Opt-Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily

[tokenyank]

I know there's no support offered for this mod but I figured, what the hell... I'd ask anyway! :)

What I've done is made 2 forums for RSS feeds to pull in new competitions and the like, but it hammers New Posts with, well... New posts. I found this hack, installed it, set up the permissions so that only the two new forums for RSS feeds are eligible for optout.

HOWEVER, due to the amount of posts that are generated via the RSS... I thought, instead of having the user optout, is there a simple query I can run to make it so they have to optin?

More to the point, I want to be able to allow the majority of my users to ignore the massive influx of RSS feed posts while allowing the small minority who would benefit from the information to optin.

Thanks and I hope someone out there is still listening! ;)

[offline]

Is there a version of this that will work with 3.6?

[ProAzn]

Damn I added this mod awhile ago and now need to update to a new user group. Anyone know where to find the mod in admin cp?? I searched everywhere and can't find it. Yea, me dumb but it's frustating.. LOL.

[JenniferK]

I installed this for 3.7.3 and thought it wasn't working. I double and triple checked the installation and that I had given usergroup permission. Still didn't show up in the User CP. Then I realized that the default is for each forum to say NO to the permission Can exclude Forums from "Get New Posts". Until you have at least one forum say yes to this, nothing will show in the UCP.
This is a great hack, I just wish the default was yes because it is a major PITA for anyone with alot of forums to have to go in and change them all.

Anyway, hope that helps someone else who it is not working for.

[imported_silkroad]

No update necessary, this works just fine with 3.7

It works with 3.7, but not perfectly.

We get two copies in our UserCP:

(1) UserCP->Options->Login and Privacy

and

(2) UserCP->Options->Miscellaneous Options

Anyone know where to hack the plugin to make this appear only once in the UserCP?

[dklassen]

When I enable can exclude forums in forum searching permission and save it, I go back and it's not saved. Tried it a few times.

[sinucello]

Hi,

great mod. I have general question regarding the user permission system. I have a lot of subforums and usergroups and would like to set the "is excludable" option to yes in all forums and for all usergroups. Is there any way to do this quickly without touching the other permissions?

thank you - all the best,
Sacha

[firstrebel]

Not working in 3.8.0

Bob

[dklassen]

Any chance we can get an update from someone willing? I'd be willing to kick in some $$ to make it happen. This is the most important mod I have on my site bar none and it will hold me back from moving to 3.8

D.

[kambiz]

Works fine on 3.8.0.

[firstrebel]

Works fine on 3.8.0.

Did you install it fresh in 3.8 or was it there before the upgrade.

Bob

[kambiz]

Did you install it fresh in 3.8 or was it there before the upgrade.

Bob
I've installed it on to of my site, one fresh the other one upgraded. Both are working perfect.

[firstrebel]

Mine is working OK now, just had to import the product a few times, don't know why.

Bob

[dklassen]

Not working for me.

[RaceJunkie]

I had it already on my site before upgrading and now it's not working. Darn shame too was a great mod.

[RaceJunkie]

Also if you have any forums set to No
Forum is Active (Will not appear if set to no, but remains accessible if the forum's URL is known)
They do not appear in the list of forums to exclude.

[RWerksman]

So is this right:



http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2927/optoutqx7.jpg
I opted for appending this to the end:


if ($vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'])
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'] . ',71,53';
}
ELSE
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] = "71,53";
}


That automatically opts out of 71,53 for everyone.

[Gizmo999]

Seemed to be Ok on 3.8 until I altered the forums I wanted to search, am now getting this db error. Now can't use user cp nor can other users, anyone know how to fix this please?

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE user
SET lastrepcheck = 1233055081
WHERE userid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'lastrepcheck' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Tuesday, January 27th 2009 @ 11:18:01 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, January 27th 2009 @ 11:18:01 AM
Script : http://www.myforum.com/forum/usercp.php
Referrer :
IP Address : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Username : Gizmo999
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community-log

[Gizmo999]

Found the problem, it deleted a column called lastrepcheck in the users table...

[SBlueman]

I opted for appending this to the end:


if ($vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'])
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'] . ',71,53';
}
ELSE
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] = "71,53";
}


That automatically opts out of 71,53 for everyone.

so my plugin should look like this if I want to block forum #137?
if ($vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'])
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] .= ((!$vbulletin->GPC['exclude']) ? $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'] : ',' . $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp']);
}
if ($vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'])
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'] . ',137';
}
ELSE
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] = "137";
}

[SBlueman]

Anyone?

