Panic Button - Postbit

[Mosh]

Please click Mark as Installed if you are using this hack.


What Does This Hack Do?hr
This is an update to my 3.7.x version of this hack.

Do your members ever view your site from work when they should not be doing so? Will they get in to trouble if they do get caught by their boss? If the answer is yes to both questions, then this hack is for you.

This hack gives your members their own vBulletin Boss Key (i.e. Panic button), which is displayed at the bottom of the postbit in each post, so your members can quickly click themselves to the safety of legitimate url if the boss turns up, while your members are at work.

I have created a custom button for this hack, you can use another button if you like, just remember to rename it panic.gif. You can have a different button for each style, as long as each one is named panic.gif.

NOTE: Any Panic Button you see in a thread is tied to your profile, even if it is in someone else's postbit (to prove it, disable the Panic Button in the your UserCP)

This hack was created because of a requested here.

If your members report errors when clicking on the panic button, first thing to ensure is that they used the full url (including http://) when typing in the site their panic button will go to, ie http://www.google.com (will work) and not like this - www.google.com (will not work). The second thing to check for, is that the Panic Button - URL Jump box is not empty.


Limitation with this hackhr
People keep asking for usergroup permissions for this hack.

While this would easy to implement, what people fail to realise is that User Profile Fields are not controlled by usergroup permissions at all, and even if usergroup permissions were added to this hack, the User Profile Fields would still be viewable by members even if they do not have permissions to use them.

User Profile Fields are either viewable by all or viewable by none, this is how they were implemented in vBulletin by design, there is no in between with User Profile Fields.

So, I will not be adding usergroup permissions to this hack.


vBulletin Version Compatibilityhr
This hack can be used with vBulletin versions 3.6.0 - 3.8.8.

For the v4.0.x version of this hack - check here.


Hack Support/Feature Requestshr
IMPORTANT: This hack is no longer supported.


Install/Uninstall Instructionshr
The Panic Button Installation Instructions 3.8.xxx.pdf instructions file is included in attached .zip (includes instructions and pictures)


Version Historyhr
v3.8.002 - Friday 27th March 2009
-- Fixed: Uncached Template
-- Added: Uninstall Instructions

v3.8.001 - Friday 9th January 2009
-- Initial Release


Thankshr
Thanks go out to Paul M who gave me permission to use some of his install code.


Show Your Appreciation hr
Although not required, if you have enjoyed the benefits of this hack, and would like show your appreciation for my efforts, then please feel free to click on the Support Developer link and donate any amount you feel is appropriate.

[DawnsWebDesigns]

Installed & working good...thanks. :)

[shlomot]

Thanks for the cool MOD and detailed instructions.

Works flawlessly with 3.8.0 Gold

VOTED 5 out of 5

[vithorius]

Excellent work!

Is it possible to give permission to us it just for some usergroups?

[digicom]

Excellent Installed:up:

[Hostboard]

CAn't seem to get this to display in my profile. I have a Post bit selector at position #5 and have tried 6 & 7, 8 & 9 even 20 & 21 but no luck. Any ideas?

Second vote for ability based on user group permissions.

[Mosh]

CAn't seem to get this to display in my profile. I have a Post bit selector at position #5 and have tried 6 & 7, 8 & 9 even 20 & 21 but no luck. Any ideas?

There are two circumstances that this will happen

Either you have not entered the correct user profile field numbers in vBulletin Options.
Or, you are using a custom style that has not been updated to include the correct template hook.

Second vote for ability based on user group permissions.
Read the below (now added to 1st post):
Limitation with this hack

People keep asking for usergroup permissions for this hack.

While this would easy to implement, what people fail to realise is that User Profile Fields are not controlled by usergroup permissions at all, and even if usergroup permissions were added to this hack, the User Profile Fields would still be viewable by members even if they do not have permissions to use them.

User Profile Fields are either viewable by all or viewable by none, this is how they were implemented in vBulletin by design, there is no in between with User Profile Fields.

So, I will not be adding usergroup permissions to this hack.

[Black Tiger]

I will change my "mark installed" from the 3.7.x version to this one.

