Disable Topic Watching

Minimum Requirements:
phpBB 2.0.17**
PHP 4.1.0†

Page Updated: Mar 11, 2006

phpBB 2.0 contains a feature called "topic watching," which can send forum members an e-mail notification when selected topics receive new replies. It is very useful in most cases, allowing members to be alerted if an important message is answered. Many other modifications have been created to expand on this feature.

On the other hand, sometimes topic watching is undesirable, from an administrator's perspective. In cases of forums that should not generate e-mails, or have been sending too many e-mails, it could be good to remove this feature. This modification does exactly that by hiding the options to monitor a topic and disabling the code that actually send out the notification e-mails.

Features of Disable Topic Watching 1.0.0

Removes options to monitor or stop monitoring topics
Prevents e-mails for users already watching topics
Does not remove data, allowing for easy uninstall

Also Available At

This refinement can also be downloaded from the following sites. They may have a slightly older version; new releases are posted here before being submitted to these sites. These are the only "official mirror" sites where this refinement is submitted.

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Additional Notes

** Tested only on this phpBB version. May have unpredictable results on other versions.

† This download was tested only with PHP 4, but is expected to work on PHP 5 also.