Must be member for X days before can vote on polls.

Recently I ran a contest in which the members voted on the winner. Problem I ran into was that people were registering new names just to vote multiple times. I figured the best way to prevent this was to disallow new members from voting on polls for X amount of days. Being I ran the poll for 7 days I set my code to not allow members who have registered within the last 10 days from voting.

I thought I would share my work being I have gotten so much from others here. It's very simple and only requires modifying one file.


Open poll.php and search for:

// other permissions?

Add below it:

$bbuserinfo['datejoined'] = vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], $bbuserinfo['joindate']);
$jointime = (TIMENOW - $bbuserinfo['joindate']) / 86400; // Days Joined

Directly below that look for:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE))
{
print_no_permission();
}

Change to:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE) OR $jointime<10 )
{
print_no_permission();
}

Change $jointime<10 to how ever many days you wish to set it to. This means a user can not vote on a poll if they have not been a member for at least 10 days.


I also added this line to my nopermission_loggedin phrase:

<li>If you are trying to vote on a poll, you must be a member for at least 10 days before you can vote on polls.</li>

Enjoy!

[HiDeo]

Thanks for this hack IndyWebDesign

[kall]

Or, you could use vB 3.x's built in promotions system. Disallow the Registered Users group the ability to vote on polls, and set a Promotion into a second usergroup (identical, but can vote on polls) after being a member for 10 days.

[WreckRman2]

Yes, you can use the Promotion system however I thought a little extra code was much easier than adding extra usergroups. At least it was for me...

[dsotmoon]

is there a way to set this to be after so many days OR post count

[WreckRman2]

Change:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE) OR $jointime<10 )
{
print_no_permission();
}

To:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE) OR $jointime<10 OR $bbuserinfo['posts'] <10 )
{
print_no_permission();
}

That should do it but it is untested.

[oldford]

This is just what I'm looking for, but I can't get it to work. My existing members can't vote.

[home9000]

any one have this hack for 3.6.5

[tiengnhat]

Who can change this mod for V3.7.x?
@Admin: can you help me for this mod?
I really need this mod.
Thanks!