New Posting Features - Per Usergroup HTML Posting Permission

Just like the name says, this ultra-simple little Product will allow you to specify Usergroups that may make forum posts in HTML and have that HTML be parsed.

Default vBulletin - You can only choose whether an entire forum has the HTML permission, for all Usergroups. With this modification, you can give the permission to a specific Usergroup.

The code in this version is 100% identical to that in the 3.5 version (except for the lack of parseing in the Preview), which worked all the way through 3.6,7 and 8.

Blog HTML permissions are, for some reason, actually there in Usergroup Manager, they control HTML in Blog entries and posts, and override the settings in this Product.

***BE AWARE THAT INDISCRIMINATE USE OF THIS PRODUCT IS RISKY - RESTRICT IT TO ONLY THOSE USERGROUPS YOU TRUST ABSOLUTELY***

The scary message above is to make sure you are aware that enabling HTML for any group opens you up to security issues. This is why it is not a feature of Stock vB, probably.

Controlled by a Setting in Usergroup Manager, it's phrased and works in editpost.php in WYSIWYG and normal modes, AND the Forum Rules shows HTML is ON to allowed Usergroups.

In the current vB 4.0, this WILL apply retroactively.
That is, if a User posted something in HTML in the past, before they were given the ability, that post will be parsed. This could prove dangerous/troublesome for anything not wrapped in PHP tags.


Many thanks to Andreas for prodding me to figure it out by myself and not just telling me what to do.

A "demo" is here..html is OFF in that Forum, but those posts are made by an Admin with the setting to Yes, so the HTML is parsed.

Known Issues: It is not currently possible to choose whether the HTML in a post is parsed or not - it will be.. unless (weirdly) you wrap it in PHP /PHP tags.
I'll look into adding a toggle switch.

[Krishan]

Originally Posted by midnz

It looks like this:



Have you tried searching for "Allow HTML Permissions" while viewing the Usergroup Permissions page?

Dear sir,

Yes, I've searched for that. It is still not showing in the "Edit usergroup permissions". I uploaded XML file in root, then I uploaded the provided plugin in admin panel.

Any help?

[CaptCom]

Nice code, thank you!!

[MortysTW]

This may sound dumb but has worked on many mods for me.

Go to your plugin/ products and disable the first mod. Doesn't matter what it is. Let page do its thing then turn it back on.

When you alter mods like that its rebuilds the admincp in vbulletin. Basically "fixing" it.

Then go back and look for your html control in usergroup permissions.

[colwal]

FTP issue at moment but when fixed will install and thanks.

[Webbstre]

Hopefully the mod author still follows this one, but lately I have run into a lot of video embed scripts that don't work properly. Here is an example:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"  WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=391 id="videoPlayer"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/cne_flash/production/eidothea/release/eidothea.swf?ver=008_11"><PARAM NAME=scale VALUE="noScale"><PARAM NAME=salign VALUE="lt"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=allowscriptaccess VALUE="always"><PARAM NAME=allowFullScreen VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME=flashvars VALUE="bwr=0&playerMode=embedded&movieAspect=16.9&mapp=embedded_640&gen=1&viewMode=sd&autoPlay=false&paramsXML=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamespot.com%2Fpages%2Fvideo_player%2Fxml.php%3Fid%3D6319192%26mode%3Dembedded%26width%3D640%26height%3D391%26newplayer%3D1%26skin%3DeidotheaEmbedded640_169.xml"><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE="opaque"><embed  id="mymovie"  width="640"  height="391" flashvars="bwr=0&playerMode=embedded&movieAspect=16.9&mapp=embedded_640&gen=1&viewMode=sd&autoPlay=false&paramsXML=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamespot.com%2Fpages%2Fvideo_player%2Fxml.php%3Fid%3D6319192%26mode%3Dembedded%26width%3D640%26height%3D391%26newplayer%3D1%26skin%3DeidotheaEmbedded640_169.xml" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" scale="noScale" salign="lt" allowFullScreen="true" quality="high" name="mymovie" style="" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/cne_flash/production/eidothea/release/eidothea.swf?ver=008_11" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/></embed></OBJECT>

It usually breaks on the first part, around classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000". Sometimes removing it and/or other parts of the code helps, but this particular one just got stuck on a permanent loading screen when I did it. Any chance for a small update to make this easier?

[cellarius]

Your own post here may give you a hint - does it help if you disable smilie parsing for the relevant post?

[Webbstre]

Actually, I did try that, and it still didn't work.

[ewebdesigner]

I have a question.

When I post in HTML why cannot I put up a buy now image and it be clickable to a paypal link to make a payment?

Just curious as I allow my members to post their internet marketing products for sale on one particular forum which is modded before it is live so I can check the HTML to make sure everything is OK!

I want them to be able to post their thread just like a squeeze page but in a post. Not the graphics or anything just an HTML buy now page and images not as a pop up.

Any suggestions?

[listisimo.es]

First of all let me say this is a really useful mod so thank you very much.

However, we have encountered a bit of a problem.

In our case, this mod only works with Firefox, but not with Chrome or IE.

For example, check out this thread using different browsers (Firefox, Chrome and IE):
http://www.listisimo.es/temas/11354-...voces-logitech

See what I mean?

Anyone else had this problem? Is there a fix so it works with all browsers?

Thanks

[DNN]

hopes this plugin works