Guests may only view first page of thread

i use a small template modification in my forums, so that guests may only view the first page of a thread. otherwise they will get a (error) message
maybe someone want to use this, too


in the following,
XX is the number of posts shown in a thread
(i think default was 25)
you need to replace this 2 times in the first 2 lines according to your posts/page

postbit legacy
add to the very beginning:

<if condition="$post[postcount] > XX and !$bbuserinfo['userid']">
<if condition="$post[postcount]%XX == 1">
<!-- Start Error Message -->
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    $spacer_open
    <div id="edit$post[postid]" style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
    <if condition="!$post['islastshown']"><!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --></if>    
</if>
<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
<div><b>Guests may only view the first page of a thread. You need to register to get full access. <a href="register.php" rel="nofollow">Click here to register.</a>
</b></div>
</td></tr>
</table>
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    </div>
    $spacer_close
</if>
<!-- End Error Message -->
<else /></if><else />

and add to the end of the template:

</if>

this modification saves traffic and it should increase your registrations rate

its my first release to please be kind

[D|ver]

i'm sorry. i used the php tag instead of code
it should be fixed now

[YLP1]

Where in the code do I put the usergroups that I want to get this message?

I ask because I installed it but guests can see all of the topics.

I am fairly new to php and vb (yep, one of those noobe's) so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[D|ver]

Originally Posted by hollyboy

thank u for looking for it, but with that code I get a message for every reply given saying "guest can only read first post" so if there are 100 replies I get 100 of those messages by each members who replied in the topic.

It would be better to get only 1 message

hmm try using this one

postbit legacy
add to the very beginning:

<if condition="$post[postcount] > 1 and !$bbuserinfo['userid']">
<!-- Start Error Message -->
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
	$spacer_open
	<div id="edit$post[postid]" style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
	<if condition="!$post['islastshown']"><!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --></if>	
</if>
<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
<div><b>Guests may only view the first page of a thread. You need to register to get full access. <a href="register.php" rel="nofollow">Click here to register.</a>
</b></div>
</td></tr>
</table>
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
	</div>
	$spacer_close
</if>
<!-- End Error Message -->
<else />

and at the end

</if>

[D|ver]

Originally Posted by YLP1

Where in the code do I put the usergroups that I want to get this message?

I ask because I installed it but guests can see all of the topics.

I am fairly new to php and vb (yep, one of those noobe's) so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

have you replaced the XX in the first two lines of the first template edit with the number of posts shown in a page?
the !$bbuserinfo['userid'] should prevent guests from viewing the posts

[Rickie3]

very handy thanx *installed*

[LloydSev]

Originally Posted by D|ver

hmm try using this one

postbit legacy
add to the very beginning:

<if condition="$post[postcount] > 1 and !$bbuserinfo['userid']">
<!-- Start Error Message -->
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
	$spacer_open
	<div id="edit$post[postid]" style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
	<if condition="!$post['islastshown']"><!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --></if>	
</if>
<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
<div><b>Guests may only view the first page of a thread. You need to register to get full access. <a href="register.php" rel="nofollow">Click here to register.</a>
</b></div>
</td></tr>
</table>
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
	</div>
	$spacer_close
</if>
<!-- End Error Message -->
<else />

and at the end

</if>

With that code I also get that error message for every message in the thread.

[Rogue_SSEi]

Anyone intall this on 3.51? I cant seem to get it to work but I guess I will try again after upgrading this week.

[Rogue_SSEi]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I was not using postbit_legacy so I installed this to postbit and it works great. Awesome Mod!

[6piston]

D|ver:

With that code I also get that error message for every message in the thread.

same here D|ver bro.
Any ideas? would really appreciate it if there's really a way to limit all replies to 1 error message...

Thanks!
Tom

[icare]

Didint work in my case. I tried in both templetes, ies postbit and post legacy..

It still didnt work. please help