Require Users to Sign a Contract Before Posting in an Individual Forum

This is a port of this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=76835

This little mod forces users to read and sign a "contract" before it allows them to post in certain forums of your choosing. It also allows you to "ticket" users who break your forum rules. After 3 tickets, the user can no longer post in the forum.

You may define a different contract for each of your forums if you so choose.
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YOU may easily extend this idea to make readers sign a contract before reading a certain forum. I do not need this feature and will not be adding it at this time.

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Template Conditionals You May Like to Use for the Ticket System:

<if condition="$post[reqcontract]">

- In the postbit, this lets you see if tickets are required in the forum.

<if condition="$post[ticket]">

- Check to see if the user has a ticket. This way, you don't have to show the number of tickets for people who don't have any.

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5,6)">

- use this to see if the person reading the post is an admin or supermod. If they are, you can show them the links that will ticket users.

Putting it all together, an example way to use the tickets in the postbit:

<if condition="$post[reqcontract]">
<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5,6)">
<if condition="$post[ticket]">
User's Tickets in this forum: $post[ticket]<br />
</if>
<a href="ticket.php?do=addticket&forumid=$post[forumid]&userid=$post[userid]">Ticket User</a><br />
<if condition="$post[ticket]">
<a href="ticket.php?do=rticket&forumid=$post[forumid]&userid=$post[userid]">Remove One Ticket</a><br />
<a href="ticket.php?do=cticket&forumid=$post[forumid]&userid=$post[userid]">Clear the user's tickets</a><br />
</if>
</if>
</if>

A huge thank you to LiveWire, Boofo and HellSatan for testing this out.

Installation on 3.5 RC1 is as simple as importing the product, changing two existing phrases and making one template change.
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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.


Amy

[amykhar]

Unfortunately, products are not working properly for me; so I can't export this for my beta testers to try out. But, I have it down to simply importing the product to install this puppy. I'm hoping Jelsoft resolves my product issue quickly so I can get this stuff released.

[Chris M]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs35.php?do=view&bugid=811" target="_blank">This Bug?</a>
Odd - It doesn't affect me o_O

Satan

[amykhar]

yep. that bug. I feel so left out cause I can't play with products.

Amy

[Andreas]

Product ID must not be longer then 15 characters

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Product ID must not be longer then 15 characters

amykhar_contract was the name I picked. Bingo. 16 characters and I was hosed. Thanks, Kirby.

Amy

[amykhar]

I am going to give this to my beta testing team and once it's approved by them, will post the RC1 version here.

[FlyBoy73]

Great hack, Amy. I know a few of our super mods of a couple dicey forums are going to love you! This is perfect for them.
Thanks!

[cruelio]

Originally Posted by FlyBoy73

Great hack, Amy. I know a few of our super mods of a couple dicey forums are going to love you! This is perfect for them.
Thanks!

sorry to be a nag but any progress on the RC1 version? my mods are really excited

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by cruelio

sorry to be a nag but any progress on the RC1 version? my mods are really excited

This works fine on 3.5 RC 1.

[amykhar]

It's working on RC2 as well. At least from what I can see.