Allow Your Users to Post Anonymously Without Logging Out

When I released my Post As Anonymous Mod Hack (now obsolete), many users wanted the ability to allow ANY user to post anonymously. This hack fulfils that request.

It is a VERY long and difficult hack to install. Therefore, I have written the instruction file radically different than any I have ever written before. This one is written in discrete steps. Rather than having you blindly edit files and hope everything works when it's done, I have you do the hack in steps and TEST each step.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CODE, I SUGGEST YOU POST A SERVICE REQUEST AND ASK SOMEBODY TO INSTALL THIS FOR YOU.

Features:
A. Control anonymous posting at the board, forum, usergroup, and user level.

This means that you can use the anonymous posting in any combination that you can use features such as allowing users to reply to posts.

B. Users can post anonymously, but still subscribe to the thread.

C. You can set the anonymous username per usergroup. For example, Admins can post as Anonymous Admin, while regular users post as Anonymous Registered Member.

D. Mods and Admins can see who truly posted.

E. Users can see their name on their own anonymous post.

F. The "edited by" message does not show on anonymous posts.

G. Lastposter works properly.

H. Search will not pull up a user's anonymous posts under their name. But, you can search for all anonymous posts.

I. Anonymous posts are marked so that you don't forget the post is anonymous and "out" yourself.

J. Anonymous posts can be safely quoted.

I will not support this hack for any version of vbulletin other than 3.0.7.

[amykhar]

No. There is not a 3.5 I am not sure if or when I will have time to port it. And, if it ends up being as complicated a mod as this one, I might not release the 3.5 version for free. Support for this was very time consuming.

[hbalagh1]

I would very much love this mod for 3.5... I just had users ask for something like this

[Greebo]

Originally Posted by amykhar

No. There is not a 3.5 I am not sure if or when I will have time to port it. And, if it ends up being as complicated a mod as this one, I might not release the 3.5 version for free. Support for this was very time consuming.

I can certainly respect that. If you release a paid version, I'm certainly willing to consider it.

[begore]

Any update on the 3.5 situation?

[amykhar]

I'm not certain what kind of update you are seeking? As noted before,it is complex and was not installed by many users.

[HappyDJ]

I would be very interested in a 3.5 version also.

If there is any updates or thoughts about modding this to work on 3.5 please let me know - I will subscribe to this thread

[JustAskJulie]

2e. Time to test again! If you have problems with this test, triple check your math in the init.php file edit. In your admincp, open the forum manager. Edit any forum of your choice. Set the ability to post anonymously in this forum to yes. Save it. Open the same forum. Did your changes stick? If yes, move on to step 3. If not, STOP. Check your work.

How do I know if the changes stuck?

[JustAskJulie]

I did step 6 and now my newpost/newreply pages are showing up blank. Can you help me figure out where I went wrong? I tested after step 5 and everything was good. There's a lot going on in step 6 and I've gone back over it twice trying to find my error and can't seem to figure it out.

[pcoskat]

Any chance of anyone creating this for 3.7?

[pcoskat]

anyone?