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And a report post plugin is born – tested working!

Needs a few features but gets the job done for now:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: report post

Description:  allows members to report a post to admin/moderators

Plugin URI:  http://CKon.wordpress.com

Author: _ck_

Author URI: http://CKon.wordpress.com

Version: 0.1

*/



/*

instructions:  install, activate and put  <? report_post_link(); ?> in your post.php template where you want the link to be seen

optional in stylesheet:  a.report_post {color:red;}



todo:

1. don't let them report more than once on a post - or more than too many times per minute/hour

2. auto-delete post if more than x reports from different members

3. auto-post report into a specified moderator's forum #

4. maybe ajax xmlhttp call instead of real form post so there's no page movement

5. it's technically possible to alert a browing mod with a popup directing to the reported post, no email needed

*/



function report_post_link($post_id=0) {

if (bb_current_user_can('participate') ) :

$post_id= get_post_id( $post_id );

if (get_post_author_id($post_id) != bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' )) {

echo '<a class=report_post title="report post to moderator" href="#post-'.$post_id.'" onClick="report_post('.$post_id.');return false;">Report</a>';

}

endif;

}



function report_post_form() {

if (bb_current_user_can('participate')) :

if (isset($_POST['report_post_id']) && isset($_POST['report_post_reason'])) {

echo '<scr'.'ipt type="text/javascript">alert("Thank you for the report. A moderator has been notified.");</scr'.'ipt>';

$post_id=intval($_POST['report_post_id']);

// todo: custom response if invalid id, problem sending email - maybe flush output buffer so member gets alert faster

$to = bb_get_option('admin_email');

$subject = " reported post by member for moderation";

$headers = "From: ".bb_get_option('admin_email');

$message ="report by:  ".bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' )." (".bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ).")  email: ".bb_get_current_user_info( 'email' )."rnrn";

$message.="report: ".wordwrap(strip_tags(substr($_POST['report_post_reason'],0,255)),70)."rnrn".get_post_link($post_id)."rn";

$message.="post by: ". get_post_author($post_id)."rn";     // add "member since", total posts, blah blah

$message.="rnrnReport Trace:rn";

$message.="IP:    ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."rn";

$message.="Host:  ".gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])."rn";   // useful but can add a few seconds

$message.="Agent: ".$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."rn";

$message.="Refer: ". $_REQUEST['refer']."rn";

$message.="URL:   http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$GLOBALS["HTTP_SERVER_VARS"]["REQUEST_URI"]."rn";

mail( $to, $subject, $message,$headers);

}

echo '<form method="POST" name="report_post_form" id="report_post_form" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"><input type=hidden name="report_post_id"><input type=hidden name="report_post_reason"></form>';

echo '<scr'.'ipt type="text/javascript">

function report_post(post_id) {

var report_post_reason = prompt("Please enter a short but descriptive reason why a moderator needs to review this post:", "");

if (report_post_reason && report_post_reason.length>9) {

document.report_post_form.report_post_id.value=post_id;

document.report_post_form.action="#post-"+post_id;

document.report_post_form.report_post_reason.value=report_post_reason;

document.report_post_form.submit();

} else {alert("report cancelled, incomplete description"); }

}

</scr'.'ipt>';

endif;

}

add_action('bb_foot', 'report_post_form');



?>

I’ve tested this now up to the bbpress trunk and it seems to work fine.

Try the latest:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/download/report-post.zip

Make sure you are editing post.php in your bb-templates or my-templates?

Unfortunately there is no hook for me to place it automatically in post.php on that info line. Wish there was.

Moderators do see the link, you just don’t see it on your own posts, there’s no point in reporting yourself, LOL!

Yeah you should always create a non-moderator test user to see how other things interact compared to mod/admin. It’s important to see what’s hidden from regular members and sometimes admin can do things we take for granted that regular members cannot (ie. like my admin-can-post-anything plugin)