Miscellaneous Hacks - VSa - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count

Info:

This product allows you to set permissions based on user’s post count for:
-viewing forum (threads listing),
-viewing threads content,
-creating new threads,
-replying to threads,
-viewing attachments,
-Viewing/Posting links/images and e-mail addresses,
-adding links to signatures
-voting on polls,
-sending private messages,
-sending e-mails,
-posting Visitor messages
-viewing Albums
-creating new Albums
-posting Picture comments
-viewing Social Groups
-creating new Social Groups
-posting Group messages

This will disallow members with no permissions to view forums/threads/posts/links through normal view, printthread, search, archive, thread preview. Note that you can set Forum/Thread Permissions for each forum/sub-forum separately. Screenshot shows additional options in Forum Manager and error messages shown to user when trying to view restricted area.

How it works and why it's better than vB Promotions system?!
Forum is shown on forumhome but with "Locked" icon and if you have no needed post count you'll get "no permission" error message. When you set this via vB Promotions system forum is hidden on forumhome and you must create additional usergroup to make all this working. When user collect needed amount of posts he will be able to access protected forum immediately. When you set this via vB Promotions system then user must wait until Promotions task is executed ... then he will be able to access protected forum. How much time user must wait it depends on settings in AdminCP/Scheduled Tasks... and if you set this to run every minute it pushes your server. If you set it to 2 or more minutes then user must wait more and more... and nobody like it.

Installation:
Import XML file (as product) through AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

Versions:
v1.0 - Sep 16.2005.
-First release
v4.4 - Jun 19. 2008.
-Latest 3.x version
v5.0 - Jan 23. 2010.
-Updated for vBulletin 4.x
-Option to hide or not "Last post info"
-Minor bugs fixed...
-Mod prefix (Cyb) changed to 'VSa'
v5.1 - May 02. 2010.
-Fixed: LPI hidden for excluded groups
-Fixed: Upgrade errors (vB3.x to vB4.x)
-Fixed: Some PHP errors, and minor bugs
v5.2 - May 26. 2012.
-New: Permissions applied to What's New/Activity streams
-New: Permissions applied to subscription logs in member profiles
-New: Warnings in messages replaced by "Hidden Content" where you get more info on click
-New: Disallow links/emails in signatures
-New: Disallow voting on polls
-Fixed: Threads visible in Search results
-Fixed: Links visible in post search results
-Fixed: Links visible in subscription emails
-Fixed: SendPM possible via BCC
-Fixed: PHP 5.3 errors
-Fixed: Style issues on "set all forums" page
-Fixed: Signature perminfo errors
-Fixed: Forum locks
-Fixed: Minor bugs
v5.2.1 - Jun 02. 2012.
-Minor bug fixed (submit form error phrase)

[Tahooma]

Originally Posted by OmerE

Hi,

Few issues with this:

1. It is trivial to get around the PM limits check, simply use BCC when writing the message - the code only checks recipients, not BCC recipients
2. The add-on only checks the main user group, and not membergroups, when testing for which groups it is OK to send PM to despite limit

Suggested fix for both issues, replace body of private_insertpm_process plugin with below (tested in 3.8 but should be similar in 3.6/3.7/4.x):

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['apboupc_global_enable'] AND $vbulletin->options['apboupc_pms'])
{
    if (!is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, split(',', $vbulletin->options['apboupc_pm_excludedgroups'])) AND ($vbulletin->options['apboupc_pm_amount'] !='0') AND ($vbulletin->userinfo[posts] < $vbulletin->options['apboupc_pm_amount']))
    {
        $recs = &$pmdm->info['recipients'];
        foreach($recs as $userid => $user) {
            if(!is_member_of($user, split(',', $vbulletin->options['apboupc_pm_allowed']))) {
                $db->hide_errors();
                $apboupc_get_allowedrecs = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT userid, username, usergroupid FROM `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "user` AS user WHERE `usergroupid` IN (".$vbulletin->options['apboupc_pm_allowed'].") ");
                while ($apboupc_allowedrecs = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($apboupc_get_allowedrecs))
                {
                    $apboupc_allowedrec[] = $apboupc_allowedrecs['username'];
                    $allowed_recipients .= ', <a href="private.php?do=newpm&u='.$apboupc_allowedrecs['userid'].'">'.fetch_musername($apboupc_allowedrecs).'</a>';
                }
                $db->show_errors();
                $allowed_recipients = substr($allowed_recipients, 1);
            
                standard_error(fetch_error('error_postcount_too_low_pm', $vbulletin->options['apboupc_pm_amount'], $vbulletin->userinfo[posts], $allowed_recipients));
            }
        }
    }
} 


Note this will still only list 'possible target users' with usergroup equal to exclusion group; this is intentional in our case, but YMMV.

If you, as supposed, support the whole body text of the plugin, it does not work in 4.1.6

[Manoel J?nior]

How is to work through topics created?

[Fangs404]

This is a great mod. Used it with vB 3.x, so thanks for porting it to 4. Quick problem, though. If you view the New Posts page ([forum]/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post), threads which shouldn't be visible due to post count permissions are showing up.

[cloferba]

this plugin doesnt work with latest version of vbulletin (4.1.11)

[Fangs404]

Originally Posted by cloferba

this plugin doesnt work with latest version of vbulletin (4.1.11)

Yes it does.

[cloferba]

Originally Posted by Fangs404

Yes it does.

with some users it doesn?t

on my forum there are many threads created with members with less than 100 posts.. (and I have set a minimum of 100 posts to create threads)

the issue seems to be with random users

[Bankfodder]

I thought that I had it cracked but I've installed this on another forum and I find once again that I get taken to a page of smilies when I try to configure limits for all existing forums.

Please Valter, can you help on this.

[kendra]

We're presently using your Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count hack, and we're interested in setting minimum post counts in addition to the presently available maximum post count setting. For example, instead of admitting a member to Forum A when she reaches 1000 posts, we'd like to be able to remove a member from Form A when she hits 1000 posts. In this specific instance, we have a "Newbie Corner" and would like to limit it to users who have under 100 posts -- then kick them out of the nest when they hit 100. Can you help?

[pantani]

Very nice mod, instaled and thank you

[Simon2323]

Can you moderate members based in post counts?