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

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN!

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[King Internet]

i'll probably modify this like hell but thanks saves me from writing my own for sure

one thing i'd like to see maybe in the base version is a javascript timer to wait at least like 20 seconds before they can click the agree button, most people might just breeze through it like the rules at registration.

[Quarterbore]

I got it installed and I am posting here so it is easier for me to find this later... I really needed this one lately!

[bada_bing]

Sounds like a great hack I will keep this in mind

[jadkar]

Did anyone ever figure out or fix why this hack will not work with MySQLi

I have this running in DEV with great results but it's not loading in my production environment because I use MySQLi there.

Conversely, does anyone know if I can disable MySQLi while my forum is up and running? Or can this only be enabled/disabled during the install??

If someone can answer my question it would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

[IrPr]

SQL ERROR !
when opening http://forum.domain.com/index.php?\
i got this error
caused by \ near quotation mark --> \'

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM ruleshack
WHERE (fileurl LIKE 'http://forum.domain.com/index.php?\' AND exactmatch = 1 )
OR (fileurl LIKE 'http://forum.domain.com/index.php%' AND exactmatch = 0 ) AND active = 1 ORDER BY ruleid;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'http://forum.domain.com/index.php%' AND exactmatch = 0 ) AND active = 1 ORDER' at line 2
Error Number : 1064
Date : Saturday, March 18th 2006 @ 10:19:28 PM
Script : http://forum.domain.com/index.php?\
Referrer :
IP Address : PRIVATE
Username : ME!
Classname : vb_database

HOW TO FIX?

[rmwebs]

Does this alow google and other crawlers to be able to see the threads? Otherwise half your content wont get indexed...

[kurtbarker]

easy way to check this is *provided you have it installed* sign out of your forum, go directly to the thread link, and see if you get the rules page, or the content

[TheHeartSmasher]

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vbruleshack 
			WHERE (fileurl LIKE 'http://www.teamcronus.net/forums/private.php' AND exactmatch = 1 ) 
			OR (fileurl LIKE 'http://www.teamcronus.net/forums/private.php%' AND exactmatch = 0 ) AND active = 1 ORDER BY ruleid;

MySQL Error  : Table 'forumsvb.vbruleshack' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date         : Sunday, April 16th 2006 @ 08:43:45 PM
Script       : http://www.teamcronus.net/forums/private.php
Referrer     : http://www.teamcronus.net/forums/pri...=newpm&pmid=18
IP Address   : 000.000.000.000
Username     : TheHeartSmasher
Classname    : vb_database

I get that error when I installed the product

[Rude Awakening]

Excellent hack. Works perfect for what Im working on. You have no idea how much in need I was for something like this

Props!

[antialiasis]

When I try to import it, I get "Importing Product - Please Wait..." and it never seems to finish being imported.