Registration Denied if under 18

[Andreas]

Userage Based Permissions

Description
This Hack allows yo to specify a minimum Age to register, as well as specifying a minimum Age for each Forum.
Please note that this can be as easily tricked as COPPA and does in no way
fulfill law requirements for Adult Content.

Details
1 Product XML with 5 Plugins, 3 Phrases, 1 Setting and 1 Query

History
1.0.0 Initial Version
1.0.1 Minimum Age is now a Setting (ACP / vBulletion Options / vBulletin Options / User registration Options)
Added an Option in Forum Manager to specify Minimum Age for each Forum
1.0.2 Fixed a slight mistake in the XML which caused an error in Forum Manager
1.0.3 Added a Plugin that was missing in the XML so the Option in Forum Manager now does show up ;)

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall whan you don't use it any longer!

[sketch42]

nice... where were you with this hack when i needed it a year ago :(

* sketch42 clickity click click clicks install

[matt2cacnio]

is there like a screenshot on how it looks like? haha jk. gnna install once i have my board upgraded.

[Protoman]

/me saves for future use

[webspider]

You were just promoted to the TOP of my good guy list.

BIG thanks.

[richard4339]

Now, what I would like is the ability to refuse access to a certain forum based off age *hint hint*

This is a cool hack though. Can you change the minimum age?

[Andreas]

Yes edit the Plugin on Hook register_checkdate and edit the 18 accordingly.
Might also want to change the Phrase.

[akanevsky]

This is not useful because most under-18 people do not state their real age.

[Andreas]

I know, but the request keeps popping up - so there it goes.
Then again, why do we have COPPA at all? :)


Now, what I would like is the ability to refuse access to a certain forum based off age *hint hint*

Pretty easy as well. Update coming soon ;)

[Allan]

scre...plea....

lol

Ok?, bye :p

[webspider]

This is not useful because most under-18 people do not state their real age.

Agreed, however this is one more step.

[matt2cacnio]

next thing u will know. you will need a credit card to verify ur 18 yrs and older.

[Andreas]

Updated
Minimum Age is now configurable, also added a per Forum setting.

[richard4339]

Kirby, I've been waiting for this for so long.

Unfortunately, it will not install. It gives an error (which flashes by too quickly to catch).

[akanevsky]

Then again, why do we have COPPA at all?

Cause the developers had nothing else to do / wanted to keep customers satisfied?
I don't see the point in doing any age verification or whatsoever, regardless of what site it is, unless there is some biometric identification enforced... Which first of all, does not exist yet / does exist but is too expensive for average user, and second of all, even if someone is wealthy enough to buy a biometric authorization, then that can be hacked too :rolleyes: Too early to even think about such restrictions, anyway.

[Boofo]

Could someone edit their birthdate to bypass this in a certain forum?

[House_of_Crazed]

This is interesting to me, but I am curious about being able to lock in the birthdate without being able to be editted unless it's through the admincp.

[richard4339]

This is interesting to me, but I am curious about being able to lock in the birthdate without being able to be editted unless it's through the admincp.

THAT is a good idea.

Another thing, if the user doesn't input their birth year, what happens then?

[Chris M]

THAT is a good idea.

Another thing, if the user doesn't input their birth year, what happens then?

If you require them to enter their birthday on registration, does it not ask for the birth year as well?

I believe there is also a hack that will ask users to update their profile fields before they can participate further in the site - Could be adapted to birthdays and then you lock them out of editing it in the future :)

Satan

[Adrian Schneider]

Cause the developers had nothing else to do / wanted to keep customers satisfied?
I don't see the point in doing any age verification or whatsoever, regardless of what site it is, unless there is some biometric identification enforced... Which first of all, does not exist yet / does exist but is too expensive for average user, and second of all, even if someone is wealthy enough to buy a biometric authorization, then that can be hacked too :rolleyes: Too early to even think about such restrictions, anyway.

Not everyone is dishonest about their age. 5% effectiveness is still better than 0.

