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.

I WILL ONLY PROVIDE SUPPORT IF YOU CLICK INSTALL

[sross]

This is great! I am going to install it today and send you some paypal

Thanks!

[sross]

ok I installed it as per instructions. Before the upgrade it was working, now after upgrading I do not have any forum errors and i have the check box visible on the subforums, but the "Save Hidden Forum State" button doesn't seem to do anything at all, it's just unresponsive. Any idea what I've done wrong? thanks!

[akanevsky]

Can I please take a look at it on your site? (Gimme URL please)...

[akanevsky]

1.07 :: BUGFIX RELEASE

To upgrade, simply redo steps that have to do with index.php and forumdisplay.php.
1 minute upgrade =)

[sross]

works perfectly now!

[akanevsky]

Good

[sross]

I am curious, is there a way to see how many people are using it, or is this all specific to their accounts. I just thought it would be cool to know if 50 people are ignoring a particular forum or not.. Maybe I can see this info in phpmyadmin? thanks

[akanevsky]

The data for this hack is stored in "excludeforumids" column of the "user" table.
It wouldn't be easy to read it for a human, though, because it is stored as a simple list of IDs. Therefore there is no way to find out how many people are ignoring a particular forum.

[scottct1]

Please port this to Vb3.5 ASAP.

And also post your Paypal information.

This should be STANDARD in Vbulletin!

Thanks for the great hack!

[jilly]

I have installed this, and when I go into edit mode, I can see the checkbox by the category names, but not the individual forums.

Also, when I go into subforums, it will show the checkbox by the subforums, but not the list of regular forums beloe a category