Trap Banned Members: They cant logout.

Hey there,

This is a very tiny (and very easy to install) hack but I like to use it and found it useful:

I have a certain user group for trouble users in my board which I disabled all access to my board and this group can not even search or display the board itself or anything, so they are lower than guests. So I need to trap them in their username so that they wouldnt log out and "gain" guest access. This tiny hack exactly does this. You can use it with "banned users" or any user group you need to trap. Here we go:

Edit member.php and find
-- cut ---
// ############################### start logout ###############################
if ($action=="logout") {
include("./global.php");
-- cut ---

AFTER THAT add:
-- cut --
// Banned users cant logout hack
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==XX) {show_nopermission(); exit;}
// Banned users cant logout hack
-- cut --

Replace XX with any usergroup id. (Banned by Moderators group is 12 in my board). If you put your mouse icon on "Edit" in http://www.url.com/yourboardadmin/us...tion=modify&s= , you can learn the usergroupid of any groups. If you need to trap more than 1 usergroups use this line:

if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==XX OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==YY) {show_nopermission(); exit;}

After applying the hack, trapped users will get "You dont have access" page if they try to logout from anywhere. Of course these members can still clear the cookies by deleting them manually, but you'll stop 95% of members who dont know the trick anyway!

Enjoy!

Logician //=^))

[inetd]

Logician, good hack! Help me please. I need "cant logout" to 2 groups. How change code for this?

Sorry for my bad english

[Logician]

Originally posted by inetd
Logician, good hack! Help me please. I need "cant logout" to 2 groups. How change code for this?

inetd: it's already written in the original thread:
-- cut --
If you need to trap more than 1 usergroups use this line:

if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==XX OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==YY) {show_nopermission(); exit;}
-- cut --

So just replace XX and YY with your 2 usergroup ids..

Regards,
Logician

[DWZ]

Just installed then and test banned one of my mods, worked just the way it should

Installed on 2.2.5

[Logician]

Originally posted by DWZ
Just installed then and test banned one of my mods, worked just the way it should

Installed on 2.2.5

DWZ Thx! I wish everybody would give feedback when they installed a hack especially if the author asked for it or if it's beta. This is a small hack and I knew that this was working but in the past I had released some beta hacks to get feedback about how the hack is doing in other people's board and I got none! So thx again for the feedback, it's appreciated!

Regards,
Logician

[inetd]

Logician, big thanks for this hack! You one of the best hackers!

[Keyser S?ze]

Originally posted by Logician

DWZ Thx! I wish everybody would give feedback when they installed a hack especially if the author asked for it or if it's beta. This is a small hack and I knew that this was working but in the past I had released some beta hacks to get feedback about how the hack is doing in other people's board and I got none! So thx again for the feedback, it's appreciated!

Regards,
Logician

well i just installed this and its not working at all, i made a new accoutn and banned it, and had no trouble logging out and then viewing the board

dj- please post that hack u made, that would be great, or PM it to me, my board has been down alot latly for maintenece so they would suspect nothing :P

[Logician]

Originally posted by IceMalee

well i just installed this and its not working at all, i made a new accoutn and banned it, and had no trouble logging out and then viewing the board

There are some hacks that can have bugs or can have problems in some boards etc, but this is not one of them.. It's a very simple line of change and there cant be something wrong with the code because of its simplicity. I use it with no problems at all..

I would suggest you double check if you applied the hack carefully and correctly. For example are you sure you changed "XX" in the hack with the usergroupid and are you sure your banned users' usergroup id is exactly what you wrote for XX? Please double check..

Regards,
Logician

[Keyser S?ze]

check that out, thats how i got it, its not exactly like yours, but in my member.php thats how that first part is, and i couldnt find any others that were just how yours is, so what should i do?

PHP Code:

if ($action=="logout") {
  $templatesused = 'error_cookieclear';
  include("./global.php");
 // Banned users cant logout hack if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==09) {show_nopermission(); exit;} 
// Banned users cant logout hack 


[Logician]

Originally posted by IceMalee
check that out, thats how i got it, its not exactly like yours, but in my member.php thats how that first part is, and i couldnt find any others that were just how yours is, so what should i do?

PHP Code:

if ($action=="logout") {
  $templatesused = 'error_cookieclear';
  include("./global.php");
 // Banned users cant logout hack if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==09) {show_nopermission(); exit;} 
// Banned users cant logout hack 


it's now obvious why it didnt work for you:

Between "hack" and "if" press ENTER, and make the line begining with "if" a new line. It should look like this:

PHP Code:

// Banned users cant logout hack 
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==09) {show_nopermission(); exit;} 
// Banned users cant logout hack 


It will work if you apply the hack as you see it in my code..

[Keyser S?ze]

Originally posted by Logician

it's now obvious why it didnt work for you:

Between "hack" and "if" press ENTER, and make the line begining with "if" a new line. It should look like this:

PHP Code:

// Banned users cant logout hack 
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==09) {show_nopermission(); exit;} 
// Banned users cant logout hack 


It will work if you apply the hack as you see it in my code..

thats just how it looked after copy/paste, everything i did was just how u had it in the instructions