Question I wrote a user suspension hack

dougthonus wrote:

There are lots of great things that would be handy that it does not do:
It does not allow you to see a list of suspended users.
It does not allow you to remove a suspension
It does not allow you to change the length of time of a suspension
It does not allow you to see a suspension history
It does not allow you to suspend via IP address

Those are all things I may consider adding if the kunena developers want this to be core functionality, but I'm not going to put a bunch of work into something that I have to redo every month as they work out a new release.

These features would be so good!!!! Hopefully now that the devs are closing in on a stable 1.5 native version, they will be able to review and include or work together to implement a detailed warning/ban/suspend system for kunena

Our iam for the next few weeks is iron the bugs found in 1.0.9 and 1.5a, once 1.5 is in a stable, or at leasr RC state, we will review user submissions and use/revamp whatever we find good

Great, I am currently using this hack and my mods are glad I implemented it! Hope this will grow in functionality.

Again thanks dougthonus. Great job! + Karma for you

I added an ultra basic / ugly panel to view presently suspended users and remove their suspensions.

As with the last zip, it only works on 1.09 and no other version.

Now, if you click on a thread where you have the options at the top to merge / sticky etc.. You can click the suspend button and it brings you a list of presently suspended users with a link to remove their suspension.

It's not all that great, and it probably could be linked in at a better place, but I wasn't sure where else to put it, since moderators may not have back end access I wanted it in the front end.

As always, test this on a non-live site prior to using it on a live site. I wrote it today in about an hour and beta tested it by just suspending a few people and removing them, but I haven't gone crazy looking for bugs.

If you weren't using the previous version already, then you need to run this SQL as well to create the suspend table. If you did it on the previous version you don't need to do it again, the table hasn't changed.


SQL
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jos_fb_suspended` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`userid` int(11) NOT NULL,
`suspension_date` datetime NOT NULL,
`comment` text NOT NULL,
`suspended_by` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

i didn't work for me using 1.0.9, i tried suspending a user and it said supsension was successful. however that user can still make forum post. - done via the suspend button below the user's post.

now i want to view the suspended user.. i got Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ..\components\com_kunena\template\default\suspendlist.php on line 44 -when i clicked the suspend button on the table header.

Did you run the SQL to create the suspend table? The suspension successful message is a sham, I should probably actually check to see if the suspension was successful, but it just prints it out for lack of something better to say.