Getting the sessionhash to be processed in the forum description?

[Paul]

Hi,

I'd like to provide links to nested forums on their parent's forum description, however the $session[sessionhash] variable is not processed. Is there a way to do this? If I don't pass the session hash isn't there the danger of an uncookied user losing their session?

Paul

[Sparkz]

Exactly where are you trying to do this? In what template?
Looking at forumhome_forumbit_level1_post, and it does indeed use $session[sessionhash]. Are you sure it's not just because you have turned cookies on for your own user, which would remove the sessionhash for links.

[Paul]

I am trying to do this in the actual forum description, which is defined in Admin CP > Forums & Moderators > Edit > Description.

Not in forumhome.

Paul

[Paul]

For an example of what I'm talking about, see the link to beta hacks in the forum description of the Full Releases forum on this server.

[Sparkz]

Ah, I see what you mean.
This requires a small hack to index.php and forumdisplay.php

In both files find:

eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");


Directly before this, add:

eval("\$forum[description] = \"$forum[description]\";");

[forumdude]

I get a lot of:

Parse error: parse error in /home/index.php(305) : eval()'d code on line 1

when i try this hack. I have to use addslashes to get it to work correctly. Of course, this also adds slashes into the descriptions which is something I'm not going for.

eval("\$forum[description] = \"".addslashes($forum[description])."\";");


Anyone have the same problem or have a solution that won't give me parse errors?


Thanks

[forumdude]

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