Remove registration

[jsolomon]

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a way to remove all registration/user account features. I want anonymous users to have full access to voting/posting without any log in requirements. I would limit multiple votes by IP address. I've been trying to manually go through the code and remove all the log in requirements, but I keep running into fatal errors. What would be the best way to go about accomplishing this? Thanks in advance.

-JSS

[beatniak]

frontend:
remove the {if $user_authenticated ne true} and the trailing {/if} of the stuff you want to show To your users.

submitting:
- The tpl files of the submit pages don't have {if $user_authenticated ne true}, so you don't have to touch those
- why not remove these lines in submit.php (line 29 and 30)? Guess that should work.

// make sure user is logged in
force_authentication();

editing their own submitted stories:
I really don't know. Probably just don't fix that and don't give them that feature.

commenting:
Dude, you don't want that to be open!

[jsolomon]

Thanks for the response beatniak. I did what you recommended, and stumbled upon an error. If I try to submit a story without being logged in, I can get past the first step. But on step 3 (before submission), I get the error: "Incorrect key." After doing some detective work, I found this in submit.php:

PHP Code:

    if($_POST['randkey'] !== $linkres->randkey) {
        $main_smarty->assign('submit_error', 'badkey');
        $main_smarty->display($the_template . '/submit_errors.tpl');
        $error = true;
    } 


That code seems to be referring here in submit_errors.tpl:

PHP Code:

{if $submit_error eq 'badkey'}
    <p class="error"><strong>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit3Errors_BadKey#}</strong></p>
    <br/>
    <form id="thisform">
        <input type="button" onclick="window.history.go(-1)" value="{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit3Errors_Back#}" class="submit" />
    </form>
{/if} 


If I delete the entire if statement in submit.php, I get the following error instead:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/jssolomo/public_html/Secrets/libs/link.php on line 339

Line 339 in link.php is

PHP Code:

$smarty->assign('use_title_as_link', use_title_as_link); 


And this is where I am...stumped and confused. Anymore help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[beatniak]

Deleting the if($_POST['randkey'] !== $linkres->randkey) function is not the solution. Removing the errorchecking won't help ---you must make sure there are no errors.

EDIT: Just found out there's some php code in submit_step_3.tpl that is the reason for the randkey error:

        if($linkres->votes($current_user->user_id) == 0 && auto_vote == true) {
            $linkres->insert_vote($current_user->user_id, '10');
            $linkres->store_basic();
            $linkres->read(FALSE); 
        }

and after that:

        if (link_errors($linkres)) {
            return;
        }

I guess it can't find an username and email errorcheck in submit.php >>>> if($_POST['username'] = '') { somecode } <<<<, so it just displays the first error it finds.

Also the stuff that will/might give you an error in submit.php:

in function do_submit1()
line 89:

global $main_smarty, $db, $dblang, $current_user, $the_template;

line 152:

$linkres->author=$current_user->user_id;

in function do_submit3()
line 243:

$trackres->author=$linkres->author;

[jawanda]

One random thought on this, what about automatically logging everyone in with a default username/pass anytime they try to do a user-based action?

Then perhaps you can edit out the instances of the username based text in the text file and possibly achieve a similar effect?

-P

[kbeeveer46]

This technique may still work in current versions.

Anonymous Posting

[jsolomon]

That little hack worked wonders. A much better technique that removing registration all together. Thanks so much!