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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[soletrader]

How do I edit the text in the user agreement?

[louis_chypher]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Originally Posted by uae
if you are talking about the Rule's Page URL field which is just under the rule's text field in the Add New Rule Page in ADMINCP, that would be the url to the rules and agreement page you've got already, if there was one, filling this field with a url will have the rules listed in the member profile page whenever they submit to agree on that rules..



Where do I find the URL to insert, im confused on this step.

Hi, There is a modification Rules Hack for vBulletin 3.5.x by Hasann that I use to create rule pages that holds the rules for my web site. I go to those pages of rules I created with Rules Hack for vBulletin 3.5.x by Hasann, copy the urls and paste them into the url location for this modification.

It would be great if this modification could be combined with the Rules Hack for vBulletin 3.5.x by Hasann modification. nudge, nudge.

[louis_chypher]

Originally Posted by Treak

you can choose to have them set that up before they even join.. and you can make it to where they can not edit that part via user permissions.. just not forum specific..

Hi, While there is nothing to stop anyone from lieing about their age you can protect yourself (your site) by using a few 'tricks', like adding the modification

Age Lock is an all-in-one Forum locking facillity that works off the users age instead of there permissions. It gives you the abillity to keep those Under 18's out of your adult sections and by enabling the COPPA and thorough a modification to the register.php line 99 to reflect only allowing those who say they are 18 or over to access the site:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['year'] < ($current['year'] - 18) OR ($vbulletin->GPC['year'] == ($current['year'] - 18) AND $vbulletin->GPC['month'] <= $current['month']))

That's about the best one can do *shrug*.

[mhammed]

great hack,
but the font size rules is too small . how can I increase it

[louis_chypher]

Originally Posted by mhammed

great hack,
but the font size rules is too small . how can I increase it

<font size=X>rule text</font> works for me.

[mhammed]

Originally Posted by louis_chypher

<font size=X>rule text</font> works for me.

very easy to say
but where you put this in the code? :surprised:

[Chris Lang]

I've installed this hack, and it works fine for the forums, but I can't get it to function with Private.php (PMs)

I'm using the format http://mydomain.com/forum/private.php (and every variation, including www, etc) but no luck. Any ideas?

[Neo_obs]

Originally Posted by Chris Lang

I've installed this hack, and it works fine for the forums, but I can't get it to function with Private.php (PMs)

I'm using the format http://mydomain.com/forum/private.php (and every variation, including www, etc) but no luck. Any ideas?

disregard I fixed this the conditionals were set up wrong

[ryansmith]

Is this going to be released for vB 3.6, or is someone working on something similar?

[moonclamp]

My webhost recently upgraded our version of mySQL to 5.0.21

Ever since then I have been getting the following error email:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vb_ruleshack WHERE repeat = 1 AND active = 1;

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 '= 1 AND active = 1' at line 1 Error Number : 1064
Date : Sunday, August 6th 2006 @ 12:30:00 AM
Script : http://xxxxx/forums/cron.php?&rand=463803
Referrer : http://xxxxx/forums/showthread.php?t=3943&page=4
IP Address : 1xx.9x.21.xx
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database

It doesn't seem to affect anyone, just getting loads of emails telling me about the error.

None of my rules reset themselves, is it safe to just turn off the cron?