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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[maidos]

can anyone please confirm if tis workig, cuz i installed the hide hack 5 times and still not working

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Selene

Hi bklynjava, i have purchased this hack and its a great one!

to answer ur questions

1) the user can select the post to be hidden. U can set the permissions for a usergroup to use HIDE, and set permissions on the forums where u want to use it! This way u can let the administrators to use it only in a specific X forum. Cant be better.

2) If u purchase it ,then u get fully 1 year support. Trust me the support rocks! I purchased it, got my order activated within 2 hours, and i installed it on 3.6.0. I had few problems, and i posted in support forum, i got instant replies, and the admins there helped me out and everything solved.

3)My forum has over 65,000 users. Speed is fine. I dont think it shud be a problem. But the coder can come and tell about it himself.

Thank you for the positive feedback

Reputation is enabled, the user can click the scales image and give rep directly but when giving thank you, it doesn't give the 1 rep it should be...

It could be a bug that appeared due to different hooks in 3.6 than in 3.5. Please post it as a bug in the visionscripts bugtracker. Thanks.

can anyone please confirm if tis workig, cuz i installed the hide hack 5 times and still not working

Yes, it is working. There are more than 100 that are running this hack... You can also check out the thread for the 3.5.X version (see my profile).

[bolly.beats]

thank youuuuuuuuu

[DPSR]

I am using microstat plugin to show sql server usuage. After installing your hack, its showing-

Page generated in 0.27412 seconds with 12 queries (1 queries for uncached templates) [Server Loads: 4.48 4.26 : 5.06]
Uncached templates: hidetag_toolbar_buttons (1)

Any sol.?

[akanevsky]

Uncached templates: hidetag_toolbar_buttons (1)

Hmm, thanks for pointing it out. Create a new hook in cache_template with the following code:

$globaltemplates[] = 'hidetag_toolbar_buttons';

And I'll implement a nicer fix in the next release.

[angelo]

Anyway to make this hack a very simple free hack of just [reply] and someone has to say thanks or they can't see the content?

that's what most people really want from this hack, not all this other stuff and having to pay 25 dollars for unwanted extras.

[maidos]

ehh i know that u have released a older version but what i want to know is if this hack works for 3.6.0 now... i wanna know if any members can get it work ...

[X-Jerry]

Wow, Im waiting for this update. But i just want to use [HIDE] only for [HIDE], [HIDE-THANKS] and [HIDE-REPLY], how can i replace or edit something to make it work?
Thanks for your help!

[louis_chypher]

Originally Posted by maidos

ehh i know that u have released a older version but what i want to know is if this hack works for 3.6.0 now... i wanna know if any members can get it work ...

Working fine for me running 3.6.

[akanevsky]

that's what most people really want from this hack, not all this other stuff and having to pay 25 dollars for unwanted extras.

25 dollars is really not a lot for the hack... Sorry, but there's no limit to the variations of what people want, all I can do is allow for customization, but not drop / rename features...

ehh i know that u have released a older version but what i want to know is if this hack works for 3.6.0 now... i wanna know if any members can get it work ...

This hack IS for 3.6.0.

Wow, Im waiting for this update. But i just want to use [HIDE] only for [HIDE], [HIDE-THANKS] and [HIDE-REPLY], how can i replace or edit something to make it work?

You can disable whatever you don't want to use via vBulletin Options