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!

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[Lionel]

How can I make those rules bilingual?

[Cibox.de]

Doesn't work with 3.6.
Is there an update planned?

[Whissi]

What's the problem?

[Chicago_VLNU_4s]

how come it's not working when i try to test post a new message? i have it aimed to the proper thread and i selected the Rules to show up by clicking yes for all options and the only rules screen i get is the first time visiting that thread.... any ideas?

[Aaron RV]

work on vb 3.6.0?

[dethfire]

no it doesn't work yet, really need though

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

My webhost recently upgraded our version of mySQL to 5.0.21

Ever since then I have been getting the following error email:

It doesn't seem to affect anyone, just getting loads of emails telling me about the error.

None of my rules reset themselves, is it safe to just turn off the cron?

I have the same problem, posted in reply #172

No help provided yet. :S ill have to un-install this hack.
For the old rules it works great, but when trying to set up new ones, it doesnt.

[Ntfu2]

Fix for 3.6 attached. Basically just changed the title in cron to varname

I did this on a fresh install of the modifciation on 3.6 and worked fine. I can not assume the same for previous installs, so please test on your test board first.

[alfaowner]

Should this work on a file location as my example: http://www.xyz.com/forum/classifieds/index.php ?? As currently I cannot get it to work for url's. I am running 3.5.4

[steven s]

Originally Posted by alfaowner

Should this work on a file location as my example: http://www.xyz.com/forum/classifieds/index.php ?? As currently I cannot get it to work for url's. I am running 3.5.4

Yes it should. I use this before someone can view myforum/newthread.php?do=hpde
Also check your usergroups.