How can i make 'New Discussion' public

jone68

I would like to make New Discussion button public and when guest click on it, it will redirect to login page. Just replace Howdy,stranger..... block with new discussion buton.

How can i do that?

hgtonight

Do you not want the guest module (box on the left) to show at all? Or just replace the words with the new discussion button?

What version number of Vanilla are you running?

jone68

Yes, i don't want to show the guest module at all. Instead i would like to show new discussion button visible to guests.

I'm using Version 2.1a33

Thanks,

peregrine

@jone68 said:
Yes, i don't want to show the guest module at all. Instead i would like to show new discussion button visible to guests.

I'm using Version 2.1a33

Thanks,

crazy to be running an outdated alpha version in my opinion. you may have security holes as well.

hgtonight

You can disable the guest module by adding this to your /conf/config.php file: $Configuration['Garden']['Modules']['ShowGuestModule'] = FALSE;.

If you want to show the new discussion module on all the pages, you need to disable the check for a valid session. Copy the file at /applications/vanilla/modules/class.newdiscussionmodule.php and paste it into a new plugin folder. E.g. /plugins/ModuleOverrides/modules/class.newdiscussionmodule.php. Modify that file by removing line 17. This removes the check for permissions.

Then you need to create a basic plugin that you can enable disable. Create a new text file called class.moduleoverrides.plugin.php in the /plugins/ModuleOverrides folder and paste this into it:

$PluginInfo['ModuleOverrides'] = array( 
    'Name' => 'Module Overrides',
    'Description' => 'This plugin wraps module overrides to protect the modifications against core updates.',
    'Version' => '0.1',
    'MobileFriendly' => TRUE,
    'Author' => 'Zachary Doll',
    'AuthorEmail' => 'hgtonight@daklutz.com',
    'AuthorUrl' => 'http://www.daklutz.com',
    'License' => 'GPLv3' // Specify your license to prevent ambiguity
);

class ModuleOverrides extends Gdn_Plugin {
  // Don't actually do anything
}

Then go to your plugins page in the dashboard and enable Module Overrides.

jone68

@hgtonight Thank you very much! I will try that and report back the result later.

@peregrine ya, i'm aware of the security issue. I'm trying to upgrade it now. Thanks,