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dgwyther
Starting Member
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 Posted - 29 August 2003 : 03:29:25
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Is it possible to only allow registered members to post to a particular forum when they've reached a certain number of posts. I have Snitz running several "forums" (I'd call them catagories myself) at http://www.400greybike.co.uk/forum/ and would like to restrict the For Sale section to those people that have made say 40 posts elsewhere.
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Edited by - Gremlin on 29 August 2003 05:05:16 |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
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Posted - 29 August 2003 : 05:04:55
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| Sorry nothing like that feature is currently included, I'll move this post to the mods forum perhaps someone can suggest or help you in writing a mod to accomplish it. |
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Edited by - Gremlin on 29 August 2003 05:05:35 |
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
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dgwyther
Starting Member
34 Posts |
Posted - 29 August 2003 : 08:37:37
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Gremlin, thanks for pointing the post in the right direction.
The reason for the request is so that members using the For Sale section have had to contribute to the communitee before being allowed to make entries. This should help in buyer confidence in a well supported and family orientated forum base. I am suffering from people only posting once to sell things and a few times this has been of a commercial basis, I don't allow commercial advertising.
Maintaining the spirit of "Free", this facility would be very useful for the reasons above. And there are many other "Forums" that Users can contribute to to gain the necessary number of posts.
Limited knowledge as I have, would it not be possible to add some trapping that would follow the logic:
If Forum = "For Sale" and User Posts => 40 then .............Allow Post
Else ............... Display rejection message
This would need to be done in both the Quick Response section and the Reply to Topic section. I'm just thick as mince when it actually comes to putting it into practice. |
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
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Posted - 29 August 2003 : 10:59:12
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dgwyther ; that is a possibility ; however, it would need to be done for every forum you choose to use the post-threshold.. That's why I suggest using a different forum type, next to 'all visitors', 'allowed member list' etc, putting in a 'minimum # posts required to post' (and maybe another one 'minimum # posts required to view').
In that way each forum could be assigned this status, without changing the code in every file for every seperate forum.
The changes would then need to be done in .... let me see ....
- the function chkForumAccess
- post.asp (for setting the forum permissions)
- post_info.asp
- the db (adding an extra field for the minimum number of posts)
I guess no big change in topic.asp (the quick response area) is necessary, as long as it uses the ChkForumAccess code correctly (displaying a topic with the post-threshold as a 'locked' topic)
So far my theory ... now putting it into practice -> anyone ?  |
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Edited by - MarcelG on 29 August 2003 11:04:59 |
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dgwyther
Starting Member
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Posted - 31 August 2003 : 14:17:33
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I'm slipping down the order here and not having many takers regarding the problem  |
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VodkaFish
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 31 August 2003 : 19:58:33
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Well, just to theorize, you can do a few things:
Use the private forum functions for this. Find all the functions for it (all the if-then statements and use those).
If listed_on_private_list (whatever it says) OR posts > 40 then...
You may have to make sure that the person logged in has the # of their posts always available as well.
Make sure you hit default, active_topics, forum, topic. |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
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big9erfan
Average Member
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Posted - 01 September 2003 : 00:39:56
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A while back Huwr wrote a mod for Posting Restrictions based on your level ( member, mod, or Admin ). I think with installing that mod, and then some added checks of the post count ( when creating a topic ) you should be able to get this working with very little hassle.
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