Usergroup Tags

This hack allows you to selectively display text to certain usergroups wherever BB code is parsed. For example, this tag:

[ugid1]Only guests will see this[/ugid1]

...will only appear to guests. All other usergroups just won't see the text at all.

This is not meant to be secure! Anybody who quotes or edits a given post will see all the [ugidn] tags in plan text. This hack works for all usergroupids, including custom ones.

[filburt1]

I could pretty easily but it would require a lot more code editing and third-party hacks would have to be edited, too.

[Chris M]

Well there is one way of making it secure that he has already pointed out...Disable the "quote post" option

Satan

[filburt1]

What about PMs, editing a post, etc.?

[grog6]

Thx filburt1 !

/me cliks install, it could be fun to use :P

[N9ne]

Filb, good point about the amount of editing required to do so, good hack nonetheless though .

[Davey]

Nice idea but what about in 'get all posts from this user'.
Wont it show them what they said? Or part of it?

Dave.

[filburt1]

This is part of bbcodeparse2(). Whenever that is called, then ugid tags for all other usergroups will be stripped. Otherwise they'll be right there. So anytime BB code is parsed, this will be, too.

[Davey]

Ah okay just checking .

Dave.

[VeoMorphine]

hrmmmm... Correct me if im wrong. Im taking this off the top of my head. Wouldn't this fix that quote problem?

Edit newreply.php and find

PHP Code:

$posttime=vbdate($timeformat,$postinfo[dateline]);
$pagetext=htmlspecialchars($postinfo[pagetext]); 


Below it put

PHP Code:

$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid1)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid1\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext);
$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid2)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid2\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext);
$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid3)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid3\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext);
$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid4)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid4\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext);
$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid5)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid5\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext);
$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid6)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid6\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext);
$pagetext = preg_replace("/(\[)(ugid7)(])(\r\n)*([^\"]*)(\[\/ugid7\])/siU", "" ,$pagetext); 


And so on and so on, for each user group.

I think that may only work if its a real bbcode tag. Im not sure. I dont have access to my home pomputer so i cant try it just yet.

[filburt1]

The whole point is that you don't have to have so much redundant code. That's why I invented loops

Yes it would fix it but the problem is there are so many other places in vB where you can see the raw BB code.