Require Users to Sign a Contract Before Posting in an Individual Forum
 

I have seen some rules hacks that require users to agree to the rules before allowing them to post, but they have been board wide from what I have seen.

This one allows you to set up separate contracts on a per-forum basis. You can have a special contract for a debate forum and a different one for your sex forum. It's up to you.

THIS IS A BETA HACK. IT MAY HAVE BUGS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Planned features:
a - an install script to handle the queries, template and phrases. I want to work the kinks out of the code first.

b. - a ticket system by which you can temporarily or permanantly ban members from posting in individual forums if they violate the contract.

I have no plans of integrating this hack with any other ticket systems. I don't use any of the others because we really only have problems in one forum.

great idea ! I will check it out later. thanks for sharing.

good... i'll wait for the plan B, i need these rules to be followed, just a click is not enough... ;)

I figure I should be able to get part B done tomorrow or the next day. We need it as well.

/me very patient... !

sounds like a great idea...but im gonna wait til the ticket system is done.

It would be cool if you could toggle between the ability to VIEW the forum and POST in it, or have both...

Also I haven't tried this but if it had the ability so that once you clicked that you agree some kind of a flag was set on your usergroups that made it so you didn't have to click "I agree" again, that would be cool as well.

The flag is set Pick. You only have to agree once. I originally intended to hack it so a contract had to be signed to read as well, but I don't really need that functionality. As it stands, I don't see this being a widely used hack; so I don't plan on going into overkill on extra features that I don't need.

Great idea! Very useful ... looking forward to its release.

Did you know the instructions have a couple of blank fields where the 'Add this template' bit is?

Obviously, I added a template called forum_contract that had the content as per the other txt file, but it could be confusig to others. :)

I might also suggest adding something to the 'have they signed a contract' line, especially in newthread.php, because guests still get the 'New Thread' link due to the silly logic behind displaying that..

I use
Guests don't see it any more. I am also using the hack on forumdisplay.php...it works okay but the redirect sends people back to the Forumhome. *confusion*

I must have forgotten to save the file after I wrote that last bit :blush:

This is a great idea - specially for the sim forum I run where we have different rules for each sim! Definitely will be installing this one very soon!

Is there a way to make it to require them to sign it before even viewing the forum? Before even posting....

scroll up wwesn1. I already answered that question in this rather short thread.

There is, but amykhar has said that she doesn't see this being widely used, nor does she wish to go into overkill on features she doesn't need.

For what it's worth, putting the code that you would put into newthread.php into forumdisplay.php (in the right place...look for permissions stuff) does work kinda. I'm not going to go into detail sorry, I just guessed where to put it and it worked.

A technical answer would be: 'You could do pretty much anything you wanted with the hack, assuming you knew the php to do what you want'.

sounds great, something I could definely use :)

amykhar, this seems an interesting addon..
I will definetly check the same asap.

/me adds this addon to my to-do subscriptions.

Regards,

good stuff Amy, will wait till you are done to implement this on my site.

Hey amy sorry for the bump, have you made any progress on this one ? :)

Not yet. I got sidetracked. I'll get back to it now that I know somebody cares ;)

Amy

this would be cool if you could add it to the site so that it askes you the info above before allowing people to download attachments.

This will definetly be on my install list

*Adds to list* :D

On mine as well, this is a great idea.

I installed it, but it is buggy. I am turing it off until it gets fixed, but I like the execution. This is the error I get, if it helps:I surfed up some info on error 1064, and it said:edit: but THIS POST suggests that the error may have been server-side due to low disk space! arrgh.. very confusing. Ya gotta love vague error messages.

For some reason, it thinks something is in your contracts column of your user database.

What is in that column for userid 1?

In PHPMyAdmin it says "2" under the contracts column, and I had previously clicked on a contract in Forum ID 2 before I got the error. Another user also has 2 in that column, and another user has 7 (and I had another contract in forum ID 7). I am not sure if this is how it works, but I will wait until later and will turn it back on. It may be a disk full error at my server, or something like that, since this worked well before. What would a database entry for that field with multiple contracts look like? Maybe it was erroring out because something was already there?

You found a bug.

In contracts.php, Find:
Change it to:

That may have fixed that bug, but I am still getting an error. This time it looks like this:
Sorry to be a pain, but it just doesn't want to add a 2nd forum ID to that field for some reason.

EDIT: I went in to PHPMyAdmin and deleted that value ("2") from the contracts field, and was able to sign a different contract, but errored out again when adding a 2nd contract to the table.

Right. It should be this:

I was up too late last night :)

:banana::banana::banana:
That did the trick! Thanks much! (I was up too late last night, and up too early this AM as well :D)

OK. I've updated the file in the zip. I've also released this for 3.5

Hello,

Could you please tell me what you mean with

4. Add the following template:
---------------------------------
Name:
Text:

Where do I need to add this?

Thanks in advance

Ah, I forgot to fix the text file. In the zip, there is a text file called forum_contract.txt

Create a template called forum_contract and place the contents of that file in the template.

p.s. I have the ticket system finished and working in the 3.5 version. For those of you who never plan to upgrade to 3.5, you can always check out that code and back-port it to 3.0.x.

Amy

is this the same as:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=77666

??

No. This is the same as my 3.0 mod that I never pulled out of beta because I wanted to add the tickets. That one was released later.

This will be great for my graphics forums. Now to decide if I should just wait for 3.5, not upgrading till it's gold the arcade is done for it lol.