Limit Viewing/Allow Spidering

[dano]

Originally Posted by NTLDR

If you hacked the forum to prevent viewing by guests, but allowed it on the archive why bother to register when you could read the thread in the archive?

I doubt too many people would think of that option. But who knows. I think this hack could help him maybe

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...9&page=1&pp=15

[dynamite]

That is what I want, but the only problem is that blocks the spiders also, and with out the spiders, there would be NO traffic. Plus I need them for adsense also.

I have been trying to play around with it all day, but I am having trouble coming up with what to add to it to make it recognize that it is the spider and allow it.

Something to the effect of:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND $guests['spider'] != $spider)) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
} 


I have no idea what I'm really doing, so I would appreaciate it if someone could point me in the right direction here with it checking for the spiders also.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by dynamite

That is what I want, but the only problem is that blocks the spiders also, and with out the spiders, there would be NO traffic. Plus I need them for adsense also.

I have been trying to play around with it all day, but I am having trouble coming up with what to add to it to make it recognize that it is the spider and allow it.

Something to the effect of:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND $guests['spider'] != $spider)) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
} 


I have no idea what I'm really doing, so I would appreaciate it if someone could point me in the right direction here with it checking for the spiders also.

that would also block spiders

anyway what it comes down to is, allow spiders and guests to view or dont, if the spiders are indexing your site your guests can search the archive OR google, so it doesnt matter. just allow both

[dynamite]

OK... can somebody with some understanding of coding take a look at this for me. It seems to be working by allowing Google to spide but denying those who are guests from what I can tell by Who's Online. Please let me know if this seems OK to you.

PHP Code:

if ((strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']), "googlebot") == false) AND ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 3)) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
} 


Granted, if these seems OK, then basically I would just have to allow the other user agents for the spiders I want... right?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by dynamite

OK... can somebody with some understanding of coding take a look at this for me. It seems to be working by allowing Google to spide but denying those who are guests from what I can tell by Who's Online. Please let me know if this seems OK to you.

PHP Code:

if ((strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']), "googlebot") == false) AND ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 3)) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
} 


Granted, if these seems OK, then basically I would just have to allow the other user agents for the spiders I want... right?

im fairly sure that will just disallow all google spiders and anyone in usergroup 3

[dynamite]

This is what sucks not having a full understanding of coding and basically mixing and matching. Here is a screenshot of what my Who's Online looks like. As you can see Google Spidering are not getting the while the Guests are. From the looks of that it seems to be allowing the spider to do their job, but block the guests

[Zachery]

basicy what that says is

if your google bot OR in group 3 show the no permissions screen

[dynamite]

So basically, I need to switch it to != false that should take care of it.

What I want it to say is

if the user is NOT googlebot, AND they have no userid OR are in groupid 3, then show the no permissions page

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by dynamite

So basically, I need to switch it to != false that should take care of it.

What I want it to say is

if the user is NOT googlebot, AND they have no userid OR are in groupid 3, then show the no permissions page

yes

[Link14716]

I think you are wrong Faranth.

The original code said the if it is NOT a googlebot and blah blah, show the no permissions screen.