But the description of this one has a bug.;)
v3.8.001 - Friday 9th June 2009
-- Initial Release
We are not that far in 2009 yet.:D:D

[Mosh]

I will change my "mark installed" from the 3.7.x version to this one.

But the description of this one has a bug.;)

We are not that far in 2009 yet.:D:D
Opps, fixed up :)

[Nelly]

Great mod :) installed.

[imaroot]

yea it's a great mod not installed but BOOKMARKED!

[BigDog56]

Very nice, thank you! Had members wanting something like this!

[donwon]

Awesome love it and installed! Working on 8.1.

[Jasem]

Good work, thank you......

Installed & working Very good :up:

[DobieGillis?]

works! Wonderful mod!

[Keyser S?ze]

i saw this when regin at another site, and i just had to come find it!! ;D very neat and handy idea, i have marked as installed and nominated for MOTM, good luck

[Keyser S?ze]

ok i installed this and followed the instructions, but when i uploaded the product i got this error

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 1

something to do with pl1?

[Mosh]

ok i installed this and followed the instructions, but when i uploaded the product i got this error

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 1

something to do with pl1?

It sounds like something went wrong when you downloaded the zip file, try downloading it and extracting the files again. Let me know if the problem persists.

[DobieGillis?]

I still love this hack. good job, Mosh!

[Keyser S?ze]

It sounds like something went wrong when you downloaded the zip file, try downloading it and extracting the files again. Let me know if the problem persists.

worked, thanks

it imported fine and everything seems to be working, i did steps 5 and 6 and when i go to my options in my userxp the input areas are there

but in bot postbit and legacy no panic button shows up, its just not there :(

id love to send u a link so u can try it urself

[dekaybrown]

I love the hack, but the PDF file prohibits cut and paste of details.

A simple text file would have been preferable.

OK call me lazy, sling rotten eggs at me......

I do love the hack!!!!

[Keyser S?ze]

i agree, but foxit pdf reader allowed me to save to a txt, then i just copy/pasted everything

ok here are some screenshots, and btw ice is me

i also attached the txt, i hope that is ok

[Mosh]

worked, thanks

it imported fine and everything seems to be working, i did steps 5 and 6 and when i go to my options in my userxp the input areas are there

but in bot postbit and legacy no panic button shows up, its just not there :(

id love to send u a link so u can try it urself
If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you. I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

[Keyser S?ze]

thats cool but i got to go so tomorrow, thanks :)

[Keyser S?ze]

ok, i sent PM

[Mosh]

ok, i sent PM
Can you send me the info I require to help you out via PM please. Without it I will not be able to help.

[Mosh]

ok, i sent PM
All fixed up now. You can remove temp admin and ftp accounts now :)

You had two issues.

Firstly in step 2 you set the options to OFF ON, should have been Off On, this was the major reason the hack did not work.

Secondly, you did not upload panic.gif to one of your styles, which would have been the reason the button did not show if the hack was working.

Hope you members enjoy the hack :)

[demoniavbh]

Any differences between this and the previous version?
I have now 3.8 but with the previous mod, so I was wondering if there's anything to change or if it's just the same.

[Mosh]

Any differences between this and the previous version?
I have now 3.8 but with the previous mod, so I was wondering if there's anything to change or if it's just the same.
It is pretty much the same, but any versions below v3.8.001 I will not be providing any support for. But if it is working for you, then there is probably no need to update it.

[Keyser S?ze]

am i blind cuz i still dont see it

heres a screenshot

[Mosh]

am i blind cuz i still dont see it

heres a screenshot
You will have to resend the details via PM, as it was working with the test account you sent me.

EDIT: Before doing that, can you select Edit Options from your UserCP, if Panic Button - ON/OFF Switch is not already set to On then select On, then just save the settings.

That should alter the Panic Button - ON/OFF Switch profile field column in the database from having ON (wrong value) to the correct value of On.

If that does not work (which I think it will), then do the above.

[Keyser S?ze]

yea that was the problem, sorry im retarded

[Mosh]

yea that was the problem, sorry im retarded
You are not retarded at all, it took me a couple of hours before it occurred to me that was probably what the issue was. So, it was not all that obvious what the issue was.

