Title: Inject Message Text Version: v1.0 for Snitz Forums v3.4 Author: laser Last Update: November 5, 2003
Description: The Inject Message Text MOD enables your visitors to choose certain drop-down values to be added to the normal message text. This only affects the initial post (i.e. creation of a new topic), but could easily be modified to work with replies as well.
Features: - New drop-down when creating a topic so the user can choose a severity level (or other similar "top line" message) - Easy installation : 1 (1-easy, 10-difficult ) - All code done in response.write for Snitz v3.4 compatability
Support: If you have problems installing this MOD, either post your questions in the Help: MOD Implementation forum or here.
Feedback: Suggestions, comments, questions and bug reports are always greatly appreciated! This is my second (published) MOD, it took less than an hour to do.
Test Environment: I have only tested this with Access so I would love feedback from other database environments. The only thing I envisage being wrong is the dbs file
Donations: - Donations are always welcome for support & mod implementations (PayPal : webmaster@v8central.com)
all working fine and dandy now mate many thanks for this great mod, although you have now opened up a whole list of possibiltys for example what about tracking those severity codes if a user posts 3 messages at sev 3 then thats 9 his threshold is ten so he can now only post a level 1 sev code message? any ideas.
P.S this was truly great work for those who didn't follow this message laser came up with mod for me in a about an hour of requesting thank god for people like you mate willing to help others.
no mate i'm creating an online referall form for my college. The basic idea being that staff can inform others of bad behaviour by students and can rate that ofence bad =3 not so bad = 1. The next thing i want to try and do is track the offence via a threshold. Example johnny misbehaves and has a referall written its rated 3 his threshold is 9 so when he gets 3 bads or a collection that reaches 9 it flags up somewhere and we can resteer his direction.
Makes sense. Being a developer I was thinking that people would post a bug. It would be an easy way to manage testing via the web and with some other mods could be useful.
To make the tracking easy you would need to add a field to the topics table and set this to the level and then add a field to the user table for the threshold (not sure if you have done this in the mod or not).
soxc, you're right. I wrote this for uraken without really knowing what he was going to use it for. A more extensive MOD would see something that better fits this :
quote:Example johnny misbehaves and has a referall written its rated 3 his threshold is 9 so when he gets 3 bads or a collection that reaches 9 it flags up somewhere and we can resteer his direction.
If you assumed that johnny was a forum member you could track this number and add and subtract (when does johnny's score drop back to zero ?) as needed.
quote:P.S this was truly great work for those who didn't follow this message laser came up with mod for me in a about an hour of requesting thank god for people like you mate willing to help others.
Thanks for that, it's was a simple MOD, largely because it re-used much of my work from the Auto-Locking Topics mod. At the moment, it's easier to give time because money is quite tight.
s80ts0465, I think we're getting pretty off-topic and I don't quite understand your post. Could you start a new thread and completely explain what you want to do ?
Actually the security level that you choose is simply pasted in the message body. Instead i'd love to send the security level to the access database in a new column.
do you still want me to open a new topic???
Edited by - s80ts0465 on 01 February 2004 15:11:25
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Posted - 04 November 2003 : 21:29:57
