Lookin for a hack - email into thread
 

Hello,

Ok heres the skinny:

I have an "experts" forum. Only my 9 "experts" are cleared to post in this forum. Up until now, questions for the experts have been emailed to me by users, and then I post the 'good questions' in this forum. Needless to say..this is a pain in the ass.

So what im thinking is this... I don't want to open the entire forum to the "general public" cause then they would be like a pack of wild monkeys postin away and general mayhem. And I don't like the way I have to post for them right now. Is there a better way?

How about a form that Emails the questions into the forum? Or is that to complicated? Any better ideas?

You wouldn't e-mail the questions into the forum. All you need to do is write a script that adds the questions into the database.

Or make your forum moderated so that before new posts posted by regular users appear, they have to be approved by a mod or admin.

Maybe you should consider setting access permissions to:
1- Only your experts can reply other's threads while ordinary users can only reply their own.
2- Ordinary users' new threads are moderated.

This should do exactly what you want..

Logician,

That sounds like a good idea. But Im not sure how to do it. I set that forum to moderated, but now even the "experts" replies are being moderated. Is there a way to set the general posts to moderated, but the expert posts aren't moderated and automatically get posted?

Here is the hack ;)

Edit newreply.php, find:
AFTER that add:
Replace X with expert's usergroupid and Y with forumid.. That's it..
Now experts can reply without moderation in that specific forum.

Enjoy!

Logician

Um.... it didn't work. I get a "Parse error: parse error in /home2/www/mysite/forums/newreply.php on line 104"

I copied and pasted the code here. Line 104 is the "if ($bbuser" line. I get that parse error whenever someone tries to post, in any forum, including me. Not just forum 19.

I know your not "tech support" so I really appreciate the help!

is there a chance you are using OPERA as your browser?

The code you have written is correct and free of errors (especially parse errors), however there might be a problem with copy/paste process (Opera does this!). Please try to write it down verbatim, instead of copy/paste..

Also delete the spaces in the begining of the code, so it should be like this:

$visible=!$foruminfo[moderatenew];
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==11 AND $foruminfo['forumid']==19)
{
$visible=1;
}

after you finished..