Guests cannot view threads

[LanciaStratos]

Ah, it works like a charm! You are the man, and I appreciate all your help!

(also remove that file)

Oops...I hadn't even thought about that. Thanks for letting me know!

[amykhar]

Any way this could be set up on a forum by forum basis? I only have a handful of forums that guests are not allowed to read. The rest are open to lurkers in order to lure in new members.

I know, I am a royal pain I guess I just like to do things the hard way.

Amy

p.s. Firefly you have been cranking out some darn good stuff lately. Thank you for your efforts.

[Admin]

Thanks amykhar.

To do it per forum, undo all changes you (might) did to showthread.php.

Now, add what's in red (in showthread.php):

$forum=getforuminfo($thread['forumid']);

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]==0 and ($thread['forumid']!=1 or $thread['forumid']!=2 or $thread['forumid']!=3 or $thread['forumid']!=4)) {
  show_nopermission();
}

Note: appears twice, add in both places.
This will prevent all guests from viewing threads in forums 1, 2, 3 and 4.

LanciaStratos, undo all changes.
Add what's in red:

$forum=getforuminfo($thread['forumid']);

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]==0) {
  show_nopermission();
}

Same note, do it twice.
(no difference, just "nicer")

[amykhar]

One small oops firefly

$thread['forumid']!=1 should be $thread['forumid']==1

(and for the other forums as well).

It works like a charm though. Thank you.

See it in action:

http://www.eaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=28


Amy

[Admin]

D'oh, of course.
You're welcome.

[Scott MacVicar]

The ability to ban certain user groups from certain forums is already integrated in to vBulletin.

Within the Admin Panel there is a Groups are Permissions section, click the "modify forums" part and you can edit access permission for certain user groups within certain forums. Which includes stopping them from reading posts within certain forums.

[Admin]

Yes, but
[QUOTE]Originally posted by LanciaStratos
I know that there is a similar option in the AdminCP that prevents guests from "viewing other's topics", but it makes each forum appear blank, as if there were no topics at all.

[Scott MacVicar]

simply remove
if (!$getperms[canviewothers]) {
$limitothers="AND postuserid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'";
}

from forumdisplay.php
around line 276.

There is something similar to that in viewthread.php so settings Can View Others to NO will allow them to view a list of threads but not the thread itself.

I already removed those 3 lines from my board as it was an annoyance.

[LanciaStratos]

Originally posted by PPN
simply remove
if (!$getperms[canviewothers]) {
$limitothers="AND postuserid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'";
}

from forumdisplay.php
around line 276.

There is something similar to that in viewthread.php so settings Can View Others to NO will allow them to view a list of threads but not the thread itself.

I already removed those 3 lines from my board as it was an annoyance.

Ah, that also works very well!

[NYI Fan]

Hi all

I had Firefly's tweak working perfectly in 2.0.3, but now in 2.2.0 no go
The fix may be obvious, but I can't seem to get it working again...

any help would be most appreciated!

(I think i goofed and posted this in the wrong place - if so can a mod please move it to correct forum for me? Sorry!!)