Disallow guests to view threads, must register first

Yes I know that there is already a a feature to stop guests from viewing threads, but then this also shows all the posts and threads counters to zero, and under Last Post it will say never (which sucks ). But, with my hack, it just asks guests to either login or register when viewing a thread and still shows all the right numbers

Instructions

Open archive/index.php and find

PHP Code:

    $title .= ' - ' . $foruminfo['title'];
}
else
{
    $do = 'index';
} 


Below, add

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 
{ 
    print_no_permission(); 
} 


Open showthread.php and find

PHP Code:

globalize($_REQUEST, array('perpage' => INT, 'pagenumber', 'highlight' => STR, 'goto')); 


Below, add:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{
    print_no_permission();
} 


Open template threadbit and find:

PHP Code:

<td class="alt1Active" id="t$thread[threadid]" title="$thread[preview]"> 


Replace it with

PHP Code:

<td class="alt1Active" id="t$thread[threadid]" <if condition="$show['member']">title="$thread[preview]"</if>> 


Done!

[Amiga-uk]

So.. it makes your forum look REALLY inactive, unless you register? Which you wont, because its not even had a single post in it..

O_o;

[base]

i think the idea is that the current feature shows 0 threads / posts etc, and this hack shows the correct number of threads / posts, but asks for registration when a user clicks on a thread / post.

this, imo, is better than the current way of going about things, don't know why this isn't how vb did it in the first place

[Amiga-uk]

^ohh, the current one shows 0 posts..

Right, this is decent then.

Sorry for the misunderstanding ^^;

[C.Birch]

i think vb sould do it this way because now guests can infact see how busy your forum is but can not view the topics what means more will become members other then just viewing all your topics has a guest.

[aliencode]

Wow nice - woah this really SHOULD be the default hmm wonder what Vbulletin was thinking when they wrote the original.

[Razor-X]

Thank you for this tip. It was something I had been wanting for a while!

[Zachery]

could also be done via a template mod
in a slightly differnt way of course ;D

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by Amiga-uk

So.. it makes your forum look REALLY inactive, unless you register? Which you wont, because its not even had a single post in it..

O_o;

First post edited to clarify things a bit

[eddiec]

thank you!!!