Selective Forum Filter

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|| Selective Forum Filter for vBulletin 3.0.3 - 3.0.7
|| Author : Psionic Vision
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What's That For:
It enables your forum users to selectively hide various forums from the forum list and from search by using the new "Edit Forum Visibility Mode" on the index page of your forums.
When hidden, users can access those forums using direct url, or using the edit mode.
The user will still be able to access his hidden forums by using direct url, and he will be able to search from within them.

1.07
[+] Bugfix release..

1.06
[+] Now you can also enter visibility edit mode in subforums. That is useful when there are many forum levels and thus not all of them are accessible from forumhome.
[+] Edit mode is now saved into cookie, so until you either exit from that mode or close your browser, your state will be saved between pages

1.05
Two more template changes that were forgotten about in 1.04.

1.04
Major Update! The confusing type-in-digits text field in the user profile is no more. Now, to edit forum visibility, user must simply click on a new link, and that link will take him to the edit interface. See screenshots.

Note: Of course, guests will not be able to access that mode.

1.03
Once again the manual has been corrected...

1.02
[BugFix] The subforums now get hidden as well (subforums are the list of forums that are outside your forum depth view).

1.01
My apologies - The manual has been incomplete. A query and a step were missing.
This time everything is fixed

1.00
First Public Release

P.S. I do not think there is a screenshot needed here, because the only visual thing the hack does is a new field in user options panel.

I WILL ONLY PROVIDE SUPPORT IF YOU CLICK INSTALL

[kall]

It would appear that this hack wants a field that doesn't exist in my database.

Might be an idea to include this information in the readme.

[kall]

And even when having a field in the user table called excludeforumids .. it doesn't do anything.

I was wondering how it could, when forumdisplay.php nor forumhome.php are changed.

[akanevsky]

Uh, damn, yea I forgot about that. Hold on, I shall fix the readme.

[akanevsky]

Manual has been updated

[kall]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

Manual has been updated

Ah yes, it works for forumdisplay now...not for sub-forums on ForumHome though.

[kall]

Ahh.
Also in functions_forumlist.php find:

PHP Code:

else
            { // get on/off status
                $lastpostinfo = $forumcache["$lastpostarray[$forumid]"]; 


above, add the code you added in the other bit.

And it works 100% PERFECTION! I don't need to delete any Forums now.

[GamerzWorld]

Originally Posted by kall

Ahh.
Also in functions_forumlist.php find:

PHP Code:

else
            { // get on/off status
                $lastpostinfo = $forumcache["$lastpostarray[$forumid]"]; 


above, add the code you added in the other bit.

And it works 100% PERFECTION! I don't need to delete any Forums now.

Can you explain that change abit more

[kall]

The first change only hides the forums on Forumdisplay...the one I mention hides them on ForumHome (if they are subforums, they would show if you don't apply my bit).

The code to insert is the same as you inserted as per the hack instructions, you just have to insert it again where I said to.

[akanevsky]

For some strange reason, on my board it does hide the forum from forumhome, only with my chunk of code. And I don't really understand why wouldn't it work on yours... What version of vB do you have?

[kall]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

For some strange reason, on my board it does hide the forum from forumhome, only with my chunk of code. And I don't really understand why wouldn't it work on yours... What version of vB do you have?

3.0.7..

It doesn't hide subforums without the bit I added.

What depth of subforums are you displaying?