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Limit posting in specific area by post count - Postet den 21 Jan 2008 (2447 Views)

Dash Designs

Starting Member

Innlegg: 7

Hi guys. I have tried searching for MODS with lots of different phrases but still no result, so I am guessing it isn't possible yet or maybe someone can tell me otherwise. Here's my problem:

I have a trading area on our forum where users can post items for sale. Every now and again someone will come in and post up and advert for their very first post after joining without introducing themselves. My forum members are annoyed that people are using it as a free advert instead of joining in the forum community, but worse still, some people have bought items to find out the guys has taken the money never to be seen again. I have posted warnings and advice but still this happens, so the gerneral concensus was they want me to make it impossible for starting members with less than say 20 posts to post in that one area. I already have the 10 post count limit for emailing members which stopped the spammers so I'm guessing this sort of thing should be possible but I just don't know how to do it myself or cannot find a MOD.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.<

Postet den 21 Jan 2008

bobby131313

Senior Member

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I've been kicking this around also. Must have minimum of 50 posts and 14 days to Buy/Sell/Trade on the forum. But people don't read and post items for sale anyway. The busier we get (we're growing like wildfire) the more time consuming dealing with these people is, so it would be sweet if they were simply turned down from posting in those forums with less than 50 posts automagically.<

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Postet den 22 Jan 2008

Shaggy

Support Moderator

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6780

What you need to do is turn private forums on and set the authorisation type on the forum you want to restrict access to to "Allowed Member List". Then, in post_info.asp, add a check on the number of posts the member has made when processing their posts and add them to the list for that forum if it equals the requirement.
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Postet den 22 Jan 2008

AnonJr

Forum Moderator

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5768

I seem to remember this being done before too... when you searched, did you include the archive?<

Postet den 22 Jan 2008

Dash Designs

Starting Member

Innlegg: 7

Shaggy: So post_info.asp is where I need to add code that check for number of posts? Will this not effect all forum areas if I hard code this page to do that? Also, will it only show the forum to the Allowed members list? If this is tha case then it will not help as the area itself is a good draw card to the site and encourages people to become active members.
AnonJr: Sorry mate, I didn't check archived topics. I will do so now.
EDIT... Just spent all morning checking the archive posts and could find nothing there either. Sorry guys.<

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Postet den 22 Jan 2008

phy1729

Average Member

Innlegg: 589

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I have not tested this. Add the code in red. Cahnge code in green to the topic number of the topic you wish to protect. post_info.asp lines 951-6

Code:


if MethodType = "Reply" or MethodType = "ReplyQuote" or MethodType = "TopicQuote" then
	'## Forum_SQL
	strSql = "SELECT MEMBER_ID, M_LEVEL, M_EMAIL, M_LASTPOSTDATE, M_POSTS, " & strDBNTSQLname
	if strAuthType = "db" then
		strSql = strSql & ", M_PASSWORD "
	end if

lines 977-1

Code:


		if strPrivateForums = "1" and ForumChkSkipAllowed = 0 then
			if not(chkForumAccess(Forum_ID,MemberID,false)) or (rs("M_POSTS")<1 AND TOPIC_ID=15772) then
				Go_Result "You are not allowed to post in this forum !", 0
			end if
		end if