"Unregistered/Not Logged" is still a member and not a guest under the way hack sees them. You can of course change the source to address this particular setting from your forum.

Ted
I got round the Unregistered/not logged in by creating a group called "expired" and putting them in there instead with the permissions set to deny viewing thread content.
Thanks for your replies
Great mod by the way :)
Jeff

Hi Ted
Tried as you suggested regarding allowing viewing more than one thread but still get the bots being stopped?
Please see attached screenshot
Jeff

Jeff,

As you'll notice when you look at that image, that bot is getting stopped at your search page. Limited Guest Viewing is unrelated to searches...

Installed, and works just fine on 3.7.

Does anyone know what problems exist if this mod is installed on a 3.7 board?

Edit - Should look harder, just seen the post above!

I cannot get this verison to work on my 3.7.0gold. Did you alter it to make it work?

This version of the hack is for 3.6. Once a 3.7 version has been relased an update will be sent out.

Ted
Would i be better waiting for the update before i upgrade to 3.7?
Thanks
Jeff

If you want this addon, yes.

ted,

i'm anxiously waiting for this to be ready for 3.7. :)

[From NYC] My appologies. It will be out soon but Ive been traveling on business lately.

Good to know. This is another crucial part of my board. Once you get an idea, let us know when you think it may be ready, as I would prefer to wait for this to be ported prior to upgrading from 3.6.10 to 3.7

:D

no worries. i just installed vbulletin and getting used to all the settings. this is a huge upgrade over smf/phpbb.

Yes, I concur with everyone. This is a needed vB3.7 addition. Can we offer financial support; do you accept donations? I mean, seriously, this is a "Thé Mod" to have on your forum. End of chat.

Perfect timing... The 3.7 version was released 2 minutes ago...

Note: There is no new update to this addon. A new version of the download was posted to prevent 3.7 users from installing this version but this does not change the 3.6 code at all. There is no need to upgrade.

I am still on 3.6.9 and got the following error

Try the new zip.

your the man ted! thank you sooooooooooo much!!!

Glad I could be of assistance.

Thanks! Installed and working well!

hi!

thanks for this amazing hack, i hope someone can answer this,

at the moment, looking at your xml file it seems the current code is

but i would like the system to work as

can you see what i am trying to do is make this work for a particular forum for a particular usergroup not just for guests and the only other way is to use if ($show['member']) (which does work but then it's a blanket application to ALL MEMBERS, i just want a specific usergroup.

do i have to call the global file or something?

please advise.

mrkhm, You can combine the function is_member_of($bbuserinfo, x) with $show['guest'] like follows:

thanks for your response Ted S, before i saw yours, i managed to get this line of code to work:

as supposed to

it's just every time they log out, vbulletin clears the cookies, but i take point that this was designed for guest views and not exactly for the way i am trying to modify it into sort of pay-per-views

but thank you all the same...

Theres no need for "$show['member'] AND ", to be in a group you must be a member. :D

But yes, logging out clears the cookies which would get around this. If your goal is pay per view you'd likely want an addon that stores views in a database and hard counts them. This can of course be done with a little bit of customization.

hi ted can you do this.. i will pm you

Thank You very Much. Works a treat. (My first Hack too).

Hi,

Could you tell me how I can remove the message at the top on the hompage Please? And just keep the message that shows when guests have used up the stated amount of viewings before registering.

Many Thanks.

This addon does not show on your forum homepage. Check your other addons and be sure you have properly installed this one.

Hi Ted,

Sorry the delay.

It was a different Mod.

Right - Back to your mod. I have set it at two (2) views before the guests sees the registration message. I have noticed that on sites that I have visted who have this installed, it ALWAYS shows the register screen no matter when I visit the site in question (after I hav used the allocated number of views).

Mine doesn't. It gives a viewer the 2 allocated views before they see the register screen BUT they can come back later or another day and view another 2 posts.

It is probably something to do with the settings that I have chose. would you be able to help me please Ted?

I would certainly appreciate it.

Many Thanks,

Welshy2008.

The hack uses cookies to store views which if deleted or removed would negate any viewing history. Thus if you are logging in/out, clearing cookies or have a browser set to only allow cookies for a one day period you would be losing the history data and therefore able to see posts again.

Yes, Thank You for your reply, Ted.

After I posted - I looked at the thread's other posts and it was a similar question to what mrkmh had posted above. :|

Well at any time I guess a spider could grab cookies.

http://forums.seochat.com/google-opt...xt-207504.html

So just incase?

So just incase the major bots are specifically excluded.

doesnt install in 3.11 and the 3.7 version doesnt install in 3.11 also

Huh?

this doesnt install in 3.6.11 it gives error

This has been resolved. Please download the archive again.

Hey Ted,

I get this error

The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 3.6.10 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.6.0 / Incompatible with 3.6.9 and greater)


Any thoughts or suggestions ?

Thanks :up: