Hide links from guests
 

Description:
Most guests browse the forums without becoming registered. And why should they, everything?s lying and waiting just right before their fingertips - written informations and the most important: hyperlinks.
This plugin hides any link from guests until they became registered !

If guests are browsing the forums, all they?ll see is a link like this with an alternate text "Please register first or login"

Installation:
Install the XML-file as Plugin.

Credits:
Andreas (KirbyDE) for porting the previous alpha code-modification over into a Plugin.

Notes:
In one of my meanwhile heavily hacked forums I wasn?t able to bring this Plugin to life. It seems that something messed up with the usergroup-settings.
On a fresh install I can?t report any bugs or errors.

Versions:
Tested in 3.5.0 and 3.5.1

Update:
November 02, 05 - File format corrected (Version 1.0.1)

Click "Install":
Please click the Install-Link, if you use this Plugin.

Note: Some copyrights reserved

Because of this proposal I disagree that anyone is using parts of this code to build a commercial hack upon. Everyone who wants to use parts of this code in his hack/plugin/product has to release it following the rules and terms of the General Public License (GNU) to the open source community!

Upsss ... your pluggin dont install, invalid format .. update xml whit the correct format

I corrected it and work ok

Thank .. nice and simple pluggin :squareeyed:

Is there an option to turn this on and off for certain usergroups in the admincp?

That would rock.

Oh, and maybe for a future version...allow internal links option.

All installed! ;)

*gnarf* - it?s a mess.. everytime I?m working with different versions of a file I can be extremly sure that I?m choosing the wrong one :nervous:
Thanks, MioTraGusa - the file is updated now.

Not yet - but I?m also not planning to add this feature. If you want to rewrite this Plugin & release it, feel free to use this code.

Is this compatible with vBulletin Post Cache?

No, it isn?t. Otherwise guests could see links or vice-versa registered users couldn?t - depending upon who created the cache.

That means it IS compatible. Good job ;)

No plus no=yes ? Argh, who cares.. :rolleyes:
I can?t take the credit for that - I just did the hard-coded alpha part. It was Andreas who came up with the cache.

Thanks for the hack.

Is it possible to convert NO LINK to a phrase?
I tried this myself without success.

I created a global phrase called no_link and exchanged the text in the plugin with $vbphrase[no_link].
Now its showing this instead of the phrase content :D

How can I make a phrase out of this?

is thear a way to make the same plugin to hide the img,code,qoute

installed and working great thank you for this!

Hi, unfortunaley, it is not compatible with vb post cache :( Wish someone could fix it :)

it this working normally or, can somene post a screenshot

Awesome, I really needed this for my forum!!!

Thanks!!!! :)

Nice Hack https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/1.gif

Click "Install"!!

Hi all, I applied this plugin and it all seems to have installed ok but when I go to the site as a guest browser I can still see and click on web links in posts.

Any ideas what may be wrong? :( We are on 3.5.0 with the 3.5.1 patch applied.

Cheers :up:

I just wanted to show you how this has improved my registration rates. I added welcome headers on Dec. 3, and I got about 20 more registrations a day. Yesterday, Dec. 7, I added this hack (hide links from guests) and my registrations more than doubled! I added this hack yesterday in the middle of the day, so I'm expecting a higher registration rate today :)

how can i do this for images too?

Installed on 3.5.2 and looking good, Thanks bro

Is this going to get me even more members?

I had 210 register yesterday! My normal registration was 40-50 a day before I added this hack.

Awsome Thanks! I hate sitting there watching all these Guests roll through my forums and not register, but using my content.

*Installs*

I get about 20-30 guests a day but no registers. Let's see how this works:)

Any way to make it work with the postcache?

I would also like to change this. Any news on how it can be done?

My best guess is to edit the plugin in the plugin area:

return '<a href="register.php" title="Please register first or login" target="_blank">No link ?</a>';

to your choice

save and voila

Regards

i cant get it to work on my 3.5.2 board?? any ideas

If a link is not http://www.xxx.com only www.xxx.com than it is not working on my site.

Working on my site, 3.5.2

Not working on my 3.5.2, although I do have some hacks.

It's working on yours:

http://www.zilvia.net/f/showpost.php...7&postcount=17

The link in the signature is hidden from me as a guest. It's not working on your posts because of the postcache.

This is also what I have requested in the modification request section (for images). I am now stuck at 3.0.x without this :(

How about improvement? Show LOCAL links to users/guests as normal and not hide the local-domain links?

Sorry for asking. What do you mean by local-domain links? :o

clicked installed just replaced
to

WHy this is a great plug..

But , I have some questions..

How do I exempt the signatures??, because also the signatures of the Forum are hidden.

thanks

doesnt work for me in 3.5.2 :(

Hit and miss. Some links are hidden, others are not.

I wonder if this is due to vBSeo installed on my board.

Works great in signatures.

This has been one of the best hacks I have ever used and I realy hope it will be modified for 3.5.2

Maybe some clever person out there could rewrite this hack as I think the author gave his permission earlier in this thread.