Question I wrote a user suspension hack

dougthonus wrote:

I wouldn't mind writing a larger working suspension / comment system, but as I said, it's not worth it to me unless I knew it would be used.

I believe that this hack would be very very well recieved and used if it was a tiny bit neater to impliment. A lot of people using Joomla/Kunena are very experienced in these things but a lot, like me, are not as confident and as such prefer to try something that is less of a hack to core files.

Perhaps if we start a drive to vote this up on uservioce:
kunena.uservoice.com/pages/general/sugge...-user-administration

yep we really need a robust warning and suspension system. i have many troublemakers on my forum and need a way to deal with them by me and also by the moderators.

please keep up work on this and hopefully the devs will be able to use some or all of it in future releases

When 1.5 is out, I'll zip it up as something which overwrites the necessary files for a default installation, so in theory you can unzip the files and then just overwrite your present joomla files. I'll make a list of files to back up in case it doesn't work and you need to back it out.

I posted this not because I thought people would use it, but because I was hoping one of the devs would say "wow we really need this" and just contact me and put it in, but I understand they're really busy and reviewing some random dude's code is a big pain in the butt.

I'd probably be thinking if I was the lead coder that it'd be faster to code it myself than to look at someone else's code to see if it sucked or not.

So I'm not surprised I suppose, I'm just hoping the ball gets rolling by someone on this type of functionality, because it's important. I only get 200 posts a day or so right now on my forum, but it's only been open for a week. I'm hoping over the next year that it grows to thousands of posts a day, and at that point, it will require this type of functionality.

Okay I zipped up this archive of my files, so you can use this, I'm not sure how to use the joomla installer, so you need to know how to insert some sql into your database and copy the files over via ftp:

THIS IS FOR KUNENA 1.09. IT WILL NOT WORK FOR ANY OTHER VERSION

The database code to insert:

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`)
);

The files to unzip over Kunena files are attached.

This includes a completely bare bones suspend module. It allows you to suspend a user for X number of days, and type in a reason for the suspension that they will see when they try to post. That is all.

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.

You use this of your own free will, back up your files and test it out on a dev site first. I may answer reasonable questions or provide reasonable assistance, but I'm back logged with consulting work, so it's not something I can spend tons of time on.

This code is free available to change, improve, alter, whatever, just give it back if you do something useful with it.

The above zip file has another minor hack that I put in that skips the "message posted successfully!" screen which gives you the post data warning if you hit the back button.

I personally find that hack essential, but assuming you don't want that as well, use this zip file instead.

Both don't contain that no "mssage posted succesfully" removal code.

Though thank you for this!