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.

/*===================================*\
|| 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]

Originally Posted by KaiStone

It seems to be there's nobody care about searching problem. vS-Hide cannot work if you do a search inside topic

I've been working on this all day and I can't figure it out.

I've altered everything I can think of in the search_results_postbit and search_resultlist templates, with no luck. As long as it strips bbcode and formatting there's no [hide] tags to find and replace.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can figure out a fix.

[KaiStone]

Originally Posted by NovoCiv

I've been working on this all day and I can't figure it out.

I've altered everything I can think of in the search_results_postbit and search_resultlist templates, with no luck. As long as it strips bbcode and formatting there's no [hide] tags to find and replace.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can figure out a fix.

In fact, I can fix it. But I don't like Psionic very much, simple because he did a bad business. He's a good coder, but he sells a product with so much bugs, and can't support to fix it.

Who are you, NovoCiv? You're so active in this thread. I don't use vS-Hide anymore, so I don't care about it.

I believe that you are really interested in fixing this Mod, so you want to find the way yourself?

I can give you an idea.

You're right, as long as strip bbcode, there's no HIDE tag to replace. So you can re-call it in original, replace the HIDE tag, and rebuild it to display in post. Even, you can use "if - else" fuction to let who has permission to see the content right that moment.

And the Hook Location is "search_results_postbit". "search_resultlist" only builds the structure.

[NovoCiv]

I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting but I was going to have the [hide] tags add a *hidden* Message here *hidden* inside, so I could preg_replace anything within the *hidden*s. The slight addition in clutter wouldn't be a very big deal to my mod staff if it means patching the vulnerability. The main section we use it for (mod applications) I just disabled searching.

I'd rather have a working tag right away than figure out a fix myself, as I still have quite the backlog of features to develop. If you tell me how you've fixed it I would be very grateful.

And to your question of "Who are you?", I used to be a mod at a ~50,000 member flash games website. When I got sick of trying to convince the administration to do things that make it more enjoyable for the members I quit and got my own vBulletin license, then made a website for most of the active members to go where we do everything we can to make it enjoyable. My only coding experience is an intro to Java university course, and I do most of the coding and development myself, so it's a lot of work. I basically look through source code, other mods, and php tutorials to figure out ways to make it do what I want to do.

[MarioRe]

Originally Posted by KaiStone

....He's a good coder, but he sells a product with so much bugs, and can't support to fix it.

co-sign! BAD MOVE!

Originally Posted by KaiStone

I don't use vS-Hide anymore, so I don't care about it.

Could you suggest any other correct working solution?

[KaiStone]

Originally Posted by MarioRe

Could you suggest any other correct working solution?

I use Sid's Hide Hack and convert it to compatible with vB 4 myself. Because I just need Hide-Thanks only.

@ NovoCiv: it's funny if you're going to disable searching system. Bad idea. To fix the small problem, you have a bigger one.

I'm already give you an idea, I thought you're interested...

So, add a new plugin

Product: *Your Product*
Hook Location: search_result_postbit
Title: Hide when Search (Show Post)
PHP Code:

global $vbphrase, $db;
$post_text = $db->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post WHERE postid = $post[postid] ORDER BY dateline ASC");
$post_hide['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/\\[hide\\](.*)\\[\/hide\\]/siU', 'Your Message Goes Here', $post_text[pagetext]);
$post['pagetext'] = nl2br(vbchop($post_hide['pagetext'], 200));

[NovoCiv]

Thank you! As far as I know my Hide hack is completely patched now

[KaiStone]

Originally Posted by NovoCiv

Thank you! As far as I know my Hide hack is completely patched now

I think you should creat a new topic, includes all patches collection for everyone are using this Mod.

[NovoCiv]

But then I would be the one that's not offering support. (I can't support when I hardly understand vbulletin myself).

[MarioRe]

Originally Posted by KaiStone

I use Sid's Hide Hack and convert it to compatible with vB 4 myself. Because I just need Hide-Thanks only.

Thanks for your response...

But, we need no [HIDE-THANKS]... we (only) need a correct workin' solution for the [HIDE-REPLY] function.

Originally Posted by KaiStone

I think you should creat a new topic, includes all patches collection for everyone are using this Mod.

Good idea... I'm with that!

Originally Posted by NovoCiv

But then I would be the one that's not offering support. (I can't support when I hardly understand vbulletin myself).

I think nobody would (can!) expect extra support from you... but would be a great move to share your knowledge and show to other how it's possible to fix the bugs of this "Hide Hack".

[NovoCiv]

They would get more help searching this topic, honestly.