End-User Options - Selective Forum Filter

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|| Selective Forum Filter
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Co-Author(s) : Andreas
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : May 31, 2009
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|| Time required to install: 30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

Ever came across large boards with a huge number of sub forums? Couldn't find your info? Wanted to run away from that huge load of stupid threads? This hack is intended to save your users from having such a horrible experience. It provides them with an opportunity to exclude any number of forums from the forums list (as well as from "get new"/"get daily" searches), which still letting them to access those forums directly and search within them, too.

STATISTICS

Products to Install: 1


INTRODUCTION

To enable "can be excluded" in all forums, run this query:
UPDATE PFXforum SET excludable = 1
To disable "can be excluded" in all forums, run this query:
UPDATE PFXforum SET excludable = 0
In both cases, PFX must be replaced with the actual table prefix that you have defined in config.php.
If you have not defined a prefix, remove PFX from the queries.
After you run either one of these queries, you must then open and save any one forum for the forum cache to be updated.

VERSION HISTORY

1.1.0
[+] The hack is now compatible with vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Eliminated all template edits.

1.0.2
[+] The hack is now compatible with vBulletin 3.6.
[+] Corrected a couple of mistakes in the installation manual.

1.0.1
[+] Added option to set forums as excludable. By default, excludability of all forums is disabled.

1.0.0
First Public Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[KrisP]

Great mod. Would it be possible to make a small modification so posts and threads dosent pop up in search results at all?

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Walter

Thank you for the hack!

A small bug occured: the settings in the user control panel work only in IE and Firefox, in Opera the list of the forums is scrollable but the forums actually don't scroll so the feature is not usable in Opera....

That's weird. Can you please link me to your site so that I can see what is going on?

Originally Posted by KrisP

Great mod. Would it be possible to make a small modification so posts and threads dosent pop up in search results at all?

Are you talking about posts and threads from the hidden forums? The hidden forums are searchable so that users can still access them directly if they want to. However, results from those forums should not appear during a regular search.

[KrisP]

Well, if I do a "quick search" in the top of the screen, regular search results for hidden threads and posts do pop up. I am using "Selective Forum Filter v1.1.0 for vBulletin v3.5.x - 3.8.x ".

[TAIFUN_T]

Anton Kanevsky, hello
I respect you as a Coder.

You plan to introduce a SQL query to the option? To not ever manually run queries

To enable "can be excluded" in all forums, run this query:
UPDATE PFXforum SET excludable = 1
To disable "can be excluded" in all forums, run this query:
UPDATE PFXforum SET excludable = 0

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Russian Version

[YISRAEL]

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[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by TAIFUN_T

Anton Kanevsky, hello
I respect you as a Coder.

You plan to introduce a SQL query to the option? To not ever manually run queries


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Russian Version

Sorry, I was not planning on adding such a feature.

Thank you for the Russian translation.

[TWood]

Is there a way to set the forum so that it is pre-filtered depending on the incoming link to the forum? For example, let's say I have a website front page with three hyperlinks labeled 1,2 and 3. The master list of forums are also 1,2 and 3. But when a user clicks on 2 on the website front page for example, vBulletin only shows forum 2 to that user.

[Robbed]

Psionic is it possible to add an option in the usercp to check off if they want to exclude the forums or just from new posts and search.

Right now i have this disabled cache_ordered_forums

[mattdonders]

Thanks for this!

Installed!

[woostar]

This doesn't seem to work with vBSEO. Can anyone confirm this or is it just me?