Force Users to Read a Thread
 

Force Users to Read a Thread

About this hack:
This hack allows you to set a thread as 'must read' by your members. Right now, if you make a post and want all your members to read it, you have no way of enforcing it. This hack will give an error message similar to the one you get when you need to change you password, saying that the admins want you to read a certain thread before they continue using the forum.

Once a user reads a thread, they wont be bugged to read it again.

You can set all usergroups or just certain onces that must read a thread.

You can set to site wide or just some forums.

Option to Force Guests

This hack added one query to every page on your forum a member goes to.

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• Files to upload: 3 (1 via ACP, 2 via FTP)
• Time to install: 1 minute

Updates:


Updates:
Version 2.10 (05/02/10):

• First release of this hack for vb 4.0.
• Added link in "Administrative" drop down on the showthread page to edit force read settings.

Pictures:

• The error message.
• The universal options.
• Where you go to set the settings.
• The list of forums that have force read settings.
• The edit/add screen.

Tagged for future use.

This sounds awesome, Can't wait to check it out

Is this the case, AFTER they have read the thread also ???

Yes. It checks always if there is a thread that must be read.

dosent works on 4.0.3.. i added the thread ID but it dosent works for any usergroups..

What does it show? Are you sure you put in the write thread id? Maybe use the link in the thread.

Nothing shows up ..no reaction and Link dosent works, nothing shows up after saving ( if i add link instead of ID )..

Can you PM me your ACP login details?

Sent ..

I just PMed you that I found this hack working just as it should. You must have been on the thread and refreshed that page after you set the force read. Since you were on that page, it just got marked as viewed and never gave you the error screen.

great .. let me reset again and test it ..

But you know what .. i logged in as different user too but it didn't worked ..

Anyways let me login and test now . i will get back to you if i have any issues .

Thanks for you help.:)

Thank you for this Excellent Hack, I have installed it, and it worked perfectly, I have vb 4.0.3 running.

I have attached an arabic translation for those who need it.

ملاحظة : الترجمة العربية فقط للاعدادات المهمة

ADDED : you can change the administration msg that appears to users by editing the phrase : forceusersreadthread_read_thread.

Thanks. and rated.

UAEWebMaster

No I mean AFTER a user has READ the thread, does it still add One Query for that user to each thread they read?
i.e. is it constantly checking ?

tagged for installation later
thanks

Ty! Installed and works perfectly! I've been waiting for this!

I got very strange error. When I add a topic to read (forced) the indexpage turns to archive stand.

Just like this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/archive/index.php/

When I disable the mod the indexpage of my forum is normal...
So this mods breaks the index of my forum. Please help?

thanks ...

KEKforce, what version of vB you are using?

I have tried it but when I add a forum id it and push "save" it said that it is saved but the setting is not saved. no forumid is added.

Edit: i solved the problem.

Finally.. i been asking this for years.. man.. now you need to mmake it a post

this modhas been missed!
thanks alot for updating it

I Use VB 4.03

my url: http://www.alfaforum.nl

I'll repeat again,

Yes. It checks always if there is a thread that must be read.

I need to see the page the errors.

Excellent and thanks for this. Tagged for when I upgrade.

Thanks for addon

italian language file here

:bai

Im using vb 4.02 at the moment and have installed correctly as per instructions.

Everything on the Admin side works fine it accepts the thread to be forced read with no errors. When refreshing the home/forum page .. I then get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_online_status() in /home/******/public_html/******/includes/block/html.php(95) : eval()'d code on line 97

Any ideas?

Thanks

Eddie

Can you add an option to redirect automatically after X seconds?

This is brilliant, thank you!

Ditto!


Abe1,

Can you set a sticky thread to force read? I don't think one could do that with the old version.

thanxx for tis graet mod

same error

after user read topic get this error

installed + translate to Arabic

I dont have code that goes anywhere near this. I dont know why you would get it. Are u sure it is this hack? I would have to check your acp
I'll look into it.
Why not? It is a regular thread. You can't do an announcement.

Abe1, can you add a feature to force users to read a thread as well? So you can choose users & usergroups.

EG:

UserID = My idea which I think would be awesome to add! :)

I dont think so. If you have 1 user that you want a thread to read by, just PM him.

as you ignored my post man :confused:

My answer is the same as I gave the other person.

People can choose to refuse PM's, forcing a specific person would be a great addition to this plugin. Especially if you have a mod forum and you want a specific team member or members to check out a thread without selecting the whole usergroup. Not everyone likes to be forced. And I've had complaints about a few users before about them being forced. Hence the idea to force ID's as an option.

I cant figure out were the option is to force read... www.aogamers.com

Go to your AdminCP --> Threads & Posts --> Force Thread Read

Hey,

I'm reporting a big problem for users who uses many db servers.. it crashed my servers several times :

the problem is :

Last_SQL_Error: Error 'Duplicate entry '238346-282075' for key 'PRIMARY'' on query. Default database: 'xTaZe_6'. Query: 'INSERT INTO v7_force_read_users
(force_read_userid, force_read_threadid)
VALUES
('238346', '282075')'
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

for users who got the same problem add the following to your mysql configuration files, this will ensure replication continues even when there is a duplicate record .

slave-skip-errors = 1146
slave-skip-errors = 1062