New Posting Features - vS-Hide Hack Resurrection

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| vS-Hide Hack Resurrection (Limited Edition)
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 4.0.x
|| Released : Mar 12, 2010
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|| Time required to install: ~2 minutes
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

Have you ever wanted your users to be able to define who exactly can view the information in any particular post? vS-Hide Hack Resurrection, a vBulletin expansion, features a set of handy tags that together give your users an opportunity to do just that:

[HIDE-POSTS]: defines the minimum number of posts required to read the content within.
[SHOWTOGROUPS]: defines the usergroups that may read the content within.
[HIDE-THANKS]*: defines that the content within may only be read after the person says thank you by pressing a special button. (Expanded Edition Only)
[HIDE-REPLY]*: defines that the content within may only be read after the person replies. (Expanded Edition Only)
[STU]: defines the users that may read the content within. (Expanded Edition Only)

*(1): The HIDE-THANKS tag comes with a full-featured Post Thank You System. See features for further details.
*(2): The HIDE-REPLY tag can be reversed to HIDE with just one easy switch of an admincp option.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
File Changes: 5
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

General

• Stylish, HTML-formatted output.
  
• Compatible With Regular and WYWIWYG editors.
  
• Compatible with vBulletin 4.0.x (and there is also an old version for vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x).
  
• Unregistered, Unverified and Banned users are prevented from seeing any hidden content.
  
• Post owners can always see hidden content in their own posts.
  
• Users can always see hidden content in posts that they can edit.
  
• It is impossible to quote hidden text even if it is revealed - it is stripped from the quotation.
  
• Ability to specify usergroups that can always see hidden content.
  
• Zero template edits.
  
• Works fast on large boards.
  
• Ability to enable / disable any of the tags:
  
  • on global basis - vBulletin Options
    
  • on per-forum basis - Forum Options (Expanded Edition Only)
    
  • on per-usergroup basis - Usergroup Options (Expanded Edition Only)
    
  
  
• AJAX Features for HIDE-REPLY, HIDE-THANKS, and HIDE-REPLY-THANKS, with full non-ajax functionality for older browsers. (Expanded Edition Only)
  
• Online vB Code Documentation.
  
• Case-Insensitive Tags.
  
• vB Code Shortcut (HIDE) that can be linked to any of the tags featured by this engine.
  
• There is no way to go around the tags. They are parsed correctly everywhere, including:
  
  • Showthread / Showpost.
    
  • Search Area
    
  • Forum Display (First Post Preview)
    
  • New Reply (Thread Review)
    
  • Post Preview
    
  • Archive
    
  • Print Version
    
  • E-mail Subscriptions
    
  • RSS Feeds
    
  
  

Integrated "Thank You" System ? (Expanded Edition Only)

• Works fast on large boards.
  
• Automatic prevention of users from saying Thank You more than once for the same post.
  
• Automatic prevention of users from saying Thank You to themselves.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can post thanks.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can remove own thanks.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can remove others' thanks.
  
• Ability to define in which forums to enable the system (can also be enabled/disabled globally).
  
• Ability to define in which forums to bump thanked threads (can also be enabled/disabled globally).
  
• Ability to define whether to allow thanks on first post only.
  
• Ability to define whether to allow thanks in closed threads.
  
• "Remove All" button displayed to those who can remove both own and others' thanks.
  
• List of users who clicked "Thank You" below each post, with an option to limit the maximum amount of such users displayed.
  
• List of latest Thank You's received is displayed in each member's usercp.
  
• Administrator can specify a certain amount of reputation to be given to users who upon the receipt of a 'Thank You'.
  
• AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's, with a stylish progress indicator.
  
• AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's degrades gracefully to non-javascript functionality when AJAX is disabled.
  

INTRODUCTION

Why "Resurrection"?

The reason is simple: This hack has been written many times by various people, and nobody ever got their version working correctly.
This product presents a professional version written from scratch, and there are no backdoors through which hidden information can be illegally retrieved. Unlike other systems, this one works correctly with the vBulletin Post Cache.

Usage Syntax:

[HIDE]information[/HIDE]
Shortcut code, can be mapped to any of the below ones. By default, it is mapped to HIDE-POSTS.

[HIDE-POSTS=X]information[/HIDE-POSTS]
Information is not shown to people who have less than X posts. Has an alternative syntax: , where X is automatically set to the value defined in vBulletin options.

[HIDE-REPLY]information[/HIDE-REPLY] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is not shown to people unless they reply.

[HIDE-THANKS]information[/HIDE-THANKS] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is now shown to people unless they press "Thank You" button.

[HIDE-REPLY-THANKS]information[/HIDE-REPLY-THANKS] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is not shown to people unless they either reply or press "Thank You" button.

[SHOWTOGROUPS=x]information[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Information is not shown to people unless they are a member of the X usergroups, where X is a comma-separated list of usergroupids.