[Mosh]

Update: v3.8.002 - Friday 27th March 2009
-- Fixed: Uncached Template
-- Added: Uninstall Instructions

[BigSoccer Tech.]

Triple checked everything. It won't show up when turned on. Does this conflict with the "blog this" button of vb blog?

www.bigsoccer.com

[Mosh]

Does this conflict with the "blog this" button of vb blog?
This hack does not touch vBlog at all, just the postbit in a post, thread and private message.
Triple checked everything. It won't show up when turned on.
Hack Support - snippet

I will not be providing any support at all to people who have not clicked Mark as Installed.

[BigSoccer Tech.]

Jeez, thought I clicked it. My bad. Clicked.

Waht's happenign is I have the right fieldIDs but it's not seeing 'em. I've checked the db and the right field id's are there, but hte template isn't getting the On/Off and URL values. I've also confirmed in the db that the values in my profile fields are On and http://www.google.com

[Mosh]

Jeez, thought I clicked it. My bad. Clicked.

Waht's happenign is I have the right fieldIDs but it's not seeing 'em. I've checked the db and the right field id's are there, but hte template isn't getting the On/Off and URL values. I've also confirmed in the db that the values in my profile fields are On and http://www.google.com
Well have a look at the attached sreenshot, you will see that the Blog this Post icon is also there, so this hack does not conflict with it.

If you have followed the instructions to the letter (most of the time when I look a clients installations they have not done so, even when they say that they did), I will need to at your installation to help you further.

If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you. I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

This offer will be on the table for 7 days, after which time it will be revoked, and I will not be able to help you further.

Let me know what you decide.

[BigSoccer Tech.]

I can't give you FTP access for security reasons. If that rules this out, fine. I appreciate the offer tho.

For what it's worth, I've confirmed everything is there via phpmyadmin, even the correct capitalization for On and Off and if I edit your code to call the fieldID directly, instead of via variable, it still doesn't pull it for some reason.

[Mosh]

I can't give you FTP access for security reasons. If that rules this out, fine. I appreciate the offer tho.

For what it's worth, I've confirmed everything is there via phpmyadmin, even the correct capitalization for On and Off and if I edit your code to call the fieldID directly, instead of via variable, it still doesn't pull it for some reason.
That is totally understandable, but as this hack is not rocket science to install and there is very little that can go wrong with it (apart from not following the instructions to the letter), if it is not working and you have done everything, without looking at your installation I can not help you any further.

[BigSoccer Tech.]

That's ok.

Yes, it's a very basic hack, and yes I know coding well enough to see what you are doing. My install is not basic.

[PrincessFiona]

Great Mod! It took me a few tries to figure out that I was actually supposed to type yes, hit enter and type No when creating the radio buttons! LOL I couldn't figure out how to turn it Off and ON...sigh...there's no accounting for my own stupidity at times!!!

Kris

[dekaybrown]

Uninstalled it, sorry.

[Frondy]

Installed, nice work.

I made little modification for my forum, so users cant change defaut url

$show['panic_button_url'] = $vbulletin->userinfo["field{$vbulletin->options['panicbutton_url']}"];

changed to:

$show['panic_button_url'] = "http://page of my wish";

Maybe usefool to somebody

And here is one more button:

[bkellyx3]

Hi, this is my first upload/addition of the Panic Button Hack.
I went over and over the instructions. My Off and On are exactly as they are supposed to be, the profile fields are exactly as supposed to be.

In the Edit Options, I see the spot to turn the Panic Button on or off. I also found the other areas in the AdminCP area, and set them exactly as instructed to do.

I marked as installed.

No Panic Icon/Button is showing up in any of my posts. I know where to look, and they are not there. Also, the .gif is uploaded to the exact place as instructed.

Please advise.

I can make a temporary account for you, if you want to check out our CP yourself to double check my work.

Thank you so much, for any help you can give me. A ton of our members would LOVE this feature :)

Barb
www.justusparents.com

[Mosh]

Hi, this is my first upload/addition of the Panic Button Hack.
I went over and over the instructions. My Off and On are exactly as they are supposed to be, the profile fields are exactly as supposed to be.

In the Edit Options, I see the spot to turn the Panic Button on or off. I also found the other areas in the AdminCP area, and set them exactly as instructed to do.

