Restrict Guest Viewing Threads in a Forum

I'm actually suprised that you can't stop guests from viewing threads themselves in forum and the only solution is to stop them Viewing others and that includes the thread titles on forumdisplay.

This lets guests see threads made by someone else on the forumdisplay page but not the thread itself, they'll get a nice error telling them to register.

Can be enabled on a forum by forum basis within the forum options.

I use this for a member forum on my board and I would rather show a guest what the thread title is, instead of showing no title at all

[Lesane]

Are you sure that you executed the SQL Query?

[supernut]

yes, that is all done, i have had it checked and its 100%

i found that problem

moderateattach='$moderateattach'

i did not put the correct part after and added the same thing 2 time, so now its saving ok, but guests can still read the posts ?

[supernut]

got it working... thanks for the help

[Nam]

am I doing this right? I got this hack worked, but everytime I change the forum description, it creates a duplicate forum, force me to mass move topic from the old one to the new one just for description change. Is that suppose to happen if you use this hack?

[SgtSling]

I got it working

Will this drain my server at all?

[Scott MacVicar]

Nam i belive you have an INSERT query where it should be an update query make sure you followed the instructions correctly.

[Nam]

I did what the instruction says:

ALTER TABLE `forum` ADD `allowguestpostview` SMALLINT(6) DEFAULT '1' NOT NULL

May be I did something wrong, I'm very dumb in PHP stuff, only know "copy and paste" command when install hacks. So please tell me how to change (remove) that query out using PHPMyAdmin?

Everytime when I change the forum description, it automatically create a duplicated one, I had to do mass topic moving alot, it's really tired. Please help, thanks a lot.

And btw, I love this hack, it's a great hack for a new forum, the traffic and member joining are increasing fast. Thanks.

[Scott MacVicar]

make sure on line 1498 of /admin/forum.php looks like

PHP Code:

  $DB_site->query("UPDATE forum SET replycount='$numberposts',threadcount='$numberthreads',lastpost='$lastpost',lastposter='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($lastposter))."',lasttitle='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($lasttitle))."' WHERE forumid='$forumid'"); 


I'm sure at this point you have an INSERT query where it should be the update one above.

[Nam]

Sorry, my file has only 550 lines, were you talking about double lines? I did try to search it carefully but couldn't find the line you told me.

Here is my admin/forum.php file, please check it for me too see if anything wrong, there was nothing like what you've told me. Thanks a lot.

[Scott MacVicar]

ok em sorted you had added the insert query into the doupdate part of the file.

Just reload this to the admin directory.

Scott