New Posting Features - vS-Hide Hack Resurrection

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| vS-Hide Hack Resurrection
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Oct 07, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~2 minutes
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

Have you ever wanted your users to be able to define who exactly can view the information in any particular post? vS-Hide Hack Resurrection, a vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x expansion, features a set of handy tags that together give your users an opportunity to do just that:

[HIDE-POSTS]: defines the minimum number of posts required to read the content within.
[SHOWTOGROUPS]: defines the usergroups that may read the content within.
[HIDE-THANKS]*: defines that the content within may only be read after the person says thank you by pressing a special button. (Expanded Edition Only)
[HIDE-REPLY]*: defines that the content within may only be read after the person replies. (Expanded Edition Only)
[STU]: defines the users that may read the content within. (Expanded Edition Only)

*(1): The HIDE-THANKS tag comes with a full-featured Post Thank You System. See features for further details.
*(2): The HIDE-REPLY tag can be reversed to HIDE with just one easy switch of an admincp option.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
File Changes: 10
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

General

• Stylish, HTML-formatted output.
  
• Compatible With Regular and WYWIWYG editors.
  
• Compatible with all vBulletin Versions from 3.5.x through 3.8.x.
  
• Unregistered, Unverified and Banned users are prevented from seeing any hidden content.
  
• Post owners can always see hidden content in their own posts.
  
• Users can always see hidden content in posts that they can edit.
  
• It is impossible to quote hidden text even if it is revealed - it is stripped from the quotation.
  
• Ability to specify usergroups that can always see hidden content.
  
• Zero template edits.
  
• Works fast on large boards.
  
• Ability to enable / disable any of the tags:
  
  • on global basis - vBulletin Options
    
  • on per-forum basis - Forum Options (Expanded Edition Only)
    
  • on per-usergroup basis - Usergroup Options (Expanded Edition Only)
    
  
  
• AJAX Features for HIDE-REPLY, HIDE-THANKS, and HIDE-REPLY-THANKS, with full non-ajax functionality for older browsers. (Expanded Edition Only)
  
• Online vB Code Documentation.
  
• Case-Insensitive Tags.
  
• vB Code Shortcut (HIDE) that can be linked to any of the tags featured by this engine.
  
• There is no way to go around the tags. They are parsed correctly everywhere, including:
  
  • Showthread / Showpost.
    
  • Search Area
    
  • Forum Display (First Post Preview)
    
  • New Reply (Thread Review)
    
  • Post Preview
    
  • Archive
    
  • Print Version
    
  • E-mail Subscriptions
    
  • RSS Feeds
    
  
  

Integrated "Thank You" System ? (Expanded Edition Only)

• Works fast on large boards.
  
• Automatic prevention of users from saying Thank You more than once for the same post.
  
• Automatic prevention of users from saying Thank You to themselves.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can post thanks.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can remove own thanks.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can remove others' thanks.
  
• Ability to define in which forums to enable the system (can also be enabled/disabled globally).
  
• Ability to define in which forums to bump thanked threads (can also be enabled/disabled globally).
  
• Ability to define whether to allow thanks on first post only.
  
• Ability to define whether to allow thanks in closed threads.
  
• "Remove All" button displayed to those who can remove both own and others' thanks.
  
• List of users who clicked "Thank You" below each post, with an option to limit the maximum amount of such users displayed.
  
• List of latest Thank You's received is displayed in each member's usercp.
  
• Administrator can specify a certain amount of reputation to be given to users who upon the receipt of a 'Thank You'.
  
• AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's, with a stylish progress indicator.
  
• AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's degrades gracefully to non-javascript functionality when AJAX is disabled.
  

INTRODUCTION

Why "Resurrection"?

The reason is simple: This hack has been written many times by various people, and nobody ever got their version working correctly.
This product presents a professional version written from scratch, and there are no backdoors through which hidden information can be illegally retrieved. Unlike other systems, this one works correctly with the vBulletin Post Cache.

Usage Syntax:

[HIDE]information[/HIDE]
Shortcut code, can be mapped to any of the below ones. By default, it is mapped to HIDE-POSTS.

