Topic: Anonymous Board Mod

[Vuhdo]

I'll see if I can do something later.

Great TY!

[flossy]

I seem to be having one problem.

I am currently using SMF 2.0.4. I have added anonymous board mod and it's working however i am having one slight problem. 4/5 times, The first poster is not anonymous and is showing their usernames however all replies are anonymous. Only first poster is not. Then every now and then. Randomly. i'd say 1/5 times. The first poster would be anonymous. lol

Is there a way i can fix this or do you know why this is happening?

It is not a live forum so i have deleted the boards and mod. Cleared cache and reinstalled the mod and new boards and still doing the same thing. :s

[MiY4Gi]

Very strange problem. Unless you can find some pattern in the occurrences of the problem, there really isn't much help anyone can offer. Does the SMF error log say anything? What about the server error log? Generally I would associate any intermittent errors like the one you're having to failing hardware. But I think it could also be lack of hardware resources such as ram shortages or server overloads, etc.

[Kindred]

Actually,  can duplicate the problem...   But it becomes even odder.
On boards which are not set to be anon, there is no option...  But the first poster of the  thread is forced anonymous.

It seems like the first post in threads is treated the opposite of the setting.

[flossy]

Thanks for the fast responses.

@kindred, have you used this mod previously and it was working good? if so, what did you do different between when it worked well to now?

I originally thought maybe it's being on smf 2.0.4 but i read the replies of this topic and nobody else on 2.0.4 has brought it up so ;/

[Kindred]

I wrote the mod, back for 1.1.x...   I have not tried it on 2.0.x since then though.

[MiY4Gi]

Ah, sorry I forgot about that bug. If I recall it has something to do with the way the cache of SMF 2.0 works. There is an anonymous mod variable that would occasionally not get defined, and that is what's causing the problem (iirc). Last year I posted a fix for it: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=204149.msg3380492#msg3380492

I assumed that the mod had been updated with the fix, but I was mistaken.

[Kindred]

yup, MiY4Gi, that's it...    thanks for reminding me.

[MiY4Gi]

Okay, for those that want to hide the "Post un-anonomously" ticky box from all users except admins and mods, here's what you need to do:

Open /Themes/default/Post.template.php

Code: (find) [Select]

// anonymous board mod
if ( $context['anonymous_board'] )
echo ' '. $txt['Post_anonymous'] .' <input type="checkbox" name="post_unanon" />';


Code: (replace) [Select]

// anonymous board mod
if ( $context['anonymous_board'] && $context['user']['is_admin'] || $context['anonymous_board'] && $context['user']['is_mod'] )
echo ' '. $txt['Post_anonymous'] .' <input type="checkbox" name="post_unanon" />';

If you chose to also display that line on your Quick Reply box then:

Open /Themes/default/Display.template.php.

Repeat as for Post.template.php.

Once I learn how to add it as an option under board settings, then I'll post the code here. For now you'll just have to hardcode the membergroups.

[flossy]

@ MiY4Gi, Thank you so much. i did suspect the cache which is why i wrote in my post that i cleared the cache both on my browser and on smf but didn't work. Working perfectly now. thank you.