Mini Mods - Hide Version Number. Updated with hiding the version everywhere automatically.

This is a small hack that it will allow you to turn off the public display of the version number of your vBulletin forum. You can enable and disable it at the Acp-Options-Forums Home Page Options.

I know that it can be easily done by changing the language phrase but this way is handier in my opinion.

Updated: With hiding the version in the templates automatically with thanks to Boofo.

Update again. Now it hides the version at the archives as well and therefore the version is hidden everywhere.

[borbole]

@aaronrand, @badawidollah, you are welcome guys

@joyboy200, did you enable the mod after you installed? It works fine on every version of the 4X version, until now.

[Mastergumble]

Humm, its hiding the @ year too...

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Mastergumble

Humm, its hiding the @ year too...

Fixed. The year now it is shown.

[synseal]

I had a message from vbulletin after installing this modification, please read.

Greetings- re: http://www.mysite.org/

It has come to our attention that all or part of the legally-required vBulletin copyright information has been removed or hidden from the footer template of your forum and as such contravenes the vBulletin License Agreement. You can read the License Agreement here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/order/license_agreement.php

The footer template must contain, at least, the following, it must be in English, and it must be readily visible:

Powered by vBulletin
Copyright ? 2010 vBulletin Solutions, Inc.

Please restore the missing information: Please restore the date to the copyright. If you have removed the date for security reasons, just the current year satisfies the legal requirement.

If you do not wish to display the vBulletin copyright information, you may opt to purchase the Branding Free option. The 'Branding Free' license is available at a cost of $170 per license and only applies to a single site/license. To purchase this log into the Members Area, click on 'Renewal/New Purchases', then 'Continue' to get to the Branding Free option.

http://www.vbulletin.com/members/

Once you have purchased this option, you will have the right to remove the vBulletin/vBulletin Solutions copyright info from the footer template. Note that this is for one license only and is in addition to the cost of the license. If you ever transfer this license, the branding free option will transfer with it.

Also please be aware that you must retain all copyright notices within the actual product programming code (these notices do not affect any visible vBulletin pages) and this does not allow you to re-brand the software with another name. It only allows you to remove the vBulletin/vBulletin Solutions copyright information.

(You may remove the logo and replace it with your own without purchasing the branding free option, but not the copyright information.)

Please take action to rectify the infringement within 28 days in order that the way forward can be determined. Please note that addressing the matter will prevent the possibility of the license being revoked, following which a new license will be necessary to continue running your vBulletin. In this eventuality, appropriate action may be taken by our copyright enforcement agency in accordance with DMCA rules. Thank you for taking care of this promptly.

All the best,
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I have had to uninstall this mod because it hides the year 2010, just letting you know and others to prevent them getting the same notification from vbulletin.

Look forward to this being updated to conform with the legally-required vBulletin copyright information being shown then I will install it again.

Many thanks.

[borbole]

Now it is fixed. The year is shown as it can be seen at the new screenshot attached under the first post. Thank you for letting me knowing about this

[Mastergumble]

Tkx =)

[synseal]

Thats grand, working fine now, Thank you!

[borbole]

You are welcome guys

[Boofo]

Here is a way to do the manual template edits from the first post via a plugin:

Hook Location: parse_templates
Title: headinclude version removal

Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/adminfunctions_template.php'); 

// Remove version from showing when viewing page source  
$find1 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('var SIMPLEVERSION = "{vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"')));  
$replace1 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('var SIMPLEVERSION = ""'))); 

$find2 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin {vb:raw vboptions.templateversion}" />'))); 
$replace2 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin" />'))); 

$vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'] = str_replace($find1, $replace1, $vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude']); 
$vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'] = str_replace($find2, $replace2, $vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude']); 


[borbole]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Here is a way to do the manual template edits from the first post via a plugin:

Hook Location: parse_templates
Title: headinclude version removal

Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/adminfunctions_template.php'); 

// Remove version from showing when viewing page source  
$find1 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('var SIMPLEVERSION = "{vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"')));  
$replace1 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('var SIMPLEVERSION = ""'))); 

$find2 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin {vb:raw vboptions.templateversion}" />'))); 
$replace2 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin" />'))); 

$vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'] = str_replace($find1, $replace1, $vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude']); 
$vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'] = str_replace($find2, $replace2, $vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude']); 


Thank you for posting this I had totally forgotten to include the edits for the templates in a plugin.