redirect to register.php for guests

[hollyboy]

hi,
is it possibile to redirect the guests to the register page of my forum?
if so how?

thanks

[harmor19]

use

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] == 0">
//redirect code here
</if>

[hollyboy]

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] == 0">
<a href="http://www.mysite/forum/register.php"></a>
</if>

I put the above code in the forumhome template but it doesnt work

[harmor19]

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] == 0">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.mysite/forum/register.php">
</if>

[hollyboy]

now works!
thanks

[tnguy3n]

That'll work only for forumhome page, guests are still able to read threads and browse forums. And you can write a plugin to redirect all guests to register page.

Create new plugin at global_start hook with following content:

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'register')
{
	header("Location: " . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . "/register.php");
}

Voila!

[Kirk Y]

Wouldn't this work against you spider-wise? All the spiders would be crawling your register.php page...

[tnguy3n]

well, you can put in a condition to exclude spiders.