Guests cannot view threads

[LanciaStratos]

I want to block guests from viewing individual topics. (e.g. A guest enters the forum home page, clicks on a forum, sees the topic titles, click on a topic title, and is then asked to log-in or register.)

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.

Hopefully someone can help, as I believe this would be a hack that others would appreciate as well.

[tweak]

All done in your CNTRL panel

User Groups and Permissions
Add | Modify
Modify forums <-------HERE

[LanciaStratos]

Tweak, please read my post again.

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.

This is the "similar option" that I'm mentioning, and that's the effect that it creates (which isn't what I want).

showthread.php is really the only thing I don't want guests to see...

[Admin]

Try this.
In your showthread.php, add the code in red

error_reporting(7);
if ( isset($goto) and ($goto=='lastpost' or $goto=='newpost')) {
  $noheader=1;
}

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {

and also this

getforumrules($forum,$getperms);
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("showthread")."\");");

} else {
  show_nopermission();
}

This should work (untested).

[LanciaStratos]

Thanks FireFly, but it didn't work. Showthread.php only returned this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: show_nopermission() in /home/gtplanet/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 442

[Admin]

Oh right, global.php was yet to be included. I'll work something out and post it here.

[LanciaStratos]

Sounds great, thanks!

[Admin]

Undo all changes.

Add the code in red in all 4 places.

	include('./global.php');

	if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {

	if (isset($postid) and $postid!=0 and $postid!="") {
	  $postid = verifyid("post",$postid);
	
	  $getthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT threadid FROM post WHERE postid='$postid'");
	  $threadid=$getthread[threadid];
	}

	eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("showpost")."\");");
	exit;
} else {
  show_nopermission();
}

require('./global.php');

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {

// oldest first or newest first
if ($postorder==0) {
  $postorder="";
} else {
  $postorder="DESC";
}

getforumrules($forum,$getperms);
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("showthread")."\");");
} else {
  show_nopermission();
}

Now it has to work.

[LanciaStratos]

Uh-oh, now I'm getting a new error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/gtplanet/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 448

I'm almost positive I placed the code in all the right places, I've checked and re-checked. But, here's a copy of my (modified) showthread.php file, if you'd like to look at it.

[Admin]

You dropped one } right before that ### block that says showthread.

(also remove that file)