How to prevent users from hiding their questions?

Question

Some of my users ask questions then hide them after they get their answers.

How to block them from hiding their questions?

Answer 1

I am using the userrules plugin for that purpose:

https://github.com/q2apro/q2apro-userrules

Check the comments in the source to know what else it does:

https://github.com/q2apro/q2apro-userrules/blob/master/q2apro-userrules-overrides.php

In case you do not want to use a plugin, you could use an advanced theme and do (UNTESTED):

        function initialize()
        {
            if($this->template=='question')
            {

                if(qa_get_logged_in_level()<QA_USER_LEVEL_EXPERT) {
                    unset($this->content['q_view']['form']['buttons']['hide']);
                }

            }

        }

Comments

Thanks again. I looked into your plugin. very helpful
One more thing! How can we do these
1- If the question has received at least one answer the user cannot HIDE it.
2- If the question has received at least one answer the user cannot EDIT it.

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1 - You get the question id, probably $post['id'], then you query posttype=='A' and  parentid==questionid, if this is >0 then $rules['hideable'] = false;
2 - same as above, then $rules['editable'] = false;