ChatRestrict

Disable or Enable chat, book writing, sign placing, and command access for specific time periods for specific players. Bypass chat blocking schedules for specific groups like staff, donors, or verified players. Mute and Unmute all chat on demand.

Thanks to Owen1212055 for his help making this!

Uses:

• Only allow verified users to chat (EULA compliant) or use certain commands
  
• Block chat for all players when staff are usually offline
• Set certain commands to be accessible during specific time periods or days of the week
• Use with GamerSafer to prevent kids from using chat or DMs if they don't have parental consent
• Quickly mute all chat when getting attacked by spam bots

Rules:
Rules are used to determine the condition in which a player may or may not be able to talk or send a command. Simply add new rule types to the rules.yml.

You can make more advanced schedules and restrictions with rulesets.

General Rule Logic:

• If the rule returns true, they are able to talk.
• If the rule returns false, they are unable to talk.
• The opposite occurs for "flip" and "disallowed_command" type rules.

In the config.yml, if you set the following option to "true", players will also not be able to place signs or write in books if they would also be blocked from chatting.
Main Syntax
Each rule is given a name, type, and the parameters relating to that type. For example, this creates a rule named weekend-check which allows chat on Saturday and Sunday.

Default rules.yml
This is the default rules.yml file which includes a ruleset (with two contained rules) and two other separate rules. With these default values, chat is allowed on every day of the week except between 11:59 PM and 12:00 AM. Three fake commands are also blocked, regardless of if the ruleset is true. The time between 3:39 AM and 3:40 AM has chat blocked, also regardless of whether other rules are true.

For example, if the server admin wanted they could add a "disallowed_commands" rule type to a ruleset, along with rules for specific times and days of the week, to restrict those commands on a specific schedule (unless the player has a bypass permission).
Types:
There are five types of rules which admins can create:

• allowed_weekdays
• allowed_timerange
• disallowed_commands
• flip
• ruleset

allowed_weekdays
Returns true if the current day of the week is in the week_days list.
Syntax
allowed_timerange
Returns true if the current time is within the provided timestamps.

Syntax

• time_min and time_max
  • Supports 24 hour time.
  • When using time periods (AM/PM) ensure there is a space and they are capital.
• zone
  • Supports long timezones America/Los_Angeles (recommended)
  • Supports time offsets -05:00
    • When using timezones, time offsets are automatically calculated.

disallowed_commands
Returns true if the command the player executes does not start with any of the provided commands.
Syntax
flip
Flips the result of the rule provided in the rule section.
Syntax
In this case, players are able to talk on days that are NOT Monday or Tuesday.

ruleset
Goes through the contained set of rules and will return true if all pass, or false if at least one of them fails. This is the base structure used in the configuration file.

Syntax
Permissions:

• Bypass All Rules & Restrictions: chatrestrict.bypass.all
• Bypass Rule chatrestrict.bypass.<rulename>
• Reload chatrestrict.reload
• Enable/Disable Rules chatrestrict.toggle

Commands:

• /chatrestrict reload (Reloads the config)
• /chatrestrict toggle (Toggles between chat restricted and chat enabled modes)
• /chatrestrict enable (Enables all rules and puts the server in chat restricted mode)
  • /chatrestrict enable <rulename> (Enables a specific rule to filter chat)
• /chatrestrict disable (Disables all rules and puts the server in chat allowed mode)
  • /chatrestrict disable <rulename> (Disables a specific rule from filtering chat)
• /muteall (Disables chat, regardless of enabled rules)
• /unmuteall (Enables chat and follows enabled rules)