I marked as installed.

No Panic Icon/Button is showing up in any of my posts. I know where to look, and they are not there. Also, the .gif is uploaded to the exact place as instructed.

Please advise.

I can make a temporary account for you, if you want to check out our CP yourself to double check my work.

Thank you so much, for any help you can give me. A ton of our members would LOVE this feature :)

Barb
www.justusparents.com
If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you. I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

[bkellyx3]

If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you. I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.


Thank you for the offer sooo much!!!!!! Giving you what you need, won't be a problem at all... You'll be in the group I am in.

If you could, please PM me, and I'll give you the user-name and password for Admin access.

One more question, and I'm sorry if I sound ignorant...but, do you also need access to the host CPanel? If that is the case, please let me know at the same time you PM me for info to get into the vbulletin/AdminCP, so I can give you a temp password and login at the same timt to make it easier for you.

Best Regards,
Barb/bkellyx3
www.justusparents.com

[Mosh]

If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you. I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

Thank you for the offer sooo much!!!!!! Giving you what you need, won't be a problem at all... You'll be in the group I am in.

If you could, please PM me, and I'll give you the user-name and password for Admin access.

One more question, and I'm sorry if I sound ignorant...but, do you also need access to the host CPanel? If that is the case, please let me know at the same time you PM me for info to get into the vbulletin/AdminCP, so I can give you a temp password and login at the same timt to make it easier for you.

Best Regards,
Barb/bkellyx3
www.justusparents.com
As I have stated in my previous post what I permissions I need and exactly what information you need to PM to me.

Unless you use CPanel to upload your files instead of FTP, then I will not need CPanel access.

As soon as you PM me what I need, the sooner I can get started and hopefully get it working.

[Mosh]

Hi, this is my first upload/addition of the Panic Button Hack.
I went over and over the instructions. My Off and On are exactly as they are supposed to be, the profile fields are exactly as supposed to be.

In the Edit Options, I see the spot to turn the Panic Button on or off. I also found the other areas in the AdminCP area, and set them exactly as instructed to do.

I marked as installed.

No Panic Icon/Button is showing up in any of my posts. I know where to look, and they are not there. Also, the .gif is uploaded to the exact place as instructed.

Please advise.

I can make a temporary account for you, if you want to check out our CP yourself to double check my work.

Thank you so much, for any help you can give me. A ton of our members would LOVE this feature :)

Barb
www.justusparents.com
As I had no PM from you with the details I required I checked out your site and noticed that this is working fine now.

Can you tell me what you missed out, so that other people can keep an eye out when installing themselves.

It may be something was unclear in the instructions, if so, the insight will enable me to make the instructions clearer.

[ubcforums]

Thanks..installed :D

[vwturbo]

Hey Mosh I just installed this hack but like some of the others in this thread the button is not showing up.

I have it placed in my currently active style misc folder and I have even hardcoded the path to the panic.gif button in the product xml but it refuses to show up.

Also I have cycled the on/off switch numerous times with no changes.

I need your help. Thanks.

[HappyFeet]

*Installed*

Works Great! Thanks...:up:

[Mosh]

Hey Mosh I just installed this hack but like some of the others in this thread the button is not showing up.

I have it placed in my currently active style misc folder and I have even hardcoded the path to the panic.gif button in the product xml but it refuses to show up.

Also I have cycled the on/off switch numerous times with no changes.

I need your help. Thanks.
If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you.

I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

I can not help any further, as my offer to look at your installation has not been responded to, you have been online on multiple occasions since I made the offer and I do not have a lot of spare time to provide support.

[slobra]

Hahaha awesome hack! Marked as installed. Works perfectly.

[TheChaosFactor]

I'm having the same issue with the button not showing up, but I will double check where I've placed everything...

[Mosh]

I'm having the same issue with the button not showing up, but I will double check where I've placed everything...
If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temp admin user (with admin permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details, without these I can not help you.

I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

[TheChaosFactor]

"Note the field ID number for Step 5 (i.e. field6 = field ID is 6)!!"

