Show/Hide Private Forums

Show/Hide Private Forums

Description
vBulletin already has a setting to specify if a Forum where the User does not have Permissions
should still be listed or not.
Unfortunately, this is a All or Noting setting, eg. you can't show your Premmium Members Forum,
but still hide your Staff Zone.
This Hack turns this into a Forum Setting, making it possible to show one Forum but Hide another -
no matter the the global setting is.

Details
1 Product XML with 2 Plugins and 3 Phrase
7 File Edits

If somebody has got the ultimate Idea how this could be done without File Edits i'd be more then happy to know

History
1.0.0 Initial Version
1.0.1 Fixed a Typo in the Install Code which caused a Query not to be executed properly.

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall whan you don't use it any longer!

[Andreas]

Ack. This is a Bug in vBulletin.
Fixed the XML and updated the ZIP.

[taffy056]

Hi Kirby,

Got the following error when I try to add a new forum in the admincp, when I disable your hack all is okay, enabled it just throws this out.

taffy

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO forum
	(title_clean, title, description_clean, description, link, displayorder, daysprune, parentid, newpostemail, newthreademail, options, styleid, password, issponsor, sponsor_banner, sponsor_url, showifnopermission)
VALUES
	('Admin Forum', 'Admin Forum', '', '', '', 1, -1, 1, '', '', 89799, 0, '', '0', '', '', 0);

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'showifnopermission' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date		 : Sunday, August 14th 2005 @ 03:55:36 AM
Script	   : http://www.mydomain.org.uk/testforum/admincp/forum.php
Referrer	 : http://www.mydomain.org.uk/testforum/admincp/forum.php?do=add&parentid=1&s=
IP Address   : *.*.*.*
Username	 : *
Classname	: vb_databas

[Andreas]

*hmpf*

Run the following Query
[sql]ALTER TABLE forum ADD showifnopermission TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'[/sql]
(Keep Table-Prefixes in mind!)

Or redownload and overwrite.

[taffy056]

Hi,

That fixed it, thank you for sharing

taffy

[JohnBee]

Great MOD

Is it possible to get it to work for Sub-Forums on the FORUMHOME display?
It hides all the forums but sub-forums remain visible even if I select NO under the visible option.