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Guillaume

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 3

Ban search patch

Hi,

I've been running a 1.2 PunBB/FluxBB forum for a few years now and I was facing a problem with bans: we now have more than 10 000 bans (thanks Akismet for that) and the ban list became quite painful to display, so I worked on a "ban search" feature (similar to the "user search" feature) that displays instead of the full ban list. It let admins search bans by username, email, ip, ban reason, expire date and order by username, email, ip, expire date.

I was not sure what was the "correct" way to submit patches to FluxBB so I just uploaded in some subversion repository here: http://code.google.com/p/soupcon/source … bans.patch please let me know if there's some better way to do it.

I'm aware the current development version of FluxBB is 1.4 and that the patch is for 1.2 ; I wouldn't mind doing a 1.4 version if anyone is interested in it.

FSX

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From: NL

Registered: 2008-05-09

Posts: 805

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Re: Ban search patch

Sounds useful. I'm using Akismet too and my banlist is already full of bans.

Would be cool if you can port it to 1.4 and provide a manual with it. Some users may have modified some files and then a patch file isn't really useful.

Last edited by FSX (2009-11-09 22:27:11)

Guillaume

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 3

Re: Ban search patch

Ok... I did wrote an updated version for 1.4 beta 2: http://code.google.com/p/soupcon/source … -1.4.patch
This version is almost the same than the 1.2 one, it just adds the "Banned by" feature introduced by 1.4

I tested this patch against latest SVN and... it doesn't work So here's a slighty updated version for SVN revision 1155: http://code.google.com/p/soupcon/source … 1155.patch

As for writing a manual, etc. well... I'm somehow used to patches ending up in the upstream repository (if patches are worth it, of course) and never worked much with hacks/mods/whatever, but still... I guess I could write some doc on altering a (modified) installation

Guillaume

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 3

Re: Ban search patch

Ok, I've added some manual, here: http://code.google.com/p/soupcon/wiki/BanSearchPatch