for the use of 123 Chat moderators I'd like to be able to have an administrator account on all forums so that we can make sure they are always within our terms and conditions, however I'd like to make sure that either noone can see the member or only the "super admin" of that account(forum) can see that this member exists (including the member not counting towards the registered users). is this possible?
That would surely be possible, but not without a lot of code changes. You'd also have to modify the setup script to automatically create that hidden account and further exclude it from all listings (members.asp for example).
I guess you could add another field to the forum_members table, called M_VISIBLE which is a numeric field defaulting to 1. If you wanted the user hidden, you would set this to 0. You would have to probably modify the SELECT statment in members.asp to add to the where clause "M_VISIBLE = 1" and also modify the profile page (pop_profile.asp? I'm not sure, I havn't looked at snitz code for a while), to check in the sql statmenet that "M_VISIBLE = 1" again. It could display the same error as it does when you try to view the profile of a member that is deleted. The user could still login this way, but as long as they made no posts there would be no record that they existed to the average user.
[edit]Just read about your member count as well.. Personally I don't see why it matters, but I don't think that wood be hard to change. I'm unsure of the exact changes tho.
If you want the "hidden" admin viewable by somem members then you can always test the mlev before you add the WHERE M_VISIBLE = 1 to the SQL statment.
Hope this helps get you started[/edit]
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Posted - 11 April 2004 : 16:27:00