[edytwinky]

This sounds pretty buggy and with no support

[RaceJunkie]

This sounds pretty buggy and with no support

Yea another great mod on vb.org down the tubes..

[Will.Spencer]

Installed on 3.8.1, seems to work perfectly. :)

I have run the MySQL query to block forum 3 (Politics and Religion) for all of my current forum members. I have not yet tried to hack the mod so that this block is applied to all new members also.

[Cooleyvol]

Stopped working on 3.8.1 so I reinstalled it. Seems like the number of forums you can exclude is finite. When I reach 'that number' it starts taking the designation off the forums working from the bottom of the list upwards.

If I highlight all of them at once, it only marks a certain number of forums from the top of the list downwards.

This is the backbone of my forums and I need this to work.

[ArnyVee]

Is this functioning with both 3.7 and 3.8?

[ArnyVee]

Workin' on 3.7 :D

[Magle]

This seems to do exactly what I would like, but I'm not really hooked on installing an unsupported 4 year old mod on my vB 3.8.3 and I try to keep template edits to as few as possible (and reserve them for really big and important mods) to make things go smooth when updating vB.

Does anyone know of a more recent product that has the same functionality? Or is there any chance someone might make an updated version of this?

Thanks.

[Magle]

No guts, no glory I guess.

So, I'm going to install this and cross my fingers it will work and not cause any negative side effects :)

[Biker_GA]

It works just fine on 3.8.x

[Booth]

Would be great if this could be updated for 3.8.3 - I'm not going to install an unsupported beta version of something from years ago. Which is a shame as this is an excellent mod in essence.

[Andreas]

The is no real nedd for an updated as this is still working just fine (though if i got too much free time I could make it use template hooks).

And even if I would update it, it would still be unsupported ;)

[mlx]

We are running this one on vBulletin 3.8.3 as well.

It's well written and working just fine.

Thanks a lot Andreas by the way :)

5 stars from me ;)

[Biker_GA]

Would be great if this could be updated for 3.8.3 - I'm not going to install an unsupported beta version of something from years ago. Which is a shame as this is an excellent mod in essence.

I've been using this since 3.6. I'll cry if 4.0 breaks it. This is one of those mods that is an absolute "must have" on my site.

[Biker_GA]

The is no real nedd for an updated as this is still working just fine (though if i got too much free time I could make it use template hooks).

And even if I would update it, it would still be unsupported ;)

Our users would revolt if this wasn't an option on our site. I discussed this with the site owner and we're willing to pay to ensure this is updated for vB4. :)

[RWerksman]

Broken with 4.0 :(

[zygote]

ouch please update!
thanks ;)

[Biker_GA]

Our users would revolt if this wasn't an option on our site. I discussed this with the site owner and we're willing to pay to ensure this is updated for vB4. :)

Andreas, the natives are restless. Is there some way we can bribe, er, convince you to update this for 4.0? :D

[imported_silkroad]

Our users would revolt if this wasn't an option on our site. I discussed this with the site owner and we're willing to pay to ensure this is updated for vB4. :)

Our users would revolt if we upgraded to vB4, which most don't like the "sissy" look and feel so they have said - fluffy, pretty in a girly sort of way, but certainly not more functional ;)

[Biker_GA]

Our users would revolt if we upgraded to vB4, which most don't like the "sissy" look and feel so they have said - fluffy, pretty in a girly sort of way, but certainly not more functional ;)

And you replied with this useless tidbit of information why?

[scottct1]

This is one mod thats keeping me from moving to vBulletin 4. I hope its ported soon.

[dutchbb]

Our users would revolt if we upgraded to vB4, which most don't like the "sissy" look and feel so they have said - fluffy, pretty in a girly sort of way, but certainly not more functional ;)
I don't like the vb4 default style either (for the same reasons). Yes it's more web 2 than vb 3.x but it doesn't look good imo. But you can always change this style easily, that's the beauty of a good script like vb.

[Tettinntil]

Can anybody verify that there is a limitation on the number of forums that can be excluded?

[jeremyalyea]

Can anybody verify that there is a limitation on the number of forums that can be excluded?

None that I am aware of. I love this mod.

[matthewhotdude]

i'm on 3.8.3 and it doesnt seem to work, I have installed changed permissions, But where do I find where to choose which forums I want to ope out?

