Administrative and Maintenance Tools - External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting

External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting 2.2

About this hack:
This hack allows you to set what usergroup external.php gets permissions from. This is a great hack for administrators who don't allow guests to view their forum. Using this hack you can set what usergroup it should get permissions from. I'm sure your users want RSS feeds!

There is now an option to have the browser look for cookies to get permissions from.

Administrators who allow guests to view their forum but with barley any permissions, this hack will also help you.

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• Files to upload: 1 (via ACP)
• Time to install: 5 seconds

Updates:

Version 2.0 (9/19/06):

• Release of this hack for vb 3.6.
• Option to use Cookies to get permissions.

Version 2.1 (9/22/06):

• Fixed bug with cookie prefixes

Version 2.2 (10/14/07):

• If using cookies to get usergroupid to get posts, it will now verify passwords to avoid users who edit cookies.

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

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[Abe1]

Originally Posted by jyajay

Could you give me a small advice about how to do that? I am not quite sure what you are talking about.

I already tried to edit the postbit_external though but the usergroup conditional seems not to work there as saving is not possible without producing syntax errors.

Try editing the plug-in for this hack.

[jyajay]

Abe, if I could do it myself I wouldn't ask. I was assuming because you wrote this add-on you can tell what I have to change.


I'd very much appreciate your help with this.

[Abe1]

Try to change in the plug-in:

cache_permissions($vbulletin->userinfo);

to:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] == XXXXXX)
{
cache_permissions($vbulletin->userinfo);
}

[jyajay]

Ok, thank you for the information.

Now I discovered another problem that denies access to the attachments inside of the news feed because of some cookie setting i guess. When I disable your plugin the attachments are shown without any trouble.

On my forum I got the cookie settings set to .domain.com if thats any help to you.

[marshill]

when I go to my RSS: www.mysite.com/forums/external.php?type=rss2 it shows my latest threads and the full text of those threads, but the permissions on those forums are for viewing topics *only*. My permissions are set so that guests are unable to view thread content, and can only see thread titles. I installed your product and assigned usergroup 1 in the settings, but its the same problem. I can see full post content and should only be able to see titles. Even when I log out completely, I can still see the full content of private threads on my RSS.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by marshill

when I go to my RSS: www.mysite.com/forums/external.php?type=rss2 it shows my latest threads and the full text of those threads, but the permissions on those forums are for viewing topics *only*. My permissions are set so that guests are unable to view thread content, and can only see thread titles. I installed your product and assigned usergroup 1 in the settings, but its the same problem. I can see full post content and should only be able to see titles. Even when I log out completely, I can still see the full content of private threads on my RSS.

What happens when you actually click on something?

[Abe1]

Version 2.2 (10/14/07):

• If using cookies to get usergroupid to get posts, it will now verify passwords to avoid users who edit cookies.

[ninjamaster]

thanks nice work

[bchertov]

Does this hack allow for a user group to just see the first part of a post's body with a link for more? If not, it would make a nice enhancement! I'd like to restrict full text RSS to paid members. Thanks!

[YLP1]

I am a bit confused and need some help. I want to use this modification to only allow admins and premium member group to use the RSS feeds on our other sites and not allow all other member groups and guests to use the RSS feeds.

How do I do that?

Thanks in advance.