Administrative and Maintenance Tools - External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting

External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting 2.2

About this hack:
This hack allows you to set what usergroup external.php gets permissions from. This is a great hack for administrators who don't allow guests to view their forum. Using this hack you can set what usergroup it should get permissions from. I'm sure your users want RSS feeds!

There is now an option to have the browser look for cookies to get permissions from.

Administrators who allow guests to view their forum but with barley any permissions, this hack will also help you.

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• Files to upload: 1 (via ACP)
• Time to install: 5 seconds

Updates:

Version 2.0 (9/19/06):

• Release of this hack for vb 3.6.
• Option to use Cookies to get permissions.

Version 2.1 (9/22/06):

• Fixed bug with cookie prefixes

Version 2.2 (10/14/07):

• If using cookies to get usergroupid to get posts, it will now verify passwords to avoid users who edit cookies.

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

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[Abe1]

Originally Posted by YLP1

I am a bit confused and need some help. I want to use this modification to only allow admins and premium member group to use the RSS feeds on our other sites and not allow all other member groups and guests to use the RSS feeds.

How do I do that?

Thanks in advance.

This hack does not let you choose which usergroups see what. You can set it show what they would normally see while browsing the forum. Like an admin can now see things only admins can read in RSS.

[YLP1]

[quote]I don't want to show any rss feed for guests or regular members but only for a special usergroup.

Originally Posted by Abe1

Yes. Set it to look at cookies. Also, set the usergroup setting to usergroup 1 which is guests.

Originally Posted by Abe1

This hack does not let you choose which usergroups see what. You can set it show what they would normally see while browsing the forum. Like an admin can now see things only admins can read in RSS.

I am having a serious blond moment I guess. LOL

Abe, you answered yes to the first question and no to mine LOL
What am I missing here? Is there some setting I have to set for each of the usergroups that I don't want to be able to see the RSS feed?

Thanks in advance.

[Abe1]

[QUOTE=YLP1;1458506]

I don't want to show any rss feed for guests or regular members but only for a special usergroup.




I am having a serious blond moment I guess. LOL

Abe, you answered yes to the first question and no to mine LOL
What am I missing here? Is there some setting I have to set for each of the usergroups that I don't want to be able to see the RSS feed?

Thanks in advance.

No.

[BadgerDog]

Installed ... :up:

I hope this can do what I think it does ...

I'm just learning RSS, but I installed the Cinvin mod and I'm able to get feeds using the Tristana free RSS reader, but it was only getting threads that unregistered "guests" could view, even though Tristana allows the entry of a specific username and password for any given feed.

When I tried to add the feed of a forum that required a user to be registered, I would get this error from Tristana:

Error parsing content data channel. Document is either invalid or unsupported.

So, I just installed this mod here and now I get threads .... :up:

Even using this mod, I still can't get Yahoo to add threads from the same forum as it still gives me this error:

There were some problems while loading your page:

Sorry, we were unable to add this feed. Please try again later.

I'm not sure why Yahoo doesn't work and the free Tristana desktop program reader doesn, but at least I've made progress.

Any help or guidance as to what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Regards,
Badger

[J98680Bxxxxx]

Installed, works fine on a closed forum using vB 3.7 CR2 RSS Feed. I have finally succeeded in sending out my RSS Feed.

Thanks Abe1 :up:

[Boofo]

This compliments my Site Map hack greatly. Thank you, sir.

[Boofo]

One question: If someone plays with the links long enough and can find a forumid that is not listed for them, they can subscribe to that RSS feed. I like being able to see all the feeds for whatever areas I am entitled to see, hidden or not, but I would rather not have everyone be able to subscribe to the feeds they can't see by playing with the links in the address bar. Is it possible to stop that?

[Boofo]

Uninstalled since there seems to be no support.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Boofo

One question: If someone plays with the links long enough and can find a forumid that is not listed for them, they can subscribe to that RSS feed. I like being able to see all the feeds for whatever areas I am entitled to see, hidden or not, but I would rather not have everyone be able to subscribe to the feeds they can't see by playing with the links in the address bar. Is it possible to stop that?

Not sure what you mean exactly.

[J98680Bxxxxx]

Originally Posted by Boofo

One question: If someone plays with the links long enough and can find a forumid that is not listed for them, they can subscribe to that RSS feed. I like being able to see all the feeds for whatever areas I am entitled to see, hidden or not, but I would rather not have everyone be able to subscribe to the feeds they can't see by playing with the links in the address bar. Is it possible to stop that?

How about making those forums that are not listed not searchable? I don?t know if the RSS feed will get info from those.

Just a hint.