Contest Votes by Users Awaiting Confirmation

tjanders · September 19th, 2006, 12:29 AM

I run Photopost 5.21 and use vBulletin registration. In trying to understand why the vote totals for a leading pic drastically reduced on the last day of voting, I became aware that Users Awaiting Confirmation were able to vote in the contest. I checked all the user settings in Photo Post and they are only able to view and nothing else. I cheked the Category settings and this user group is not allowed to vote. I even checked the data in the SQL database and confirmed that it agrees with the control panel. Yet they continue to be able to vote. Any ideas why this would be?

Chuck S · September 19th, 2006, 09:00 AM

In showgallery template try adding in bold

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

tjanders · September 19th, 2006, 09:53 PM

Tried this coding, but it looked to me like the last semicolon should be a right parenthesis. I tried it as one with no result. Where should the right parenthesis be to complete the If statement?

Chuck S · September 20th, 2006, 09:24 AM

its complete must have deleted the ) putting in the bbcode tags. Basically that this says is if they are logged in do they have voting rights. You can turn off voting rights for usergroups in edit categories

tjanders · September 21st, 2006, 01:55 AM

Sorry poor copying by me. Doesn't change the results, though.

The function is definitely turned off for the usergroup in edit categories, but I've tested and they can definitely vote. In fact, I've also indicated that Moderators and the Administrator can't vote, but when they log in, they are able to vote too. It appears that it's testing only the ability to successfully log in and not which usergroup is involved.

Chuck S · September 21st, 2006, 04:38 AM

Reapply the edit the catid variable needs to be $thecatid

tjanders · September 27th, 2006, 10:39 PM

I revised, but with no change in results. All categories can still vote. Here's a copy of the coding now on the server, in case I've misunderstood the revisions.

if ( $takevotes == 1 && $CatPerms['ugvote'][$thecatid] = 0; ) {

Chuck S · September 27th, 2006, 10:44 PM

remove the semi-colon

Steve_UK · October 2nd, 2006, 09:50 AM

Hi guys,

I also run v5.21 and have exactly the same problem.

I tried adding the bold fix but that did not change things. I also tried cutting and pasting in the whole code block above, that did not fix it either.

So, as per tjanders, all levels of logged in user can vote in our competition... even though the category has it set for just 3 user levels to be able to do this.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Steve

Chuck S · October 2nd, 2006, 10:51 AM

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

That definately works fine

I would suggest you go into your cats editor if your edit is as noted and make sure only registered admins mods etc can vote

tjanders · October 12th, 2006, 12:40 AM

Not sure what I'm not getting right here, as all categories can vote even though only registered is turned on in the cats editor. For a work around, I've turned off the ability to view images for Users Awaiting Confirmation as this prevents them from voting nicely. Here's a copy of my code in case I still haven't set it up right:

if ( $ratingtype == 1 ) {
if ( $hasvoted == 0 && $User['userid'] != $gallery['userid'][$x] && $User['userid'] > 0 ) {
if ( $takevotes == 1 && $CatPerms['ugvote'][$thecatid] = 0 ) {
echo<<<PPPRINT
<span class="{$Style['small']}"><a href="{$Globals['maindir']}/misc.php?action=vote&photo={$gallery['id'][$x]}">{$Globals['pp_lang']['vote']}</a></span>
<br />
PPPRINT;
}
}