Allow Your Users to Post Anonymously Without Logging Out

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.

[Lionel]

Greebo. Thanks. Your fix solved the problem, which was happening in any edited post as long as the user had anon permissions, regardless or not the post itself was allowing anon.

Now I just need to test for an editpost in an actual allowed anon forum.

I wish amykhar takes a look at it and confirms that this will not affect anything else.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Lionel

It would have been nice to be able to use another set of new status icons for forums and subforums like forum_new.gif, forum_old.gif to indicate that forum accepts anonymous posting (anon_new.gif, anon_old.gif)

Amy, I did not realized that you answered.

Which conditional to use? This does not do it.

<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum<if condition="$post['postanon']!=0">anon</if>_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><span class="smallfont">$forum[title]</span></a>

[Lionel]

OK. I am able to do with this condition
$forum['postanon']!='0'

[Lionel]

Greebo, the only thing that I can see with your fix, is that after edit, admin can no longer see who did that post. It displays "Anonymous Member" for all edited posts instead of real username for admin. It's a trade off I'd rather have instead of having to rebuild threads constantly, until there is a final fix.

[bixente]

unregistered users can post anonymous thred ? if they are how can i disable it?

[amykhar]

It's a permissions setting.

[bixente]

how can i do that only specific user id's can see who is the writer of the thread? i dont want all the moderators to see who post it (some privacy )

[amykhar]

In the showthread changes, I have it check to see if the person can modeate. Change those checks to look for the person's userid instead.

[bixente]

Originally Posted by amykhar

In the showthread changes, I have it check to see if the person can modeate. Change those checks to look for the person's userid instead.

hmm if u can mark me where exactly it will be great cause i'm not that expert in this things
thanks u v.much =]

[Lionel]

Please can someone look at editpost.php? I still have problems in some sections with thread getting the name of person who edited a post as the thread owner. I constantly have to rebuild thread info.