Hide links from guests

Description:
Most guests browse the forums without becoming registered. And why should they, everything?s lying and waiting just right before their fingertips - written informations and the most important: hyperlinks.
This plugin hides any link from guests until they became registered !

If guests are browsing the forums, all they?ll see is a link like this

( No link? )

with an alternate text "Please register first or login"

Installation:
Install the XML-file as Plugin.

Credits:
Andreas (KirbyDE) for porting the previous alpha code-modification over into a Plugin.

Notes:
In one of my meanwhile heavily hacked forums I wasn?t able to bring this Plugin to life. It seems that something messed up with the usergroup-settings.
On a fresh install I can?t report any bugs or errors.

Versions:
Tested in 3.5.0 and 3.5.1

Update:
November 02, 05 - File format corrected (Version 1.0.1)

Click "Install":
Please click the Install-Link, if you use this Plugin.

Note: Some copyrights reserved

Because of this proposal I disagree that anyone is using parts of this code to build a commercial hack upon. Everyone who wants to use parts of this code in his hack/plugin/product has to release it following the rules and terms of the General Public License (GNU) to the open source community!

[Adam14]

Originally Posted by MichaelP

Hi all, I applied this plugin and it all seems to have installed ok but when I go to the site as a guest browser I can still see and click on web links in posts.

Any ideas what may be wrong? We are on 3.5.0 with the 3.5.1 patch applied.

Cheers :up:

Same here, without the 3.5.1 patch... Does the Hook Location matter? It automatically installed in the bbcode_create. Any help would be great, seems like a fantastic plugin to have! Thanks

//nevermind - it's working..I'm just an idiot :P

[DefenceTalk]

Originally Posted by ccplim

Sorry for asking. What do you mean by local-domain links?

Simple...

Say your domain is www.mydomain.com and you have a forum at www.mydomain.com/forum

Any guests on that forum would not be able to view links in the thread but say you happen to have a link to your own domain (www.mydomain.com)'s section. Since, guests can't see the LINKS at all, they wouldn't be able to see links LOCAL TO YOUR domain either hence they might leave instead of following that link and browse your site more. I hope that made sense. :ermm:

[ccplim]

Originally Posted by DefenceTalk

Simple...

Say your domain is www.mydomain.com and you have a forum at www.mydomain.com/forum

Any guests on that forum would not be able to view links in the thread but say you happen to have a link to your own domain (www.mydomain.com)'s section. Since, guests can't see the LINKS at all, they wouldn't be able to see links LOCAL TO YOUR domain either hence they might leave instead of following that link and browse your site more. I hope that made sense. :ermm:

I see... I get what you mean now. Thanks for the explaination.

For my case, I am not so worried about links since we don't really have much on my site. My main concerns were on the images linked using the [IMG] tag. I am trying to restrict this as there were many cases where guest just come in and "steal" our members picture.

[Smiry Kin's]

any one manged to port this onto there vbulletin 3.5.2?

[furst]

3.5.2
Even after I log in it doesn't show me the link..
Sometimes it doesn't hide the link.

Can anyone help me with this. I really need this hack. I do have others installed. Could it be conflicting?

This really needs to be ported to 3.5.2

[topshams]

Has anyone any news if/when this will be available for 3.5.2

[Marv]

Due to the fact that I can?t give support for this Plugin anymore I would encourage those who installed it, to de-install it - even cause it doesn?t seem to work correct in 3.5.1 and if it does a proper install doesn?t handle all links (like www.example.org, capitals, emails, etc.)

I recommend all users to have a look at another hack, which probably solves the most issues which are lacking in mine: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=827815 . I?m using it too

Please remember first to de-install this plugin before installing the other one.

Note: Some copyrights reserved

Because of this proposal I disagree that anyone is using parts of this code to build a commercial hack upon. Everyone who wants to use parts of this code in his hack/plugin/product has to release it following the rules and terms of the General Public License (GNU) to the open source community!

Merry christmas to all of you :bunny:

[activa]

used in vb 3.5.3 work googd, but in some thread show the message for me like i'am a guest !!!!!!!

[brvheart]

will this work on 3.6.x?

[JohnBee]

Originally Posted by activa

used in vb 3.5.3 work googd, but in some thread show the message for me like i'am a guest !!!!!!!

Same here, many members complained that links were hidden when they were registered. (uninstalled)