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Force Users to Read a Thread

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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: 3 (1 via ACP, 2 via FTP)
• Time to install: 1 minute

Updates:


Updates:
Version 2.10 (05/02/10):

• First release of this hack for vb 4.0.
• Added link in "Administrative" drop down on the showthread page to edit force read settings.

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

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

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.

[archet1337]

Working great on 4.1.4. Thanks for sharing.

Would be nice though if we could make the users read announcements as well as threads.

[ThePhoneGuy]

Breaks 4.1.5 all skins.

[ClemsonJeeper]

Originally Posted by LoudBox

Plugin works great, good job!

Just noticed though that it didn't work with forum runner. You get the message, but when clicking you get logged out each time. Could you take a look at this?

Looks like there is an easy way to fix this.

Go ahead and go into vBulletin Settings->Force Users to Read a Thread

for the setting "Disable Hack via Filename" add

request.php

to the end of the list on its own line.

Should fix it up. I'll modify Forum Runner so that it automatically disables this when you import its XML file, but to get yourself working right now, that's the way to do it!

Kudos on making this easy!

[maryx]

I love this mod, but it wrecked my site when I upgraded to 4.15

Anyone have a solution for this?

[oldinc]

Thanks - that is a perfect mod and very useful. I appreciate it.

[Feechen]

Hi,

Does not work with Firefox and vB 4.1.5. But it is working fine with IE and vB 4.1.5.

Is there anything I can do in order to have it work in both browsers?

Thanks,
Feechen

[blankpage]

I have vbulletin 4.1.4 and if I enable this hack for guests the forum appear without graphic.

I attach you a picture.

Why?

Thank you!

[DrSlump]

Does anybody has noticed performance issues with this hack?

I had to disable it because it made some queries really slow and consuming, and my database was loaded as hell ... :/

Since I did it, CPU usage has gone down from 95% to almost 10% ...
Read_rnd_next in mysql went from 1.2M to barely 1k ...

[egdevilboy]

I love this mod but I have a small request...

Is it possible to Force Users to Read Forum? I want to force my new users to go to my Introduction Forum and make a post...

Other than that, LOVE the MOD!

[DrSlump]

Originally Posted by DrSlump

Does anybody has noticed performance issues with this hack?

I had to disable it because it made some queries really slow and consuming, and my database was loaded as hell ... :/

Since I did it, CPU usage has gone down from 95% to almost 10% ...
Read_rnd_next in mysql went from 1.2M to barely 1k ...

I reply to myself ... I think I fixed it by adding an index to the thread table:

create force_read_idx ON thread (force_read);