Codezwiz >> Forums >> Post your scripts >> Restrict Module access by User Level and/or Forum Posts

I took some of the code from the "limit arcade access" mod found in the download section here.

I wanted a way to be able to restrict access to a specific module on my site. I restricted it so the user has to have at least 25 posts in the forums AND 2 posts in the last 7 days in order to have access. I also put some code in there about User_Level so that you can grant access automatically to certain user types. (Admins and Staff in my case).

I placed this code in the beginning of the index.php file for the respective module. There's probably a better way to do it, but this is what I came up with. Hope you like it! You can see it in action [ Register or login to view links on this board.] . I have this working on my Backing Tracks module (need to register to see it).

Hope you like it!

//My little mod to make people post in the forums
global $db, $prefix, $user;
getusrinfo($user);

if (is_user($user)) {$uid = $userinfo['user_id'];
 $ulevel = $userinfo['user_level'];}

$secs = 86400;
$days = 7;
$posts = 2;
$min_posts = 25;
$current_time = time();
$old_time = $current_time - ($secs * $days);

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$prefix."_bbposts WHERE poster_id = $uid and post_time BETWEEN $old_time AND $current_time");
$Amount_Of_Posts = $db->sql_numrows( $result );

$total_result = $db->sql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$prefix."_bbposts WHERE poster_id = $uid");
$total_posts = mysql_num_rows($total_result);

if ($ulevel != 2 && $ulevel !=3) {
if ($Amount_of_Posts < $min_posts || $Amount_Of_Posts < $posts)
{include("header.php");
$diff_posts = $posts - $Amount_Of_Posts;
OpenTable();

 $ThemeSel = get_theme();
if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/media.gif")) {
 echo " <center><a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name\"><img src=\"themes/$ThemeSel/images/media.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></a> </center>";
} else {
 echo " <center><a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name\"><img src=\"modules/$module_name/images/media.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></a> </center>";
}
 echo "<center>Thanks for your interest in our $module_name module!</center> 

 We offer access to this area free of charge. We just need a bit of your time!
 Users must have at least $min_posts total posts in the forums and need at least $posts posts every $days days to check out the $module_name module.
 We require this to help our community grow and look forward to your participation! 

<center>Right now, you have $total_posts total posts and $Amount_Of_Posts posts in the last $days days.</center> 


 Please keep in mind that we have forum moderators who check for profanity, spam and other types of abuse in our forums.
If users are caught abusing the forums they stand the chance of being banned from the site.
 This is how we keep our site great for players of all ages! See you in the forums! 

 <center><a href='modules.php?name=Forums'>Click here to go to the forums.</a></center> 

 <center>Thanks for helping the <a href='index.php'>YOUR_SITE_NAME_HERE</a> community grow!</center>";

CloseTable();
include("footer.php");
}
} else {
//END MY MOD

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All I get is a parse error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /blah/blahblah/Module_Name/index.php on line 598

Hmmm...working on my site. I'm running 7.6 and pasted this code right at the top of the index.html file just after:

if (!eregi("modules.php", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}
$index = 1;
require_once("mainfile.php");
$module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
get_lang($module_name);
$pagetitle = "- $module_name";

Which module are you doing this with? My Backing Tracks module is very similar to the Web Links module if that helps any.

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Same error putting it the place you mentioned. I am using Telli's Giveaways Module and trying to implement this into it.

I think this:

if ($Amount_of_Posts < $min_posts || $Amount_Of_Posts < $posts)

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Need to add

$module_name

Sorry forgot that one. Added it above if anyone wants to use it.

Thanks for taking a look at the code Telli...

I forgot one other thing. If you're using the code I originally pasted, it's an "if" statement. So you need to add a right brace } right before ?> at the end of the file.

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any way to "simply" add user_points to this so a user needs xx points to access the module?

BTW, really useful mod. Thanks for sharing!