[SOLVED] Complete solution to approve the story after being submitted

[imlerim]

Great solution Redwine but seems that you forgot the most important part...

Without setting the links status table to accept "pending", it will set it empty...
I had to search for your other posts to find a solution...

alter TABLE table prefix_links
change link_status link_status enum('discard','queued','published','abuse','duplicated','pending') NOT NULL default 'discard'
;

Again thanks for the trick and the tutorial

[redwine]

Originally Posted by imlerim

Great solution Redwine but seems that you forgot the most important part...

Without setting the links status table to accept "pending", it will set it empty...
I had to search for your other posts to find a solution...

alter TABLE table prefix_links
change link_status link_status enum('discard','queued','published','abuse','duplicated','pending') NOT NULL default 'discard'
;

Again thanks for the trick and the tutorial

That's why I started this post with:
"I've already posted a quick fix answering few questions about this subject:
How to set admin approval for all stories"

I did not want to be redundant as long as I referenced it.

Cheers!

[jasxon]

I wanted to mod the "pending" submit to allow Anonymous (not logged in users) the ability to submit stories and have them queue as 'pending'.
This is a combination of this Solution along with this
Anonymous Posting

Following the Solution posted above I also did the following
This is tested in 9.9
First. Create a new user and call it 'Anonymous'. Note the userid of the new user
Submit.php
find the following code and REMOVE the RED and ADD the green code

totals_adjust_count('discard', 1);
	$linkres->status='discard';
	$linkres->author=$current_user->user_id;
if($current_user->user_id == 0){
		$linkres->author=10; //USERID of your created Anonymous user
	} else {
		$linkres->author=$current_user->user_id;
} 

remove this code

if(!$linkres->verify_ownership($current_user->user_id)){
		die($main_smarty->get_config_vars('PLIGG_Visual_Submit2Errors_NoAccess'));

Remove the RED and ADD the GREEN

totals_adjust_count('queued', 1);
	$linkres->status='queued';
if(!$linkres->verify_ownership($current_user->user_id)){
	totals_adjust_count('pending', 1);
	$linkres->status='pending';
	}
	else {
	totals_adjust_count('queued', 1);
	$linkres->status='queued';
	} 

remember this is a MOD for this threads PENDING FIX. YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THOSE STEPS FIRST! Then to the mods in this post.

You should now be able to have anonymous users (people not logged in) submit new articles and have them sent into a pending queue for an admin to approve.

[catchpen]

A feature that would make this more useful is an if/else statement or something for it to only apply to new members with less than 3 or x stories submitted. Say the member submits x amount of APPROVED stories then no more probation - there next submittal and all others afterwards will go directly to queued status.

Another way for less gray hairs but still effective.

whadaya think?

[netfreak]

Good work and really helpfull

[wnw]

Hi Redwine...this is super cool mod and its working like a cream......but this mod lacks something......which is the USABILITY.......as when you post a story it gets into Pending.....but is user getting a message that its pending for approval....or something like that.....

Can we have a solution please,.,,,.because the user might feel....lost....as he will look for story......

[redwine]

Originally Posted by wnw

Hi Redwine...this is super cool mod and its working like a cream......but this mod lacks something......which is the USABILITY.......as when you post a story it gets into Pending.....but is user getting a message that its pending for approval....or something like that.....

Can we have a solution please,.,,,.because the user might feel....lost....as he will look for story......

The simplest solution is to add a notice to the users submitting the story informing them the story will be pending approval...

In /templates/yourtemplate/submit_step-3.tpl, add the following right before the <form action=" line

<p><strong>When you click on 'Submit Story", the story will be pending approval by the administrator. Once approved, the story will show in the "Upcoming" section.</strong></p>

The output right above the "Modify" and "Submit story" buttons will be:

When you click on 'Submit Story", the story will be pending approval by the administrator. Once approved, the story will show in the "Upcoming" section.

[kentan]

Hi All,
I'm a complete newbee in PHP and I'm wondering where can I find the table that redwine is referring to in his post as well as the table_total.
Sorry if my question sounds silly...I really need to approve the stories after being submitted.
Thanks for your help.

[tbones]

I´m looking for something like this at user registration: It should be email-free an d give admins the possibility to sort potential users out. Anything like that available?

P.S.: Even if I need this kind of regulation more the mod is awesome!

[Rob472]

A nice mod for this would be to only set stories to pending for users that have less than a specified amount of approved stories. On my pligg site, the regular submitters always post good stories and don't need approval but sometimes a new user will register and just start posting spam. It would be nice to set the status on just these ones as pending.