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Must be member for X days before can vote on polls. · **Released**: 08-27-2004

Recently I ran a contest in which the members voted on the winner. Problem I ran into was that people were registering new names just to vote multiple times. I figured the best way to prevent this was to disallow new members from voting on polls for X amount of days. Being I ran the poll for 7 days I set my code to not allow members who have registered within the last 10 days from voting.

I thought I would share my work being I have gotten so much from others here. It's very simple and only requires modifying one file.

Open poll.php and search for:

Code:

// other permissions?

Add below it:

Code:

$bbuserinfo['datejoined'] = vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], $bbuserinfo['joindate']);
$jointime = (TIMENOW - $bbuserinfo['joindate']) / 86400; // Days Joined

Directly below that look for:

Code:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE))
{
print_no_permission();
}

Change to:

Code:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE) OR $jointime<10 )
{
print_no_permission();
}

Change $jointime<10 to how ever many days you wish to set it to. This means a user can not vote on a poll if they have not been a member for at least 10 days.

I also added this line to my nopermission_loggedin phrase:

<li>If you are trying to vote on a poll, you must be a member for at least 10 days before you can vote on polls.</li>

Enjoy!

HiDeo · #2 08-28-2004, 06:35 AM

Thanks for this hack IndyWebDesign

kall · #3 08-31-2004, 01:27 AM

Or, you could use vB 3.x's built in promotions system. Disallow the Registered Users group the ability to vote on polls, and set a Promotion into a second usergroup (identical, but can vote on polls) after being a member for 10 days.

WreckRman2 · #4 08-31-2004, 01:14 PM

Yes, you can use the Promotion system however I thought a little extra code was much easier than adding extra usergroups. At least it was for me...

dsotmoon · #5 09-06-2004, 03:29 PM

is there a way to set this to be after so many days OR post count

WreckRman2 · #6 09-06-2004, 03:47 PM

Change:

Code:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE) OR $jointime<10 )
{
print_no_permission();
}

To:

Code:

 if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANVOTE) OR $jointime<10 OR $bbuserinfo['posts'] <10 )
{
print_no_permission();
}

That should do it but it is untested.

oldford · #7 10-26-2004, 02:25 PM

This is just what I'm looking for, but I can't get it to work. My existing members can't vote.

home9000 · #8 11-03-2008, 12:20 PM

any one have this hack for 3.6.5

tiengnhat · #9 12-08-2008, 10:16 AM

Who can change this mod for V3.7.x?
@Admin: can you help me for this mod?
I really need this mod.
Thanks!