i'll give that a try... thanks :)

ok, i suck. lol

i don't suppose someone wants to help me make this happen?

guess not haha

so i'm still working on this and i've decided the best way is to use the external_complete hook.

i think i just need to recreate the query without the following 'AND thread.visible = 1' and 'AND post.visible = 1' but i'm not sure. i feel like there's a better way.

maybe something like

if ($_REQUEST['forumid'] == 5 && $_GET['secretpass'] == 'somerandomsh!t')
{
-recreate case rss here-
or maybe
-recreate query here-
}

i feel like ya don't like me anymore since i ranted a bit in another thread. lol

anyway, can you at least tell me if i'm on the right track? if you're feeling really generous provide some detail. :)

I just don't really know permissions - that is why I haven't posted any more in this thread (and I have no idea what other thread you are talking about).

What I was thinking is that you would want to set something like $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview'] to true if a certain parameter is passed. But, I've never played with it and so I really don't know if that would do it. You can try using a plugin before line 444 and setting that and $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewthreads'] to true and see what the results are on a test site. If changing the permissions that way does what you want, then that is probably the easiest way to go about it.

oh, i get what you're saying now! thanks... i'll give that a try and report back. :)