per-user/usergroup HTML posting permissions v2.0

[Darkling]

Another slant on this much requested hack.

Designed for and tested in vB3.0.1

This hack is designed to allow only specified users and/or usergroups to use HTML in their posts.

Usage

You can grant and deny users the ability to use HTML in their posts by userid or usergroup.
Primary usergroups and membergroups are taken into account.

Four comma separated lists in config.php specify:

Usergroups that CAN use HTML,
Usergroups that CANNOT use HTML,
Users that CAN use HTML,
Users that CANNOT use HTML.

User settings take precedence over usergroup settings.
In each, denial of permission takes precedence over granting of permission.

If you have the same user or usergroup listed as both grant and deny then they are denied permission.

Settings have the following order of precedence:

vB's per-forum setting

is overridden by...

Usergroups that CAN post HTML

is overridden by...

Usergroups that CAN NOT post HTML

is overridden by...

Users that CAN post HTML

is overridden by...

Users that CAN NOT post HTML

All users not specified either individually or by usergroup will take their permission from
vB's default forum permissions.

Adding and removing userids is retroactive and will affect all posts belonging to those users.

There is a master switch in config.php allowing you to enable/disable this system
without having to edit your allowed and denied lists.

When this system is diabled, control reverts back to vB's default forum permissions.

Known limitations

When editing another user's post, "HTML code is On/Off" displays *your* permission not that of the user who owns the post.
HTML is parsed based on the permissions of the owner not the editor.

Getting the poster's usergroup and membergroups adds a query.

Installation

File edits: 4

See attached.

[NuclioN]

Seems not to work for vb 3 gold

[Darkling]

It appears that there was an error in my instructions.

A block of original vB code was not commented out.

This effectively undid the hack.

Apologies to anyone who has downloaded the file already and found it did not work

A new file has been uploaded with the correction made.




Credit goes to kall (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=54299) for pointing this out.

Thanks Kall.

[kall]

It appears that there was an error in my instructions.

A block of original vB code was not commented out.

This effectively undid the hack.

Apologies to anyone who has downloaded the file already and found it did not work

A new file has been uploaded with the correction made.




Credit goes to kall (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=54299) for pointing this out.

Thanks Kall.
That's the joy of using a colour-coded text editor. :)

* kall installs

[Karthick]

That's the joy of using a colour-coded text editor. :)

* kall installs
Installed in less than 2 minuted... Really great hack.

* Karthick clicks install

[Karthick]

Installed in less than 2 minuted... Really great hack.

* Karthick clicks install
How to parse HTML in the title of the post?

[Dean C]

This one's great - will make my mods life easier when drawing up tournament tables and such - thanks :)!

[Chriss74]

Thanks for the hack. It works good!

But one thing: When I'm sending private messages, the html-code is still turned off, although I turned it on with your hack. That could be an enhancement for the next version of the hack.

Greetings,
Chriss

[mallchin]

I've tried this on 3.0.3 but doesn't seem to work -- am I missing something?

I've enabled the hack and added user groups as instructed.

:(

[Andreas]

I think the problem is that $post is not a global variable.

[Dennis Olson]

Did the $post var issue get resolved?

[Dennis Olson]

bump for the answer...?

[kau]

How could I change this to do the same thing for IMG tags.

Certain user groups can only use IMG tags.

[kau]

Anyone?

[Revan]

damn nice hack! :D
* Revan clicks install

[theArchitect]

*theArchitect clicks install*.

Nice hack.

[mferguson]

On one of my sites we have the ability for members to upload travel stories to a forum. Given that these users do not have html enabled I have the person email me pictures for there story and then edit his post to include them. Based on the way this hack currently functions you can't (if you have HTML enabled for yourself as the admin) go to another member's post and edit it to contain html. I've looked at the code but don't see an obvious way to modify it to support this capability. Can any one supply ideas on how this might be accomplished?

Thanks!

Mark

[nubian]

i migrated from phpbb to vb 3.0.3.
i just install this hack but i don't think it works.
anyone else get this working for 3.0.3?
please help.
thanks in advance

[ataraxia]

(bump) Anyone get this to work on 3.03?

Seems like a great concept. Does it work?

[nubian]

(bump) Anyone get this to work on 3.03?

Seems like a great concept. Does it work?
i've tried this for 3.0.3 and never got it to work

[ataraxia]

Anyone try this on 3.0.4 yet?

[tpearl5]

I can't see to get it to work in 3.0.5. When I tried enabling HTML manually it didn't work. When I removed the hack HTML worked fine.

[kall]

It works fine in 3.0.7 .. you people must have done something wrong, or it is conflicting with another hack.

[CodeRed]

anyone try it with 3.0.8?

thanks

[akoj]

This is one of my favorite hacks. Are there plans to release it for 3.5?

[bigcurt]

I am sure someone will port something like this for vB 3.5 once gold releases :)



~Curt

[Doozilla]

Any luck on a 3.5.x port?

[corbint]

plz port this to 3.5.X!!!

[feldon23]

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