Hide Images from Guests

[ForumsMods]

Hide Images from Guests

Description:
Allows you to show a message to guests instead of images in posts.

Installation:

Import "product-hideimg_guests.xml" as a product, overwrite if it's already installedWhere to set option:
Settings-> Options-> Thread Display Options (showthread)-> Enable Hide Images from Guests

Languages:
- English

History:
28-12-10: v4.0 First Release

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[demonfatal]

Installed & Rated!

[AURFSCAN]

good idea and works for linked images but needs a lil work

doesnt seem to want to play nice with MARCO1 hideall mod
and
doesnt work at all with Sevenskins Image resizer


tagged and thx


:)

[demonfatal]

Strange, works fine for me with "SevenSkins Image Resizer 1.3" and "MARCO1 Hide links for visitors..."

[OldSchoolDSL]

Installed

4.1 PL2 (test site 4.1.1)

[creative-friend]

which images does it hide??

attachments?? attachments area alreaady disabled for guests

i want other images to hide from guests...

[ForumsMods]

which images does it hide??

attachments?? attachments area alreaady disabled for guests

i want other images to hide from guests...
All images (non smilies) posted in messages are hided

[AURFSCAN]

doesnt seem to want to play nice with MARCO1 hideall mod
and
doesnt work at all with Sevenskins Image resizer

with a couple of phrase changes and a smack to the backside of my browsers head this works fine with both.

thx for the mod :)

[archet1337]

Brilliant! Just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing :)

[etca]

installed on 4.1.5 n works on me

[Khriz]

no work on 4.1.8 xD

[JohnSG]

Not working on 4.1.10 either

[JohnSG]

Got it to work....kinda, it works on some posts but not others, anyone else getting that, anyone know of any reason why it would be doing that. I had first thought it may be the difference between url link and attached image, but no its totally random.

[FIM]

Not working in vBulletin 4.1.12

[cuco88]

not working in 4.2.0 either...

[iadventure]

how do I change the message it gives?

[ForumsMods]

how do I change the message it gives?
Edit hideimg_message phrase

[iadventure]

thx!!!

[iadventure]

worked on 4.1.10 and 4.1.12

[del Drago]

So this doesn't work on 4.2?

Is there another way to accomplish this?

[magnaromagna]

Installed, and worked sometimes.
Re-installed, did not work

Is it works on 4.2?

[Draffi]

Dont work with vb-Suite 4.2!

[rady]

I am about to upgrade to 4.2 but i need this mod to work :(

[john7911]

Looking for this for 4.2.0.
Thank you ;)

[M.C.]

works as charm on 4.2 pl3

[War Machine]

It works on 4.2.0, but i have a problem with spiders, it affect seo research!!!

[cric2k]

Doesn't work on 4.1.9, [ IMG ] code still displays embeded images from other site?

[cric2k]

I've figured out that the "$this->post['pagetext_html'] =.." is not referencing the postbit code in the plugin php.

Edit: "$this->post['pagetext_html'] =.." contains the html and is replacing the characters to give the Guest error message, but it is not actually affecting the postbits which are displayed on the final page, either it is being over-written in later executed code or the actual outputted html is populated in another variable.

[cric2k]

For anyone else who can't get this working, or is struggling to get it to work on all threads - I found another plugin was fighting with it - and also modify the plugin so that it also references the 'pagetext' variable which was for some reason used in about half my threads, so... copy the $this->post['pagetext_html']... bit and paste a $this->post['pagetext']... version as well.

[sv1cec]

Does it show you the message it should show, or something like this:

<font color="red">Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum by clicking <a href="register.php"><strong>here</strong></a>.</font>]

Never mind, figure this out, the phrase should be entered in vBulletin language, not HTML. Here is what I entered and worked in 4.2.2:


No Images for Guests.

[sv1cec]

Is there a way to change this hack, so that you show a default image instead of a text message, to guests? I would certainly appreciate it, since I had such a hack in my old 3.0.xx site and I miss it.

[Acido]

This is not working for vb 4.2.2
Can someone give a hand? I'm trying the code in different hooks, but still can't make it work :(

[sv1cec]

Works fine for me in 4.2.2. What is the problem you have?

[Acido]

It is hidding just a small number of images. Must images on posts of the threads are ignoring this hack. I'm looking for another mod that can give conflict, but none of them are using that hook ( postbit_display_start )

[Wajow-community]

Doesn't work for vbulletin 4.2.1??

[sv1cec]

Acido, can you post a link to a page where some images are hidden and some are not?

[Acido]

Thanks sv1cec

Working Thread (http://www.webconferencia.net/los-mejores-ejemplares-masculinos/mike-vogel-551455.html)

Not Working Thread (http://www.webconferencia.net/actualidad/marianela-mirra-hoy-551440.html)

Hope it help.

[sv1cec]

What I can see from your links is that you are using a different style than the default vBulletin one. Try creating a new style, using the default vB templates and see how that works. Also, please tell me if the pictures that are NOT shown, are attachments or externally linked pictures. It appears that the pictures shown are attachments (stored in your own server, not in Photobucket, or an other web server). Is the same true for the ones not shown?

[Acido]

What I can see from your links is that you are using a different style than the default vBulletin one. Try creating a new style, using the default vB templates and see how that works. Also, please tell me if the pictures that are NOT shown, are attachments or externally linked pictures. It appears that the pictures shown are attachments (stored in your own server, not in Photobucket, or an other web server). Is the same true for the ones not shown?

