You're very welcome, my friend. ;)

With that change, it works perfect for hidden posts. ;)

Thank you to you both. Working great.

If anyone is interested, I have the fix that will strip all the wierd characters from the thread title so the filename will not default to dt.txt on threads with quotes and other html cahracters in them. ;)

i'm interested.

also is this hardcoded with an option so it can't be used in certain forums? as i wouldn't like a disgruntled staff member downloading hacks and sending them to/posting for general members to see.

installed the GREAT hack .. from a great hacker :D .. one day logician will get a statue for his hacks :D

Thank you! I've been waiting for this port! :)

I've also thrown together a quick image for people to possibly use instead of the sortasc one as it does look a bit weird. I've attached it along with an example screenshot of the image replaced. Just replace sortasc.gif with download.gif and upload that file into the buttons directory in images.

I hope it looks alright, I designed it for our forums which was designed to eliminate as much of the anti-aliasing as possible.

Excellent, thank you very much! I used the vB2x version on my old forum and this is a very handy hack I am glad to see brought over to vB3.

Thank you also MooMan65, the new graphic is very nice!

Dir Logician
great nice hack
thanks a lot
when i instal it i will press (( click install ))

nice hack , works very well !!
thx @ MooMan65

*installs*


cheers



EDIT: you can save the thread as ".rtf" file, thats better :D (show my attach.)

Dir Logician
i have instaled the hack an realy nice and great work
also i have change the icon to be sean as a downlodig text

best regards
http://www.arabswell.com/vb

That's a nice button, MooMan, thanks. However the sortasc.gif is a standard button used for other things, so it's probably a better idea to just upload download.gif and change sortasc.gif to download.gif in the template.

@Agent XY and MooMan65: thx for your contributions. I've linked your posts in the first post of this thread.

In the dt.php file

Find:

REPLACE it with:

This will strip the appropriate tags out of the thread title correctly for the filename. ;)

Thank you! Installed perfectly! :)

how can i display this error message to users who are not allowed to download the thread.

<div style="color: #C60000; font: 20px; font-weight: bold">You must register to use this forum. If you are not registered you need to register <span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">HERE</a></span></div>

thnx.
Sandy...

in dt.php find:
before that add:
then create a new phrase in error phrases named "guestcannotdlthread" and put your message there.

I'd like to do something like this too.... but I cannot find the error templates so I can add the new phrase. :(

sorry it is "phrases", not templates.

Well after making those changes, I don't see the download treat option at all in my thread tools. :(

Here's what I did:

In dt.php, find:

REPLACE it with:

Just put whatever you need between the center tags and you don't have to make a separate phrase.

Whoops, my showthread got reverted. lol :tired:

Super thanx !

*gently bumping question*

Sorry, question is not clear to me. What hacks do you mean? This hack is not installed in vb.org.

The hack uses default vb permission system so one can not download a thread if he does not have read permission to it. Besides you are able to prevent certain usergroups to use this feature. Does it answer your question?

yes it answers half the question, sorry should've re-read it before i bumped it, basically i want to have this enabled in all public forums but disabled in private (staff) forums and am wondering if this functionality is built in?

No it is not, but you can easily add it like this:

edit dt.php, find:
after that add:

replace X,Y,Z with the forumids in which you want to stop downloads.

thanks, that's exactly what i was looking for :D

Logician, you're a wizard mate.. :)

Installed and working flawlessly. I voted for this hack in HotM June.

Looks good, anyone have a sample .txt of what a downloaded thread looks like?

You can test here:
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/

Excellent, installed :D

Boykott To Hacks That Are Only Working With IE ! :devious:

Mozillaengines are downloading but not as a *.txt - theres only a blank file with Threadname. Under IE it works excellent !

:rolleyes:

It works fine in my Mozilla. Check yours. Or better upgrade to a "solid" browser. ;)

Or how about making your own hack, rather than taking it out on the author? Don't forget this is a free hack. If you don't like it, feel free not to install it.

The authors take painstaking hours to create these hacks and have done a great job - supporting the most common web browser.

Show some respect.

If "ANY TEXT YOU LIKE HERE" is "www.domain.com" I get under IE a text "[1]" in front of the "." (screenshot).

EDIT:
Is it possible that ? ? ? ? in the filename don't work ?

@Logician + Intex - i am speaking from up-to-date Mozillaengine = Firefox 0.8 + 0.9 not compatible, not the Mozillasuite. ;)

@Intex - who makes Freesoftware should be thinking about using Evil-M$ Products ! ;)

Evil yeah, but still the most widely used. Developers can't ignore the mass market :).

I'd love to see this export the thread as XML and have an importer - wouldn't be too difficult to do :) You could then expand on it to mass export / import threads too. Just a though ;)

Excellent, will install this tomorrow, it's 4 am now so it's a little late to start hacking now. ;)

I think this is because you already have a file in the same location starting with "www." so Windows change its name.