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Allow Your Users to Post Anonymously Without Logging Out · **Released**: 03-19-2005

When I released my Post As Anonymous Mod Hack (now obsolete), many users wanted the ability to allow ANY user to post anonymously. This hack fulfils that request.

It is a VERY long and difficult hack to install. Therefore, I have written the instruction file radically different than any I have ever written before. This one is written in discrete steps. Rather than having you blindly edit files and hope everything works when it's done, I have you do the hack in steps and TEST each step.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CODE, I SUGGEST YOU POST A SERVICE REQUEST AND ASK SOMEBODY TO INSTALL THIS FOR YOU.

Features:
A. Control anonymous posting at the board, forum, usergroup, and user level.

This means that you can use the anonymous posting in any combination that you can use features such as allowing users to reply to posts.

B. Users can post anonymously, but still subscribe to the thread.

C. You can set the anonymous username per usergroup. For example, Admins can post as Anonymous Admin, while regular users post as Anonymous Registered Member.

D. Mods and Admins can see who truly posted.

E. Users can see their name on their own anonymous post.

F. The "edited by" message does not show on anonymous posts.

G. Lastposter works properly.

H. Search will not pull up a user's anonymous posts under their name. But, you can search for all anonymous posts.

I. Anonymous posts are marked so that you don't forget the post is anonymous and "out" yourself.

J. Anonymous posts can be safely quoted.

I will not support this hack for any version of vbulletin other than 3.0.7.

amykhar · #42 03-21-2005, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Challenge

What about some pics of postbit?

OK. I added one to the first post

Lionel · #43 03-21-2005, 01:46 PM

:up: :up: Hack works as described. You people don't cease to amaze me. Every time I think that vb has been hacked out totally, you keep on coming up with something very useful...

amykhar · #44 03-21-2005, 04:37 PM

A long time ago, one of my members took the avatar I was using and modified it. I got to looking at it today and realized it would be the perfect avatar to use with your anonymous user account. I am posting it here just in case you would like to use it.

Leah · #45 03-23-2005, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionel

Yes it is available. Problem is somehow permissions related, because when I do $postanonoption="whatever"; instead of $postanonoption="";
whatever is displayed below the smilies

I'm having the same problem.

Leah · #46 03-23-2005, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leah

I'm having the same problem.

Nevermind.
I seem to have missed step 5b.

adielsh · #47 03-24-2005, 08:37 AM

I arrive to strp 6 i finish this step and i try to test
and this what i recived

Code:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/borecas/domains/borecas.net/public_html/forum/includes/functions_newpost.php on line 420

and now i can't to write message
pliz help me

#48 03-24-2005, 10:26 AM

can you add a feature or two if i don't add them myself?!:
1- admins can see the users realname and userid with link-redirect to their profile...
2- a tag on forumlist to display where we can post as anonymous

... this hack is just great for most boards ...

adielsh · #49 03-24-2005, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adielsh

I arrive to strp 6 i finish this step and i try to test
and this what i recived

Code:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/borecas/domains/borecas.net/public_html/forum/includes/functions_newpost.php on line 420

and now i can't to write message
pliz help me

never mind i found the problem but why i can't writ anonymi when i use administration user?

Greebo · #50 03-24-2005, 02:38 PM

Great hack so far - I'm on step 7 now - but one omission in your instructions:

Step 6r is missing instructions to upload showthread.php -- took me a while to figure out why I couldn't see who I was posting as when logged in as my admin account.

amykhar · #51 03-24-2005, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nexialys

can you add a feature or two if i don't add them myself?!:
1- admins can see the users realname and userid with link-redirect to their profile...
2- a tag on forumlist to display where we can post as anonymous

... this hack is just great for most boards ...

The first thing you requested is built into it.

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