I'm sure it's no a Style issue. The default style have the same effect with the imagen. But i notice that the problem is with the attachments.. Not with external images. This is a link with the default style: Thread (http://www.webconferencia.net/actualidad/marianela-mirra-hoy-551440.html?styleid=83)

Edit: is not working with external images too... Thread (http://www.webconferencia.net/andrea-rincon/fotos-y-capturas-de-andrea-rincon-413318-9.html?styleid=83)

[sv1cec]

Well, I checked my site and sure enough, visitors do not see photographs. Have a look here:

http://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?105711-New-RIA-Tactical


In the first post, there are three images, stored in Photobucket and there are three attachments shown as thumbnails. Obviously the external images do not show, and from the list of the attachments you can't open one of them. So I guess it is something else, specific to your site.

[Acido]

Thanks for your help sv1cec. I was checking the plugin, and it is giving troubles with the preg_replace function. Works with any thing that i want insert into the post, but that function is not working on my installation. May be it's another hack giving conflicts, or my php version (5.3.3-7+squeeze16)

I stop to work with this mod because i choose another method to control the images in my site. So i unistall it. May be in the future i'll back to this mod.

Thanks!

[Wajow-community]

How it can work with vbulletin 4.2.1??? I have installed butt doesn't work.

[sv1cec]

As I said, it works with 4.2.2. Have you set the "hideimg_enabled" setting to Yes? I don't remember where exactly that can be found, but it should be somewhere. The plugin checks if you have set that, if not it won't work.

Ah yes, here: Settings-> Options-> Thread Display Options (showthread)-> Enable Hide Images from Guests

[Wajow-community]

As I said, it works with 4.2.2. Have you set the "hideimg_enabled" setting to Yes? I don't remember where exactly that can be found, but it should be somewhere. The plugin checks if you have set that, if not it won't work.

Ah yes, here: Settings-> Options-> Thread Display Options (showthread)-> Enable Hide Images from Guests

Yes i have set it on butt don't work with vbulletin 4.2.1.. what can i do to make it work?

[aspen0]

It isn't working for me anymore either, it had been working, but it stopped with the 4.2.2 upgrade.

I've tried it with a default style as well, doesn't seem to help at all.

This is a very important thing to have if you run Google adsense, they've been very strict lately with user uploaded photos.

[aspen0]

For anyone else who can't get this working, or is struggling to get it to work on all threads - I found another plugin was fighting with it - and also modify the plugin so that it also references the 'pagetext' variable which was for some reason used in about half my threads, so... copy the $this->post['pagetext_html']... bit and paste a $this->post['pagetext']... version as well.

This made it work for me. My Plugin code nowlooks like


if($this->registry->options['hideimg_enabled'] AND $show['guest'])
{
$this->post['pagetext_html'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext_html']);

$this->post['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext']);
}

[john7911]

Thank you
How can I change the language to French?

[cric2k]

This made it work for me. My Plugin code nowlooks like


if($this->registry->options['hideimg_enabled'] AND $show['guest'])
{
$this->post['pagetext_html'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext_html']);

$this->post['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext']);
}


Yeah that's pretty much what I'm doing - although it also seems to have affected random logged in members on certain styles (where they are logged in and can't see images). The crazy thing is that even if I disable the plugin it still hides the images for the logged in member, so it's as if the PHP logic itself has been stored in the post. If I edit and save the post as an admin after the plugin has been disabled it removes the logic and everyone can now see the image - anyone any ideas?

[cric2k]

oh it turns out the replaced text is being stored in the vb_postparsed table, as if it's a guest - but only on one styleID and not on another styleID. Maybe the guest reading the page is caching it first - anyone any ideas?

[cric2k]

After a lot of hours I figured out how to finally get this working properly.

It turns out that the first person to view a thread via showthread.php would cache that version of the thread in vb_postparsed - so if a guest views the thread first it is cached with the replaced text and everyone else who uses that style logged in or not will have the cached version.

I've managed to get around this by having a copy of a style dedicated to guests, setting it as the default and using the Restrict Style to Usergroup mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95910 to prevent logged in members from changing to that style.

[Denethor]

Is this working with 4.2.2 yet? If it is, could someone please advise? I can't get it to function properly.

[aspen0]

After a lot of hours I figured out how to finally get this working properly.

It turns out that the first person to view a thread via showthread.php would cache that version of the thread in vb_postparsed - so if a guest views the thread first it is cached with the replaced text and everyone else who uses that style logged in or not will have the cached version.

I've managed to get around this by having a copy of a style dedicated to guests, setting it as the default and using the Restrict Style to Usergroup mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95910 to prevent logged in members from changing to that style.

I tried that and it didn't work. Specifically I made the style, I restricted it to guests, and made it default, and that all worked - but it was also then default for all members who had to actively decide to switch it. What I really needed was multiple default styles. I found a different mod, force style on usergroup, and seemed to work, except it wouldn't force a style to my guests, only to other usergroups (why, I'm not sure). So I forced all registered members to another usergroup, and let the guests by in the default one.

I wonder if a better overall fix would be to edit the plugin so the image removal is done AFTER the post content is pulled from the cache, not before. Anyone know how to do that?

If any of these features would be better supported in VB 5 I might be enticed to finally upgrade, anyone know?

[friendlymela]

This is effective for Forum SEO

[RichieBoy67]

This is effective for Forum SEO
Why is that?

If you have good images with good titles and have your images set to use a title tag and alt txt images are great for seo. How would removing them help with seo?

[friendlymela]

Why is that?

If you have good images with good titles and have your images set to use a title tag and alt txt images are great for seo. How would removing them help with seo?

How it will be index on google?