404 error ban.

Hack: 404 error ban

By: Anime-loo

This hack provides you with a new way of banning people from your forum, i wrote this for a client awhile back and never released it, well i saw the blank page ban released so I decided to release mine .

This basicly dose what the thread title says, if a user is in the 404 banned usergourp they will get a "HTTP 404 - File not found" on any page powered by vBulletin.

Simple i know, but its been useful for me.

Download: Here

Version 2

Version two is now out, remove the the loo_404 template and do the new code edit for global.php to upgrade. do not run the query in the install file if you already have version 1 installed!!

[Kars10]

Cool! installed...

[Dynamic One]

Thanks For this nice Hack m8.

[Link14716]

Nice hack, but I decided to use vBStealth with a little bit of code from the HellBan hack to torture the user with Internal Server Errors every 3rd page. I'll click install becuase this hack is still cool.

[Erwin]

I'll tell you how I do it. You can achieve the same result without hacking by doing this:

Open phpinclude template, add to the bottom:

if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 8) {
   header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
   header("Status: 404 Not Found");
   exit;
}

Change 8 to the banned usergroupid you use. Done!

[Link14716]

You could, but what's the fun in that?

[Talisman]

Thanks, Erwin. Will use your suggestion.

[WouterW]

Great hack, man! Works brilliant!

But now another question raises:
How can I hide the banned users from the memberslist on the forum?

[Erwin]

Open memberlist.php and find the code below:

PHP Code:

  $userscount=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS users
                                     FROM user,userfield
                                     WHERE $condition AND
                                           user.userid = userfield.userid
                                           ".iif($memberAllGood, " AND usergroupid NOT IN (1,3,4) ", "")."
                                           "); 


Add more usergroups to exclude in (1,3,4) in the code.

[Brianna]

I have no use for this really (at least at the moment) but I just gotta say what a great idea! Nice job!

[John]

The query doesn't work for me - I get:
Column count doesn't match value count at row 1
On vB 2.2.9