per-user/usergroup HTML posting permissions v2.0

Another slant on this much requested hack.

Designed for and tested in vB3.0.1

This hack is designed to allow only specified users and/or usergroups to use HTML in their posts.

Usage

You can grant and deny users the ability to use HTML in their posts by userid or usergroup.
Primary usergroups and membergroups are taken into account.

Four comma separated lists in config.php specify:

Usergroups that CAN use HTML,
Usergroups that CANNOT use HTML,
Users that CAN use HTML,
Users that CANNOT use HTML.

User settings take precedence over usergroup settings.
In each, denial of permission takes precedence over granting of permission.

If you have the same user or usergroup listed as both grant and deny then they are denied permission.

Settings have the following order of precedence:

vB's per-forum setting

is overridden by...

Usergroups that CAN post HTML

is overridden by...

Usergroups that CAN NOT post HTML

is overridden by...

Users that CAN post HTML

is overridden by...

Users that CAN NOT post HTML

All users not specified either individually or by usergroup will take their permission from
vB's default forum permissions.

Adding and removing userids is retroactive and will affect all posts belonging to those users.

There is a master switch in config.php allowing you to enable/disable this system
without having to edit your allowed and denied lists.

When this system is diabled, control reverts back to vB's default forum permissions.

Known limitations

When editing another user's post, "HTML code is On/Off" displays *your* permission not that of the user who owns the post.
HTML is parsed based on the permissions of the owner not the editor.

Getting the poster's usergroup and membergroups adds a query.

Installation

File edits: 4

See attached.

[NuclioN]

Seems not to work for vb 3 gold

[Darkling]

It appears that there was an error in my instructions.

A block of original vB code was not commented out.

This effectively undid the hack.

Apologies to anyone who has downloaded the file already and found it did not work

A new file has been uploaded with the correction made.




Credit goes to kall for pointing this out.

Thanks Kall.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Darkling

It appears that there was an error in my instructions.

A block of original vB code was not commented out.

This effectively undid the hack.

Apologies to anyone who has downloaded the file already and found it did not work

A new file has been uploaded with the correction made.




Credit goes to kall for pointing this out.

Thanks Kall.

That's the joy of using a colour-coded text editor.

[high]* kall installs[/high]

[Karthick]

Originally Posted by kall

That's the joy of using a colour-coded text editor.

[high]* kall installs[/high]

Installed in less than 2 minuted... Really great hack.

[high]* Karthick clicks install[/high]

[Karthick]

Originally Posted by Karthick

Installed in less than 2 minuted... Really great hack.

[high]* Karthick clicks install[/high]

How to parse HTML in the title of the post?

[Dean C]

This one's great - will make my mods life easier when drawing up tournament tables and such - thanks !

[Chriss74]

Thanks for the hack. It works good!

But one thing: When I'm sending private messages, the html-code is still turned off, although I turned it on with your hack. That could be an enhancement for the next version of the hack.

Greetings,
Chriss

[mallchin]

I've tried this on 3.0.3 but doesn't seem to work -- am I missing something?

I've enabled the hack and added user groups as instructed.

[Andreas]

I think the problem is that $post is not a global variable.