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

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[uae]

Sorry for that,

Problem been fixed, just import the latest product-rulesagreement.xml from the zip file and set Allow Overwrite to YES.

[DBs]

When I attempt to reset a rule I get the following error message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/websites/forums.freddyshouse.com/includes/adminfunctions.php:236) in /includes/functions.php on line 2346

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/websites/forums.freddyshouse.com/includes/adminfunctions.php:236) in /includes/functions.php on line 2349

but the rule IS reset.

Also, can you explain the following option and provide an example (I'm confused, just can't get the rule listed in memberinfo)

Rule's Page URL (Optional) If you leave it empty, Rule will not be listed in MEMBRIFNO.

Many thanks.

[uae]

Originally Posted by DBs

When I attempt to reset a rule I get the following error message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/websites/forums.freddyshouse.com/includes/adminfunctions.php:236) in /includes/functions.php on line 2346

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/websites/forums.freddyshouse.com/includes/adminfunctions.php:236) in /includes/functions.php on line 2349

but the rule IS reset.

Also, can you explain the following option and provide an example (I'm confused, just can't get the rule listed in memberinfo)
Rule's Page URL (Optional) If you leave it empty, Rule will not be listed in MEMBRIFNO.
Many thanks.

I have no idea about the error you're getting, but I'll look into it.

Regarding Rules Page URL

Now, if you add a url in that field, and a user submit to agree on the rule, you will be able to see the rule tilte with a link to the rules page if there was one in his/her profile page.

The idea behind this is that you may want to add a rule but you don't want others to see what poeple has agreed on unless you use the url field.

[thedvs]

Is the rules url meant to be the forums URL or a url to a php/html rules page?

[uae]

Originally Posted by thedvs

Is the rules url meant to be the forums URL or a url to a php/html rules page?

if you are talking about the Rule's Page URL field which is just under the rule's text field in the Add New Rule Page in ADMINCP, that would be the url to the rules and agreement page you've got already, if there was one, filling this field with a url will have the rules listed in the member profile page whenever they submit to agree on that rules.

Leaving that field empty, will not list the rules in the member profile page even if they submit to agree on the rules.

Think of it as an option weather you want others to see what rules a specific user has agreed on when viewing their profile page.

But if you were talking about the from File URL field which is at the very end of the Add New Rule Page in ADMINCP, then that would be the page you want to show the rules at whenever a user try to view it.

[thedvs]

Thank you... all works perfectly now!
Great job uae!

[thedvs]

Seems to be a problem with the 12 hour reset now, after the 12 hours it asks you again to sign the rules, you agree... then instead of letting you continue viewing threads it keeps asking for you to sign the rules again. Any ideas? To me it seems to be a cron issue.

[uae]

Originally Posted by thedvs

Seems to be a problem with the 12 hour reset now, after the 12 hours it asks you again to sign the rules, you agree... then instead of letting you continue viewing threads it keeps asking for you to sign the rules again. Any ideas? To me it seems to be a cron issue.

did you install the latest version?

[thedvs]

yes i did

[Delphiprogrammi]

hi people,

i get this MySQL error while trying to add the product XML

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.0:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO cron (weekday, day, hour, minute, filename, loglevel, title )
VALUES (-1, -1, 0, 'a:1:{i:0;i:-1;}', './includes/cron/cron_ruleshack.php', 1,
'Rules and User Agreement Hack Reset');

MySQL Error : Table 'delphipr_forums.cron' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Sunday, October 9th 2005 @ 01:48:11 AM
Script : plugin.php
Referrer : plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vb_database

seems like . "TABLE_PREFIX ." thingy is missing somewhere