Miscellaneous Hacks - Rules and User Agreement Hack

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Rules and User Agreement Hack-------------------------------------
Hack Version: 1.1.5
vB-version: 3.5
Developer: WwW.UAEWEB.CoM
Install-difficulty: Easy
Port of: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...threadid=77666

Introduction:
Rules and User Agreement Hack Is an agreement rules systems, that requires user to agree to each individual forum or/and pages rules within the whole board community ?if applicable? prior to permission them to different action (Viewing a Forum, Posting New Thread for the first time, Posting New Thread, Posting Reply).

This will limit the forum breaches that occur often due to unawareness of the rules and agreement. This shall automate the manual procedures that are followed by users to read the ?rules and agreement? and will enforce to some extent the users to be aware of rules in place. Moreover this will eliminate the options of any denial by certain users of not being aware of ?rules and agreements? being in place for the desired forum.

This can also be used as alerts, broadcasts, messages and tutorials? etc to certain individual, multi users or groups.

Features:

• Unlimited* Rule(s).
• An Individual Forum can have multi rules agreement.
• An Individual FILE within your forum can have mutli rules agreement.
• List All Rules that user has agreed to from his/her profile page "if a url was provided".
• Edit/Delete Rule(s).
• Reset Rule(s) Manually or with Cron Job.
• Rules can use bbcode.
• Set to show a rule(s) agreement in any selected forum/page (file url) IF:

- User's Usergroup is Y.
- User's Additional Usergroups is Y.
- User's User Id is X.
- User's User Name is XXX.
- User's first time posting a new thread in this forum.
- User's has posts greater than x posts.
- User's has posts less than x posts.
- User's Join Date is After (yyyy-mm-dd).
- User's Join Date is Befor (yyyy-mm-dd).
- User's Last Activiy is After (yyyy-mm-dd).
- User's Last Activiy is Befor (yyyy-mm-dd).
- User's Last Post is After (yyyy-mm-dd).
- User's Last Post is Befor (yyyy-mm-dd).
* Can Use Conditionals.

• Fully "phrased" so translations are made easy.

Settings in the Admin CP:

• List Rule(s).
• Add New Rule(s).
• Edit / Delete Rule(s).
• Reset Rule(s).
• Activate and Inactivate Rule(s)

Screenshots:

See attachments.

Hack Installation Details:

1 Product XML with 3 Plugins, and 45 Phrases

New files for this Hack: 3
/admincp/rulesagreement.php
/includes/cron/cron_ruleshack.php
/includes/xml/cpnav_rulesagreement.xml

New templates for this Hack: 2
ruleshack_rules
ruleshack_rulesbit

File-edits: 0

Template-edits: 1
MEMBERINFO

New DB tables for this Hack: 1
ruleshack

DB Tables modified for this Hack: 1
user

How to Install:
To install this hack, simply download the zip file, Unzip it to a directory on your computer and follow the steps from README.txt

History:
1.0.0
Initial Version for vBulletin 3.5

1.1.0
Added Rule(s) from URL
Fixed typo in Phrase

1.1.1
Fixed bug with new registration
-> to upgrade, import product-rulesagreement.xml and set Allow Overwrite to yes

1.1.2
Fixed bug with Reseting Rules every 12 hours
-> to upgrade, import product-rulesagreement.xml and set Allow Overwrite to yes

1.1.3
Fixed bug with with TABLE_PREFIX missing
-> to upgrade, import product-rulesagreement.xml and set Allow Overwrite to yes


1.1.4
Fixed bug with with Template / memberinfo Agreed Rules List
-> to upgrade, import product-rulesagreement.xml and set Allow Overwrite to yes

1.1.5
Fixed bug with this & this
-> to upgrade, import product-rulesagreement.xml and set Allow Overwrite to yes

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN!

If you like this hack, please be kind and click on

[dxguru]

What would be good is this ...

Instead of having to set up a 2nd page to use for the MEMBERINFO link, why not have that link go to a templated page that shows the text you have entered in the rule?

[TeaTree]

Installed really easliy and works brilliantly-Thanks!

[blackpudding]

i'm having problems with this on our board. the problem seems to happen after midnight. the agreement keeps coming up, and often after you tick it the next page says that the post was too short and the text box comes back blank, which wipes your message out!

i've just reset it manually and it seems ok again.

any ideas? thanks

[designBox]

This is exactly what i was looking for.
Thank you very much for this usefull (and needed) contribution.

INSTALL clicked.

[dxguru]

I tried copying the "Agreed Rules" from the MEMBERINFO template to the USERCP template but nothing shows up.

Has anybody been able to do this successfully?

[dxguru]

Have also found a possible bug ... rules are working fine except they appear when a member first views the forum even though I dont have that option selected (I do have all the others ticked)

[dxguru]

Another issue ...

I have a rule that covers 'all' forums (using the hack provided earlier) and an additional rule for a specific forum.

If I go to the specific forum I will get the Site Rule and then access to the forum. What happened to the forum specific rule?

[ryansmith]

I have an issue too.

I have been using this for quite a while, and I love it. However, tonight I logged out of my forum and viewed it as a Guest. While in Guest mode, if I clicked on a forum, it brought me to the Rules I have set for that forum. I checked "I agree" and tried to proceed, but then it tells me I'm not logged in/must be a member.

I checked in the AdminCP under the "Edit Rule" option and the only usergroups selected are the registered members and my moderators... there's no checkbox next to Unregistered/Not logged in, COPPA, or Users Awaiting Email Confirmation.

Any idea how to work around this? I'd like guests to be able to see our forums still. I only need them to agree to the rules if they are joining and posting.

Ryan

[Smiry Kin's]

does this work with 3.5.4 ? i really need something like this? :S

[Smiry Kin's]

hmm seems to work in 3.5.4 no problem yet..

anyone have a rough spam template? if you get what i mean??. .lol