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The board has a feature to block guests from leaving comments, but that's about it.

It's easy to modify the board to block pictures from showing up on the index, but it would also be easy to hack this and see pictures other ways (such as through the profile viewer).  It depends how important it is that people not see pictures.

Just a thought on this, that doesn't really involve hacking any code, is to add a page to the Oekaki Folder. I've thought about doing this for my current board, but I'm leaving it alone for now.

The "Index" page that you land on could have just info on the Oekaki Board or whatever you want to put on it with two links. One to LogIn and one to Register. Though, since the Login box is on the front page normally, it's probably possible to copy that to another page. The only thing you'd want on that page is the ability to log in and the link to Register as a user.

Kind of like those sites that have you LogIn or Register, but that's all you see on that page...

The problems with this suggestion, however, is that you'd have to rename "index.php" to something else (like main.php) and I haven't tried that to see what errors would come up with this setup. That and it's not really too "secure" this way, in that anyone who knows what the next page would be could bypass the main page...

You'd also have to know a bit of php in order to make this new "Index" page so that it runs. A simple verifier for logged in/registered or not logged in may be the only tough code if you're not sure what you're doing or can't understand what code does what.

If not logged in, it would redirect to the front/same page... if is logged in, you move on to main.php (using my example).

But it is a thought, and would, theoretically, keep your board Private... I'd say a page with JUST the Register link, but that could make it harder for people you've already approved to get to the actual board. ^^;

Last edited by SailorShadow (08-02-2009 09:58:02)