[Andreas]

Could someone edit their birthdate to bypass this in a certain forum?
Yes.

@richard4339
Just tested, installs just fine for me.

@Dark Visor
Well, as said - it might be better then nothing at all :)
Of course, a real solution would require X.509 Certificates on a protected Token (USB Device, Smartcard, etc.)

[ExpertDomino]

works nice for my Trucking Forum.........thanks alot!

[Andreas]

Updated XML (one Plugin was missing due to me being dumb ;))

[webspider]

Updated XML (one Plugin was missing due to me being dumb ;))

Thanks for the update. Do you know anything about hacking external.php?

I'm hoping

[Andreas]

Nothing :)
What do yo want to do?

[webspider]

Nothing :)
What do yo want to do?



Because my board like many has all private forums and I get no output. With the older external.php pre 3.08 I was able to hack it to use a special usergroup I created. That usergroup had limited access to certain forums and was able to get headlines.

This is what I used but I have no idea how to hack the new external.php

// set us up as a very limited privileges user
$vboptions['hourdiff'] = (date('Z', TIMENOW) / 3600 - intval($_REQUEST['timeoffset'])) * 3600;

//set usergroup
$bbuserinfo = array('usergroupid' => 28);
$usergroupcache = array();
$permissions = cache_permissions($bbuserinfo);

[richard4339]

Yes.

@richard4339
Just tested, installs just fine for me.

@Dark Visor
Well, as said - it might be better then nothing at all :)
Of course, a real solution would require X.509 Certificates on a protected Token (USB Device, Smartcard, etc.)

I'm still getting the same thing. Oh well =/

[vphost]

I'm still getting the same thing. Oh well =/

Hi, do you have one similar to this that is for v3.0.8 or .7 rather than 3.5?

Thanks

[ChrisMayhew]

No matter what i try to edit i type my birth year in (26/1/1987) and it says im not 18. But when i change the month to the 12 it will accept it.

I also changed the settings to only allow people 16+ and it has not took any affect.

Edit: I think i just fixed it.

[Mith]

Just a cosmetic one for you kirby

Hook Location : forumadmin_edit_form
Userage Based Permissions

print_table_header('user_age_options')

Should read:

print_table_header($vbphrase[user_age_options])

I'm sure you meant to put this in, as you had added a phrase for it.

[artonex]

i have installed this hack :)

[DoKoK]

Got a quick question...

I installed this plugin and I also enabled User Profile Options -> Require Date of Birth so people CAN'T edit their birth date after...

The only problem is that even after you first put in the age you can modify it on the second page (where you actually sign up) and it let's you go trough even if under the limit age...

Any idea how to either:

1. Have User Profile Options -> Require Date of Birth enabled but not displayed a second time on user signup.

2. Block users from modifying their DOB.

Thanks

[Andreas]

You should upgrade to RC3

[richard4339]

I'm not having luck installing any hacks lately. I don't think the problem I had with your hack was something your hack caused, I think its a bug from RC1 (still haven't changed to 3)

[DoKoK]

You should upgrade to RC3

If you are talking about me, I do have RC3...

IS there something I'm missing?

[Andreas]

Yes. RC3 gices you the features you want (stop Users from editing their DOB)

[DoKoK]

The only option similar to that is User Profile Options -> Require Date of Birth which unfortunatly asks them their birthdate on signup after the first check...

Is there another option that I didn't see?

[Andreas]

Yes, that's the option which keeps users from editing their birthdate, which is what you want - isn't it?

[DoKoK]

Not exactly.

Because once you enbale that people can change their DOB on the registration page (after the initial DOB question, the page where you put your nickname, e-mail,etc). And on this page they can modify the year and get by it.

Thus that option is good temporarly hoping people won't change their DOB on the next page, though it's super easy to do.

[Andreas]

Then this should be reported as a Bug @ .com

[DoKoK]

Ok, is there any other way to do it until that gets fixed?