Might be what's throwing other people off(besides their lack of paying attention.). I was zooming through and misunderstood what it was saying, so I used the numbers in the screen shot(5 and 6) to DO steps 5 and 6. My own fault for moving too fast, really.

Thanks a million for the mod though. My guys loved this one. :cheers:

[yesfans]

YEs, I had my FIELD ID wrong. Make sure you are putting in the right ID or the button does not show up!

[jimsflies]

Going to try it out. What would be really cool would be to make a floating (javascript) panic button that sticks to the bottom corner of the page...or better yet an option for the user to choose where it is displayed, maybe with a user designated hot key to also activate it.

[Bounce]

Awesome love it and installed! Working on 8.1.

:eek: jesus, when did 4,5,6,7 come out :D

[Mosh]

The vBulletin v4.0.x version of this hack is available here.

[Mosh]

Hi all,

It is with regret that after over 4 years (and thousands of hours) spent providing free support for my free hacks released here, as of today I will no longer be able to provide support for free.

This is due to being unemployed for a while, being strapped for cash and unable to rely on the virtually non-existant donations from here to help to pay the bills or put food on the table for my family. I am now providing all support for my free hacks released here over at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com) via an annual support subscription (for a small fee).

It does not mean I will be no longer release free hacks, I will, but I will just no longer be supporting them for free.

My free hacks have and always will remain free to download and use. And so will updates/bug fixes.

I will be releasing more free hacks, but if you require any support at all for those free hacks, you will need to purchase an annual support subscription over at Wolfshead Solutions to receive support.

I am really sorry I have to do this, but revenue generated by my programming gigs are now my only source of income, and I can no longer afford the luxury of providing free support here, when that time can be spent creating new commerial products, doing paid work requests or providing paid support to pay the bills.

Thank you for the understanding.

Regards,

Mosh.

[ppatil007]

I need help with 2 issues
1) the radio button by default is "no" and that makes none of my new members even bother to change the default button to yes to activate the feature , please let me know who to make the default as yes
2) how does the user edit the hype link of the website ? after he has created the account
i tried user cp i dont find any place for the panic button feature

help will be much appreciated please not i am no code so please be as details as viable

[hardboiled]

Installed, LOVE this addition. Great job.

[vijayninel]

Thanks. Installed. :)

[Mosh]

Hi all,

I have now released my Panic Button - Global hack for vBulletin 3.8.x at Wolfshead Solutions, and is now available to download for all vBulletin.org Hacks Support subscribers.

This hack will be released here at vBulletin.org on Saturday 20th March 2010.

Panic Button - Global is a variation to this hack (which only displays the Panic Button in the postbit).

Panic Button - Global gives your members their own vBulletin Boss Key (i.e. Panic button), which when enabled is displayed at the bottom right of every page including the CMS, blog and your own custom pages (as long as the headinclude template is being called by the custom page, which it should be), so your members can quickly click themselves to the safety of legitimate url if the boss turns up, while your members are at work.

NOTE: The Panic Button will always float at the bottom right, even when you scroll down the page.

Panic Button - Global has been tested on Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4.0.249.89, Internet Explorer 8.0.7600.16385, Safari 4.04 and Opera 10.50. This should work with most other browsers and versions, but is not guaranteed, as the positioning is controlled by CSS.

Panic Button - Global was created because I was inspired by the following two hacks:

Panic Button 1.01 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91779) for vBulletin 3.5.x by yingyang.
Panic Button 1.0.1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91852) for vBulletin 3.0.x by dsboyce8624.


Panic Button - Global is installed at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com). To see a demonstration of this hack in action, all you need to do is be registered at Wolfshead Solutionsand logged in, then click on Settings in the header, then click General Settings on the left. At the bottom are the settings to turn this hack on. I know my forum is vBulletin 4.0.x but it shows what the panic button will look like (looks the same regardless of version).

Regards,

Mosh Shigdar, Wolfshead Solutions.

[Mosh]

Hi all,

Free support has now been moved back to vBulletin.org.

Please see the first post for more information (and also this thread (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/threads/444-Our-quot-vBulletin.org-Hacks-Support-quot-subscription-has-been-scrapped) at Wolfshead Solutions).

Enjoy :)

Regards,

Mosh Shigdar - Wolfshead Solutions.