Module: Forum Lockdown This module allows the admin to redirect all unauthorized access to the login page and to disable registration without template changes. If registration has been disabled, the admin can also allow visitors to register if invited. Invitations can be setup to be sent from the admin, from moderators, or from all users. The admin can also allow visitors to request an invitation. Admin users can also send mass invitations by uploading a csv file containing names and emails. This file should be in the format of name,email without a header row. The invitation system makes use of the lang\english.php, templates\emerald\invite.tpl, and templates\emerald\invite_step.tpl files to show the various invitation and registration information. You can copy and edit these files as needed for your language or custom templates. Please note the template files have been coded to be compatible with the three templates pre-packaged with Phorum. [b]This module requires Phorum 5.2.7 or higher.[/b] TODO: - Add further features as requested or as they pop into my head. https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,133435#msg-133435 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:55:53 -0500 Phorum 6.0.4 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,153374#msg-153374 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,153374#msg-153374
What's your idea behind this all? Why lock it down, while at the same time allowing Google to crawl, cache and publish the contents?

Regardless the idea, allowing for such setup would require modification to the module, to authorize Google from there for accessing the forums. It is not a built-in feature, nor can you fix this from outside the module.]]> Maurice Makaay v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:20:42 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,153365#msg-153365 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,153365#msg-153365 autoven v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:20:21 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,152237#msg-152237 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,152237#msg-152237 (The whole idea does not make sense, so maybe I am missing something.) If you make it read only Google will check for changes periodically.

Google uses a range of ips. Google will tell you what ranges they use for their bots. You can use a .access file to allow / deny access to your forum.

What about the other search engines?]]> Scott Finegan v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:52:37 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,152212#msg-152212 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,152212#msg-152212 autoven v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:14:01 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,152184#msg-152184 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,152184#msg-152184 Just asking...after we lock the forum, how can we still allow google to crawl the contents?]]> autoven v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:11:44 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,148403#msg-148403 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,148403#msg-148403
Can I get both features to work simultaneously?]]> dsibilant v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:40:52 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,145922#msg-145922 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,145922#msg-145922 Thanks
PS: Do you know how I go about opening my header.tpl file so I can redirect the login to my main website?]]> spartacus v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:49:43 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,145921#msg-145921 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,145921#msg-145921
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spartacus
The module has been installed, but not enable in my admim yet.
There is a warning displayed in Modules:
Warning: possible module "forum_lockdown_v5_2_1_03" found, but no module information is available for that module.
Is this normal? Can I go ahead and turn it on?

Nick, in order to install a module you need to upload all of the files in the module's zip file to the {phorum_root}/mods folder. In this case it sounds like you simply uploaded the zip file itself. When properly installed, you should have a {phorum_root}/mods/forum_lockdown folder with (amongst others) a {phorum_root}/mods/forum_lockdown/forum_lockdown.php file. You should also see a README, Changelog, and Settings link for this module in the module section. Hope this helps, let me know if you have more questions.]]> Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:25:16 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,145918#msg-145918 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,145918#msg-145918 There is a warning displayed in Modules:
Warning: possible module "forum_lockdown_v5_2_1_03" found, but no module information is available for that module.
Is this normal? Can I go ahead and turn it on?

Thank

Nick]]> spartacus v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:39:11 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142030#msg-142030 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142030#msg-142030
Why not take that same code and put it in your footer.tpl file? Then the public portion of your phorum will still be displayed to guests, but they will see the log in form at the bottom of the page. Once logged in, it would disappear.

You could even put it in somewhere in the header.tpl file, but then I would make some serious changes in the HTML to make it much smaller.

- Bob]]> Robert Angle v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:14:40 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142029#msg-142029 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142029#msg-142029 korsakov v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:59:56 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142028#msg-142028 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142028#msg-142028
[www.phorum.org]

By implementing this trick, there is no need to click the "Log In" link at the top. It shows up on the main page if the visitor is not logged in.

- Bob

As an aside, let me take this opportunity to cry and whine a little more about how the Invitations part of this module would be so beautiful if it was a stand alone module, and if it didnt require that someone actually have been sent an invitation in order to register. Currently my members have to send people a link to the location of the forum. I tried activating this mod so that users could invite others via their control panel, but then when someone came along who was simply sent a link, their registration would be denied because they didn't get an invitation ID from within.]]> Robert Angle v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:41:10 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142027#msg-142027 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,142027#msg-142027 korsakov v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:58 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141749#msg-141749 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141749#msg-141749 Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:09:41 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141748#msg-141748 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141748#msg-141748
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swajon
Hi there. Every time I try to invite a user through the control panel, I get an error message telling me that I need to attach a valid csv file. I'm trying to send the invite without the csv file, but somehow it doesn't realize that.

