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hzaidi
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 04 January 2008 : 09:22:14
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| Ok here is the deal I have about 240 or so registered users. I want users to be able to post but in the actual post I want it to say "anonymous". So I guess this is pretty simple because the variable that displays the author name can be modified to do that. I want to retain the users information and members names. |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:13:59
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If you want to leave out just the member's screen name but leave the other information, you can simply comment out or remove the code in red below. If you want to remove all of the user's identifying data, also comment out or remove the code below that's in green. To put the word "Anonymous" in place of their name, put it in place of the red code below.
All changes in topic.asp
Around lines 549-566
Around lines 754-771
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Edited by - muzishun on 04 January 2008 10:19:32 |
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MaD2ko0l
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1053 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:21:20
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you would also need to remove the profile links as well, or otherwise whats the point in removing the username?
come to think about it...all you would need is just the message part and coudl get rid of all the rest of the stuff apart from the posts date/time |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:23:42
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I just remembered that you'll also have to make changes to default.asp (last post link), forum.asp (last post link) and another change to topic.asp (edited by text).
default.asp
Around lines 530-535
Around lines 943-948
forum.asp
Around lines 540-546
topic.asp
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:25:58
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| MaD2ko0l, the code in my first post does take out the user's profile link as well. At first I thought you could remove the entire column as well, but that all depends on what information the original poster wants to have available. I thought it would be best to leave that column intact in case he ever wanted to add the data back in or put something else there. Also, it would require a bit more coding to take out the column entirely, and I don't know what hzaidi's experience is. |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:28:31
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And active.asp & search.asp as well. You'll also need to remove recent posts from pop_profile.asp.
Best to do it all by mlev, though, otherwise how are mods & admins supposed to know who posted what?
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:36:46
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| you may also run into legal issues by doing so, since if you are making all posts anonymous you will most likely become responsible for any issues of libel etc |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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Posted - 04 January 2008 : 10:39:07
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| Thanks Shaggy and HuwR. You both brought up points that I didn't think about. So I guess this brings us to the question about the reason for hzaidi's request. Are you wanting to have a single forum be anonymous or your entire board? I had heard talk awhile back about requests for a "suggestion box" mod that would allow for a single forum to leave off the user's information, but I don't know if any code came out of that. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 04 January 2008 : 11:44:25
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That's what my anonymous posting mod did, what you guys are suggesting he do to code this in. And it isn't a simple thing. Forum is tightly integrated in membership, so making an anonymous post would take quite a bit of surgery.
The easiest way would be to create a new account and put the user name and password on the post.asp page so users can use this account when making anonymous posts. |
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hzaidi
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 04 January 2008 : 12:07:48
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Originally posted by HuwR
you may also run into legal issues by doing so, since if you are making all posts anonymous you will most likely become responsible for any issues of libel etc
I just found a little better way of doing it.
' New code added so that everybodies post is shown as anonymous except a couple people.
if ChkString(Reply_MemberName,"display") = "xxxx" OR ChkString(Reply_MemberName,"display") = "xxx" then
ReplyName = profileLink(ChkString(Reply_MemberName,"display"),Reply_Author)
else
'alpha = profileLink(ChkString(Reply_MemberName,"display"),Reply_Author)
ReplyName = "Anonymous User"
end if
' End of new code
'New code to block numofpost except for a few people
if ChkString(Reply_MemberName,"display") = "xxxx" OR ChkString(Reply_MemberName,"display") = "xxxx" then
Numofpost = Reply_MemberPosts & " Posts"
else
Numofpost =""
end if
'End of new code
This goes in topic.asp. In this case it only displays the author name if it's of what you specify. I think it would probably be best though to create another column in the database for moderators & administrators and put the people you "want to show" there. In which case it would make the code much smaller because you could simply run though that record. |
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MaD2ko0l
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1053 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2008 : 12:24:37
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he doesnt want an anonymous posting, he jus twants to hide the usename of certain people.
who exactly do you want to show the usernames? admins/mods and memebrs u want to hide?
as stated in previous posts, there is more to hide than just on topic.asp |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2008 : 16:44:43
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| If the reason for hiding your users' screen names in this forum is because there is sensitive information or you don't want people to be able to figure out who posted something, you'll need to make a lot more changes than in topic.asp. See my posts above for just a few of them. Like Davio said, if you're aiming for a single forum where people can post anonymously, you may be better off creating a separate profile that everyone has access to the logon information for. Then your users can post in that forum as that user. |
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