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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[DementedMindz]

I dont think it does from reading on his site once a final version of 3.6 is released he will update it.

[peterska2]

Cool

[high]* peterska2 waits eagerly for 3.6.0 Gold [/high]

[cOuNtErFiET]

ok i have installed your hack, but i also have the improved thread preview 1.5 hack installed (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99520) too and with that you can see the hidden content, so is there a way to fix this that you can help with?

[chatpalace24]

HI there,
first of all : Nice Work installing runs great and smooth

PLease Correct me, if i goes wrong but i have some question to this hack.

1.) I setup no Group to see every Hidden text before Post ,
2.) 1 Post is required
And no the Problems :

I post a Messie in [HIDE]Blabla[/HIDE]
My Mod, doesnt reply on this Post, but he can see my text. Is that because he has 3000 Postings ?

Well when thats true , the Hidden Hack makes nothing hidden. Because the most users have more than one Posting.

The Hide Button brings up a JS Alert Box for Input some Text. I write it in, and Error : Text is not long enough . I think thats because of hide

Sorry for my poore English. I have more than 1500 Postings that are in Hide Tags , but everyone can see this.

Fresh Install of an VB 3.5.4 and you attached Mod form the first Post.

Thanks for help.

[akanevsky]

My Mod, doesnt reply on this Post, but he can see my text. Is that because he has 3000 Postings ?

No, it's because moderators can always see hidden content - because they can edit posts.
Regular users cannot see it.

[Profusehost]

Getting database error when I try to make changes to "usergroup" setting. Everything goes fine when I uninstall the product. I went over the "readme" file two times now and I checked all files.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Members',
`description` = 'Imported group',
`usertitle` = '',
`opentag` = '',
`closetag` = '',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`ispublicgroup` = '1',
`canoverride` = '1',
`forumpermissions` = '782591',
`attachlimit` = '1000',
`pmquota` = '50',
`pmpermissions` = '0',
`pmsendmax` = '5',
`calendarpermissions` = '0',
`wolpermissions` = '0',
`adminpermissions` = '0',
`genericpermissions` = '0',
`genericoptions` = '16',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '0',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '0',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '0',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '0',
`avatarmaxheight` = '0',
`avatarmaxsize` = '0',
`hhroptions` = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=18;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'hhroptions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Saturday, July 22nd 2006 @ 05:44:41 PM
Classname : vb_database

[chatpalace24]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

No, it's because moderators can always see hidden content - because they can edit posts.
Regular users cannot see it.

I don't agree with that.
I log me in with a new created User. I post with that user in other Forums, and reply to other Post.
I go to the hidden text : and i see the hidden Text.
I think that dont work because it is not the extended Version.

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Profusehost

Getting database error when I try to make changes to "usergroup" setting. Everything goes fine when I uninstall the product. I went over the "readme" file two times now and I checked all files.

That column is supposed to be added by the product XML - so make sure you upload that.

Originally Posted by chatpalace24

I don't agree with that.
I log me in with a new created User. I post with that user in other Forums, and reply to other Post.
I go to the hidden text : and i see the hidden Text.
I think that dont work because it is not the extended Version.

Both versions work equally correct. The only difference is that expanded version has hide-reply and hide-thanks. Perhaps you have not set permissions correctly?

[cOuNtErFiET]

Originally Posted by cOuNtErFiET

ok i have installed your hack, but i also have the improved thread preview 1.5 hack installed (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99520) too and with that you can see the hidden content, so is there a way to fix this that you can help with?

kinda got skipped over...and fix for this? or just SOL

[akanevsky]

Sorry, I cannot give solutions. The hack should use the standard data out of the variable already provided on the page, then there be no problems. Please ask the author of thread preview to use std. variables and not create new ones.