Logged In Users, Forum Announcement

I was looking into a quick hack to only allow logged in users to view each forum announcement. Guests will see nothing, logged in users will see whats supposed to be there.

I know its in ubb_forum, and this is what I have by default

Code

	# get forum record
	@this_forum = &GetForumRecord($in{f});
	chomp($this_forum[15]);    # <- sort option (new)

	chomp($this_forum[16]) if $this_forum[16];    # <- new forum intro/announcement

	$this_forum[16] = "" unless $this_forum[16];

I need to place this line of code somewhere I think, but Im having a hard to figuring it out?

Code

	# user must be logged in!
	unless ($username ne '') {
		&StandardHTML(qq!$vars_wordlets_err{not_logged_in}

<a href="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=login">$vars_wordlets{login_now}</a> $vars_wordlets{or} <a href="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=agree">$vars_wordlets{register_title}</a>!);
	}

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

&RequireUserLogin; is your friend.

not in 6.3 it isnt

*whispers to Charles*
you want to tell him to upgrade, or shall I?

well i got it to work, but not well with the cache

I mean, is there any reason why the forum summary announcement works flawlessly with the cache and the individual forum ann, dont?

By that I mean, if you are a guest, it wont show the ann. Then if you log in, and go back to that forum it still wont show. If you wait 4-5 min and go into the forum, then it will. Cache problem. Any solutions?

why aren't you just using class="ip-is-loggedin"

I dunno, I dont even have that class. What benefit would that do me? Which file? Is that a built in class then obviously Im not aware of?

it is a built-in class available on all pages.

Code

<div class="ip-is-loggedin">You are logged in</div>
<div class="ip-is-notloggedin">You are not logged in, please register</div>

That way you won't even need to worry about the cache

lol, I just noticed it's what you are using for your forum summary.

It's a good idea, I actually did that a couple weeks ago

Well if u use that in ubb_forum.cgi, wont that disable them from even viewing the forum?

Im still confused...I can show you the if statement I wrote to disable guests from seeing forum announcements

you don't need any hacks, or anything. just enclose whatever you want to show only to members in that div.

That works, but it doesnt. See its reversed. It shows for guests and not the users. I want it to show for the users, and not the guests.

But ya, I like that way if we can tweeak it

then use ip-is-loggedin as the class

nice, works very flawlessely