Module: Block User

Module  : Block User
Author  : Thomas Seifert

Allows administrators to handle misbehaving or spammy users by:
- blocking them in a specific (sub-)forum (no post possible)
- blocking them in the whole phorum (no post possible)
- disabling them (no login possible)

- deleting all their posts

That action can be done by clicking a link in the user profile and selecting
the options on the followup page.


Installation:
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- Unpack the archive;

- Move the directory "block_user" to the directory "mods"
  within your Phorum installation;

- Login as administrator in Phorum's administrative interface and
  go to the "Modules" section;

- Enable the module "Block User".


Notes:
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As deleting all messages of a user is a time consuming task in the database 
the deletion is only done up to 100 messages for the user. Usually spam users
don't have that many messages (yet).

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Thomas Seifert

This did not work for me. array_keys() seems to be returning index values, not message ids as keys. I have to suspect it is a problem with phorum_db_search. It also seems (to me) that the first value in the array for a message is the message id (I'm not a phorum expert by any means). So I use reset() to grab it and pass it to the delete function call.

I modified the delete loop as follows (sorry but the code indents got lost in my copy/paste):

original code (in this mod):

if(!empty($_POST['delete_posts'])) {
$userposts = phorum_db_search('', $uid, false, 0, 100, 'USER_ID', 0, 'ALL');
$message_ids = array_keys($userposts['rows']);
$deleted=0;
foreach($message_ids as $mid) {
//phorum_db_delete_message($mid,PHORUM_DELETE_MESSAGE);
$deleted++;
}
$okmsgs[]=str_replace('%postcount%',$deleted,$PHORUM["DATA"]["LANG"]["mod_block_user"]['MsgDeletePosts']);
}



my corrected code:


if(!empty($_POST['delete_posts'])) {
$userposts = phorum_db_search('', $uid, false, 0, 100, 'USER_ID', 0, 'ALL');
$usermessages = $userposts['rows'];
$deleted=0;
foreach($usermessages as $usermessage) {
$mid = reset($usermessage);
phorum_db_delete_message($mid,PHORUM_DELETE_MESSAGE);
$deleted++;
}
$okmsgs[]=str_replace('%postcount%',$deleted,$PHORUM["DATA"]["LANG"]["mod_block_user"]['MsgDeletePosts']);
}

Paul

what phorum version are you using?

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Thomas Seifert

whoops, i forgot to mention that. 5.2.7

Upgrade to a recent version and you won't have to modify the module - beside fixing other issues.

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Thomas Seifert

Dear Thomas,
thank you for the mod, but what to do to activate theese panished users again?

Or maybe to deactivate them just for some time: a week or month?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/2012 07:27AM by Svirvic.

you will have to do that in the admin - edit users panel.
no timeframe for banning is implemented as it was merely thought for handling spam more quickly.

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Thomas Seifert

Thank You, Thomas for your early reply.

Really, smart mod. Suppose it would be useful to make the mod accessible not only for admins, but for moderators also. In that case what should I do to make it possible? I think it's not too complicated, but have not found yet solution for the problem.

That's the first question, the second one is:
if so, isn't it possible to give the moderators some tool for forgiving poor punished user?

Thank You, very much

Everything is possible but its implemented for some use case and I have no current plans (or time) to develop it further. Everyone can continue that though.

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Thomas Seifert