Selective Forum Filter

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|| Selective Forum Filter for vBulletin 3.0.3 - 3.0.7
|| Author : Psionic Vision
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What's That For:
It enables your forum users to selectively hide various forums from the forum list and from search by using the new "Edit Forum Visibility Mode" on the index page of your forums.
When hidden, users can access those forums using direct url, or using the edit mode.
The user will still be able to access his hidden forums by using direct url, and he will be able to search from within them.

1.07
[+] Bugfix release..

1.06
[+] Now you can also enter visibility edit mode in subforums. That is useful when there are many forum levels and thus not all of them are accessible from forumhome.
[+] Edit mode is now saved into cookie, so until you either exit from that mode or close your browser, your state will be saved between pages

1.05
Two more template changes that were forgotten about in 1.04.

1.04
Major Update! The confusing type-in-digits text field in the user profile is no more. Now, to edit forum visibility, user must simply click on a new link, and that link will take him to the edit interface. See screenshots.

Note: Of course, guests will not be able to access that mode.

1.03
Once again the manual has been corrected...

1.02
[BugFix] The subforums now get hidden as well (subforums are the list of forums that are outside your forum depth view).

1.01
My apologies - The manual has been incomplete. A query and a step were missing.
This time everything is fixed

1.00
First Public Release

P.S. I do not think there is a screenshot needed here, because the only visual thing the hack does is a new field in user options panel.

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[Phalynx]

Really nice Hack. It works, but I had to change 2 things:

Forum is named forum.php not index.php:

<if condition="$_REQUEST['e'] == 1 AND $bbuserinfo[userid]">
&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="forum.php?$session[sessionurl]e=0">$vbphrase[showhideforums_turnoff]</a></if>
<if condition="$_REQUEST['e'] != 1 AND $bbuserinfo[userid]">
&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="forum.php?$session[sessionurl]e=1">$vbphrase[showhideforums_turnon]</a>
</if>

After updating, go back to forumhome, instead of editmode again:
In forum.php (index.php) I added

header("Location: forum.php");

after

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET excludeforumids = '" . $bbuserinfo['excludeforumids'] . "' WHERE userid = '" . $bbuserinfo['userid'] . "' LIMIT 1");

[akanevsky]

Really nice Hack.

Thank you

Forum is named forum.php not index.php

I assume that any hack should be made to work on default configuration. If one is advanced enough to change things like that (like you), he will be able to fix it

After updating, go back to forumhome, instead of editmode again:
In forum.php (index.php) I added

To tell you the truth, I made it go to the edit mode again on purpose. If you wish to fix it, there is no need for additional PHP code. What you have to do is change

<form method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="showhideforums_update" />

to

<form method="post" action="index.php">
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="showhideforums_update" />

In the hack code That's it. I do not see the reason, however, to make the user exit the mode just like that... Maybe he wants to make sure he marked everything right?

[Niceboy]

Edit : [Removed]

[akanevsky]

Phalynx, Niceboy
What does the content of your posts have to do with my hack?

[scottct1]

I installed this and my users love it, howevr I have noticed what appears to be a bug, my users are reporting they can only hide 27 forums, any more then that and it does not work correctly. Is there any ways we can bump the number up to 50?

(I have a LOT of forums)

Scott

[akanevsky]

Try increasing length of the DB field.

[scottct1]

And how would I go about doing that? I am not a programmer which is why I am using your hack. And a great hack it is!

[akanevsky]

Use phpmyadmin which is in your cpanel.

[artonex]

This is very nice i will install it soon

[scottct1]

I know that.

But what do I change ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `excludeforumids` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ; to?

And is there any way to modify the table without dropping it and readding it which would force the users to select their forums again.

Thanks!