Mini Mods - [DBTech] Staff Only Hidden Posts v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present Staff Only Hidden Posts v1: Staff Only Hidden Posts allows Administrators, Super Moderators, Forum Moderators, and any additional usergroups that has moderation privileges, to post/view hidden posts.


Why Staff Only Hidden Posts?

It is a neat tool for staff to post in a thread but not allow everyone to see what they posted. These posts are only viewable by the aforementioned usergroups. This Mod uses the vBulletin moderation feature to achieve this. The post however will not show up in the Moderation Queue in the Admincp or Modcp. It is fully phrased so you can edit it to your languages.

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Complete Feature List

• General Settings
  • Toggle plugin on or off
  • Option to show notification in header
  • Option to display version number in footer
  • DBTech Affiliate ID support

To have a different background color for hidden posts follow this.

In postbit_legacy find:

<div class="postbody">

Change to:

<div class="postbody <vb:if condition="$show['moderated']">moderated</vb:if>">

Then add some CSS to additional.css like:

.postbitlegacy div.postbody.moderated {
background: {vb:stylevar sohp_background};

Then to set the background color go to stylevars, under DragonByteTechMods look for sohp_background and you can set the color there.


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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage.
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification.

[Fready]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Their is no easy way for you to move the Hide This Post in either editor. But if you wish to try you can look at the file dbtech/staffonlyhidddenposts/hooks/process_templates_complete and the code that is used to insert it is on line 22

Chris

I got it to show a box and work and make the post hidden using this code;

<li><label for="cb_hidepost"><input type="checkbox" name="hidepost" value="1" id="cb_hidepost"/>Hide Post </label><li>

But the phrase Hide Post and the tick box showed to regular members too.
As i am not a coder, could either the coder of this mod or someone else please help so that it won't show to regular members.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Fready

I got it to show a box and work and make the post hidden using this code;

<li><label for="cb_hidepost"><input type="checkbox" name="hidepost" value="1" id="cb_hidepost"/>Hide Post </label><li>

But the phrase Hide Post and the tick box showed to regular members too.
As i am not a coder, could either the coder of this mod or someone else please help so that it won't show to regular members.

Where did you add that bit of code?

Chris

[Fready]

ozzy47 said to look in the dbtech/staffonlyhidddenposts/hooks/process_templates_complete file, so i did, and then tried to make a code from the code in there.
That's just a code that I made.
I am not a coder, it did work fine, but it showed the tick box and the Hide Post to regular members, but the post was hidden after posting it to regular members.
So i just need to hide the tick box and the Hide Post bit.

Thanks

[Fready]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Where did you add that bit of code?

Chris

Sorry I miss read your post.
I added it in the newreply Template after;

&nbsp;<img id="display_posticon" src="{vb:raw selectedicon.src}" alt="{vb:raw selectedicon.alt}" />

That was it is just under the Title of the Thread when you Go Advanced....

[DragonByte Tech]

Ok I see the problem, I will fix it in the next release, but in the mean time in that same file, right below:

if ($vbulletin->options['dbtech_staffonlyhiddenposts_active'])
{

ADD:

if (can_moderate())
{

Then below the last } add a additional }

Chris

[DragonByte Tech]

I see you edited you post, so change your code to this:

<vb:if condition="can_moderate()"><li><label for="cb_hidepost"><input type="checkbox" name="hidepost" value="1" id="cb_hidepost"/>Hide Post </label><li></vb:if>

Chris

[Fready]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I see you edited you post, so change your code to this:

<vb:if condition="can_moderate()"><li><label for="cb_hidepost"><input type="checkbox" name="hidepost" value="1" id="cb_hidepost"/>Hide Post </label><li></vb:if>

Chris

Thanks Chris, that worked great.
It adds the tick box and Hide Post just under the Title
A nice easy place to tick the box.

Put that code after

&nbsp;<img id="display_posticon" src="{vb:raw selectedicon.src}" alt="{vb:raw selectedicon.alt}" />

In the newreply Template

[DragonByte Tech]

Not a problem, glad to help.

Chris

[Fready]

Chris, don't forget about this part;

Worked apart from when clicking on the phrase "Veiw 2 hidden posts" next to my user name, it just took me to a blank white page

Thanks

Kind of a big thing as at the moment, when you post a hidden post it doesn't show up on "What's New" searching.
Maybe this is as it's a Moderated post or how you made this modification.

So without the "View hidden posts" bit working it's hard to know where they are.

[DragonByte Tech]

I know I am looking for a solution to the issue, but with some of the staff on holiday it is a bit slow going. I hope to have a solution soon though.

Chris