New upcoming Version - Support for NO Guest users

[tomt]

My forum doesn't allow guest users.. You have to be registered to view the forums.

This works well with phpbb2 & ezportal, on the portal there is a list of recent topics and a selection of announcements and recent posts.

When I tried the current version of board3, I couldn't show the recent posts / topics as I don't allow guests..

Will the upcoming new version support this ??

Thanks

[Kevin]

Yes, it will.
You can disable the user permission check separately for News and / or Announcements in V0.3.0.
These sections will be very flexible to configure.

[tomt]

Fantastic... Gimme Gimme !!!

[tomt]

Hi

This works well.. but is there anyway to by pass the forum permissions so the subject of recent posts / topics appear on the portal ??

I have this on my phpbb2 ezportal front. Looks good !!

[Kevin]

but is there anyway to by pass the forum permissions so the subject of recent posts / topics appear on the portal ??

This is exactly what we are talking about:

Yes, it will.
You can disable the user permission check separately for News and / or Announcements in V0.3.0.

[Ice]

And put it in compact mode.

[tomt]

Thanks for the reply.

I can see this for news & announcements, but not for recent topics / recent posts in other forums...
Am I missing something ??

You can see the sort of thing I mean on my current phpbb2 forum..
http://www.medionsupport.com/phpbb2

Thanks

[Kevin]

Which version of the portal do you have installed?
A similar feature to the EZ-Portal is offered up from Board3 Portal 1.0.0 RC1, not in older versions.

[tomt]

Hi
I've installed the latest version of board3.

I can see the options for news & announcements but nothing for recent topic / recent posts..

Thanks

[tomt]

Any ideas ??

[tomt]

I'm trying to get this sorted.. Can anyone help ?

[Kevin]

Not tested - try this:

open recent.php

---

search:

Code: Select all

while( ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) && ($row['topic_title']) )
{
    // auto auth
    if ( ($auth->acl_get('f_read', $row['forum_id'])) || ($row['forum_id'] == '0') )
    {
        $template->assign_block_vars('latest_announcements', array(
            'TITLE'             => character_limit($row['topic_title'], $portal_config['portal_recent_title_limit']),
            'FULL_TITLE'    => censor_text($row['topic_title']),
            'U_VIEW_TOPIC'    => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $row['topic_id'])
        ));
    }
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result); 

replace with:

Code: Select all

while( ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) && ($row['topic_title']) )
{
        $template->assign_block_vars('latest_announcements', array(
            'TITLE'             => character_limit($row['topic_title'], $portal_config['portal_recent_title_limit']),
            'FULL_TITLE'    => censor_text($row['topic_title']),
            'U_VIEW_TOPIC'    => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $row['topic_id'])
        ));
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result); 

---

search:

Code: Select all

while( ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) && ($row['topic_title']) )
{
    // auto auth
    if ( ($auth->acl_get('f_read', $row['forum_id'])) || ($row['forum_id'] == '0') )
    {
        $template->assign_block_vars('latest_hot_topics', array(
            'TITLE'             => character_limit($row['topic_title'], $portal_config['portal_recent_title_limit']),
            'FULL_TITLE'    => censor_text($row['topic_title']),
            'U_VIEW_TOPIC'    => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $row['topic_id'])
        ));
    }
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result); 

replace with:

Code: Select all

while( ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) && ($row['topic_title']) )
{
        $template->assign_block_vars('latest_hot_topics', array(
            'TITLE'             => character_limit($row['topic_title'], $portal_config['portal_recent_title_limit']),
            'FULL_TITLE'    => censor_text($row['topic_title']),
            'U_VIEW_TOPIC'    => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $row['topic_id'])
        ));
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result); 

---

search:

Code: Select all

while( ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) && ($row['topic_title']) )
{
    // auto auth
    if ( ($auth->acl_get('f_read', $row['forum_id'])) || ($row['forum_id'] == '0') )
    {
        $template->assign_block_vars('latest_topics', array(
            'TITLE'             => character_limit($row['topic_title'], $portal_config['portal_recent_title_limit']),
            'FULL_TITLE'    => censor_text($row['topic_title']),
            'U_VIEW_TOPIC'    => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $row['topic_id'])
        ));
    }
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result); 

replace with:

Code: Select all

while( ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) && ($row['topic_title']) )
{
        $template->assign_block_vars('latest_topics', array(
            'TITLE'             => character_limit($row['topic_title'], $portal_config['portal_recent_title_limit']),
            'FULL_TITLE'    => censor_text($row['topic_title']),
            'U_VIEW_TOPIC'    => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&t=' . $row['topic_id'])
        ));
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result); 

[danleedham]

Sorrry - does this stop Guests seeing the Portal? or does it give you the choices of what Guests can / cannot see?

That would be the icing on the cake... thanks

[japagun]

Sorrry - does this stop Guests seeing the Portal? or does it give you the choices of what Guests can / cannot see?

That would be the icing on the cake... thanks

the lastest version don't have this issue...

[danleedham]

Which issue?

I DO NOT want guests to be able to see certain blocks in the portal - if that's not possible, not even see the portal at all - but still allow logged in users to be presented with it when they first come to the forum.

In England we've got CRAZY data protection and a tiny bit of info that is leaked (or seen in the portal) can mean being suued loads - it's stupid.

So stopping guests from seeing the portal would be awesome - even better if we could give them the time, a welcome note and guest announcements (and a link to registering of course) but then leave the rest of the portal out. But... I don't want to stop users from seeing all the stuff that's been blocked for guests.


I'm am barking up the wrong tree of impossiblity? or just looking in the Non-German place (don't speak a word, sorry).


Cheers for your time guys