Forum Password Hack (request)

I need a hack to allow private forums to have a single password to be able to get in to the forum to both view and post in it. I'm upgrading from UBB which has this feature and this feature is the only thing preventing me from upgrading.

I've search through the forums here and found other people requesting it, but no solution was ever given, just people saying it's obsolete... which it's not. It's another way to have a private forum set up.

Thanks!

UBB has that feature... Hmm, it's possible to do that for vBulletin. Best bet is to ask Ed Sullivan, he's the best scripter in my opinion.

I could really do with this hack too. Would be very greatful if someone made it

I remember stating before that I would be creating this feature for 2.0 if it isn't included.

I would like to give our members the opportunity to have protected virtual conference rooms for business and this would be necessary.

I think the actual password protection could be done in about 5 lines of code, which isn't bad.

is it require a databse hack to store individual forum's password ?

It would require a field in the database, yes. While that field would be required for the hack to work, it isn't a hack by itself. Databases (especially MySQL ones) aren't programmed.

it is a simple work . I will work on this hack soon

The forum password used in ubb:

If a forum is private (ie a password is set)

For authorised registered members, they can access the private forum without input the forum password.

For non-authorised registered members, they can still access the private forum by providing the forum password

Please correct me if I'm wrong

[nuno]

something like this
can this be done??

[Wayne Luke]

A version of this was released by JamesUS. You can find it by searching for it.

[nuno]

Wayne:
will this feature be available in next vBull version?
could you make it to look like access masks plus forum password?
like

if user loggedin and $privateforum==1 {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate('passwordrequired')."\");");
}
else {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate('error_nopermission+passwordrequired' )."\");");
}
tx:D