Hide the forum by time
 

Hack description:
1.Allow you to setup whitch forum can be hide by time, ex: 8:00 am ~ 14:00pm ,Something like you had a adult sex-photo forum,you can set it open in the night,and hide during day time.

Install Steps:
1.Upload install_autoswitch.php to your admin folder
2.Backup your Vbulletine database before you install this hack.
3.Complete all the steps as follow.

PS:
you must set forum permissions to become private's forum,then option can view.

for example the following figure

http://home.kimo.com.tw/ansys007/08.PNG

A fine hack - thanks!

Very very nice.

]*Cough* "Time to star to hide the forum" should be "Time to start to hide the forum" ;)

hmm, interesting.

Very nice indeed!

Very very very very very nice :D

Awesome hack!

interesting. :)

does this prevent access from the forum completely,
or does it just hide it during the specified time periods,
still making it accessible via the forum url?

this can prevent access from the forum completely during the hide time periods, :p

Interesting idea...

So you could have something like "Finch's Forum... AFTER HOURS!" and only show it between 10pm and 4am. Mature content expected.

Are the times based on the users' times, or the server's?

Cool hack :)

if you want to hide the forum during 10pm~4am,and open the forum during other time.

you would set

1.Time to star to hide the forum ~ [22]
2.Time to end of hide the forum ~ [4]

the forum to become can view during other time.

AND the times based on the usergroups' times :classic:

what everyone has a adult porn section?

hehe protect the kids :D

nice hack but when i tried it out i kepted getting all these parse errors on most of the pages so i removed it

Only we don't. :nervous:

Hmm, how do we know, it could be hidden from normal members ;)

It's look nice I try it !

Thanks alot !
Excuse me, but I'm a french guy :( !

:confused:

Ce n'est pas une probleme! Pourquoi est-ce que vous disez "Excuse me"?

(Et pardonnez-moi si ma francais est mal! Je n'avais assiste une classe pendant que sept ou huit ans!)

I installed it - but I dont see the time feild on the screen.
Did the install script change my templeates - or was
I supposed to manually?

UPDATE: I Just realized that we can no longer
post in the forum - get this error:

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Database error in vBulletin 2.2.5:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,at tachmentid,pagetext,allowsmili e,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'18472','test','JackG','1','1019877909','0', 'test','1','1','216.254.99.86' ,'0','1')
mysql error: Table 'post' is read only

mysql error number: 1036

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Please help!

I'm curious to see how people will use this hack. I for one don't think that I will need it, but it is a great idea. Could be used for RPG type boards or the sort.

UPDATE: I Re-Booted and now we are able to post again.

JackG

this hack only use database " forumpermission " , so i think, you should not install this hack and happen this error !!

this hack can hide forum by time and hide by usergroup

you can see image

http://home.pchome.com.tw/world/ansys57/09.PNG

http://home.pchome.com.tw/world/ansys57/10.PNG

I know exactly what it does. I just want to see how people come up with ideas of what it's good for. I don't really need it, since I don't hide but one forum and that's for the staff. If the need ever arises though, I'll use it.

Hi,
sounds really great, I couldn't use it at the moment,
am thinking about integrating it for a new subforum though
Thanks,
-Tom

I did have a similar hack when I had my Harry Potter Board as I wanted it the board to act differently at different times. For this one it had the styles changing so that during the day the boards were light and at night they were darker :)

MEM? My error is gone
hack still installed but I dont see the time option
in my control panel. Any ideas?

Thanks!

you must set forum permissions to become private's forum,then option can view.

can view this image

Chen why don't you tell them about our adult forum, it has some real good stuff ;)

ah ha! i knew it exsisted!

Shh, we don't everyone to come! ;)

:eek: oh, i know ;)

but,can i go to it ?? :p

After installing the hack, when I try to chance forumpermissions of any non private forum which doesn't have the hide by time attributes in forumpermissions, I get the following error:

Obviously non private forums do also carry the autoclose and autoopen attributes but as I'm unable to put any numbers into the corresponding fields (they are not there if the forum is non private) they are empty. This leads to the above error. Does anyone have any solution??

okay mem i have got this gack installed on vb 2.2.6
now how do I get this wot work, I have try everything you suggested, either you are leaving instructions or it just isnt working right now, please can you give us more detail as to how to get this to work, thanks

*sigh* 3months down the road, has anybody got this to work at all????

I have the same error how aidler. it is possible that we interpreted the instruction from the installation guidance "place this to the top". Please legend nevertheless times which exact you mean since. I only set the lines over it

the error arose, when I entered the clock times

Well I never seemed to get this to work properly...does anyone have it figured out?

I figured out a temp fix for this ... open up the formpermission.php, make a backup and remove these lines:

autoclose,autoopen

$autoclose,$autoopen

autoclose=$autoclose,autoopen=$autoopen

Save/upload "formpermission.php" and make any changes to your permissions. Add the lines back in the same place they were (or upload the backup you made) and everything works fine.

I hope that someone try to fix this so that it will work without having to remove these variables!