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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[Badshah93]

Originally Posted by KissOfDeath

I'm actually a customer of this guy and managed to fix the product myself after he closed down and i got no support, it's pretty weak that you take peoples money but not fix the product when it's all so simple to do, i've fixed all bugs including including the thread preview and source codes, also this is still working fine on vBulletin 4.1.5 Patch Level 1, the only issue is you need to make your own buttons and create your own custom BB tags as they won't automatically insert anymore,

I've attached the buttons i made their pretty basic but feel free to use them

this is how they look in the editor (The SP is spoiler BB code)



Go to AdminCP>custom BB codes>add new BB code,

Title: SHOW TO GROUPS
BB Code Tag Name: SHOWTOGROUPS
Replacement: [SHOWTOGROUPS]{param}[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Example: [SHOWTOGROUPS]hidden text here[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Description: Hides text and images unspecified user groups
Use {option}:Yes
Button Image (Optional): link to your button

Save

do this 5 times for the 5 different buttons using the right tag names and descriptions for each button

why to create bbcodes..

just see this

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=242

[3d3d3d]

I have this installed on 4.1.6 and when I make a thread I can clearly see the hidden content in the metatags in the source code. I.e.

Make post with

The following should be hidden
[HIDE]Am I Hidden?[/HIDE]

Then post it. Using a different user with no permissions to view that without pressing thanks, I simply look at the source code, and clearly see.

<meta name="keywords" content="hidden, test, password" />
<meta name="description" content="The following should be hidden
Am I Hidden?" />

<title> Password test</title>

Any help to get this working would be hugely appreciated.

[Maccrob]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

I will think about whether to release the extended edition here on vBulletin.org myself

It will be a great gift for VB community. We will be really thankful for such decision

[blueperspective]

Hi there.
I'm new to vBulletin.. I just know to build a forum.. and passed through all documentation in order to change different values in Cpanel, but I can't get this one work. I've uploaded those 2 folders under "upload" in my forum folder, then I've uploaded the product-psionic_hide.xml using the Products manager and it shows me it is installed. I also set the permissions for Administrator to Yes (Enable [HIDE-POSTS] Tag, Enable [SHOWTOGROUPS] Tag, Can Always See Hidden Content) and now when I write something between hide codes... it simply dissapears after I press Post message. Basically.. it doesn't post anything.
Anyone could help a beginner, please ?!

[Maccrob]

Originally Posted by blueperspective

Anyone could help a beginner, please ?!

You should also modify some php files. More over, this mod doesn't work e.g. with vb 4.1.2

[blueperspective]

I have 4.1.6 right now. Saw they released 4.1.7.. will download and update. I have to find somewhere the procedure for update.. cause I'm completely new to vB.. I just switched from SMF.
Will try to modify those files, as it's written in 1st post.. at explanations.
Will come back here with some more questions if needed.
Thanks!

[Tag Yazid]

Was waiting for this to be released thanks a lot.

[blueperspective]

Hadn't time to test it lately...
Have anyone tested it on vB 4.1.X ?
Is it working ?

[M.C.]

hello!

Have question (may be was asked already?) - There is option "Show hidden always" but I want it to work ONLY with [hide] content BUT NOT wit [showtogroups] or [stu] content. I have usergroup which need to get access to [hide] but be not able to see content hidden to other usergroups or users.

Thanks!

[J9382F2A102C]

to make this plugin work in 4.1.x you need to add a custom bb code 'hide' to your vbulletin config through the admin cp

still need to figure out how to make the toolbar buttons appear, because that seems to have been broken while development of this mod stopped, and development of vbulletin continued aswell. but it definitely seems to work

Also note that we didn't have to hack 0 files for it to work on vB 4.1.7, just import the .xml, add the files from your upload folder, add a custom hide tag (or if you want everything, add all the tags) as a custom BB tag and off you go.