Show only XX posts in thread to guests..

if in your forum you allow guests to see the threads you can now set a limit on them

Requested by 006 Here

[Velocd]

Interesting concept, to tempt a guest who is reading a thread to register in order to get past the X amount provided.

[D|ver]

yes like 006 already said, it would be great if there would be an error message in the last post, the guests can see

but really cool hack, great idea

[noppid]

We did it the lazy way. Instead of guests getting no nav bar we did this.

$pagenav = "<A href=\"register.php\">Register</A> to read all posts.";

[007]

Yeah I did that for now too, but it would be cool if it were possible to display an error message actually instead of the actual post.

Like all the navigation would remain the same, it would show as many pages as the thread had, and the guest could go to them all, BUT, each post after X number would not show the actual message, but a register message.

I made a screenshot (Kind of big but it's a good example)

[wolfe]

will try to sort that out d00d

also only 1 person click install this hack and about 6 did

[007]

I clicked it.

[wolfe]

i know d00d i am working on the extra thing you wanted but first i will release my Jokes Factory v2.0 hack hope you check it out

[007]

Cool, will do man. Thanks

[Koutaru]

05-23-03 at 05:12 PM 006 said this in Post #14
Yeah I did that for now too, but it would be cool if it were possible to display an error message actually instead of the actual post.

Like all the navigation would remain the same, it would show as many pages as the thread had, and the guest could go to them all, BUT, each post after X number would not show the actual message, but a register message.

I made a screenshot (Kind of big but it's a good example)

That is something I'd rather have as well ^^ does anyone know how to do this?

[wolfe]

Here you all go guys and girls i just spent a few mins figuring this out here's what you all want

PHP Code:


UPDATE: in admin/functions.php  FIND:

// ################################ Start ##################################

$post[message]=bbcodeparse($post[pagetext],$forum[forumid],$post[allowsmilie]);

// ################################# End ####################################


and replace with

// ################################ Start ##################################

 if ($firstnew>$guestposts) {
    $post[message]="Sorry You Can Only See A Limit Of $guestposts Till You Register!";
 } else {    
    $post[message]=bbcodeparse($post[pagetext],$forum[forumid],$post[allowsmilie]);
 }

// ################################# End #################################### 


note you can add what you want where it says

Sorry You Can Only See A Limit Of $guestposts Till You Register!


also updated txt file