Allow usergroups to view disabled board
 

Hack name: Allow usergroups to view disabled board
Version: 1.0.0
Author: Mephisteus (DarkSSJ3)

Steps:
1 file edit
1 product import

Info:
Allow members of specified usergroups (and administrators) to view the board while its disabled (AKA, bypass the disabled screen).

Tested on:
3.5.0 - OK
3.5.3 - OK
3.5.4 - OK
Note: This should work on every 3.5.x due to the nature of the file edit.

Features
- Administrators can always view the board, also if they are not in a specified usergroup
- Specify multiple usergroups
- Works on both primary and additional usergroups
- Members of specified usergroups also receive the warning you do

MAKE A BACKUP
I will not be held responsible for any damage this hack causes to your forum.
This hack is NOT supported. If you get support, consider yourself lucky.
I reserve the right to REMOVE the hack at any time without prior notice.

Please keep any bug reports in this thread.

History
1.0.0 - Rerelease (05/05/06 12:37 GMT)
Correct global.php edit is in the readme.txt
1.0.0
Initial release

nice one mate...

be perfect for my 'forum testers' when make big changes

thankyou :D

Awesome! I have been waiting for this! :D

[high]* Snake clicks on install[/high]

Thanks for this ... however, something went wrong and even guests could see the "board offline" message at the top and still access the forums.

Could it be because I am still on 3.5.0 and using php5?

i love it soooo much thanks man >

Nice. Thanks.

Fixed

Thank You. I will test it later tonight when the forum goes to sleep again :)

Seems to work fine now. Thanks again! :)

Yet another great resource, tnx for sharing! i clicked install.