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Force Users to Read a Thread

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About this hack:
This hack allows you to set a thread as 'must read' by your members. Right now, if you make a post and want all your members to read it, you have no way of enforcing it. This hack will give an error message similar to the one you get when you need to change you password, saying that the admins want you to read a certain thread before they continue using the forum.

Once a user reads a thread, they wont be bugged to read it again.

You can set all usergroups or just certain onces that must read a thread.

You can set to site wide or just some forums.

Option to Force Guests

This hack added one query to every page on your forum a member goes to.

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 3 (1 via ACP, 2 via FTP)
• Time to install: 1 minute

Updates:


Updates:
Version 2.10 (05/02/10):

• First release of this hack for vb 4.0.
• Added link in "Administrative" drop down on the showthread page to edit force read settings.

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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Pictures:

• The error message.
• The universal options.
• Where you go to set the settings.
• The list of forums that have force read settings.
• The edit/add screen.

[Dr.osamA]

thanxx for tis graet mod

Originally Posted by KEKforce

I got very strange error. When I add a topic to read (forced) the indexpage turns to archive stand.

When I disable the mod the indexpage of my forum is normal...
So this mods breaks the index of my forum. Please help?

same error

after user read topic get this error

installed + translate to Arabic

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by DjEddie

Im using vb 4.02 at the moment and have installed correctly as per instructions.

Everything on the Admin side works fine it accepts the thread to be forced read with no errors. When refreshing the home/forum page .. I then get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_online_status() in /home/******/public_html/******/includes/block/html.php(95) : eval()'d code on line 97

Any ideas?

Thanks

Eddie

I dont have code that goes anywhere near this. I dont know why you would get it. Are u sure it is this hack? I would have to check your acp

Originally Posted by Veer

Can you add an option to redirect automatically after X seconds?

I'll look into it.

Originally Posted by Fungsten

Abe1,

Can you set a sticky thread to force read? I don't think one could do that with the old version.

Why not? It is a regular thread. You can't do an announcement.

[Skyrider]

Abe1, can you add a feature to force users to read a thread as well? So you can choose users & usergroups.

EG:

ThreadID:
Force Read Order:
Expire:
Expire Date:
Usergroups:
UserID:
Location:

UserID = My idea which I think would be awesome to add!

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

Abe1, can you add a feature to force users to read a thread as well? So you can choose users & usergroups.

EG:



UserID = My idea which I think would be awesome to add!

I dont think so. If you have 1 user that you want a thread to read by, just PM him.

[Dr.osamA]

as you ignored my post man

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

as you ignored my post man

My answer is the same as I gave the other person.

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by Abe1

I dont think so. If you have 1 user that you want a thread to read by, just PM him.

People can choose to refuse PM's, forcing a specific person would be a great addition to this plugin. Especially if you have a mod forum and you want a specific team member or members to check out a thread without selecting the whole usergroup. Not everyone likes to be forced. And I've had complaints about a few users before about them being forced. Hence the idea to force ID's as an option.

[dxds]

I cant figure out were the option is to force read... www.aogamers.com

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by dxds

I cant figure out were the option is to force read... www.aogamers.com

Go to your AdminCP --> Threads & Posts --> Force Thread Read

[xTa`]

Hey,

I'm reporting a big problem for users who uses many db servers.. it crashed my servers several times :

the problem is :

Last_SQL_Error: Error 'Duplicate entry '238346-282075' for key 'PRIMARY'' on query. Default database: 'xTaZe_6'. Query: 'INSERT INTO v7_force_read_users
(force_read_userid, force_read_threadid)
VALUES
('238346', '282075')'
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

for users who got the same problem add the following to your mysql configuration files, this will ensure replication continues even when there is a duplicate record .

slave-skip-errors = 1146
slave-skip-errors = 1062