Unregistered Can't Post

[chazhound]

My unregistered users can't post comments.

I have the Allow users to post comments? set to Yes.
I have the Allow comments? set to Yes for unregistered users.

The unregistered users can see the quick quotes and can put in text and submit, but in the admin it just shows the vote number and not the comment.
So no unregistered member can add a comment.

I thought it was just an install mess up, but all three of my galleries are doing this.

Please advise how I can allow unregistered users to post comments on my three installations. I am running vBulletin version 3.0.5 intgergrated except for one installation. But all won't allow unregistered members to post comments.

Thanks,
Chazhound
http://www.chazhound.com/pictures/
http://www.funnypop.com/pictures/

[Chuck S]

Karl

Since your copyright is removed I do not know what version of our software your running.

You might want to update to the latest software if this is not the latest. You can send an admin login to me if you like to see how you have everything setup but if this is not the latest software I would upgrade so we are not fixing any old bugs already tracked down.

[chazhound]

I try to always keep my galleries updated. It is the current version.

Chazhound

[Chuck S]

Okay bugfix this exists in 4.8.6 release and the beta pp5

Basically unregistered users can never post comments even though you allow them since the $User['nopost'] variable is ALWAYS SET to 1 for unregistered users. Basically the comments script sets any rating and message to null if $User['nopost'] is set to 1

So in your forum integration file find this line

if ( $nouploadlimit == 1 ) $User['uploadlimit'] = 0;

add beneath it this

if ( $usercomment == 1 ) $User['nopost'] = 0;

thats it unregistered users will be able to post

[chazhound]

Alright! Thanks for finding the problem. Which file is the forum intergration file?

Chazhound

[Chuck S]

Okay that depends what your integrating with.

In your case your forum integration file is called vb3.php and it is in the forums subdirectory under your pictures directory

[chazhound]

How about for my FunnyPoP site which doesn't use any intergration?

Thanks much Chuck.
Chazhound

[Chuck S]

Yes it does in a sense

photopost.php

[chazhound]

Originally Posted by omegatron

So in your forum integration file find this line

if ( $nouploadlimit == 1 ) $User['uploadlimit'] = 0;

add beneath it this

if ( $usercomment == 1 ) $User['nopost'] = 0;

I found it in the vp3.php and it seems to work

I don't see anything like this in the photopost.php file.
Is it different on that file?

Thank you,
Chazhound

[Chuck S]

yeah forgot Photopost does not include all the extra coding as there are no usergroup arrays

Find this

list( $User['adminedit'],$User['moderator'],$disk_k,$up_k,$User['uploadlimit'],$useruploads,$usercomment,$ueditpho,$ueditposts,$User['albums'],$User['usemod'],$User['assign'] ) = mysql_fetch_row($resulta);
ppmysql_free_result($resulta);

You can add the line I stated below this line

[chazhound]

That works! Thanks much Chuck!!

[simmonet]

Would this be the same issue that will result in "User comments not allowed" even if the user is loggin in?

PHPBB integration

I will change the integration code and see if that helps.

Thx

grant

[Chuck S]

Basically before this fix unregistered users could not post even if set to yes