Here would be a nice admin feature. A timer forthe suspended account. like suspend acount for 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or 7 days drop down menu to choose how many days to suspend them for and then when that time is up there account automatically gets unsuspended. and an email should be sent to admins letting them know.

good idea , would be of use to me

cant seeing it being developed tho , DF has ground to a halt

maybe try over at dfbounty

Old thread, but I third that motion. Very handy for admins.

How would the account get "automatically" unsuspended? You'd need a cron job or similar running on the server to do this, it'd not be part of the CMS (web pages / programs are initiated by a client, they don't run automatically).

If you have the capability to run cron jobs (and you can execute PHP scripts from a command line) I have just such a system running on www.gamersnation.co.uk

We suspend users for a period of time (day / week / month / year) and a cron job un-suspends them when the time is up. If anyone's interested gimme a shout, I should be able to package up the code I used to do it (DF 9.0.6.1 tho, not tried it with DF9.1).

is this integrated into df ie admin interface for suspending users and setting a time for suspension ?

You mean a CRON tab? No you wouldn't.

When the user goes to log in, if they're suspended, do a check against the initial ban. CRONtabbing would be too much for this, and would require resources that most providers would (or at least, SHOULD) not want to expose to hosting users.

Simple Example:

Johnny Badman posts a naughty pic of his girlfriend on December 25th (Merry Christmas), and an admin bans him for a day. He tries to log back in on the 25th, and gets a notice that he's been temporarily banned, and the ban will be lifted 24 hours from 10:34am EST, which was when the ban was set.

He tries to log in at 10:33 the next day, the system does a query for his account and sees that it's banned - and Johnny gets a message stating the ban will be lifted in 1 minute.

He tries to log in at 10:35, and he gets in, because the ban automatically lifts when the system checks the expiration date for the ban when he's logging in.



D.

Jeff, yes.

DarrylHadfield, yep, you could do it that way. I just did it the cron job way because a) it required less hacking of core code, and b) because I can, I own and run the server the site mentioned above runs on.

can you hook me up with a copy then please Mark

Will do. You're using DF9.1, or still on 9.0.6.1?

9.1

I'd be interested in that one too, could be what im looking for.....

OK, thought I might as well do this reasonably properly, and for DF9.1 as that's the current version (probably works in 9.0.6.1 but don't take my word for it).

Package is attached to this post and can also be downloaded from:-

www.cmsdreams.co.uk/do...nduser.zip

Here's the README :-

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Add Suspend User for time period functionality to DragonFly 9.1
13/03/2007 - www.cmsdreams.co.uk
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This hack replaces core files of the DragonFly 9.1 CMS.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS HACK IF YOU'RE IN ANY WAY UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT REPLACING CORE FILES!!!

The files replaced are :-

/admin/modules/users.php
/admin/modules/users_susdel.inc
/includes/classes/cpg_member.php
/modules/Your_Account/edit_profile.php

MAKE SURE YOU KEEP COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL FILES SO YOU CAN RESTORE THEM LATER IF REQUIRED!!!

INSTALLATION
============

1.

Apply the SQL file contained in this package to your database. This SQL file adds 3 new fields to the users table. If your users table is not called "cms_users" you will need to edit the table name in this SQL file before applying it.

If you don't understand what this instruction means, or you don't have access to your database, STOP NOW and do NOT attempt to use this hack.

2.

Upload the files in the "html" folder in this package to your website root folder.

That's all there is to it!

INSTRUCTIONS
============

This hack amends a field on the "Privileges" tab of the "Edit User" Admin panel screen. (Admin -> Members -> Edit User -> Privileges)

You can specify a quantity and a time period for which you wish to suspend a user. So you can suspend them for 3 hours, 6 days, 9 months for example, or suspend them permanently. The email sent to the user informing them they've been suspended will indicate how long they've been suspended for.

Further, on the "Suspended Users" tab of the "Members" Admin panel screen the date / time until which the user has been suspended is included in the list. Restoring a user from this screen clears their suspension data in their user account.

When a suspended user logs into your website their suspension time is checked against current time. If the suspension has expired their suspension data is cleared and they're allowed to log in. If it hasn't, they're not allowed to login, as per standard DragonFly behaviour.


As it says, don't use this if you don't understand the implications of doing so. It replaces core files and is likely to break the very next time the DF Devs release a new version. Use at your own risk, without warranty and all that

Unlike my solution posted earlier this one doesn't require a CRON job to update a user's status. It checks a timestamp in their account (either when logging in or when reading their cookie if already logged in) to see if their suspension has expired. If it has, it clears the suspension data in their account and allows them to acces to the site, or log in if not logged in.

Tested on my own DF9.1 site and seems to work OK.

thx Mark , installed ok , just testing atm

one typo in language needs changing to

define('_CMSD_PERMANENT','Permanently');

works a treat Mark, thanks.....

would be a nice feature to have built in for sure