A few questions.

[Sharpienero]

Hey everyone,

 

I'm a long time lurker here at Webflake, but I've finally decided that I need to post for some specific help.

 

I run a gaming community where new applicants apply to join the community. At the moment when a new user posts to apply, a moderator has to manually put up a voting thread in another section. I'm wondering if it's possible to automate the process.

 

I guess there are my specific questions:

• When a member posts in sub-forum x (Applications), I want a new topic to automatically be posted in y (Application Voting section). This would save my moderators a lot of time and let them relax every once in a while. I would also want the topic poll to automatically close in 7 days.
• When the poll closes after 7 days, if the voting percentage is over 70%, would it be possible to move the original member into a different member group? (i.e - Community Member rather than registered?)

I know this seems like a lot of work, but in the long run it would be totally worth it.

 

On an alternate note, I'm wondering if this is possible as well:

 

I use the donation plugin found here: 

• Would it be possible to make it so that once a donation is approved, a line is automatically added to a .cfg on my Debian dedi? The line would look like this: 

  addVip("GUID", "Player name");
  

Yes, I know this is an advanced process and the answer isn't going to be simple. If someone could just push me into the right direction, I would be very grateful.

 

Thank you,

Sharpienero.

Bump.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Sharpienero

[Thorn]

When a member posts in sub-forum x (Applications), I want a new topic to automatically be posted in y (Application Voting section). This would save my moderators a lot of time and let them relax every once in a while. I would also want the topic poll to automatically close in 7 days.

For that, it would be better not to do it in my opinion.  It's good training for your moderators, and all they have to do it check mark it > select to leave a copy > move the topic.  You could do this but you're talking a lot of custom PHP coding here, wouldn't be easy.

 

When the poll closes after 7 days, if the voting percentage is over 70%, would it be possible to move the original member into a different member group? (i.e - Community Member rather than registered?)

Again a ton of work would need to be put into this, and I know no PHP so I can't help.  However, I do know PHP would be needed to do this.

 

As for your final question about upgrading users I feel the best way to do this is get your dedi to contact your site's DB and grab all members from the specific group and add them to VIP.  This would probably be done with MySQL I believe.  You could also go about it by running a custom PHP file, once again, after they donate.

 

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Overall, a ton of work would need to go into this and there's no easy way into it.  Your cheapest bet is to just get more moderators that moderate constantly, but you could find and pay a PHP developer experienced with IPB to make all these additions for you, but it would most likely be expensive.

[Sharpienero]

I figured as much.

 

Thanks for your input, Thorn. I've decided that I'm just going to let my moderators continue to do their job.

 

Solved.

[Kingy]

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