Moderators Functions - Force Users to Read a Thread

Force Users to Read a Thread 2.0

About this hack:
This hack allows you to set a thread as 'must read' by your members. Right now, if you make a post and want all your members to read it, you have no way of enforcing it. This hack will give an error message similar to the one you get when you need to change you password, saying that the admins want you to read a certain thread before they continue using the forum.

Once a user reads a thread, they wont be bugged to read it again.

You can set all usergroups or just certain onces that must read a thread.

You can set to site wide or just some forums.

Option to Force Guests

This hack added one query to every page on your forum a member goes to.

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 2 (1 via ACP, 2 via FTP)
• Time to install: 1 minute

Updates:

Version 2.0 (03/05/08):

• First Release of this Hack for vb3.7
• MAJOR update. Hack totally re-writen. You must uninstall old version before upgrading.
• Fixed just about all bugs. (like if you delete a thread...)
• No more template edit. Everything done in ACP.
• Permissions for by who ever has ACP access with threads and posts
• Force Guests to read a thread now.
• Works for BOTH vb3.6 AND vb3.7

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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Pictures:

• The error message.
• The universal options.
• Where you go to set the settings.
• The list of forums that have force read settings.
• The edit/add screen.

[Supramania]

Update: I just turned this back on in 4.0.2 and it's working fine. Both blogs & articles seem to work now.

[maidos]

using 4.0.2 aswell but members are having issues of constantly being force read the same thread over and over again

[Leo Brazil]

It cracks down vBCMS when it's on. On forums works fine.

[LifeAndDoctrine]

Working on 4.0.2 well, so far.

[Covert-OPs_]

Originally Posted by Supramania

Update: I just turned this back on in 4.0.2 and it's working fine. Both blogs & articles seem to work now.

The blog does work but it DOES NOT work with CMS.

[Supramania]

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

The blog does work but it DOES NOT work with CMS.

The built in CMS? Do you mean it doesn't function? I actually like that it doesn't execute on the front page.

Or are you saying you get the CMS white screen error?

If so, you might want to try disabling all of your mods except this one, and then start turning them on one at a time until your CMS fails. If you're getting the white screen it's likely an incompatibility with another modification.

It works on my system with all 5 of my themes and the 37 other mods I have installed on my site.

[Covert-OPs_]

Originally Posted by Supramania

The built in CMS? Do you mean it doesn't function? I actually like that it doesn't execute on the front page.

Or are you saying you get the CMS white screen error?

If so, you might want to try disabling all of your mods except this one, and then start turning them on one at a time until your CMS fails. If you're getting the white screen it's likely an incompatibility with another modification.

It works on my system with all 5 of my themes and the 37 other mods I have installed on my site.

I get a white screen error, if I disable the force read mod then the CMS works again. I'm curious how you got it to work did you do anything differently then in the instructions? Also what version of VB are you running?

[Supramania]

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

I get a white screen error, if I disable the force read mod then the CMS works again.

Like I said above, try disabling your other mods. It's likely a conflict with another mod on your site.

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

I'm curious how you got it to work did you do anything differently then in the instructions?

Nothing special.

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

Also what version of VB are you running?

4.0.2pl1

[Covert-OPs_]

Originally Posted by Supramania

Like I said above, try disabling your other mods. It's likely a conflict with another mod on your site.

You might have skipped over where I said that it only crashes when I enable the Force Read mod. I believe the issue is that I'm not 4.0.2 yet. We just did a host migration and apparently I updated the old host site...doing now to test on the live server.

[Supramania]

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

You might have skipped over where I said that it only crashes when I enable the Force Read mod. I believe the issue is that I'm not 4.0.2 yet. We just did a host migration and apparently I updated the old host site...doing now to test on the live server.

Ah, ok in this case I'm sure that's it. On 4.0.1 I had problems. 4.0.2 fixed it.

However what I was saying is valid - in many cases I've found that it's two mods combined that cause a problem. In this case that's not it, but keep it in mind. I'm running a lot of mods plus a bunch of custom code - how things fit together in this 4 series isn't always intuitive or obvious.

Due to the SQL injection exploits in 4.0.1, you really need 4.0.2pl1 anyway.