[richard4339]

After many tries (and upgrading to rc3), it works =)

[nine45]

I've noticed that the plugin only seems to look at the year rather than the complete date, I had someone register today and the birthday was 10/21/1987 they should not have been able to register but they did. Have I missed something?

[webspider]

Is there a way to age the ability to also set age by usergroup?

[AWI]

Cool hack, very useful. Thanks

[icemann]

Yes. RC3 gices you the features you want (stop Users from editing their DOB)

Where is this setting at?

I seen it before but can't find it for nothing now. lol

[Exitilus]

I seem to be having a problem with this plugin.

I set the age for 18. Anyone that is 18 years old and born in 1987 it won't work. but 86 .. works fine :|

[Exitilus]

Anyone? O.o

[quanvo81]

Fantastic, this is the one I have been looking for my Adult Forum. Clicked Install.

[Exitilus]

I seem to be having a problem with this plugin.

I set the age for 18. Anyone that is 18 years old and born in 1987 it won't work. but 86 .. works fine :|

:disappointed:

[bigmonay2k]

cool thanks, I need this..lol

[DruidToolz]

Looks like and interesting Mod, but does it work with ver. 3.5.3 or is this mod already included

[Exitilus]

Seems like I'm still having a problem. If I say my birthday is Jan 1st, 1988 which means that person is 18. It brings up a message saying You must be 18 to register ??

[DruidToolz]

Ok i been looking around.. have u tried to go into your admincp > search phrases > type: registration... then editing the file deny_under_13_registration

[NotoriousREV]

Just installed this hack and it works really well except it won't display any of my age restricted forums to non-registered users. I know this is by design, but I don't actually want to stop users under 18 seeing content, I just don't want them being able to post or reply to threads in certain forums (financial products). Is this possible?

[moonclamp]

Seems like I'm still having a problem. If I say my birthday is Jan 1st, 1988 which means that person is 18. It brings up a message saying You must be 18 to register ??

I've noticed that you have to be 18 years old plus the amount of days left in the month. (ie you have to wait until the next month before you can join.)

If you edit register.php and change 13 to 18 you can get a similar result with the coppa system ... however this will allow a 17 year old who will be 18 by the end of the month. (If your birthday is at the end of the month you will still be allowed to join at the start of the month)

[blitzburgh]

Is there a way you can set a maximum age for this hack? I want to do a Teen Forum for my nieces and nephews and I am looking for a hack that will set the age under 18.

[quanvo81]

This hack doesn't denied a user if he/she under 18.
If
at the first step, he will have to fill in his birthday correctly, example 1-1-1977, then it will by pass the step 1 for him. But then the step 2 if he try to edit his birthyear example he edit from 1977 to 1991, he still can be able to finish the registration process.
Is there any way that it will decline to finish the registration process if he edit that birthyear?
Well, I am just looking for a plugin to work with this. Because right now I have to edit the register.php from number 13 to number 18.
Thanks!

[jadkar]

This hack is great!!!!!

I have one issue though and I'm hoping someone can solve it, this will make this hack perfect!!

If I have a user(Bob) who is restricted from forum X. All that Bob needs to do is look up another member who browses forum X regularly. If Bob does a search on that particlar user for his most recent posts from forum X and clicks one of those posts then Bob goes right into the restricted forum X. It's just like a back door :(

This totally blows the whole security out of the water. Is there anything that can be done??

[jadkar]

............... Nobody has an answer :(:(

[Exitilus]

Anyone planning on Updating this Hack so it works a bit more precisely so people who just turned 18 can still sign up?

[Andreas]

@jadkar
This Hack sets the permissions for the forums to 0 if the user is not old enough, so it shouldn't really matter how he tries to access a forum - he should get a noperm error.

[Exitilus]

fyi to anyone who reads this. Been trying to get this to work a bit more efficientyly in this thread

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=111131

[Andreas]

This has nothing to do with efficiency ;)

[WillTP]

So how does one actually install this on their on board? I'm a little unclear about how to actually access this hack. :confused:

Thanks.

[Exitilus]

Install the product. Then go to Vbulletin Options, User Registration.

