Restrict Guest Viewing Threads in a Forum

I'm actually suprised that you can't stop guests from viewing threads themselves in forum and the only solution is to stop them Viewing others and that includes the thread titles on forumdisplay.

This lets guests see threads made by someone else on the forumdisplay page but not the thread itself, they'll get a nice error telling them to register.

Can be enabled on a forum by forum basis within the forum options.

I use this for a member forum on my board and I would rather show a guest what the thread title is, instead of showing no title at all

[amykhar]

Firefly wrote one up that is a bit simpler. He posted it in the requests forum.

Amy

[bokhalifa]

good hack

[Scott MacVicar]

yeah i noticed but you need to edit the file to add more forums and i don't play to give out the ftp password to every admin

[Lesane]

Does this hack works in 2.0.3?

[Scott MacVicar]

yes should do

[Lesane]

I love this hack , thanks for this great neat hack

[supernut]

when i go to change a forum to not allow guest view and save it, when i look back in admin its still turned on and all the posts they can still read ?

any advise what i may have done wrong ?

[Lesane]

Originally posted by supernut
when i go to change a forum to not allow guest view and save it, when i look back in admin its still turned on and all the posts they can still read ?

any advise what i may have done wrong ?

Not 100% sure but i guess this in the /admin/forum.php file:

PHP Code:

a couple of lines below that look for
  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO forum
                      (forumid,styleid,title,description,active,displayorder,parentid,
                       parentlist,allowposting,cancontainthreads,daysprune,newpostemail,newthreademail,
                       moderatenew,allowhtml,allowbbcode,allowimages,allowsmilies,allowicons,
                       styleoverride,allowratings,countposts,moderateattach)
                   VALUES
                      (NULL,'$styleset','".addslashes($title)."','".addslashes($description)."','$isactive','$displayorder','$parentid',
                       '','$allowposting','$cancontainthreads','$daysprune','".addslashes($newpostemail)."','".addslashes($newthreademail)."',
                       '$moderatenew','$aallowhtmlcode','$aallowbbcode','$aallowimgcode','$aallowsmilies','$aallowicons',
                       '$styleoverride','$allowratings','$countposts','$moderateattach')");

change to
  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO forum
                      (forumid,styleid,title,description,active,displayorder,parentid,
                       parentlist,allowposting,cancontainthreads,daysprune,newpostemail,newthreademail,
                       moderatenew,allowhtml,allowbbcode,allowimages,allowsmilies,allowicons,
                       styleoverride,allowratings,countposts,moderateattach,allowguestpostview)
                   VALUES
                      (NULL,'$styleset','".addslashes($title)."','".addslashes($description)."','$isactive','$displayorder','$parentid',
                       '','$allowposting','$cancontainthreads','$daysprune','".addslashes($newpostemail)."','".addslashes($newthreademail)."',
                       '$moderatenew','$aallowhtmlcode','$aallowbbcode','$aallowimgcode','$aallowsmilies','$aallowicons',
                       '$styleoverride','$allowratings','$countposts','$moderateattach', '$allowguestpostview')"); 


[supernut]

re-installed and its still not working, i just cannot change the option in admin to stop guests viewing the posts