Remove Style Selection

[steadicamop]

Is there any way of removing the drop down style selection on one page only? I've made a product that prevents hotlinking to attachments (but provides a link straight to the post) - I need to remove the drop down as selecting that overrides the security and allows the download. I've got a custom template for this page, so if there's anything I can put in there, what can I use?

Cheers

Jason

when you edit a forum, you can choose: "Override Users' Style Choice"... even if they choose a different style, the selected style for that forum will occur!

[steadicamop]

Hmmm thanks - didn't know that was an option, however, my problem is, the page is sent from a template - so somewhere in that template I need to remove the drop down box (and just leave whatever style has been selected by the user - generally this is visitors and would see the standard one only).

Cheers

[Marco van Herwaarden]

vBulletin already comes with some sort of standard "Hot Linking" protection.

Consider the following:
- you can already deny downloading of attachments to guests. Hotlinking to attachment.php will have no real use, as it would still require a member login to download.
- If you are storing attachments in the database, then the above would be enough.
- If you are storing in the filesystem, your attachment directory should be located above the webroot. This would make direct linking to the attachment impossible.
- Even if stored in filesystem and under webroot, then using a .htaccess rule to prevent acces to attachments from outside links would be the best way to do it.

[steadicamop]

Thanks Marco - I was aware I could do all of these, but I've set up my forum so that guest can view attachments, as I feel it's pointless having members sign up just to view attachments, I just wanted a way so that they couldn't be hotlinked (as one of my members has, without asking me - and is leeching MY bandwidth away) - so I came up with an anti-leech system that stops these, but gives you a direct link to the post where the attachment is - at least this way the guest will visit the forum first.

I know there are easier ways, but this has a feature that .htaccess can't perform - link to the post.

Cheers