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.

[momlwt]

I am installing your Anonymous hack and ran into some problems with testing step 6.

I have double checked everything but no matter what I do the check box to choose to post anonymously is not showing up.

Any assistance would be greatly appriciated. I pm'd you in April with no reply so kind of gave up but now the issue why we wanted the hack in the first place is back so I could really use some help.

Kim
http://www.parent-2-parent.org

[voclain]

Originally Posted by momlwt

I am installing your Anonymous hack and ran into some problems with testing step 6.

I have double checked everything but no matter what I do the check box to choose to post anonymously is not showing up.

Any assistance would be greatly appriciated. I pm'd you in April with no reply so kind of gave up but now the issue why we wanted the hack in the first place is back so I could really use some help.

Kim
http://www.parent-2-parent.org

I have the same problem?

UP to this point I have had ZERO problems...all has been WONDERFUL! (SUPER job on writing the TXT file!! AMAZING!!!)....

I get no error messages....all appears to be normal...but NO CHECK BOX!

I'm 2 hours into this hack...and I sure do need it (IF POSSIBLE) before tomorrow.

YOU assistance would be geatly appreciated.

I'm now back off to read through this thread again to see if I missed something.

Thanks.

Kirk

[voclain]

OH...I have another questions....ON STEP 6. Letter "i"....

The instructions are to:

Find: ..... Replace with: (.........change to use the proper userid and user name.)

I see in the text where to put "PUT USERID HERE"...but I've read it 4 times...I don't see where to put "USER NAME".

Am I just missing it??? Could this be why IT'S not working????

Kirk

[voclain]

OH...I just had another thought......

I skipped step 3 because I do not have a need for that....could this be causing the problem????? as to why in step 6 I cannot get the check box to show up????

THANKS AGAIN for this hack....WONDERFULLY WRITTEN!!!! Amazing....I wish I had your brain!

Kirk

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by voclain

OH...I just had another thought......

I skipped step 3 because I do not have a need for that....could this be causing the problem????? as to why in step 6 I cannot get the check box to show up????

THANKS AGAIN for this hack....WONDERFULLY WRITTEN!!!! Amazing....I wish I had your brain!

Kirk

I'll look at the code again in a few minutes. I may have messed up the text file when fixing something else. I'm going to be porting it to 3.5 this evening (I hope) and that will make me look at this in fine detail.

Amy

[voclain]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I will say that first...I am NO CODER.....I can copy and paste...but for me to say what I'm doing??? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!

With that said...this is the ONLY thing I have found that is a bit ODD:

Step 6 Letter "i" ONE of the last bits of code you tell me to find is:

'" . addslashes($post['ipaddress']) . "', $post[iconid], $post[visible], $totalattachments") .
"')");

However...in my "functions_newpost" it looks like this:

'" . addslashes($post['ipaddress']) . "', $post[iconid], $post[visible], $totalattachments)
");

I don't know if that is causing the problem or not???? But I figured IT was the only difference I have found.

LET ME KNOW!

And thanks again for this.....IF you have a DONATION policy....please PM it to me so I can contribute!

Yours,

Kirk

[amykhar]

I just looked at step 3. Yes, it would most definitely make the checkbox not show if you don't do that step, but you have the code in later to see if it's on or not.

The code you just posted shouldn't make a difference

[voclain]

Originally Posted by amykhar

I just looked at step 3. Yes, it would most definitely make the checkbox not show if you don't do that step, but you have the code in later to see if it's on or not.

The code you just posted shouldn't make a difference

Wait??? I'm a bit confused???? Are you saying I should just continue onto step 7 and this will fix itself????

LET ME KNOW....THANKS AGAIN...

Kirk

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by voclain

Wait??? I'm a bit confused???? Are you saying I should just continue onto step 7 and this will fix itself????

LET ME KNOW....THANKS AGAIN...

Kirk

No. I'm saying go back and do step 3. It won't hurt anything to do it and turn the setting on. It's not a code change, and won't take you but a minute.

[voclain]

Originally Posted by amykhar

No. I'm saying go back and do step 3. It won't hurt anything to do it and turn the setting on. It's not a code change, and won't take you but a minute.

Thank you...I did just that.....and figured....as you say....JUST FOR GIGGLES ...to do it....and it's done....And still no check box???

I have another question at this point....I've been checking steps as I go along...

When I run:
UPDATE userfield set field6='yes';

IT says OK...done....but when I search a user, neither YES nor NO is checked.

Could this be the problem???

Kirk

PS: I really do feel I owe you something for this...PLEASE DO PM ME!