Guests may only view first page of thread

i use a small template modification in my forums, so that guests may only view the first page of a thread. otherwise they will get a (error) message
maybe someone want to use this, too


in the following,
XX is the number of posts shown in a thread
(i think default was 25)
you need to replace this 2 times in the first 2 lines according to your posts/page

postbit legacy
add to the very beginning:

<if condition="$post[postcount] > XX and !$bbuserinfo['userid']">
<if condition="$post[postcount]%XX == 1">
<!-- Start Error Message -->
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    $spacer_open
    <div id="edit$post[postid]" style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
    <if condition="!$post['islastshown']"><!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --></if>    
</if>
<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
<div><b>Guests may only view the first page of a thread. You need to register to get full access. <a href="register.php" rel="nofollow">Click here to register.</a>
</b></div>
</td></tr>
</table>
<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    </div>
    $spacer_close
</if>
<!-- End Error Message -->
<else /></if><else />

and add to the end of the template:

</if>

this modification saves traffic and it should increase your registrations rate

its my first release to please be kind

[sensimilla]

great hack! keep up the good work

[Snake]

Yeah well done!

[Robru]

*installed*

[NuclioN]

Does this have an effect on the Google adsense bot's that are scanning your threads?

[D|ver]

well i tried to set rel="nofollow" attributes for all other pages than page 1
so i think it wouldn't affect them at all

[hollyboy]

It would be interesting to have the same hack that does the same but for the first post

[D|ver]

Originally Posted by hollyboy

It would be interesting to have the same hack that does the same but for the first post

here i found a solution for this

in postbit_legacy replace:

PHP Code:

<!-- message --> 
<div>$post[message]</div> 
<!-- / message --> 

with:

PHP Code:

<!-- message --> 
<div><if condition="$post[postcount] > 1 and !$bbuserinfo['userid']"> 
$vbphrase[guest_no_posts] 
<else /> 
$post[message] 
</if></div> 
<!-- / message --> 

then create a customguest_no_posts phrase

[hollyboy]

Originally Posted by D|ver

here i found a solution for this

in postbit_legacy replace:

PHP Code:

<!-- message --> 
<div>$post[message]</div> 
<!-- / message --> 

with:

PHP Code:

<!-- message --> 
<div><if condition="$post[postcount] > 1 and !$bbuserinfo['userid']"> 
$vbphrase[guest_no_posts] 
<else /> 
$post[message] 
</if></div> 
<!-- / message --> 

then create a customguest_no_posts phrase

thank u for looking for it, but with that code I get a message for every reply given saying "guest can only read first post" so if there are 100 replies I get 100 of those messages by each members who replied in the topic.

It would be better to get only 1 message

[Emmy2]

Why are all the quotes (") in the code in the first box coming out as " ????

I actually tried to install this with just copying the code (without looking at it too closely) and nearly sent my server into septic shock! Once I replaced all the " with normal quotes it all worked, but it's very odd it's posted that way, and that no one else has commented on it.

but other than that, I love the concept of this and it's working well on my forum.