UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.3.x] [beta] hidden forum hack

thankies a ton, private forums hidden. yeah LK its a wonder eh?

Ill give it a go later e@sy... Thanks a lot man

Why dont you just turn off category for a forum?
You can still get in there and post btw as long as you remember the URL.

thats what LK's hack does

Then why use a hack?

Oh I thought it just takes it off the listing.
Ooops my mistake.

thanks for this hack

been looking forward to this

Okay, I just finished hacking the files it works great on my test server. When the instructions say add behind, they mean add after.

It works great!

[code][/code]What it means, is that if the user can access ANY special forum, he can see this forum. You should make a check if there is THIS forum.

I have a test user at my test board that has access to two private forums and he can't see the hidden forum. What am I looking for LK?

Clarification LK...Are you strictly speaking of private or hidden forums? Examples:

A: You have 2 private forums. You give a user access to private forum A but not B. With this code you posted the user will be able to see both private forums A & B?

OR

B: You have 2 hidden forums. You give a user access to hidden forum A but not B. The code you posted the user will be able to see both hidden forums A & B?

I'm assuming you are speaking of "Hidden" forums strictly.

One thing I just noticed is that the forum and threads show up in the PNTF under "most popular topics within the past 30 minutes:" even if I'm logged out.

Okay, this fixed it;

ubb_pntf.cgi

find this twice;

if( (&GetForumRecord($in{f}))[6] =~ m/private/ ) {

replace it with;

if( ((&GetForumRecord($in{f}))[6] =~ m/private/ ) || (&GetForumRecord($in{f}))[6] =~ m/hidden/ ) {

public_pntf_summary.pl

find this;

if(($vars_forums{$number}->[6] =~ m/private/) || ($vars_forums{$number}->[3] ne 'On')) {

Replace it with;

if(($vars_forums{$number}->[6] =~ m/private/) || ($vars_forums{$number}->[6] =~ m/hidden/) || ($vars_forums{$number}->[3] ne 'On')) {

Find;

if((&GetForumRecord($number))[6] =~ m/private/) {

Replace that with;

if( ((&GetForumRecord($number))[6] =~ m/private/) || (&GetForumRecord($number))[6] =~ m/hidden/) {

Right on X!

I would like e@sy or LK to look at it and make sure that I didn't miss anything if they could.

Edit: apparently you can't move threads to the hidden forums.

Hmm...I guess just one of the drawbacks. Thks X for testing it. I still think this hack is a must have.

I just installed this (which has got to be the most time consuming hack

One prob I've had is that the hidden forums keep disappearing.

when i go view my PM's or goto recent visitors, when i click to go back to the front page the forums are gone.

The only way i can get them back is to open a new window and log back in.

Any ideas?

tia

stubbsy

sorry, link doesn´t work

yup link is dead, please fix

Thanks E@sy

Anyone else that's running this having a problem with the hidden forums "disappearing" for users who have permissions to access them?

I login, the forums are there. I close my browser session, open a new browser session and go to the forums. I'm still logged in, but my hidden forums are no longer visible to me. The only way I can seem to get them back is to go into my Control Panel and clear the forum cache.

I wondering if this might have anything to do with my using UBB Accelerator. When I installed the mod, I went over it 3 times with a fine-toothed comb just to be sure I got it all right, so I'm damn confident that it's not something I overlooked. However, I suppose that's not impossible either.

I'm running 6.3.0.1 and installed the mod from e@sy's page for this version of UBB.

http://vvvcentral.com/forums

Edit: I just disabled UBB Accelerator for testing purposes. I want to see if this problem continues without its use.

mmmmm.. doesn't work anymore

My DNS changed. It's back up now.

Okay - it's not the UBB Accelrator in and of itself. I disabled (as mentioned above) and people are still having trouble with the forums disappearing.

I've disabled caching to see if that has anything to do with it. Does anyone have any ideas at all?

Seems to work fine with caching disabled.

I don't have the first idea on how to rectify this.

^bump^

Hi...

i've installed this hack... but now i've got a problem... i cant move any topic becauce in the drop down menu my board dont show me my hidden Forums... and my function "Show Print Version" says me "This Topic is not exist..." .... and the Drop Down menu in puplic_forum "Go To Forum:" dont shows me the Hidden Forums.... can anybody helps me? .... thanx alot...

Baby Death

Because the forum is hidden think of it as an invisible forum, one that doesn't exist. If the forums show up in the drop down search or move option users who do not have access to the hidden forums will know they exist.

I think however that you can go into your CP and move the topics under Maintanence. In there you should be able to see every forum created. I think you can also take out the Search and drop down codes from the Hidden Forum hack so that your users can see the forums.

Hi...

@PrimeTime... thanx alot... i will test it...

Baby Death

Hope it works for you...It did for 6.3.1.1 and up. : :

I think this is one of the most useful hacks made. I'm surprised that people aren't all over it. PHPBB and other PHP boards offer hidden topics right out of the box.

All links don't work. Is there anywhere else that this script is available?

Will Infopop ever offer this as an out-of-the-box feature?

This is the link


http://ubbdev.de/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=2

Thanks!

OHHH nooo... I can't read the BBS, where the Hidden Form Hack is... http://www.fachinformatiker-world.de/forums/
Can someone help me?

Thank-You

BUZN_WILDLY

it's hidden

Whaa haa haa.. your telling me!
I can't find it...
STill looking for the hack though...