Disallow guests to view threads, must register first

Yes I know that there is already a a feature to stop guests from viewing threads, but then this also shows all the posts and threads counters to zero, and under Last Post it will say never (which sucks ). But, with my hack, it just asks guests to either login or register when viewing a thread and still shows all the right numbers

Instructions

Open archive/index.php and find

PHP Code:

    $title .= ' - ' . $foruminfo['title'];
}
else
{
    $do = 'index';
} 


Below, add

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
} 


Open showthread.php and find

PHP Code:

globalize($_REQUEST, array('perpage' => INT, 'pagenumber', 'highlight' => STR, 'goto')); 


Below, add:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{
    print_no_permission();
} 


Open template threadbit and find:

PHP Code:

<td class="alt1Active" id="t$thread[threadid]" title="$thread[preview]"> 


Replace it with

PHP Code:

<td class="alt1Active" id="t$thread[threadid]" <if condition="$show['member']">title="$thread[preview]"</if>> 


Done!

[Onkel_Tom]

There is still a problem if your vB is closed for guest and a user registers at the forum without click on the activation eMail, he can still read threads in the forum!

I found the solution for one usergroupID in the thread.

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1) 


But for more usergroupID's it should look like:

PHP Code:

//if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 3 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 4 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 8 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 11 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp|lycos|ask jeeves|scooter|fast-webcrawler|turntinbot|msnbot|webcrawler|Infoseek|W3C_Val|googlebot)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 


Is there a solution to reduce the line with the usergroupid checks like or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == in array[1, 3, 4, 8, 11] or something like that ?

[IIstix]

Is there a link explaining how to how to do this via a template?

Originally Posted by Zachery

could also be done via a template mod
in a slightly differnt way of course ;D

[maggie]

I've gotten all turned around in this thread, I'm wondering if someone can help me please?
I have one forum that I don't want ANYONE to see in any way (through searches, archives, nothing) unless they have special permission (admin or access masking).
One forum that I want registered members to have access to, and guests at least be able to see that there ARE threads in there, just not be able to view the actual threads.
And one forum that I want guests to be able to participate in.
So basically, I want the "can't view at all" AND the "open" options... pain in the rear, aren't I?

[gorman]

Originally Posted by IIstix

Is there a link explaining how to how to do this via a template?

Yes, I would be interested too...

[Raitsa]

Originally Posted by Raitsa

I am feeling really stupid cos i cant get this hack to work: my postcount remains at 0 at all forums.

Stupid i was. Again.

Of course i did not change the permissions for unregistered guests, i assumed they should see the posts automatically after applying this hack.
But since i had not given them rights to view the forum topics, i could not get this to work at all.
But now that i changed the forum rights settings they are allowed to see the topics, i get the right number of posts for them as well.
(But they still cant read the threads, only view them, as it was meant too).

[WEForums]

Nice hack and all, but I just did it this way:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
             
                            <div>$post[message]</div>
                            <!-- / message -->
<else />Your message, blah blah.</if> 


[Natch]

Is there any way to tie in the $vboptions[spiderstrings] array into the spider-list - ???

[N00BIE]

nice hack thanx =]

[gr3g0]

I'm using this to keep out some determined fools on my site. For the benefit of anyone else who may be doing this, make sure you follow similar instructions as described in post #1 of this thread and apply the change to the following files in the same place:

• printthread.php
• search.php (it's possible to "find all posts by this user" and read posts that way)
• showpost.php (in case a direct url is "guessed" or otherwise)

ALSO - we have all new registrants moderated, however these hacks only considered unregistered users. This meant people could "apply" to join the board and thereby skip all of these measures (by virtue of moving from the "guest" usergroup to the COPPA or "wait for email confirmation" usergroup).

As a result, all pages that I changed had a longer line added to them to cover all the appropriate usergroups:

if (($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 3 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 4) AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
}

Don't forget to also amend the usergroup permissions for these usergroups so that they are the same as guests.

Of course, this all depends on your motives for keeping people out. Threads in our board are private so this was appropriate for us

[boiboi]

nice hack can google still index archives?

[TheOmegaCircle]

Anyone knows how get this work with 3.0.1?
(Showthread.php does not containt this code:

globalize($_REQUEST, array('perpage' => INT, 'pagenumber', 'highlight' => STR, 'goto'));

Pasting the new code below a similar place does not work...

[emtee]

Originally Posted by IndyWebDesign

Well the above worked great to tell a guest they needed to login but when I'm logged in even as an admin I get the error:

you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Same here! After awhile banging my head to the walls trying to figure out why it also blocks other usergroups - not just the specified group which is guest/not logged in - to view threads. Too bad I had to uninstall this. I check the codes very carefully but it still refused to work! I'm using 3.0.3 and this hack doesn't let me (admin) and other usergroups view threads that are supposed to block only guests/not logged-in from viewing.

If anyone can find a fix, please post it!!! Thanks in advance. This is a very useful hack. I don't know why this feature is not default in vB3. Plain s2pid!!!!!!!!!

[boiboi]

Google for some reason has stop indexing my site after I blocked the archives from being viewed by non members. The purpose of the archive is has nothing to do with archiving but instead it's work around to make vb3 search-engine-friendly. So the solution would be to uninstall the hack from archive and remove the archive link in the footer?

[Onkel_Tom]

Originally Posted by boiboi

Google for some reason has stop indexing my site after I blocked the archives from being viewed by non members. The purpose of the archive is has nothing to do with archiving but instead it's work around to make vb3 search-engine-friendly. So the solution would be to uninstall the hack from archive and remove the archive link in the footer?

You can also replace your line in index.php of /archive directory to let Google and other important search engines in your archive but not unregistered persons

$grouparray = array ( 3,4); 
if (in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'],$grouparray) OR $bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp|lycos|ask jeeves|scooter|fast-webcrawler|turntinbot|msnbot|webcrawler|Infoseek|W3C_Val|googlebot)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{ 
	  echo "<center><font face=verdana, arial, helvetica size=3>You are not allowed to show our archive.<br><br>Your have to <a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/register.php?\">register</a> first at $vboptions[bbtitle] to show threads in our forums.<br><br>If you are registered at our forum it could be that you are not logged in our your account must first be checked and enabled from an Administrator.</font></center>\n<hr />\n";
	 
    print_no_permission(); 
}

just replace the usergroups in $grouparray you want to disallow to have access to your archive.

For my Board Google is idexing all threads in archive and it works great

[DarknessDivine]

Originally Posted by Onkel_Tom

You can also replace your line in index.php of /archive directory to let Google and other important search engines in your archive but not unregistered persons

$grouparray = array ( 3,4,8,11); 
if (in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'],$grouparray) OR $bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp|lycos|ask jeeves|scooter|fast-webcrawler|turntinbot|msnbot|webcrawler|Infoseek|W3C_Val|googlebot)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{ 
	  echo "<center><font face=verdana, arial, helvetica size=3>You are not allowed to show our archive.<br><br>Your have to <a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/register.php?\">register</a> first at $vboptions[bbtitle] to show threads in our forums.<br><br>If you are registered at our forum it could be that you are not logged in our your account must first be checked and enabled from an Administrator.</font></center>\n<hr />\n";
	 
    print_no_permission(); 
}

just replace the usergroups in $grouparray you want to disallow to have access to your archive.

For my Board Google is idexing all threads in archive and it works great

Will this also work with 3.0.1???