Prevent guests from viewing 2nd page and higher in a thread

[Lea Verou]

I made this just because it was requested (http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16120).

This little plugin shows a no-premission page to guests that attempt to view the 2nd (or greater than 2) page of a thread.

Notice however that guests can bypass this by looking in the archive or the printable view of the page. :nervous:

Please, don't forget to click install if you use this. :)

[Cap'n Steve]

I like this idea. Seems like a good way to encourage registration.

[Lea Verou]

I like this idea. Seems like a good way to encourage registration.

As stated in the first post it wasn't my idea :)

Also, it can easily be bypassed as I said. Can you think of a way to prevent that? :nervous:

[Cap'n Steve]

I'm not sure, but from looking at archive/index.php you might be able to use the archive_process_start hook to change $vbulletin->options['archive_postsperpage']

[Lea Verou]

I'm not sure, but from looking at archive/index.php you might be able to use the archive_process_start hook to change $vbulletin->options['archive_postsperpage']

Yes but the thing I should use in the plugin for the archive should be the variable for the pagenumber, not the on for posts per page :)

[MentaL]

i may use this :P fantastic!

[Lea Verou]

i may use this :P fantastic!

Thank you :)

[Snake]

Just installed this hack. Thanks.

[Rich]

Hello,

Any way to show a custom message opposed to the default? I would like to use a custom message for this feature since we are allowing them the right to read the first page of posts.

[Lea Verou]

Hello,

Any way to show a custom message opposed to the default? I would like to use a custom message for this feature since we are allowing them the right to read the first page of posts.

I am unsure how to do this.
It shouldn't be very difficult.
You can try searching in modification tutorials :)

[athoob]

great idea... loved it.. and installed :D

[cooltechie]

As stated in the first post it wasn't my idea :)

Also, it can easily be bypassed as I said. Can you think of a way to prevent that? :nervous:

Since this mod (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96523) disallow members with no permissions to view forums/threads/posts through normal view, printthread, search or archive, can something be borrowed to work with your mod? I don't know php, but just saw their description.

[The Geek]

iguana - you could change it from print_no_permissions to :
$vbulletin->url = "info.php";
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirect_phrase', true, true));

HTHs

Good work BTW ;)

[dethfire]

can spiders be excluded?