after X number of posts it makes the register unless they clear their cookies, how can i set it up to do the same thing for registered users, unless they go to a different usergroup IE purchase a subscription.

Works great. thanks again for the great product

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AWSOME.. thank you..

working perfectly on www.MIdirtriders.com

I will keep an eye on my registration rates and see what happens..
many of my members said they had friends and family that lurk all the time but were not registered users.. hopefully this will help our community grow!!!

thanks again!

Installed.

Does any1 have a list of spiders?

OK let me see if this is correct.
<plugin active="1">

This makes the plugin active for usergroup 1 the guests, so if that assumption is correct could i do like:
<plugin active="1,2">

to make it active for more usergroups?

No. The plugin code is what makes this work for guests -- changing that involves rewriting portions of the php.

Ted you are very good of what guests view and see
Like welcome headers and this
Did you know that?

Very creative

That's what us marketing people do... spend all our days coming up with ways to get people to register, buy, whatever.

So, about spiders.

I can see it checks if the bots are google|msnbot|zoints|aol|yahoo|slurp
What about the alexa bot?

Whats it called so to add it?
And anyone knows of any other bots?

Thanks

Very cool hack, thanks so much. :)

In my forum is does not allow viewing of archived posts. It shows the post name, but they aren't live links. So users can't click on them.

So either a change was made in the mod or I have some sort of setting in my forum permissions that are different.

Anyway, I like restricting the archive as well as the forums, this is exactly what I need, thank you!

This plugin doesn't add anything to the archive scripts, language files or hooks so it's impossible that it altered how your archive worked.

Since bots don't use cookies the plugin won't affect them. I have a hardcoded list of the major spiders just as a matter of efficiency and for the future incase Google or anyone else decides to add cookie support.

Okay, I know why it does what it does. I have my archive set up to link directly to the "full version" posts by choosing "no" for Display Simple View of Threads in the Admin CP > Search Engine Friendly Archive.

So when someone clicks a link to view a post in the archive page they are taken to the full version of the post. Since it does that, it behaves the same on the archives as it does the full version.

Which is what I need. Why allow someone to view your entire site in the archives if you are going to block them after a few posts in the full version?

So anyone using this mod that also want the archives to be limited viewing for guests, check "no" for Admin CP > Search Engine Friendly Archive > Display Simple View of Threads

Great tip, thanks for sharing!

Great mod! This may have been mentioned already, but let me just put it out here just in case:

Aren't both of those links supposed to point to the registration page? The way it is now only the second one does, and the first one redirects to the forum's home page.

Yes they are. I will issue an updated version.

Ted is it possible to create an option where we can put all the spiders rather than edit plugin? Or is it possible to read from ./includes/xml/vbulletin_spiders.xml ?

It's possible but again, spiders don't use cookies so I don't see it as being necessary. Should someone disagree I am more than open to an addon to this addon. ;)

excellent stuff!! nominated!!

updated!

I don't disagree with you cause there is no logic. However if its not that much resource hunger then you can add this function that it 'll collect data from vbulletin_spiders.xml & determine spiders. Thanks in advance :D.

At this time I have no plans to add that functionality but will be sure and note it on a wish list. Thanks for your input.

Is this will problem with SE spiders,because they always coming in Guest mode,so I think they will have limited page views when crawling our forums.

Bots don't use cookies so no, they won't have problems. If you are afraid a particular bot is using cookies, their is a global exclude list located in the plugin source.

http://www.game-image.com/uploads/a0ebbae441.jpg

Works like a charm - thanks!

Installed. Thank you

I missed this too. Where do you put $lgvmessage in the header?

Yes (see the line you quoted).

Is it possible that this can work for both guest and registered members of a group? Our website is a paysite that once they pay they are upgraded into another group. Until then they are just a registered member but with no access to forums. We would like to do this so it works for both guests and the usergroup "registered users" to encourge them to upgrade their account to paid status.

Thanks in advance :)

This hack is not intended to do this but you could certainly make it do so. The question to ask yourself if is if you want to let members or guests ever access forums. It sounds like right now people get no access, limited guest viewing is intended to let them view a few threads, then stop them (and bug them until then). If you don't want people _ever_ viewing threads then you should not use this hack but can take advantage of the welcome headers system to show registered members a message about subscribing.

Registered paid members do indeed see threads and post and everything. The intent here was to allow both guests and initial registered members the ability to see a certain number of posts and then they will only see your register screen but modified.

I am using your mod on one of my other boards that is not a pay site and it works wonderful. I just would like to use it on my other board. Even if it only worked for registered users Group ID #2 then that would be okay. Anyway to implement that?

Ideas here Ted?

I really need this to work for at least just group ID 2.

I went through your code and I don't see how you are doing it and since vB is new to me I will wait until someone that knows can help and since you created this bad boy I am hoping that will be you.

Thanks

Where does that go? I tried using something similar yesterday by changing the line:
to:
but that didn't work.

I really appreciate your help on this :)

$bbuserinfo['2'] doesn't do much of anything ;)

Try

Those changes made it work for the initial test. I will do further testing later today. With that in mind do you realize the potential for this mod? You could basically set it up to control campains over any usergroup setup. Wow! Great job my friend. Great job indeed. :)

works great! Good to have abit of teaser for the guest.. let see how it goes!

Awesome ..

* installed :)

thanks alot

Is it possible to allow guests to only see posts that are x amount of hours old. Thus guests wanting to see the latest news/posts will have to register/sign-in.