Description: This allows you to make private forums visible on your main index, to "tease" your users. The forum will appear on the main index, but users won't be able to view it unless they have permission.
Working Under: UBB.Threads 6.4
Mod Status: Beta
Any pre-requisites: none
Author(s): JoshPet
Date: 09/02/04
Credits: magle - www.magle.dk for commissioning it
Database Altered: Bo_Teaser added to w3t_Boards table
Info/Instructions:
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Anyhow, I've installed it now and it works great! The only "bug" i've stumbled on so far is that every time I go to edit a forum it keeps forgetting if teaser forum is set or not, and simply reverts to "off" (but it's an extremely minor problem, as all I have to do is set it on whenever I want to edit a private forum)
Hrm... the changes in viewboard.php should take care of making sure the box is checked if it's setup to be a teaser. Works on my test site. Are you sure you made those changes. If not, PM me and I'll take a look and see why it's not working for you.
Great mod Josh! In my situation this should help sell some subscriptions. Just a thought here, I see it's using the standard "Access Denied" message which can be changed easily enough but it would be nice if we could add our own unique message for that forum. This way we could put in a link to the membership etc.
[]You may wish to customize the "Access Denied" message (language files) to explain why they can't view the forum. (Must login, must subscribe etc.....)[/]
Are you referring to the postlist.php file? Or are there other files I need to re-edit?
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