Tip: Showing Pockets to guest (for specific pocket locations) in vanilla 2.1

peregrine

one way to only present pockets to guests in Vanilla 2.1 with pockets 1.1.2

in vanilla 2.1

in plugins/Pockets/class.pockets.plugin.php around line 324

         from

         public function ProcessPockets($Sender, $Location, $CountHint = NULL) {
          if (Gdn::Controller()->Data('_NoMessages'))
             return;




           public function ProcessPockets($Sender, $Location, $CountHint = NULL) {
              // possible locations "Head", "Foot", "Content", "BetweenDiscussions", "BetweenComments"

              $blockit = NULL;  // initialize

            // examples  location specific

             // block  only pockets in  "Content" or  "BetweenDiscussions",
            //  if (($Location == "Content") ||($Location == "BetweenDiscussions")) {
            //      $blockit = TRUE;
             // }

            //  only block non Content Pockets
            // if ($Location != "Content")  {
             // $blockit = TRUE;
             // }

             // only block  Content Pockets
             // if ($Location == "Content")  {
             // $blockit = TRUE;
             // }

            $blockit = TRUE;  // block all locations 

            // block specified location selected above if Guest user
             if((Gdn::Session()->UserID < 1) && $blockit)  {
             return;
              }

              if (Gdn::Controller()->Data('_NoMessages'))
                 return;

Anonymoose

http://blog.vanillaforums.com/help/power-pockets-adding-custom-html-js-vanilla-forum/#more-6244

Claims that adding a conditional to a Pocket can be done intheme:

Adding a conditional so Pocket shown only to a user who is SignedIn
{if $User.SignedIn}
{pocket name="foo"}
{/if}

Adding a conditional so Pocket shown only to users not SignedIn
{if !$User.SignedIn}
{pocket name="foo"}
{/if}

peregrine

nice Anonymoose. Would have missed that entirely, it was posted on blog after this discussion post.

Adrian

@Anonymoose‌ thanks for sharing that here. I recommend tpl file based-theme's as you can have lots of fun with Pockets. By the way, make sure if you call pockets in theme you do not enable. This video I put out has tips for pockets and themes (for hosted) but it should also apply to Open Source:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xwZR85x9crc