Permission to view entry listing, but not entry details

[juinjuin]

Hi

Not sure if I have missed out any of the settings that can achieve the above, but so far I have found none.

What I hope to achieve is akin to VB's "Can View Thread Content" permission, where a user can view thread listing, but not the thread content.

Basically if I set "Can View Entries" to NO, user cannot see the entry listing anymore.

The reason I want to do this is to let users (e.g. guests and non-priviledged members) to have a taste of the type of content contained within a category, being able to see the entry listing only.

This also has search engine implications.

Many thanks

Regards

[Brian]

I'm sorry, but currently I don't think there's going to be an easy way to allow for that.

[juinjuin]

OK I have tested, and it seems access control is implemented at the show entry level as well.

If this is the case, could you let me know which PHP file to edit in order to remove the portion that controls the access to entry listing.

This way, user without privilege can still view entry listing, and yet do not have access to entry details.

Thanks

[Brian]

If I'm thinking correctly, you should be able to look in your forum/includes/vba_dyna_plugin_sf.php file for this line:

PHP Code:

$vba_dyna->load_entry('', true, true, true, true, true); 


And replace with this:

PHP Code:

$vba_dyna->load_entry('canviewdyna', true, true, true, true, true); 


[juinjuin]

Hi Brian

I just tried that but it didn't work.

My objective is to remove access control at all levels, except the Show Entry level, so that users can see Category Listing, Entry Listing but now Entry details (with "Can View Entries" set to NO).

Any ideas?

Many thanks for the help

[juinjuin]

I commented out the line:

print_no_permission();

in function check_cat_perms in vba_dyna_class.php

and now the user is able to going into the entry listing. But the list is blank.

Would you be able to point out to me in which script the decision is being made not to show anything, or where the WHERE clause is set to result in 0 records (as user has no permision)?

Many thanks, Brian.

[Brian]

Commenting out that line is definitely not a good idea as it's going to prevent the "no permission" page from being displayed when checking any type of permission, and very likely give your users permission to perform actions they shouldn't be allowed to.

You could try looking in your browseentries.php file for this line and remove it:

PHP Code:

$vba_dyna->check_cat_perms('canviewentries', $catinfo, true); 


Then find this line just a little below the first:

PHP Code:

if (!$catinfo['hasentries'] OR !$vba_dyna->check_cat_perms('canviewentries', $catinfo)) 


Replace with this:

PHP Code:

if (!$catinfo['hasentries']) 


And see if you get any better results.