Hide thread from forum

[kgp43]

Hi,

I have a thread that I wan't only to be accessed by direct link.
I tried to set "visible" to 0 directly in the database, but only admin and moderators have access to the thread then (others get "Access denied").

How do I give everybody access to the thread (if they have the link) and still hide it from the forum (like when I set "visible" to 0)?

[kgp43]

Woops, can someone move this to the correct forum?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=111

[LincolnForums]

Create a forum, give it a visible of 0 in the AdminCP, move that thread into it, and your done

[kgp43]

I tried it but it does not work.
You can see all threads if you know the forum id of the hidden forum, which isnt that hard to find :P

Think I found a solution but need a little help.

- I created a coloumn in the table 'thread' with the name "hide".
- If the value of 'hide' is '0' then the thread will be displayed as normal (forumdisplay.php).

Have been looking at the forumdisplay.php coding, but can't locate the query where I should add " AND hide='0' ".
Anyone know where to add this?

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Think I found it.
Is this correct:

$getthreadids = $db->query_read("
SELECT " . iif($sortfield == 'voteavg', $votequery) . " threadid
$hook_query_fields
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
$hook_query_joins
WHERE forumid = $foruminfo[forumid]
AND hide= 0 AND sticky = 0
$visiblethreads
$globalignore
$datecut
$limitothers
$hook_query_where
ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sqlsortfield $sqlsortorder
LIMIT $limitlower, $perpage
");