(I'm dead tired but if i remember the steps that is it)

[jerx]

I have the same problem as Exitilus mentioned in post 47. The corrected codes shown at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=111131 are not working.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

[Exitilus]

Hey Jerx. Yah I never found code that worked exactly :(

[jerx]

Too bad. I believe this hack is not really the reason for this problem. VB' s coppa code does not work precise enough either. This is a bug which should be corrected quickly. This could get some forums into real problems, because it doesn' t comply with coppa laws.

[bada_bing]

Has anyone installed this on vb 3.5.4 and working correctly? Any upgrade plans for this hack?

[thedvs]

See this new hack for v3.5.4

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95992

[Eq4bits]

I know, but the request keeps popping up - so there it goes.
Then again, why do we have COPPA at all? :)


Pretty easy as well. Update coming soon ;)

In the US the law requires it ;)

[Cibox.de]

Would it give an update of this hack for vBulletin 3.6?

[webspider]

I've been using this hack for a longtime but today after upgrading to 3.6.0 I had to unistall. Any plans to update it to 3.6.0?

[Mr Chad]

3.6.0 port please!

[Basileuswow]

Yes, we need it for 3.6.0 ASAP please ;)

[007]

Hi,

This no longer works on 3.6.0. Are you planning on releasing an upgrade to this? Thanks. :-)

~007

[Xzyte]

Yep, a upgrade for this would be greatly appreciated.

[professorb]

Yep, a upgrade for this would be greatly appreciated.

Seconded! :)

[Basileuswow]

When?! %-)

[murdo]

would love it for 3.6.0 as well :)

[Neal-UK]

me to, i keep getting a box asking me to log in to visionscripts.com when I view this thread relating to this hack for 3.6.1....???

[jadkar]

Damn, I didn't even realize this was messing up my 3.6.1 upgrade until now. Someone just told me that when a user tried to register it just keeps bouncing them back to the enter your birthday screen. It seems to be the "register_check" page is at fault. I had to disable the hack.

Someone PLEASE port this to 3.6.1 it was very usefull in keeping the underage members out of certain forums.

PLEASE!!!

[thedvs]

guess noones going to port it :(

[Andrew Usher]

Has this been updated to work with 3.6 yet?

[Konstantinos]

as others work doesnt work in 3.6.4

plz update

[da420]

This is not useful because most under-18 people do not state their real age.

While they can lie on their real age, it helps protect the owners of adult sites as they can say "We have a restriction on underaged members, so if they lied about their age there is nothing I can do." By having this, you can put the blame on the user/users parents instead of it all falling on you.

[Konstantinos]

can someone port this for 3.6.4 ?

[Xoligy]

I'll port it :) Give me a couple of hours.

EDIT: Other business arose, but I got quite far with it. Shouldn't be too long.

[Konstantinos]

we are on Hold ;)

[mma365]

Please, still need it.

[Xoligy]

Sorry, I've not had time to go back to it. I've stuck a post-it note reminding me to finish it though :P

[digibluez]

works for 3.6.4 :) installed . good for childs that are not supposed to see some forums. And if u ask they can change the age, well if they are that naughty then they are allowed to see,but most kids age 9-12 will not do so, that is why this plugin is very useful thank you.

[Xoligy]

As promised: Updated and improved version for 3.6.x (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=136097).

[coderphp]

good idea thank you

[mma365]

Thank you! :D

[VTXCafe.com]

I cannot get this uninstalled,...I'm stuck...

When I try and add an ago to a column I get this error:

minimumage = 18
WHERE forumid = 14;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'minimumage' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Thursday, June 19th 2008 @ 10:39:48 PM
Error Date : Thursday, June 19th 2008 @ 10:39:48 PM

When I try and delete it I get this error:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE forum DROP minimumage;

MySQL Error : Can't DROP 'minimumage'; check that column/key exists
Error Number : 1091

Anyone know how I can get this fixed?

[bootytag]

once you've install how do make it work?