[Biker_GA]

UserCP. Each user is able to select.

[Will.Spencer]

This is one mod thats keeping me from moving to vBulletin 4. I hope its ported soon.

vB4 is going to suck without this. :(

[AusPhotography]

I'm going recode this for vB4 - available tomorrow

(Kym (Site tech) - using Rick's account (Rick is site owner))

[AusPhotography]

Here is a vB4.0.7+ version ... enjoy!

***edit***
Attachment removed as you do not have permission from the Dev to post it.

[benstillman]

Here is a vB4.0.7+ version ... enjoy!

You should post this in the vB4 mods section.

[viper357]

Great mod, thanks for this, seems to be working 100% on vb 3.8.5

Is there any chance you could update this to include vbadvanced, for example if someone has excluded forums with this hack then the same forums will not show up on the Recent Threads block on vbadvanced home page?

Thanks.

[Wonksta]

Anyway to make certain forums and subforums unavailable from the exclude list? For example I don't want members opting out of receiving new posts in sponsor forums etc

Thanks!
EDIT silly me it's possible under Forum Permissions!

[Dennis B]

Here is a vB4.0.7+ version ... enjoy!Doesn't seem to work with 4.1.3...

[Nook_Neformat]

anyone know how to exclude one forum from new posts permanently?

[viper357]

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[Alfa1]

For some weeks now I am getting a large number of these:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_usertextfield SET
excludeforumsgnp = ''
WHERE userid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'excludeforumsgnp' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, June 8th 2011 @ 02:44:55 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, June 8th 2011 @ 02:44:55 AM
Script : http://www.my-forum.com/forum/profile.php?do=updateoptions
Referrer : https://www.my-forum.com/forum/profile.php?do=editoptions
IP Address : xxxxxxx
Username : Alfa1
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.90-log
Does anyone know how to fix this?

[intmid8or!]

When I enable can exclude forums in forum searching permission and save it, I go back and it's not saved. Tried it a few times.

same issue, anyone know why it wont save?

[intmid8or!]

same issue, anyone know why it wont save?

disabeled plugin, enabled it, works, bot now seems usercp has two boxes to select forums to choose...

[Alfa1]

Still have this bug if I turn this modification on:
For some weeks now I am getting a large number of these:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_usertextfield SET
excludeforumsgnp = ''
WHERE userid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'excludeforumsgnp' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, June 8th 2011 @ 02:44:55 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, June 8th 2011 @ 02:44:55 AM
Script : http://www.my-forum.com/forum/profile.php?do=updateoptions
Referrer : https://www.my-forum.com/forum/profile.php?do=editoptions
IP Address : xxxxxxx
Username : Alfa1
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.90-logDoes anyone know how to fix this?
Please provide a fix.

[dutchbb]

Can someone give me the query to change all rights to opt-out to "yes" for all usergroups and forums? Otherwise it will take me hours to change them for all usergroups and forums :s

[pelican]

can this work in vb4?

[makaiguy]

Great mod, thanks for this, seems to be working 100% on vb 3.8.5

That's good to hear, as I'm finally in the process of updating from vB 3.6.4 to 3.8.7-PL3, and can't get Opt Out to work. Is it compatible with 3.8.7-PL3? If I can't get this going, I'm going to have a bunch of unhappy users when we go live with the updated vB.

Am not seeing the Can exclude Forums from "Get New Posts" option in the Usergroup options, which is, I suppose, why I can't get the Opt Out forum selection panel to show in the UserCP.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling with a fresh download.

Have verified:
All three plugins are in place, and marked Active.
The four phrases are in place.
The appropriate code has been added to modifyoptions template.

Any suggestions of what to try?

Rookie mistake found. Uploaded bitfield_optoutgnp.xml to includes instead of includes/xml. All is now well and functioning in vB 3.8.7-PL3.

[makaiguy]

Observations after 3 months experience under vB 8.8.7PL3 3.8.7PL3 --

Prior observation that it was working was based on searches honoring previously chosen forum choices.

But I cannot find anywhere that a user has access to a dialog to set/change these choices.

[makaiguy]

Observations after 3 months experience under vB 8.8.7PL3 3.8.7PL3 --

Prior observation that it was working was based on searches honoring previously chosen forum choices.

But I cannot find anywhere that a user has access to a dialog to set/change these choices.

Anybody found a way around this?