Limit user editing of old forum posts

I believe, from my own experience, that having user edits of their own posts disabled presents an unnecessary challenge to the user,: we all make typo mistakes. But equally letting users "go back in time" and change earlier posts [b]after[b/] someone has replied is also not too swift, as it leaves the door open to abuse.

The following mod to CPG-BB Forums (the standard forums in DF) will accomplish this, limiting user edits to their posts so long as no-one has posted a subsequent reply.

Leave basic forum setting at can-edit, and then make the following change to viewtopic.php at line 931 (for revision 9.39 in DF version 9.2.1):


and replace with:


You are just adding a test, which applies to non-moderators, and non-admins, to see if the post is the last one.

EDIT: Adding an error message and enforcement

In posting.php in same folder, at line 227 insert:


And in language/english/forums.php add:


You can test/evaluate here, just register/login and post to this thread. Reply twice and you will see that you can no longer edit your prior post in the thread.

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