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At first: I hate blogs Its waste of time in my eyes.

Some people on my board ask my about a way to post blogs in Threads. They should be public readable but only editable by topic starter. As I know, there is no included way to do this.

Have anyone seen a modification that do something like this:

Only one forum is a special forum. In this forum every registered user have creation rights for new topics. No user have the rights to post replys in any thread except in his own started thread. Mods and Admins have normal rights.

Well....this would go like this:

In newreply.php you would build a check if we are in this special forum, and then if the replier is either the topic starter, a mod or an admin. If not send them an error message.

An easy mod to do.

Here you go, untested code, curious if it will work.

in rewreply.php line ~124

find:

// Check to see if they can reply to this thread
$query = "
SELECT B_Sticky,B_Status
FROM {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
WHERE B_Number='$Main'
";
$sth = $dbh->do_query($query,__LINE__,__FILE__);
list($issticky,$bstatus) = $dbh->fetch_array($sth);
if ($issticky == "2" && ($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator")) {
$html->not_right($ubbt_lang['NO_R_ANNOUNCE'],$Cat);
}


replace with:

// Check to see if they can reply to this thread
$query = "
SELECT B_Sticky,B_Status,B_PosterId
FROM {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
WHERE B_Number='$Main'
";
$sth = $dbh->do_query($query,__LINE__,__FILE__);
list($issticky,$bstatus,$mainposterid) = $dbh->fetch_array($sth);
if ($issticky == "2" && ($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator")) {
$html->not_right($ubbt_lang['NO_R_ANNOUNCE'],$Cat);
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// If we are in the special forum and not a admin or mod
//and not the user that started the thread they can't proceed
if (($Board == "short_name_of_the_special_forum") &&
($user['U_Number'] != $mainposterid) &&
($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator") &&
($user['U_Status'] != "Moderator") ){
$html -> not_right("This is the special Blog forum, you can only reply to your own threads!",$Cat);
}

Post deleted by Zarzal

Post deleted by Zarzal

it works so far, but only the reply function is not checked by this way. You can enter a quickreply anyway.

I cant find out where is the difference between reply and quick reply. There is no own quickreply.php and in newreply i cant find the right place to put a check in.

Can you help me again ?

ok...quickreply gives its data to addpost.php

So, in addpost.php

search for:
if ($Main) {
$query = "
SELECT B_Board
FROM {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
WHERE B_Number='$Main'
";
$sth = $dbh->do_query($query,__LINE__,__FILE__);
list($Board) = $dbh->fetch_array($sth);
}

Insert underneath:

if ($Main) {

// Check to see if they can reply to this thread
$query = "
SELECT B_Sticky,B_Status,B_PosterId
FROM {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
WHERE B_Number='$Main'
";
$sth = $dbh->do_query($query,__LINE__,__FILE__);
list($issticky,$bstatus,$mainposterid) = $dbh->fetch_array($sth);
if ($issticky == "2" && ($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator")) {
$html->not_right($ubbt_lang['NO_R_ANNOUNCE'],$Cat);
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// If we are in the special forum and not a admin or mod
//and not the user that started the thread they can't proceed
if (($Board == "short_name_of_the_special_forum") &&
($user['U_Number'] != $mainposterid) &&
($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator") &&
($user['U_Status'] != "Moderator") ){
$html -> not_right("This is the special Blog forum, you can only reply to your own threads!",$Cat);
}
}


This should work, but again, I didn't test it.

YES, this looks good. *bows*
I will do some wordlets for this if I find the time. Thank you.

I'd be interested in knowing the progress of this, and offering any help I can if needed.

we made a litte other solution. We use a combination of the 'article layout hack', a own html page and some modifications of the article layout. Its not finished yet, but it works. Sample:

http://www.dragonclan-forum.de/ubbthreads/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/blog