[STU=x]information[/STU]
Information is not shown to people unless they are a listed in X, where X is a comma-separated list of userids.

:: Copyrights ::
The Engine & Toolbar Images - Copyright ? Anton Kanevsky (aka @kan), 2006 - 2010
Locked and Unlocked Images - Copyright ? vBStyles.com, 2004 - 2006, huge thanks to Miko for providing the PSD files!

VERSION HISTORY

Please see the attached "change_log.html" file for version history.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[NovoCiv]

We have noticed that hidden content can be found by quoting a post. I've narrowed it down to the newpost_quote template, and in styles where I remove the {vb:raw pagetext} from the template the vulnerability is removed (at the cost of quoting). I think the best solution would just be to add some command in the code to parse all BB code. I just don't know enough PHP to know what command to use. Here's an example of what I mean (I know parsebbcode() isn't real).

ORIGINAL:
[QUOTE={vb:raw originalposter}]{vb:raw pagetext}[/QUOTE]
FIX:
[QUOTE={vb:raw originalposter}]parsebbcode({vb:raw pagetext})[/QUOTE]

Anyone have ideas?

[motorola]

Originally Posted by dcuellar

Hey vS,
I asked about this on a previous version and you said you were going to look into it. Can you add the ability to view content for x amount of vbcredits?

+1

I'm also interested to have this

[bigrover]

Originally Posted by NovoCiv

I did this and now both hide and showtogroups makes the message invisible to everyone. I don't even see "This message is hidden", its just as if I didn't type anything.

I went back in and looked at my adjustments to this mod and they are as I posted. It does prevent the hidden text from being quoted. If you look at the code snippets closely, you will see I am really only adding a single line after the opening braces of the if statement:

PHP Code:

// hack trying to fix HIDE without options
            $message = preg_replace("/\[(" . $this->tags['SHOWTOGROUPS'] . ")\](.*)\[\/\\1\]/siU", $replacement, $message); 


[NovoCiv]

Originally Posted by bigrover

I went back in and looked at my adjustments to this mod and they are as I posted. It does prevent the hidden text from being quoted. If you look at the code snippets closely, you will see I am really only adding a single line after the opening braces of the if statement:

PHP Code:

// hack trying to fix HIDE without options
            $message = preg_replace("/\[(" . $this->tags['SHOWTOGROUPS'] . ")\](.*)\[\/\\1\]/siU", $replacement, $message); 


I know. That breaks the mod so that HIDE doesn't show up at all. See this post:

We have noticed that hidden content can be found by quoting a post. I've narrowed it down to the newpost_quote template, and in styles where I remove the {vb:raw pagetext} from the template the vulnerability is removed (at the cost of quoting). I think the best solution would just be to add some command in the code to parse all BB code. I just don't know enough PHP to know what command to use. Here's an example of what I mean (I know parsebbcode() isn't real).

ORIGINAL:
[QUOTE={vb:raw originalposter}]{vb:raw pagetext}[/QUOTE]
FIX:
[QUOTE={vb:raw originalposter}]parsebbcode({vb:raw pagetext})[/QUOTE]

Anyone have ideas?

[luckid]

My PAID license not work !!!!

Luckid..... !!!!

[bigrover]

That is the point of the fix I posted. It is a correction of the bbcode parsing routines in the hide hack that were not processing correctly during quoting. If you look at the code, and the hooks you will see this was intended to do what the poster was requesting.

At this point I'm not sure what is going wrong for you. I have spent roughly 40 hours tracking through how this mod works and fixing things on my sites so that I have the results I need. You are going to have to invest the same if you don't get what you are looking for in this or any of the other hide mods out there.

I've looked back through my hacks to this mod, and they are minor and pretty simple. They work for me, but I don't know what else you have going on. Good luck.

Originally Posted by NovoCiv

I know. That breaks the mod so that HIDE doesn't show up at all. See this post:

We have noticed that hidden content can be found by quoting a post. I've narrowed it down to the newpost_quote template, and in styles where I remove the {vb:raw pagetext} from the template the vulnerability is removed (at the cost of quoting). I think the best solution would just be to add some command in the code to parse all BB code. I just don't know enough PHP to know what command to use. Here's an example of what I mean (I know parsebbcode() isn't real).

ORIGINAL:

FIX:

Anyone have ideas?

[NovoCiv]

I don't understand php or vBulletin nearly as much as you. I made exactly the change you outlined and it caused hidden messages to not appear at all. I removed the change and it started working again.

[andreamarucci]

A question.

I would like that the text included in is only visible to admin specified usergroups.

Can I do that using this mod or do I need the expanded version? I don't need any other feature, just this one.

[doopz]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

A question.

I would like that the text included in is only visible to admin specified usergroups.

Can I do that using this mod or do I need the expanded version? I don't need any other feature, just this one.

Same thing for me.
I basicly just want our crew to be able to view the hidden text, everyone else no.

[sulasno]

there is an updated version at the developer's site