Moderators Functions - vbAccessDenied

Keywords: admincp, access denied, forum access, access, user, admin, usergroup


This modification contains a MySQL injection vulnerability, and you are hereby advised to unintall this modification until such time that the author provides a fix.
-- vBorg Staff


Description:
A powerful tool for customizing the generic vBulletin access denied message.

Translations
German (Thanks to alluidh)

Features:

• Fully Phrased.
• Turn on or off in admin cp.
• Created a custom message for any vBulletin generic access denied message.
• Personalize messages with any user, forum or usergroup information.
• Automatically send a PM to one or more users the first time a member receives a specific access denied message.
• Personalize the PM with any user, forum or usergroup information.
• Add an approval link to the automatic PM that will give the user a new primary or secondary usergroup of your choice when clicked.
• Send a PM to everyone who received the original access request, and the requesting user, when they are approved.
• Several layers of security.

Use Case
On my board we only allow access to a few forums until a user has been approved by an admin. The sample screen shots show this process in action.

Install

1. Download the vbAccessDenied_1.0.zip file.
2. Unzip and upload the files in the upload directory to your forum root.
3. Import the product file in your admincp.
4. Create custom messages as desired.

1.1 Changes

1. Supports bbcodes in messages (see updated screen shot).
2. Fixed sql bug that prevented many messages from showing properly.
3. Removed 255 character limit on messages.

Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1
You will need to reupload all files, and uninstall and reinstall the product to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1. Please copy your messages to a text editor first if you want to save them.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by GamerzWorld

Cant seem to get it to work >.< Doesnt seem to be added

p.s. is it possible to make users apply for a usergroup in the error rather than use this system

It should be. Just include your own bbcode link in the error. The easiest way is to find the button/link that does the work in vBulletin, and mimick the url it is using.

[GamerzWorld]

Originally Posted by hambil

If you want to give me access I can take a look at your site and see what the problem is. Or you can give me some screen shots of usergroup/forum permissions, and your vbAccessDenied setup and I'll see if I can spot the problem.

WIll pm you my IM contacts and give you admin access on account registerd :banana:

[hambil]

Thanks to Gamerz I've realized that vbAccessDenied needs integration with vBulletin's group functions. I'll add this. I also plan on adding a new {matchlist} subsitution variable, that will list all users with matching ips to the one requesting access. Should be done by the weekend

[pugmy]

great idea. it seems very useful.

ive encountered an error after installing it and trying to login. any idea?

Invalid SQL:

	SELECT * FROM accessdenied_message
	WHERE usergroupid = 1
	AND forumid = 
	AND (script = 'index(*)' OR script = '*');

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 'AND (script = 'index(*)' OR script = '*')' at line 4
Error Number : 1064

[hambil]

Well, you've got a blank forumid. What exactly are you doing when you get this message?

[hambil]

Anyway, it's a bug either way. I'll fix it and reupload in a bit.

[pugmy]

I was tying to access index.php for logging in. Then the sql error popped. After the installation, I haven't changed any setting for vbAccessDenied. I just installed it and tried to log in before configuring the hack.

[hambil]

Very odd. The hack is only called when the system is about to display an access denied message.

[pugmy]

Accessing index.php somehow checked your code. I got the error even after I deactivated the hack from "vbAccessDenied Settings" page. So i had to disable the product temporarily until I find a solution.

[alluidh]

Hi Hambil
Is it OK to translate your powerful modification into german and gave the phrases to the members on vbhacks-germany.com?