Hideaways

This extension lets you allow certain usergroups to create a private forum and an associated public usergroup. There are no queries to run, and you only need to change the parentid of the forums in hideaway.php before you upload it.

Access to the hideaway is denied to anybody except admins and the associated public user group.

The member who creates the forum becomes the usergroup leader and the forum moderator.

Users are responsible to advertise their own forum. No invite link is created. This is not automated. Users can either post an invitation to join their hideaway in some other forum on your site, or they can pm people to invite them. It's up to you on establishing the rules of hideaway promotion.

Users can edit their hideaway descriptions, but not the style or the forum title. The style can not be changed to ensure that we don't run into licensing issus. The title can not be changed because I use it to identify the forum for editing purposes.

The hideaway usergroups permissions are based on the registered user group's permissions. You can change what group their permissions are based off of within the code.

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FEATURES I WILL NOT ADD:
The ability for people to have more than one hideaway.
The ability for hideaway owners to create a new style for their forum.
The ability for hideaway owners to change the forum title.
The ability for hideaway owners to change any forum permissions.

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[mfizzel]

Can usergroups who don't have permission to create hideways see the hideaway forums?

[amykhar]

Not unless they have been given access to the hideaway by its owner.

[lordnex]

Is it possible for hideaways to inherit the settings from the parent forum? I'd like my private hideaways to not give credit to posts or ushop cash. (I know ushop is here but can you just compare permissions from the users hideaway and set it identical to the parent forum?

[Holidazed]

Originally Posted by bitg

I installed the mod and it seems to work. However, when somebody who already has a Hideaway forum clicks the "Create" link, it gives them an error that says:

Could not find phrase 'hideaway_exists'.

I went in and added the phrase, but I still get the same error.

Any idea when this issue is going to be resolved?

[Holidazed]

Is this mod even being supported? Maybe it should be moved to the "Beta" forums as it is not working yet.

[amykhar]

It worked just fine for the version it was released for Something changed somewhere along the line about the way vbulletin handles phrases during upgrades. Missing phrases are something you can easily fix.

[Holidazed]

Originally Posted by amykhar

It worked just fine for the version it was released for Something changed somewhere along the line about the way vbulletin handles phrases during upgrades. Missing phrases are something you can easily fix.

Except I do not know where to put this phrase. So, are you saying that this mod is incompatible with vbb3.5?

[kewl1uk]

Excellent mod and a perfect addition to my community. But it would have to be updated to work with 3.5.1 before I can use it :disappointed: Is there any timeline for the next update. Anyway Amy thanks for your hard work on this.

[lanoix]

I installed/modified this hack to use it has I needed (possibility for users to create groups/forums with specified titles)... I had to do some modifications for 3.5.1 but now it's okay.
Thank you

[Holidazed]

Originally Posted by bitg

Except I do not know where to put this phrase. So, are you saying that this mod is incompatible with vbb3.5?

So? Where do I put the phrase?