View Staff Threads 1.0.9a

[Xon]

Xon submitted a new resource:

View Staff Threads - Allows Stickies or Staff threads to be visible in a forum without "View threads by others"

Allows Stickies or Staff threads to be visible in a forum without "View threads by others".

Introduces 2 new permissions:

• View sticky threads
• View threads by staff

"Staff" is defined on if the first user of a thread has the "Staff" flag set on thier account.

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[Xon]

Xon updated View Staff Threads with a new update entry:

Improved php 5.3 compatibility

Replace uses of [] and self:: with constructs which should work with php 5.3

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[Xon]

@GuruGamers Can you try this version?

I may need you to PM me the output of admin.php?tools/phpinfo If this version fails.

 

[adaaamb]

@GuruGamers Can you try this version?

I may need you to PM me the output of admin.php?tools/phpinfo If this version fails.

Yep, works perfectly now! Thanks a lot

 

[GetParanoid]

While using XenForo 1.4.2 if you allow a certain usergroup to view staff threads, it also allows them to see the replies (if you go to a staff member's profile page and click postings) they put on any thread in that private forum. While the forum is private, so they can't see what the other users posted, if they do go to a staff member's page, they can see any recent replies to threads by others. Is this intended? If so, is there a way to disable it?

 

[Xon]

@GetParanoid Yes that is intentional. These permissions work on being able to view a whole thread rather than individual posts.

On the forum I help run, this particular addon is used to allow viewing of sticked thread which is locked in a particular forum.

Could you describe exactly what you are trying to accomplish?

 

[GetParanoid]

@GetParanoid Yes that is intentional. These permissions work on being able to view a whole thread rather than individual posts.

On the forum I help run, this particular addon is used to allow viewing of sticked thread which is locked in a particular forum.

Could you describe exactly what you are trying to accomplish?

We'd like to hide replies to the threads staff comments on. We want to forum to be COMPLETELY private (meaning users shouldn't be able to see anything but what is commented on their own post) and that includes not being able to see the replies through the "Postings" tab on a profile page. For example,
There are two users X and Y.
X posts a thread in a private forum which only staff can see. Later on a staff member replies to that thread.
User Y can go onto the staff member's profile page, click the postings tab and see what the staff member replied on X's thread.

Ideally, Y shouldn't be able to see anything regarding to X.

 

[Xon]

@GetParanoid, I see what you are saying now. Users can't see other peoples threads but can see the replies by staff. Ugh.

In that case until I can develop a work around, I recommend using the sticked thread option and permission.

 

[Xon]

Xon updated View Staff Threads with a new update entry:

Fix View Staff Thread Permission

The View Staff thread permission should now correctly does not show staff replies to another user's thread when the user only has rights to see their own threads and staff threads.

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[Xon]

Xon updated View Staff Threads with a new update entry:

Fix performance regression in View Staff Thread Permission

Previous implementation of View Staff Thread Permission required extra queries to work in a search context.

This update no longer requires separate queries per search result post/thread, and introduces fetches the data in the single query at the start.

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[Xon]

@GetParanoid can you try this version and report if it behaves as expected?

 

[adaaamb]

@GetParanoid can you try this version and report if it behaves as expected?

Permissions were really messed up when I uploaded the update. Everything was set to 000

 

[Xon]

Permissions were really messed up when I uploaded the update. Everything was set to 000

It is just a zip file. How the heck did that happen?

How did you install it, manually upload the contents of 'upload'? or use an addon installer?

It sounds like your XenForo install was a weird permission setup.

 

[adaaamb]

It is just a zip file. How the heck did that happen?

How did you install it, manually upload the contents of 'upload'? or use an addon installer?

It sounds like your XenForo install was a weird permission setup.

I just manually uploaded the contents of upload and then got an error when uploading the xml, set listener.php to 775 and then got an error while viewing threads, so set post.php and thread.php to 755 too

 

[Xon]

I just manually uploaded the contents of upload and then got an error when uploading the xml, set listener.php to 775 and then got an error while viewing threads, so set post.php and thread.php to 755 too

This is one of the reasons I recommend using an addon installer, if you don't set file permissions correctly you will break your site when installing addons.

 

[adaaamb]

This is one of the reasons I recommend using an addon installer, if you don't set file permissions correctly you will break your site when installing addons.

Oh well, never had trouble uploading any other plugins manually. It's fixed now anyway

 

[Xon]

Xon updated View Staff Threads with a new update entry:

Minor update

• Minor code cleanup
• Update licence information for 2015
• Simplify addon name visible from AdminCP

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[Xon]

Xon updated View Staff Threads with a new update entry:

Compatibility update

• Minor compatibility update.
  • Fix compatibility with a private add-on, unlikely to impact others but released for completeness.

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[Luis]

Hi Xon,

After upgrading I'm getting this error:
Server Error Log
Error Info

ErrorException: Fatal Error: syntax error, unexpected '&', expecting ')' - library/SV/ViewStaffThreads/XenForo/Model/Thread.php:69
Generated By: luis, 2 minutes ago

Stack Trace

#0 [internal function]: XenForo_Application::handleFatalError()
#1 {main}

Request State

array(3) {
  ["url"] => string(22) "https://my_web.com/"
  ["_GET"] => array(0) {
  }
  ["_POST"] => array(0) {
  }
}

xf version 1.5.5

 

[Xon]

@Luis Oops, I used a php7 only feature. I'll release a fix shortly