Add Real Moderator Feature

[damon18]

Feature Request

The old "moderator" feature from earlier Dizkus never actually granted the moderators rights to do anything. #38

This is a request to add real forum moderator features, which is a fundamental feature of most forum applications.

phpBB moderator features https://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/3.0/quickstart/quick_permissions.php#quick_permissions_moderators

MyBB moderator features http://docs.mybb.com/Moderating_Options.html#Normal_Thread_Moderation

vBulletin moderator features http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/onepage/#item146

[craigh]

obviously SOME of these features are available.

[damon18]

Yes, some of the features are available, but only to admins. No way to elevate a user to "forum moderator" status and give them only selected abilities, like moving posts to the correct forum, locking topics, add sticky status, merge topics, split topics etc.

[damon18]

Feel free to leave this on the back burner, I just wanted the feature request on record for after everything else is solved.

[craigh]

@damon18 - please test this more now. I understand that "fine-grained" control over each function is still not available, but as it is currently implemented you should be able to set a user as a moderator in one of three ways:

1. via zikula permissions (moderator level - is global for whole forum)
2. via dizkus forum settings as moderator user - forum specific
3. via dizkus forum settings as moderator group - forum specific

[craigh]

just made some more changes. I think that moderators are only forum specific no matter which of the three methods is used. Although if I understand zikula perms correctly, setting a user as moderator perms for the whole module should also return true for any individual forum. some testing would be appreciated

[damon18]

I'll do testing, haven't looked at it yet.

[Kaik]

I'm changing this to blocker so I can review the current status of this.