UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Suggestions and Feedback "Start new thread" rights

Hi Scream,

I would love to see an enhanced option for the board's users rights.

I want to have the following:

- The group "users" can not start new threads in a board, but
- the group "users" is allowed to reply to existing posts in that board. (moderated or unmoderated)

This would help in situations like a News board, where only administrators or moderators are allowed to post news messages, but where it's allowed to discuss the topics.

I think this feature would be very helpful.

Carsten
--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Splendid idea! I'd like that, too.

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Eileen,

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>

Splendid idea! I'd like that, too.

[/quote]

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> - fine!

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

How about this idea or alternative - to allow only users with a certain titles - or after a certain number of posts (thus assuming familiarity with the functioning of a forum, i.e. using reply instead of new thread when responding) to start a new thread?

Yes, excellent idea, would be great for 'news' forums, like one this one!

Muhammad Chishti
Creative dIRECTOR
<font color=white><A HREF="http://www.imcuniverse.com" target="_new">http://www.imcuniverse.com</A></font color=white>

Hi Gerrit,

well, in moderated forums it's no problem to let users start a thread. The moderator could move it to another board. But the problem is the right to reply to threads, because the moderator can only move the complete thread but not just one or some replies within the thread...

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Eileen,

do you have any ideas for this feature?

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Thanks from jogging my memory, Carsten. I'll have a look at it.

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

OK. I've got it running at <A HREF="http://www.amdragon.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=hack" target="_new">http://www.amdragon.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=hack</A>. If it fits the bill I'll post it for download.

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Eileen,

oohh, you're fast!!! Thank you very much.

But I have a problem. In postlist.pl there's a $Where which is unknown in my script. I think it comes from an other hack (javascript:popLogin), which I don't have incorporated.

I don't have any clue how to change these specific lines to fit my situation. Can you help?

Thanks,

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Eileen,

I have another question. If this works well, can you imagine a solution which gives us this feature vice-versa? I mean the following:

- Users are allowed to start a new thread, but
- are not allowed to reply to threads

With such feature, we could generate plain no-discussion news boards. I think this would make sense in some cases. What are you thinking about it?

Thanks,

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Ah, mea culpa! I'll change the instructions.

# You will already have one of the following lines. Uncomment the one that matches yours:

# print"< img alt=\"*\" src=\"$config{'images'}/greynewpost.gif\">"; #in Scream's
# print"< a href=\"$config{'cgiurl'}/login.pl\">< img alt=\"Please Login to post\" src=\"$config{'images'}/newpost.gif\" width=27 height=17 border=0>< /a>"; #in Ad-hoc login
print"< a href=\"javascript:popLogin['$config{'cgiurl'}/poplogin.pl?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&page=$page&view=$view&sb=$sb&Where=$Where','490','200')\">< img alt=\"Login \& Post\" src=\"$config{'images'}/newpost.gif\" width=27 height=17 border=0>< /a>"; #in InstantLogin-popup


<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Um, you mean a sort of 'Classifieds'. Interesting...

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Hi Eileen!

I get this error when i try to change the board's "rights"

System Error: Global symbol "$TalkbackOn" requires explicit package name at /homepages/2/d17463792/htdocs/if/admin/viewboard.pl line 108.

oh.. the other error is gone now <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Not sure I understand that. Is it OK now?

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

the first error, the one Carsten posted, is gone now, but there is this new error now <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

this is a piece of my viewboard.pl

if ($Moderated eq "yes") {
$ModeratedOn = "checked";
}
else {
$ModeratedOff = "checked";
}

if ($Talkback eq "yes") {
$TalkbackOn = "checked"; (this would be line 108)
}
else {
$TalkbackOff = "checked";
}

# ------------------------


Marc

Got it! I'd missed a line when I assembled the instructions. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

Here ya go:

add the two new entries at the end of this line:

my ($HTMLOn,$HTMLOff,$MarkupOn,$MarkupOff,$ModeratedOff,$ModeratedOn,$TalkbackOn,$TalkbackOff);


<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Eileen!! You're GREAT!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

it's working perfectly now

time to link to your page in the FAQ now... in fact your hacks are the things my users like most in the whole forum:)

thanks again!

Marc

____________________________
<A HREF="http://www.internet-foren.de" target="_new">http://www.internet-foren.de</A>

Thank you - that brought a lovely warm glow. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="images/icons/blush.gif" />

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Eileen,

with the two changes it works like a charm now!!! Thanks for this great hack! It's wonderful!

Scream, I would love to see this feature in the main distribution files!

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Eileen,

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>

Um, you mean a sort of 'Classifieds'. Interesting...

[/quote]

Yes, for instance. The main reason why I would like to have this feature is the following: We have a News board, which is moderated and the users should be able to submit news messages. So they should be allowed to start a thread.

But we don't want to use this board for discussions. Discussions about all news topics should be held in an other board.

But the users simply don't care about this fact and send replies to the threads. Because of the fact, that it's impossible to move single messages from within a thread to a nother board, we have now several discussions in this "News-only" board.

We now decided to make this news board read-only for the users, so only admins and moderators are allowed to post there. And we added a line in the description of the board which tells the user that they should send a private message to the moderator to submit a news message. But this is just a bad workaround, not a real good solution.

I hope this makes clear what I mean....!?

Thanks,

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Yes, I like it. I'll work on it...

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Go have a look at <A HREF="http://www.amdragon.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=class" target="_new">http://www.amdragon.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=class</A> and see if that would work for you.

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />

Eileen,

yeah! That's exactly what I mean!!! Wonderful!

Carsten

--
Carsten Müller, Hamburg (Germany)

Now, if I can just get it bundled up properly... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

<img src="http://www.amdragon.com/images/eileensig.gif" alt=" - " />