Force register

[bajaboy1 +]

What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?

v4.1.8 Developer

What template are you using?

default

Please describe in detail the issue you are having:

How do I force someone to register before they can contact the owner of a listing?

Thanks

[seymourjames +]

In your 68C admin control panel, go to users -> usergroups; In the settings for guest there is a setting which allows or does not allow them to contact the owner.

[bajaboy1 +]

Thank you.

[Wildflower +]

I was wondering about this as well. Thanks

[arkmo +]

Hi guys, got site up and running and everything is going pretty smooth. But having problem with the "Contact Owner" for guest. I want that to show...and get the message they must login to contact the owner. Which this does do that in all browers I tested it in, FireFox, IE8 and Chrome. The problem is the form is just a little farther down the page. So when they scroll down just a little they have the contact form and it works. So they can just go ahead and send the email to the owner without having to register.

Disabling guest contact does remove the form but also removes the "contact owner" button so visitor would not have a clue they need to login to contact the owner nor able to see how the site works.

So how do I use the feature "not allow guest to use contact" and remove the form so they can't. Like I say if they don't see the form below and just click the button they do get the popup that says they need to login or register to use this feature.

Mike

[seymourjames +]

You can edit the template file viewlisting.tpl file directly by placing a link to the login page or you can edit the logic in listings.tpl file

[arkmo +]

I don't know much about this stuff other than what I have learned doing it so I won't be much help but maybe I can help someone with another problem I found and appears to have solved.

In IE when the page first loads it was throwing an error. pngfix denied . If anyone else get this problem you might try creating a iepngfix.htc file in your root then edit it placing the fix inside. that appears to have worked.

Thanks for the suggestion on the email form displaying.

Mike

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Originally Posted by arkmo

Disabling guest contact does remove the form but also removes the "contact owner" button so visitor would not have a clue they need to login to contact the owner nor able to see how the site works.

This is what I do at the very top of both the showlistings and the viewlisting pages:

{if $smarty.session.userlevel==5}
<div align="center">
Welcome Guest! Feel free to browse all of our listings, however you must be <a href="userjoin.php">Registered</a> and <a href="login.php">Logged In</a> in order to contact the owner of a listing.
</div>
{/if}

Using Smarty, it checks if the user is a guest and if they are it shows the message otherwise it doesn't. In the message, you add the convenience of clicking the link to register or to login. You can add other appropriate text to the message such as, "Registration is free and also gives you more features such as saving your favorite listings."

[arkmo +]

But didn't get that code to work on my site. I did get the page edited to include a link to the login page for guest so I guess that will work ok. Thanks again.

Mike

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Ooops! That should have been {if $smarty.session.userlevel==5} Sorry.