New Posting Features - Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved privacy for members

Have you ever wanted to discuss something on a forum but never posted because you didn't want people to know it was you? To solve this problem, we created an anonymous posting hack.

Via the admin control panel, you can easily choose which forum(s) allows for anonymous posting.




For anonymous enabled forums, your members then get this handly little checkbox (unchecked by default) when making a new thread or post.




If they check the box, then their post is created under the account you setup and assign as the anonymous poster. I personally created an "anonymous" username, but you can create whatever you want.




As forum owners, we all know that a few members will choose to screw around with this feature. Therefore we created an easy means to identify who created an anonymous thread/post should the need arise. Please be ethical and tell your members you can see who posted anonymously should the need arise. You can check the log by going here:




And the log looks something like this:



Official support for this modification will take place at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.


Enjoy, click install, check out Zoints' other hacks, have a great day, and all that happy jive.

[akz645]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I have attached an add-on to this product that will:

• Display the "True Author" of anonymously made posts to selected usergroups in the postbit. You select these groups in the product settings.
• Update the "anonymous_log" table for posts made using the "Quick Reply." This may only be an issue for vB 4.x users.

1st Error: "The following dependencies were not met:
This product is not compatible with version 1.11 of the product zointsanony. (Compatible starting with 1.11 / Incompatible with 1.11 and greater)"

So I edited the XML file (using notepad++) from:

maxversion="1.11" />

maxversion="2.00" />

2nd Error: http://www.xxxxx/showthread.php?4-Test-Thread
"Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_array() on a non-object in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 214"
If I disable your mod addon, then the error goes away (vBulletin 4.2.3).
I don't know how to fix this error.

[MarkFL]

In the plugin hooked at "postbit_display_complete" add the following to the very beginning:

PHP Code:

global $db, $vbulletin; 


[akz645]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

In the plugin hooked at "postbit_display_complete" add the following to the very beginning:

PHP Code:

global $db, $vbulletin; 


Cheers.

@Anybody else reading
My post contains the updated file (v1.1) for Mark's addon- I've edited it to fix the bugs.

[Removed Attachment- download from the post below by MarkFL]

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by akz645

Cheers.

@Anybody else reading
My post contains the updated file (v1.1) for Mark's addon- I've edited it to fix the bugs.

You really should check with the author of code before uploading it.

I have made the changes to accommodate those few for whom the variables were not already global (and widened the dependency type for those not running the most current version of the original product).

[akz645]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

You really should check with the author of code before uploading it.

I did it to save you time...
Plus you provided the fix, so I didn't think you'd mind, especially since I never claimed or changed any of the files to say I came up with the fixes. I'm quoting you and replying in a thread where you provided the fix. Surely that's checking with the author of the coder... If you don't approve/upload your own, then I'd remove the attachment (as I have done now).

Edit:
Removed the attachment from my previous post...

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by akz645

I did it to save you time...
Plus you provided the fix, so I didn't think you'd mind, especially since I never claimed or changed any of the files to say I came up with the fixes. I'm quoting you and replying in a thread where you provided the fix. Surely that's checking with the author of the coder... If you don't approve/upload your own, then I'd remove the attachment (as I have done now).

Edit:
Removed the attachment from my previous post...

If you had PMed me or posted to ask about it, that would be actually checking to me. However, I can see you were just trying to help and for that I am appreciative. I would have done it last night, but I wasn't feeling well and put it off until today.

[MarkFL]

I discovered a bug (db error when viewing private messages) in the add-on to this product I posted above, and this version addresses that.

[blind-eddie]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I discovered a bug (db error when viewing private messages) in the add-on to this product I posted above, and this version addresses that.

This contains all the fixes you added from above?





Thank you Mark!

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

This contains all the fixes you added from above?...

Yes, it should be good to go now.

[blind-eddie]

Perfect! Thank you!