disallow users from deleting posts?

[Darkorical]

is there a mod or am I missing something that will make it so users cannot delete their posts?

[Spaceman-Spiff]

i believe the option is inside Installed Mods Settings
or maybe that one is to disallow users to lock their topic... can't remember

[[Unknown]]

i believe the option is inside Installed Mods Settings
or maybe that one is to disallow users to lock their topic... can't remember

There is, as yet, no option to disallow people from deleting their own posts.... that I know of.

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[Darkorical]

can  one be made?

[[Unknown]]

It's not hard.... the simplest way would be to just...

ModifyMessage.php:
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   # Make sure the user is allowed to edit this post.
   if ($row['ID_MEMBER'] != $ID_MEMBER && $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator' && !in_array($username, $moderators))
      fatal_error($txt[67]);
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   # Make sure the user is allowed to edit this post.
   if ($settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator' && !in_array($username, $moderators))
      fatal_error($txt[67]);

And then in Display.php:
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         if (in_array($username, $moderators) || $settings[7] == 'Administrator' || $settings[7] == 'Global Moderator' || ($ID_MEMBER == $muserID && $ID_MEMBER != -1))
         {
            $messageButtons[] = '<a href="' . $cgi . ';action=modify;msg=' . $mid . ';threadid=' . $viewnum . ';start=' . $start . ';sesc=' . $sc . '">' . $img['modify'] . '</a>';
            $messageButtons[] = '<a href="javascript:DoConfirm(\'' . $txt[154] . "?','" . $cgi . ';action=modify2;threadid=' . $viewnum . ';msg=' . $mid . ';d=1;start=' . $start . ';sesc=' . $sc . '\');">' . $img['delete'] . '</a>';
         }
         if (in_array($username, $moderators) || $settings[7] == 'Administrator' || $settings[7] == 'Global Moderator')
            $messageButtons[] = '<a href="' . $cgi . ';action=splitthreads;thread=' . $viewnum . ';at=' . $mid . '">' . $img['split'] . '</a>';

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         if (in_array($username, $moderators) || $settings[7] == 'Administrator' || $settings[7] == 'Global Moderator' || ($ID_MEMBER == $muserID && $ID_MEMBER != -1))
            $messageButtons[] = '<a href="' . $cgi . ';action=modify;msg=' . $mid . ';threadid=' . $viewnum . ';start=' . $start . ';sesc=' . $sc . '">' . $img['modify'] . '</a>';
         if (in_array($username, $moderators) || $settings[7] == 'Administrator' || $settings[7] == 'Global Moderator')
         {
            $messageButtons[] = '<a href="javascript:DoConfirm(\'' . $txt[154] . "?','" . $cgi . ';action=modify2;threadid=' . $viewnum . ';msg=' . $mid . ';d=1;start=' . $start . ';sesc=' . $sc . '\');">' . $img['delete'] . '</a>';
            $messageButtons[] = '<a href="' . $cgi . ';action=splitthreads;thread=' . $viewnum . ';at=' . $mid . '">' . $img['split'] . '</a>';
         }

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[Surfy]

can u made it too for 1.4.1??

i didnt found:

$messageButtons[]

i guess it is for 1.5.x?

Surfy

[theodora]

If you edit ModifyMessage.php members won't be able to modify their messages... altering only Display.php will do the job  

It's not hard.... the simplest way would be to just...

ModifyMessage.php:

[David]

But if they can't delete posts then they can just edit their post to be empty.