[HIDE-POSTS=X]information[/HIDE-POSTS]
Information is not shown to people who have less than X posts. Has an alternative syntax: , where X is automatically set to the value defined in vBulletin options.

[HIDE-REPLY]information[/HIDE-REPLY] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is not shown to people unless they reply.

[HIDE-THANKS]information[/HIDE-THANKS] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is now shown to people unless they press "Thank You" button.

[HIDE-REPLY-THANKS]information[/HIDE-REPLY-THANKS] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is not shown to people unless they either reply or press "Thank You" button.

[SHOWTOGROUPS=x]information[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Information is not shown to people unless they are a member of the X usergroups, where X is a comma-separated list of usergroupids.

[STU=x]information[/STU]
Information is not shown to people unless they are a listed in X, where X is a comma-separated list of userids.

:: Copyrights ::
The Engine & Toolbar Images - Copyright ? Anton Kanevsky, 2006 - 2009
Locked and Unlocked Images - Copyright ? vBStyles.com, 2004 - 2006, huge thanks to Miko for providing the PSD files!

VERSION HISTORY

Please see the attached change log file for version history.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[vspro]

AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's, with a stylish progress indicator.
AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's degrades gracefully to non-javascript functionality when AJAX is disabled.

why i'm using expensed can't use ajax >.<

[MalebolgiaHR]

This may have been touched on, so forgive me if I did not see it. Anyway, I installed the hack exactly as the instructions say, and all the forums on my board suddenly become unavailable. I saw where it says to "configure new usergroup permisions and forums settings that were added by the hack."

My problem is that I could not find the new usergroup permissions or forum settings added by the hack. Maybe I missed something, but could you give more of an indication of what to look for as far as new usergroup permission and forum settings that I need to set?

Thanks.

[Shazz]

Were the prices raised?
I swear they were 25 :|

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Shazz

Were the prices raised?
I swear they were 25 :|

Yes. They were raised. Why are you concerned?

Originally Posted by MalebolgiaHR

This may have been touched on, so forgive me if I did not see it. Anyway, I installed the hack exactly as the instructions say, and all the forums on my board suddenly become unavailable. I saw where it says to "configure new usergroup permisions and forums settings that were added by the hack."

My problem is that I could not find the new usergroup permissions or forum settings added by the hack. Maybe I missed something, but could you give more of an indication of what to look for as far as new usergroup permission and forum settings that I need to set?

Thanks.

You need to first upload files, then upload the product. Then when you go to vBulletin Usergroup Settings and open a usergroup, you'll see new options.

[MalebolgiaHR]

I am missing something here. I upload the files and put them in the appropriate directories, but when you say upload the product, where do I get it?

[hotmasala4u]

Same kind of problem is with me ... i uploded the product first by mistake. And then suddently all the forum is unavialable . i can't even access to my admincp. I get the follwing error everywhere--

vS-Hide Hack Resurrection: Incomplete Installation!

One or more of the required files are missing.
Please read over readme.html and ensure every file from the upload directory is uploaded to vBulletin forum root.

Afterwards, click here to refresh the page.

Please help me in resolving this problem .

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by hotmasala4u

Same kind of problem is with me ... i uploded the product first by mistake. And then suddently all the forum is unavialable . i can't even access to my admincp. I get the follwing error everywhere--

vS-Hide Hack Resurrection: Incomplete Installation!

One or more of the required files are missing.
Please read over readme.html and ensure every file from the upload directory is uploaded to vBulletin forum root.

Afterwards, click here to refresh the page.

Please help me in resolving this problem .

Please upload files before you upload the product. If you uploaded the product, then just upload the files and then re-install the product.

[MalebolgiaHR]

I am obviously missing a step here. I uploaded the files, made the code changes, but what do you mean by upload the product?

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by MalebolgiaHR

I am obviously missing a step here. I uploaded the files, made the code changes, but what do you mean by upload the product?

Admincp> Product manager>Import prodcut
The .xml file

[MalebolgiaHR]

Originally Posted by Shazz

Admincp> Product manager>Import prodcut
The .xml file

This should have been obvious, but I just could not seem to remember how to do that until I had an aha right after I asked how to do it. Thanks for the help!

Oh yeah, INSTALLED!