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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[W!cKeD]

When you qoute a Post with Hide its not hidden...any solutions?

[annalise]

Originally Posted by J9382F2A102C

to make this plugin work in 4.1.x you need to add a custom bb code 'hide' to your vbulletin config through the admin cp

still need to figure out how to make the toolbar buttons appear, because that seems to have been broken while development of this mod stopped, and development of vbulletin continued aswell. but it definitely seems to work

Also note that we didn't have to hack 0 files for it to work on vB 4.1.7, just import the .xml, add the files from your upload folder, add a custom hide tag (or if you want everything, add all the tags) as a custom BB tag and off you go.

im using 4.1.7 working fine after i did this, this fixes adding the hide button on the toolbar post editor

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2229187&postcount=242

[bigrover]

Originally Posted by W!cKeD

When you qoute a Post with Hide its not hidden...any solutions?

Yes, but the solution requires editing the mod. I think I posted my solution earlier in the thread. I will go back and review my adjustments to this mod that provide a truly hidden message capability. As distributed the mod is working as designed, which seems to be geared more towards quiz/testing with hints and such embedded. Nothing wrong with that at all, it just didn't fit my application.

More info: I went back and looked through my code to find where I addressed this. I also ran a few tests to confirm my memory. In my case I only have SHOWTOGROUPS enabled, and I have the HIDE tag mapped to SHOWTOGROUPS. The HIDE tag has no paramaters, which when mapped to SHOWTOGROUPS causes the strip_bbcode function to fail in replacing the text. to fix this I added a line of code containing the same regex found in the HIDE-POSTS tag. A note of explanation - the SHOWTOGROUPS tag will default to the groups configuration in the control panel unless specific parameters are entered.

In includes/vS_HHR_Engine.php find:

PHP Code:

$message = preg_replace("/\[(" . $this->tags['SHOWTOGROUPS'] . ")=("|\"|'|)([0-9,]+)\\2\](.*)\[\/\\1\]/siU", $replacement, $message); 


Add above that line:

PHP Code:

$message = preg_replace("/\[(" . $this->tags['SHOWTOGROUPS'] . ")\](.*)\[\/\\1\]/siU", $replacement, $message); 


This will allow the system to recognize and properly process the SHOWTOGROUPS tag without any additional parameters. If you are using another tag and the hidden text isn't being stripped, then you need to look in the strip_bbcode function to see what is expected to happen.

On the other hand, before you go to a lot of work chasing all this down, make sure you are testing the quoted reply from a usergroup that doesn't have permissions to see the hidden text in the first place! I'm only saying this because I've made that error myself...

[bigrover]

BTW, I do have this running on my test site with vB version 4.1.7 SP1 with my modifications. It appeared to work as intended without my mods. This was a clean install on vB 4.1.7, not an upgrade.

[parks72]

many thanks for this..................

[JamuPegelLinux]

how with 4.1.8 ?

[doopz]

Originally Posted by bigrover

Yes, but the solution requires editing the mod. I think I posted my solution earlier in the thread. I will go back and review my adjustments to this mod that provide a truly hidden message capability. As distributed the mod is working as designed, which seems to be geared more towards quiz/testing with hints and such embedded. Nothing wrong with that at all, it just didn't fit my application.

More info: I went back and looked through my code to find where I addressed this. I also ran a few tests to confirm my memory. In my case I only have SHOWTOGROUPS enabled, and I have the HIDE tag mapped to SHOWTOGROUPS. The HIDE tag has no paramaters, which when mapped to SHOWTOGROUPS causes the strip_bbcode function to fail in replacing the text. to fix this I added a line of code containing the same regex found in the HIDE-POSTS tag. A note of explanation - the SHOWTOGROUPS tag will default to the groups configuration in the control panel unless specific parameters are entered.

In includes/vS_HHR_Engine.php find:

PHP Code:

$message = preg_replace("/\[(" . $this->tags['SHOWTOGROUPS'] . ")=("|\"|'|)([0-9,]+)\\2\](.*)\[\/\\1\]/siU", $replacement, $message); 


Add above that line:

PHP Code:

$message = preg_replace("/\[(" . $this->tags['SHOWTOGROUPS'] . ")\](.*)\[\/\\1\]/siU", $replacement, $message); 


This will allow the system to recognize and properly process the SHOWTOGROUPS tag without any additional parameters. If you are using another tag and the hidden text isn't being stripped, then you need to look in the strip_bbcode function to see what is expected to happen.

On the other hand, before you go to a lot of work chasing all this down, make sure you are testing the quoted reply from a usergroup that doesn't have permissions to see the hidden text in the first place! I'm only saying this because I've made that error myself...

Ok.. this fix doesn't seem to work.
The [hide] function itself dissapears.. any suggestions ?

[Ichigo88]

where is hide thanks? in this version 4.0.5 the hide reply dont work

[Selene]

works on 4.1.10? and is visionscript coder gone? can we still purchase the premium version.

[Kraxell]

Dont buy the prem-version! No support, no updates anymore.