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[groovesalad]

Anyone know of a hack that limits people to download attachments if they don't have enough posts?

I see a lot of miminum posts in order to post a thread, etc, but not to download attachments. Thanks.

[Logician]

edit attachment.php, find:

PHP Code:

if (!$permissions[canview] or !$permissions[cangetattachment]) {
  show_nopermission();
} 


After that add:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['posts']<X)
{show_nopermission(); exit;} 


Replace X with the post number you want..

Not tested but should work..

Enjoy..

[groovesalad]

works great. Thank you

[groovesalad]

Under what error template would I put down that you need a certain amount of posts in order to download?

[Logician]

Replace the line :

PHP Code:

{show_nopermission(); exit;} 


as

PHP Code:

 {eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_cantdlattachments")."\");");exit} 


then create a new template named "error_cantdlattachments" and you can customize it according to your wish..

[groovesalad]

Logician - What if I wanted to make it 10 threads, instead of posts? Where would I go to edit that?

[Logician]

Originally posted by groovesalad
Logician - What if I wanted to make it 10 threads, instead of posts? Where would I go to edit that?

Unlike post number, user's thread number is not kept in a seperate variable, so to achieve your goal you first have to query db to learn this count (that means it will add 1 query to your page load)..

Replace:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['posts']<X)
{show_nopermission(); exit;} 


AS:

PHP Code:

$user_thread_count=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) as tc FROM thread WHERE postuserid=$bbuserinfo[userid]");
if ($user_thread_count['tc']<X)
{show_nopermission(); exit;} 


[groovesalad]

Originally posted by Logician

Unlike post number, user's thread number is not kept in a seperate variable, so to achieve your goal you first have to query db to learn this count (that means it will add 1 query to your page load)..

Is that bad? 1 query?

[Logician]

IMO no.. check the bottom of this page and you'll see it has 27 queries. What if would it be 28? 1 query does not harm much unless your server load is already too high..

[groovesalad]

Oh, cool. I have music to download off my site, but I get a lot of leechers that don't contribute, so I originally put it that you had to get 10 posts to download. So, several people just would put garbage in the threads. So, I figured if I made it a minimum of 5 threads to download music, it might deter people that just leech.