Opt-Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily

Description
This Hack allows the Users to select certain Forums they do not want to appear on Get New/Get Daily.
It includes a new Permission, so you can specify which Usergroups can use this feature, which Forums
can't be excluded, etc.

Details
1 Product XML with 3 Plugins, 4 Phrases and 1 SQL Query
1 Bitfield XML
1 Template Edit

History
1.0.0 Initial Version
1.0.1 Added Option "None" for users who don't know about their CTRL Key
1.0.2 Updated for RC1
Note: This Hack does only work for vBulletin 3.5.0 RC1 and up!
1.0.3 Fixed a small Typo and a possible Problem with Forums that contain HTML in Title

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall when you don't use it any longer!

This Hack is unsupported! All support requests except proven bugs will be ignored

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

WAS working with 3.6 no problem...
just noticed that now seems to be a bug "all of a suddent" in IE (7) where I can't pick multiple forums with ctrl key.

-choose one forum works
-choose a bunch of forums with shift+control works.
-but chosing selected ones with just ctrl doesn't. no response to click when choosing multiple forums.

any ideas? only in IE. works in FF.
I even reinstalled it just to see if that would do it. :/

(I know this isn't supported...but it does say for bugs. < fingers crossed > )

[styleforum]

Originally Posted by snikle

Ok, I installed this, made the appropriate changes in my AdminCP to allow groups to use this feature, but for the life of me, I cannot see where the user notates which forums to ignore. What am I missing?

It should be in their User CP under options at the bottom.

[styleforum]

I have a question on this - I know it's not supported but hopefully someone can tell me if this is happening to them or if they fixed it, etc.

I set this up hoping people could exclude from New Posts, because that's what it says. However, when I tested it it excludes selected forums not only from New Posts but from ANY SEARCH. This is not what I want. For example, people might want to exclude the Buying/Selling forum for New Posts because it clutters up their search, but if they do a regular search for a specific item, they might want to see search results from the Buying/selling forum. As it is, they can't seem to do a global search that includes the forums they've checked off.

If I go into Buying/selling and run a 'search this forum' it works just fine.

Is there a way around this? Was it always like this or is this a 3.6.x thing?

Hoping for some help. Thanks.

[SBlueman]

Just wanted to say thank you to the author for such a great mod!

I tried to run the SQL query to pre-exclude forums for new members and got this error:

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1064
error desc: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '$userdata->set('excludeforumsgnp', '137')' at line 1

Now....did I do this right? Is the "137" supposed to be the forum ID I want excluded?

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Yes.
register_addmember_process

PHP Code:

$userdata->set('excludeforumsgnp', 'X'); 


So is this right:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'])
{
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] .= ((!$vbulletin->GPC['exclude']) ? $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'] : ',' . $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp']);
}
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] .= '137,95,152,8';

[dutchbb]

Why isnt this a standard vb feature yet?

[Itworx4me]

With the template hook ($template_hook[usercp_options_other]) is it possible to make this a plugin hack?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[jeremyalyea]

Perfect. I have been looking for a hack like this for months!!!!!!

[pcoskat]

Originally Posted by dutchbb

Why isnt this a standard vb feature yet?

Tell me about it!

[Alfa1]

Please update this for 3.7!
This is THE solution for boards with multilingual forums.