Try using the latest version of the module. That issue should be fixed.]]> canadarules v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:30:20 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141743#msg-141743 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141743#msg-141743 swajon v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:50:37 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141517#msg-141517 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown v5.2.1.03 - Mass invitations via csv https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141517#msg-141517 canadarules v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:08:12 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141495#msg-141495 Module: Forum Lockdown v5.2.1.03 - Mass invitations via csv https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141495#msg-141495
- Enhancement: Added the option for admin users to upload a csv file of names and emails to whom invitations will be sent. Thanks go to Phorum user canadarules for suggesting this feature.]]> Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:32:02 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141477#msg-141477 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141477#msg-141477
Great module. Here's a suggestion for you: I think it'd be great to see some sort of .csv upload functionality added to the Invite Users page. For example I'm using this module to create a private forum for about 250 users. It's exactly what I need, don't get me wrong, but it's just going to be quite the process to manually invite each user by copying in their name/email.

Again, thanks for doing this, it works wonderfully.

- Mark]]> canadarules v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:00:33 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141131#msg-141131 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141131#msg-141131 Phorum Hack/Mod Requests forum.]]> Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:56:30 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141130#msg-141130 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,141130#msg-141130
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Joe Curia
TODO:

- Add further features as requested or as they pop into my head.

I like this module but only for the invitation side of things.

However, it conflicts with the "Notification of Registration" module which sends me an email when a new user creates a profile. I no longer get the email, probably because invited users are automatically approved. I would like to receive a notification every time a new user registers to my forum.

Also, if I have "Allow Invitations" turned on, so that it shows up in the users Control Panel, then normal registrations without an invitation ID are not accepted.

So I guess I do not need all the features that this module is catered towards. What I need is a simply "Refer a friend" or "Tell a friend" or "Invite a friend" module that simply lets my users fill in a form and send an email to the friends he is inviting, with a simply link to the forum index. There they can register, and I'll receive an email notifying me of this so that I can set up their group permissions manually.

- B ob]]> Robert Angle v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:51:11 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,139681#msg-139681 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,139681#msg-139681
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /phorum/login.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

- Bob]]> Robert Angle v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:06:42 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,139017#msg-139017 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,139017#msg-139017 mila v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:10:01 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,135207#msg-135207 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,135207#msg-135207
The invitation only mode requires Phorum 5.2.7 or higher. I see that you are on 5.2.6a. I would urge you to upgrade for more important security reasons, but also to make full use of this module. Thank you for bringing this to my attention though. I have added the "require_version" field to the info.txt so that others will not run into the error you did.]]> Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:03:13 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,135206#msg-135206 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,135206#msg-135206
I have installed the module and unfortunately found a problem.

When I request an invitation as a visitor I get the following message:
"That username/password was not found or is inactive. Please try again"

It is as if an attempt to login had been made.

Try it here:
[www.durhamcityharriers.org.uk]

Regards

Elliott]]> elliott_makin v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:22:05 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,134686#msg-134686 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,134686#msg-134686 I have made a danish translation in utf-8 encoding for forum-lockdown.

/Kenneth Wood - KWood]]> KWood v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:11:18 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,134632#msg-134632 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,134632#msg-134632 Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:47:24 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,134631#msg-134631 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,134631#msg-134631 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ']' in /hsphere/local/home/madam/madammangor.dk/medlemv2/phorum/mods/forum_lockdown/settings.php on line 13
You are missing the end bracket on line 13 to 19 in settings.php:
changed the code from:

$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["disable_registration" = empty($_POST["disable_registration"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_user_invite" = empty($_POST["enable_user_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_invite" = empty($_POST["enable_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_moderator_invite" = empty($_POST["enable_moderator_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_invitation_request" = empty($_POST["enable_invitation_request"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_user_personal_invite" = empty($_POST["enable_user_personal_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["invitation_expiration" = empty($_POST["invitation_expiration"]) ? 0 : intval($_POST["invitation_expiration"]);

To:
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["disable_registration"] = empty($_POST["disable_registration"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_user_invite"] = empty($_POST["enable_user_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_invite"] = empty($_POST["enable_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_moderator_invite"] = empty($_POST["enable_moderator_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_invitation_request"] = empty($_POST["enable_invitation_request"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["enable_user_personal_invite"] = empty($_POST["enable_user_personal_invite"]) ? 0 : 1;
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_forum_lockdown"]["invitation_expiration"] = empty($_POST["invitation_expiration"]) ? 0 : intval($_POST["invitation_expiration"]);

And the settingspage worked:-)]]> KWood v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:28:54 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,133579#msg-133579 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,133579#msg-133579
And yes, I am pedantic, anal, strict and predictable in my quest for functional separation :)]]> Maurice Makaay v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:31:23 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,133578#msg-133578 Re: Module: Forum Lockdown https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?62,133435,133578#msg-133578 Joe Curia v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:09:07 -0500