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 (Limited Edition)
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 4.0.x
|| Released : Mar 12, 2010
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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 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: 5
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

General

• Stylish, HTML-formatted output.
  
• Compatible With Regular and WYWIWYG editors.
  
• Compatible with vBulletin 4.0.x (and there is also an old version for vBulletin 3.5.x - 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 (aka @kan), 2006 - 2010
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.html" file for version history.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[Taurus1]

Is it possible to get support for this mod. I cannot understand why someone would sell something and just refuse to give any support. Neither here nor on his forum. I purchased the extended version, but has never ever received any support whatsoever!

This is such a great mod man. Can't you help a bit here!!??

[notrick]

Its not working for me damnt it. In installed correctly and then I did forum permission too. But Like HaidM, I am also unable to use this

[Killahbyte]

This hack is full of bugs, don't pay for the full version of this hack. Even though he hides a post there are about 3 ways to view the information anyways. Since this is a development forum I'm going to post the bugs i have found.

a) Go to What's New in vbulletin and if you mouse over any of the hidden threads the tool tip will show the hidden information anyways

b) Let's say a user posted a hide of some sort. You can click the user, "find all posts" by that user and you display all hidden text again.

c) Same as above with finding all threads made by user.

Too me if a "hide hack" can not actually do its own basic function which is to hide things, then the product does not deliver at all, and should be put back into beta/undeveloped status. I don't know where you get off trying to charge money for this.

[Taurus1]

Thank you for that information Killahbyte. Uninstalled. I will attempt to get my money back. Not optimistic though.

[Kraxell]

Anyone know a "secure" hide-hack?

[MonsterDK]

Originally Posted by Killahbyte

This hack is full of bugs, don't pay for the full version of this hack. Even though he hides a post there are about 3 ways to view the information anyways. Since this is a development forum I'm going to post the bugs i have found.

a) Go to What's New in vbulletin and if you mouse over any of the hidden threads the tool tip will show the hidden information anyways

b) Let's say a user posted a hide of some sort. You can click the user, "find all posts" by that user and you display all hidden text again.

c) Same as above with finding all threads made by user.


Too me if a "hide hack" can not actually do its own basic function which is to hide things, then the product does not deliver at all, and should be put back into beta/undeveloped status. I don't know where you get off trying to charge money for this.

Your right... there are ways to view the hidden content. Which makes this product even more DEAD.

Can't other coders see there is a demand for this kind of hack? I'm sure if someone put a decent hide hack together and made it premium people would pay for their work, after all there is no other 'real working' alternative. All the others I've tried for vB 4.0.6 are all exploitable via the ways you have posted. Hardly hiding anything is it. We need a good working Hide hack.

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Killahbyte

This hack is full of bugs, don't pay for the full version of this hack. Even though he hides a post there are about 3 ways to view the information anyways. Since this is a development forum I'm going to post the bugs i have found.

a) Go to What's New in vbulletin and if you mouse over any of the hidden threads the tool tip will show the hidden information anyways

b) Let's say a user posted a hide of some sort. You can click the user, "find all posts" by that user and you display all hidden text again.

c) Same as above with finding all threads made by user.

Too me if a "hide hack" can not actually do its own basic function which is to hide things, then the product does not deliver at all, and should be put back into beta/undeveloped status. I don't know where you get off trying to charge money for this.

It shows hidden content only for users who are allowed to see it.

Originally Posted by Chaini

Not working vB 4.0.3

What is not working?

[Taurus1]

So is that all you are going to comment on? Are you not going to help your paying customers??

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

So is that all you are going to comment on? Are you not going to help your paying customers??

What do you need help with?

[Taurus1]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

What do you need help with?

Thank you for coming back to me.

2 Things.

1. When I have images inline, when you click the Thanks button, they disappear. Leaving only the attachment code there. You have to refresh to see them again.

2. I need to know how to get the 'Thanks' button to show on the opening post when using this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232993

Nr 2 is really a huge problem for me, because attachments that I hide here cannot be seen because the 'Thanks' button is not showing.

I really hope you will help me here. It has been a very long time that I've had these problems.

Thank you.