Minimum posts to use pm's

Minimum posts to use pm's

What does this hack do?

This allows you to have an option in your admin cp where you can define a minimum number of posts that a user must have to use pm's. If the user doesn't have enough posts they will get an error telling them they need so many posts (which you defined in the admin cp) to view the pm's.

Regards

- miSt

[Aseerha]

It didnt work :-(
When i ran that Sql query in PhpMyadmin:
This showed up:

Error

SQL-query :

$DB_site * > query(

"INSERT INTO setting(settingid,settinggroupid,title,varname,val ue,description,optioncode,disp layorder) VALUES (NULL,19,'Minimum Posts','pmminposts','0','Here you define the number of posts a user must have before he/she can use the private message system.','','18')"
)

MySQL said:

You have an error in your SQL syntax near '$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO setting(settingid,settinggroupid,title,varname,val u' at line 1

I'm using Vb 2.2.5

[N9ne]

Run this query instead:

PHP Code:

INSERT INTO setting(settingid,settinggroupid,title,varname,value,description,optioncode,displayorder) VALUES (NULL,19,'Minimum Posts','pmminposts','0','Here you define the number of posts a user must have before he/she can use the private message system.','','18'); 


[Dean C]

*updated installation instructions*

- miSt

[Oblivion Knight]

Thankyou very much Mist,
Very useful hack so that people don't register just to send advertisements about their site via PM..

One thing you may want to update in your instructions though..

Find in private.php:

----------------------------

require ("./global.php");

----------------------------

Should be:

Find in private.php:

----------------------------

require("./global.php");

----------------------------

(There's no space between the "e" from require and the opening bracket "(").

[high]* Oblivion Knight clicks install.[/high]

[Dean C]

*updated installation instructions again*

- miSt

[FWF]

this is VERY helpful

*installs*

[Thomas P]

Great hack, easy and simple and works for vb 2.3.3

To add this functionality for the eMail feature, too, add this to member.php

Look for this:

  if (!$bbuserinfo['userid'] or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid']==3) {
    //don't let people awaiting email confirmation use it either as their email may be fake
    show_nopermission();
  }

add below

  if ($bbuserinfo[posts] < $pmminposts) {
   eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_pmminposts")."\");");
  }

Edit the template to reflect the change:

Sorry you need to have $pmminposts posts before you can use the private message system or the email function.


That's it

[Thomas P]

Hmm, how to prevent other users from sending them a PN?

[Thomas P]

Originally Posted by Thomas P

Hmm, how to prevent other users from sending them a PN?

^^^moderate bump

>Hmm, how to prevent other users from sending them a PN?

[Thomas P]

Originally Posted by Thomas P

^^^moderate bump

>Hmm, how to prevent other users from sending them a PN?

Nevermind, I placed a.m. code in the member.php where the sending mechanism is, so people can read and do stuff, but don't send.