What I'm looking for is an added setting for the admin to set certain forums to allow people to post, but not reply. Mainly for the testing area of our forum, I'd like people to create a test post if they need to, but stop people from replying to these test posts.

My testing area at times turns into somewhat of a chat room. I know I could use the hack that stops post counts from certain forums, but I'd really like to keep the testing area for JUST that, testing only, and not allow people to reply and continue chatting in those threads

Implementing a new right isn't that easy, but wouldn't it be sufficient to hide the reply button it that particular forum?

Yes, that would be sufficient

Ok, then just do it.

Do you need some code?

I could probably use some code If it was just a general board-wide change, I could do it, but this one is slightly over my pea-sized brain

Jeremy, here's a tidbit which will probably get you started.

Example - in showflat.php we have this:


if ($reply == "on") {
$postrow[$i]['replylinkstart'] = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/newreply.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&Number=$Number&page=$page&view=$view&what=showflat&sb=$sb&o=$o&fpart=$fpart&vc=1">";
$postrow[$i]['replylinkstop'] = "</a>";
$postrow[$i]['quotelinkstart'] = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/newreply.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&Number=$Number&page=$page&view=$view&what=showflat&sb=$sb&o=$o&fpart=$fpart&vc=1&q=1">";
$postrow[$i]['quotelinkstop'] = "</a>";
}


Try chaning that "if" line to something like this:

if (($reply == "on") && ($Board != "keyword") {


And put the board keyword that you don't want the reply link to appear where I have "keyword" above, then it should only show the reply link if the board is not that keyword.

There is similar code in showflat.

Hope that helps.

Thanks josh.. I figured it was just a fairly simple if statement to check which board you're in, and then determine whether or not to display the reply link.

You guys are just way more familiar with the code and know right where to find it

Thx, for posting it, Josh!