RSS Fedd on closed forum, it is possible?

[Elric]

Hello,

i have closed my forum for guests but i will give my users the chance for rss feeds, what can i do? Have anyone a link to a hack for this? its a vb4.2 pl3

[kh99]

You could create a plugin using hook global_bootstrap_init_start and this code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'external')
{
   $vbulletin->options['bbactive'] = 1;
}

[Elric]

It works not..

[kh99]

Oh, sorry, I misread and thought you had closed your forum. When you say "closed for guests" what does that mean?

[Elric]

Only registered users can see the forum, on the vb3.8 i have no problems with this option.

[Lynne]

I think you'll need to actually edit the external.php file directly. It checks the forum permissions on line 129:

PHP Code:

    if (isset($vbulletin->forumcache["$forumid"])
            AND ($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview'])
            AND ($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewothers'])
            AND verify_forum_password($forumid, $vbulletin->forumcache["$forumid"]['password'], false)
        )
        {
            $forumchoice[] = $forumid;
        } 


So, you'll want to modify that to allow the user to see the forum (remove the canview and canviewothers lines?)

This will mean that anybody to can see the feed.

[Elric]

works not i think that was work on vb3.8

[Lynne]

It does work on 3.8. Did you try removing the condition there on your 4.2 forum code? You may need to remove this also:

PHP Code:

        $forumperms =& $vbulletin->userinfo['forumpermissions']["$forumid"]; 


[Elric]

Both are not works on 4.2 pl3

[Lynne]

Make sure you comment out that stuff in the if and else area (around line 172). And, probably comment out the stuff around line 191. Wait out the cache and then see if it works.