[gopherhockey]

This from logican from another conversation on possibly making posts invisible that are generated from this hack. Anyone want to try this with this hack??

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A work around might be using this trick:
Hack your gateway hack so that it posts with a special username (a fake username
that does not belong to any member but a bot). Then you can exclude it in your
query to get accurate results: Eg.

PHP Code:

$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread
WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' AND forumid!=X");

$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE
dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' AND username!=X"); 


In order to fix this, we need to know how to get the gateway script to post as a user, not as "guest" as it seems Guest is not really treated as a regular account.

Someone else asked the question, but I don't believe anyone has answered it.

Anyone know how to get the script to use a real userid when posting? Say I create a user "NNTPGateway" ??

Thanks - this could POSSIBLY allow me to turn this back on.