Force users to reply before download attachments

[Da-Vinci]

Edit: Can a Mod or Admin move this to VB4 Programming Discussion please, posted in VB3 Programming Discussion by mistake.

Basically I had this hack installed. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233333&page=3 but the coder wants $80 to make a public release and $600 for exclusive rights to an updated release.

I don't care if I can achieve this via a manual template edit, but this has become an integral feature of my forum.

This is as far as I've got so far, any help would be greatly appreciated.

So I've been trying to get this fixed, so looked at your older version of this mod here.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203634

And noticed this reply by you.

NEW UPDATE


YES lasto !

in your attachment.php

search for

if ( !$vbulletin->db->query_first ( "SELECT postid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post WHERE userid='".$vbulletin->userinfo[userid]."' AND threadid=$threadinfo[threadid]" ) ) :

and in ( post WHERE userid='" )
write your usergroup this will be have permission to see attachments without reply the thread

example :
post WHERE userid='2,3,4,5,6"

Rather than edit the attacment.php I noticed the hooks exist in the plugin code, so I tried to replicate it like this.

global $db ,$vbulletin;
$p=$db->query_first("SELECT userid from post where threadid='$post[threadid]' AND userid=22,24,25" . $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] . "");
$m=$p[userid];
if($vbulletin->userinfo[userid]!= $m AND can_moderate($forumid, 'canremoveposts') == false or $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] == 0)
{
eval('$this->post[\'imageattachmentlinks\'] = $vbphrase[MARCO1_At];');
eval('$this->post[\'thumbnailattachments\'] = $vbphrase[MARCO1_At];');
eval('$this->post[\'imageattachments\'] = $vbphrase[MARCO1_At];');
eval('$this->post[\'otherattachments\'] = $vbphrase[MARCO1_At];');
eval('$this->post[\'moderatedattachments\'] = $vbphrase[MARCO1_At];');
}
}

The 3 usergroups I want to allow to to download attachments without replying are 22, 24 & 25 and of course the 3 staff usergroups 5, 6 & 7, but I believe the staff usergroups are covered by this statement.

if($vbulletin->userinfo[userid]!= $m AND can_moderate($forumid, 'canremoveposts') == false or $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] == 0)

Looking at the attachment.php I don't see the same hook info.

$attachmentinfo = $db->query_first_slave("
SELECT filedataid, SUBSTRING(" . ((!empty($vbulletin->GPC['thumb']) ? 'thumbnail' : 'filedata')) . ", $startbyte + 1, $readsize) AS filedata
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "filedata
WHERE filedataid = $attachmentinfo[filedataid]
");

Anyway, I still haven't been able to get this to work so any help or updates would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Can a Mod or Admin move this to VB4 Programming Discussion please, posted in VB3 Programming Discussion by mistake.