Miscellaneous Hacks - VSa - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count

Info:

This product allows you to set permissions based on user’s post count for:
-viewing forum (threads listing),
-viewing threads content,
-creating new threads,
-replying to threads,
-viewing attachments,
-Viewing/Posting links/images and e-mail addresses,
-adding links to signatures
-voting on polls,
-sending private messages,
-sending e-mails,
-posting Visitor messages
-viewing Albums
-creating new Albums
-posting Picture comments
-viewing Social Groups
-creating new Social Groups
-posting Group messages

This will disallow members with no permissions to view forums/threads/posts/links through normal view, printthread, search, archive, thread preview. Note that you can set Forum/Thread Permissions for each forum/sub-forum separately. Screenshot shows additional options in Forum Manager and error messages shown to user when trying to view restricted area.

How it works and why it's better than vB Promotions system?!
Forum is shown on forumhome but with "Locked" icon and if you have no needed post count you'll get "no permission" error message. When you set this via vB Promotions system forum is hidden on forumhome and you must create additional usergroup to make all this working. When user collect needed amount of posts he will be able to access protected forum immediately. When you set this via vB Promotions system then user must wait until Promotions task is executed ... then he will be able to access protected forum. How much time user must wait it depends on settings in AdminCP/Scheduled Tasks... and if you set this to run every minute it pushes your server. If you set it to 2 or more minutes then user must wait more and more... and nobody like it.

Installation:
Import XML file (as product) through AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

Versions:
v1.0 - Sep 16.2005.
-First release
v4.4 - Jun 19. 2008.
-Latest 3.x version
v5.0 - Jan 23. 2010.
-Updated for vBulletin 4.x
-Option to hide or not "Last post info"
-Minor bugs fixed...
-Mod prefix (Cyb) changed to 'VSa'
v5.1 - May 02. 2010.
-Fixed: LPI hidden for excluded groups
-Fixed: Upgrade errors (vB3.x to vB4.x)
-Fixed: Some PHP errors, and minor bugs
v5.2 - May 26. 2012.
-New: Permissions applied to What's New/Activity streams
-New: Permissions applied to subscription logs in member profiles
-New: Warnings in messages replaced by "Hidden Content" where you get more info on click
-New: Disallow links/emails in signatures
-New: Disallow voting on polls
-Fixed: Threads visible in Search results
-Fixed: Links visible in post search results
-Fixed: Links visible in subscription emails
-Fixed: SendPM possible via BCC
-Fixed: PHP 5.3 errors
-Fixed: Style issues on "set all forums" page
-Fixed: Signature perminfo errors
-Fixed: Forum locks
-Fixed: Minor bugs
v5.2.1 - Jun 02. 2012.
-Minor bug fixed (submit form error phrase)

[ZeroHour]

Originally Posted by Bankfodder

We are having a problem in that new users are posting on the blog pages instead of the forum.

Any chance that this mod could be updated to handle post count requirements for blogs, please??

+1 blog spam is now a big problem as well as user album abuse with spam.

[Paul.]

Originally Posted by ZeroHour

+1 blog spam is now a big problem as well as user album abuse with spam.

It would be cool. Is there anything at all out there at the moment to give us more control over the blogs?

[DaPro]

This plugin needs to have the templates updated to match vB4.1.

[ZeroHour]

Originally Posted by DaPro

This plugin needs to have the templates updated to match vB4.1.

Have you found issues?

[btlewand]

Unusual situation. Using 4.08 and am still building my site so it's currently private from viewers. Forum view restriction using this hack is working on one forum. Now cannot get to work on any other forums. The one that is working I believe I set up a few weeks back so perhaps I configured something since then that prevents this hack from working on any new forums (just weird that it works on one forum and not another). I see comments in this forum that some users are having trouble getting the product to work on various versions of VB but did not really see any clear resolution.

I'm only using this product because I want to prevent Unregistered users from viewing certain forums on my site. I know I can set permissions for unregistered users from viewing those forum but that also shuts down the RSS feeds for those forums and ALL child forums and I need those RSS feeds to be functional.

Any ideas?

[btlewand]

I'm still trying to resolve this issue, but am finding the plug-in works in VB 4.08 in a forum I created PRIOR to upgrading to 4.08. If I try to create a new forum, update an existing forum or make a new forum based from the one that is working (now that I am on 4.08), the plug-in permissions do not prevent users from accessing the forum if they do not have the minimum post count.

If somebody reading this post is using this plugin and it is working correctly on 4.08, can you try to create a new forum and test to see if anything created after you have upgraded to 4.08 doesn't work. Just trying to see if others are having the same problem based on when they created the forum.

[Sangheili]

I have a feature request. Option to enable reCAPTCHA only when creating new threads and being able to control which users are affected by post count and usergroup.

[cyberchief]

Thanks!

[zacs2k]

I have a suggestion for the next update. Make it so that we can edit the text that it says. Example instead of "you must have # posts to access this forum. You currently have #" I would like to put a link in there so that if a user who is unregistered reads that they can click the link to register to the forum.

[Valter]

It's in phrases.