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
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Oct 07, 2009
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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 3.5.x - 3.8.x 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: 10
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

General

• Stylish, HTML-formatted output.
  
• Compatible With Regular and WYWIWYG editors.
  
• Compatible with all vBulletin Versions from 3.5.x through 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, 2006 - 2009
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 file for version history.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[MajorFm.com]

^^^ ok there seems to be a small bug...

I have noticed, what ever you set the rep to be added for every thanks, it simply makes the total rep that...

So if you make it 10 reps for every thank you and someone says thank you, it simply gives them 10 reps total, even if they had 80 reps, it moves it to 10, it seems to be changing the total instead of giving them the specified amount...

I have tested this time and time again and im getting the same results...

All i want to do is give the user 1 rep for every thank you... can't be asking to much can it!

[SimplyBen]

Psionic Vision, I do not know what to tell you. It's been 24 hours and I still have not got my license activated. I cannot download your product despite that you said my license is active. I have provided a screen shot showing you that my license is still pending. I've been waiting all night and all day to get this mod installed on my site. My site used to be on IPB and heavily used the hide-reply modification. So I am unable to open my new board up until this mod is installed. I have an offer from others to install a bug free mod similar to yours. If you cannot activate my license for me in the next 6 hours, i'd rather just have a full refund and you can cancel my order.

The screenshot is located at:
http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/9...licenseap9.gif

I hope you understand my concerns.

Thank you.

[SimplyBen]

my license has been activated. thank you. ill let you know if i have any problems.

[bklynjava]

I am interested in purchasing this but I need a few questions answered.

1- Does this work automatically or does a user have to select the post to be hidden?

2- I see alot of problems with the install - If the install service is purchased with the hack how long does it take for you to get it done?

3- I have had hacks in the past that slowed down my site and I see a few complaints about it for yours. - Can you confirm this is not an issue?

Thanks

[akanevsky]

I have set it to 1 rep for every thanks... it doesn't give one rep... any idea...?

Make sure you have enabled reputation for your forum.

i posted at 3.15am and you replied 12 hours later... as it was effecting the forum, i posted again today...

Posting more than one post won't cause me to see it faster. Posting it at www.visionscripts.com would though. In any case, posting multiples of the same problem won't speed the process up. Ever.

SimplyBen,
Your order has been activated as soon as we received it. If you didn't see that it has activated, then you were looking at an old page generated by your browser cache.

Does this work automatically or does a user have to select the post to be hidden?

You have to select the posts.

I see alot of problems with the install - If the install service is purchased with the hack how long does it take for you to get it done?

Up to 48 hours, as yours is not the only order we receive.

I have had hacks in the past that slowed down my site and I see a few complaints about it for yours. - Can you confirm this is not an issue?

Yes, I can confirm that it is not an issue, unless you have a very large and very active board, in which case the thank you module may sometimes cause a bit of slowdown.

[Selene]

Hi bklynjava, i have purchased this hack and its a great one!

to answer ur questions

1) the user can select the post to be hidden. U can set the permissions for a usergroup to use HIDE, and set permissions on the forums where u want to use it! This way u can let the administrators to use it only in a specific X forum. Cant be better.

2) If u purchase it ,then u get fully 1 year support. Trust me the support rocks! I purchased it, got my order activated within 2 hours, and i installed it on 3.6.0. I had few problems, and i posted in support forum, i got instant replies, and the admins there helped me out and everything solved.

3)My forum has over 65,000 users. Speed is fine. I dont think it shud be a problem. But the coder can come and tell about it himself.

[Selene]

ups it already got replied

[bklynjava]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Make sure you have enabled reputation for your forum.



Posting more than one post won't cause me to see it faster. Posting it at www.visionscripts.com would though. In any case, posting multiples of the same problem won't speed the process up. Ever.

SimplyBen,
Your order has been activated as soon as we received it. If you didn't see that it has activated, then you were looking at an old page generated by your browser cache.



You have to select the posts.



Up to 48 hours, as yours is not the only order we receive.



Yes, I can confirm that it is not an issue, unless you have a very large and very active board, in which case the thank you module may cause a bit of slowdown.

Thank you for the quick answers I will be posting on your site when I am done.

[bklynjava]

Originally Posted by Selene

Hi bklynjava, i have purchased this hack and its a great one!

to answer ur questions

1) the user can select the post to be hidden. U can set the permissions for a usergroup to use HIDE, and set permissions on the forums where u want to use it! This way u can let the administrators to use it only in a specific X forum. Cant be better.

2) If u purchase it ,then u get fully 1 year support. Trust me the support rocks! I purchased it, got my order activated within 2 hours, and i installed it on 3.6.0. I had few problems, and i posted in support forum, i got instant replies, and the admins there helped me out and everything solved.

3)My forum has over 65,000 users. Speed is fine. I dont think it shud be a problem. But the coder can come and tell about it himself.

It is always good to see user feedback - thank you for the info.

[MajorFm.com]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Make sure you have enabled reputation for your forum.

Reputation is enabled, the user can click the scales image and give rep directly but when giving thank you, it doesn't give the 1 rep it should be...

Please advise...