 'banned' user(s).
- Add the banned users to this group.
- Use phpMyAdmin to get the Group_id of the newly created group.
- Modify the $groupToSupend = 33; to be whatever the New Group Id is.

I think I will spruce this up a bit and make it controlled in the Admin panel. I will work on that, but for now, this manual intervention should work just fine Smile

Raven

minx · Client Joined: Dec 25, 2003 Posts: 16

Lol!! As per I've got it wrong. I tried to do what you said, added a user to the banned group as a test and she could still post!

I added the code, stars and all, just above where you said.

Then I went to admin forums and created a 'banned' group.

In phpmy admin I clicked on groups, then ticked group id and clicked browse.
On the new page it said group id for banned was 17
I then modified Modify the $groupToSupend = 33; using 17 instead of 33.

And it didnt work for me, where did I go wrong? Embarassed

Raven · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:26 pm

I'll check on it because it worked for me so you probably have a little different setup. I'll get back to you soon ....

Raven · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:16 pm

OK, I modified the code in my above posts and you have confirmed it now works Smile

Thanks!

minx · Client Joined: Dec 25, 2003 Posts: 16

Works brilliantly and means a lot less work for me-cheers Raven!! Very Happy

Raven · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:52 am

I'm going to make this into an Admin mod with some extras.