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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[Kraxell]

Do you have upload the button-image?

[HeLLCiTo]

Only [SHOWTOGROUPS] works , the [HIDE-POSTS=X] does't work, any idea?

[giotis9]

Originally Posted by Kraxell

Do you have upload the button-image?

Yes all buttons are uploaded!

[W!cKeD]

Hide Hack dont work, it shows the hidden Content in the source code from website.

[fxwoody]

visionscript is closed and we will not have any support comming out from them obviously!
The version the is in here doesn't really work fine and the expended edition is no more available!

I guess we should fine the expended edition and post it here, but will it be legal to do so???

[shanef]

well if you can find it pm me please

[akanevsky]

I guess we should fine the expended edition and post it here, but will it be legal to do so???

It will definitely not be legal, but I will think about whether to release the extended edition here on vBulletin.org myself because I don't think I will ever go back to developing any paid hacks again.

Please understand that the extended edition (just like the limited edition) may or may not work with newer versions of vBulletin such as 4.1.x due to the changes in vBulletin. If the limited edition does not work, then most likely the extended edition won't either, so having an expanded edition released on vBulletin.org won't really help unless I or someone else updates it.

[Linos-1]

I have V4.1.6 how can I increase the size of the button the image of HIDE?

[fxwoody]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

It will definitely not be legal, but I will think about whether to release the extended edition here on vBulletin.org myself because I don't think I will ever go back to developing any paid hacks again.

Please understand that the extended edition (just like the limited edition) may or may not work with newer versions of vBulletin such as 4.1.x due to the changes in vBulletin. If the limited edition does not work, then most likely the extended edition won't either, so having an expanded edition released on vBulletin.org won't really help unless I or someone else updates it.

Thank you for the info Psionic!

And if i may, why don't you try to update it ?
If i recall, your hack was one of the best for the purpose of it

Non the lest, at the speed that they are pulling out new versions and updates, i kind of understand why tho!

Sad to see some great plugins being dumped because of this

[KissOfDeath]

Originally Posted by W!cKeD

Hide Hack dont work, it shows the hidden Content in the source code from website.

I'm actually a customer of this guy and managed to fix the product myself after he closed down and i got no support, it's pretty weak that you take peoples money but not fix the product when it's all so simple to do, i've fixed all bugs including including the thread preview and source codes, also this is still working fine on vBulletin 4.1.5 Patch Level 1, the only issue is you need to make your own buttons and create your own custom BB tags as they won't automatically insert anymore,

I've attached the buttons i made their pretty basic but feel free to use them

this is how they look in the editor (The SP is spoiler BB code)



Go to AdminCP>custom BB codes>add new BB code,

Title: SHOW TO GROUPS
BB Code Tag Name: SHOWTOGROUPS
Replacement: [SHOWTOGROUPS]{param}[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Example: [SHOWTOGROUPS]hidden text here[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Description: Hides text and images unspecified user groups
Use {option}:Yes
Button Image (Optional): link to your button

Save

do this 5 times for the 5 different buttons using the right tag names and descriptions for each button