Dual Boards - Ads vs Non-Ads

[Kootch]

We've got a forum where we're thinking of having 2 options.

We'd like all visitors to see the same posts, read, and reply all equally.  But we'd like the members that donate to the site to have no ad banners/popups showing.  Non-contributing members would see ads and banners still.

I was thinking that maybe there'd be a way to run dual boards accessing the same databases maybe?

Has anyone done this before?

[[Unknown]]

Perfectly fine, except this is a bad idea - the url gets out.

My suggestion is that you try to put a little php in your template - if they have donated, signify it somehow and don't display the ad.

I would add a column to members and look at that....

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[irbrian]

Here's a quick-hack way of doing it.

In your template.php, where ever the HTML that calls the ad is, I would place code that checks the database to see if the member has contributed.

Probably this is a job for SSI.php -- just put a function in the SSI.php that returns a true if the member has contributed and a false otherwise, then use an if statement in your template surrounding the ad code. But I could be wrong, 'cause I'm struggling with something similar on my 1.3 board right now ). Not even sure you can use the SSI.php in the template.

[Kootch]

Perfectly fine, except this is a bad idea - the url gets out.

My suggestion is that you try to put a little php in your template - if they have donated, signify it somehow and don't display the ad.

I would add a column to members and look at that....

-[Unknown]

I haven't thought this through really, but if you were to have a second forum (for paying members), could you only allow certain membergroups access to the boards through that second forum only?  Then make all paying members a member of that certain member group?

[[Unknown]]

I suppose.

-[Unknown]

[tdodnz]

its much easier to have one board

[Gobalopper]

Just give people who donate a special membergroup. When you load the ad just check to see what membegroup they belong too.

[tdodnz]

yeah like a paid membergroup but if thats not wanted a new column needs to be added to the members table in the database which you just set to 1 if there paid very easy mod then you just add some php to the template that checks and then displays, I would add the checking stuff to index.php and have it set a variable to true

And then in the template you just go

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if (!$paid) {
         show the ad
}

[Dude]

ok, this is all pretty much off the top of my head but.....

First create a member group for those who pay and add all who pay to that group.  Then in the function template_header() in subs.php create a variable called yypaid. Then add the code

if ($userprofile[$user]['memberGroup'] = 'paidgroup*')
 $yypaid = '<br />';
else
 $yypaid = 'insert your ad code here';**

then where you want the ads displayed for non members put <yabb paid>.

*where 'paidgroup' is the name of the member group you created.

** be sure to escape quotes etc. Java should be ok.

and you may want to add other membergroups to the if statememt, such as admin's global moderators etc.