Miscellaneous Hacks - vB Importance

vB Important
Formely vB Privacy
By Adrian at Development Chat.com

vB Importance is a easy way to add a privacy policy, tos, rules and Disclaimer page to your forum.
It's easy to install, and rather useful.

Installation

Import product-importance.xml
Go to vBulletin Options > vB Importance > and configure.
Upload privacy.php/tos.php/disclaimer.php and rules.php to your forums root directoy.

Template Edits

Open footer...

Find:

<if condition="$show['contactus']"><a href="$vboptions[contactuslink]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[contact_us]</a> -</if>

Add below:

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_privacy_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/privacy.php" rel="nofollow">Privacy Policy</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_tos_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/tos.php" rel="nofollow">TOS</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_rules_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/rules.php" rel="nofollow">Forum Rules</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_disclaimer_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/disclaimer.php" rel="nofollow">Disclaimer</a> -</if>

Save.

Upgrading
If you are upgrading from vB Privacy.

Reupload privacy.php, and upload the other 3 .php files.
Import product-importance.xml.

If it asks you to overwrite vB Privacy, do so.

Open Footer.
Find:

<if condition="$vboptions['privacy_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/privacy.php" rel="nofollow">Privacy Policy</a> -</if>

Replace with:

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_privacy_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/privacy.php" rel="nofollow">Privacy Policy</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_tos_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/tos.php" rel="nofollow">TOS</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_rules_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/rules.php" rel="nofollow">Forum Rules</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_disclaimer_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/disclaimer.php" rel="nofollow">Disclaimer</a> -</if>

Done.

You can find the privacy page at http://yoururl.com/privacy.php
Disclaimer - /disclaimer.php
Rules - /rules.php
Tos - /tos.php

If you do use this, please click install.

Thanks.

Adrian

[Get Shorty]

Great hack.

installed

[apdcanari]

Good ! 3.5 please ?

[Adyum]

Installing as we speak.

[magnus]

For those who don't know, something similar could be accomplished without the need for a hack. By creating a custom template named CUSTOM_PRIVACY and then calling it using: MISC.PHP?DO=PAGE&TEMPLATE=PRIVACY

The advantage this hack does have, however, is it will list the member's location in the WOL. Either way, a privacy page is definately a good idea. Keep your users informed.

[Hornstar]

Yeah this makes it alot easier then other ways mentioned in other threads.

Thanks.

edit

What files should i edit if I want to upload this again under another name multiple times, eg. I want to have it so I can have a disclaimer, tos, privacy etc.

[Adrian.]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Yeah this makes it alot easier then other ways mentioned in other threads.

Thanks.


edit


What files should i edit if I want to upload this again under another name multiple times, eg. I want to have it so I can have a disclaimer, tos, privacy etc.

Well,

To do that, and be able to add and enable like the privacy policy, it would mean making a similar page to privacy.php, and making another template and more phrases in the options.

If you like, i could quickly make you one?

Adrian

[Adrian.]

Updated
vB Privacy is now vB Importance.

You can now have a Disclaimer, TOS and rules page aswell.

Remember, to click install if you use it, for updates.

Adrian

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by Adrian.

Updated
vB Privacy is now vB Importance.

You can now have a Disclaimer, TOS and rules page aswell.

Remember, to click install if you use it, for updates.

Adrian

Thankyou for the update, exactly what I was after

edit:
you may want to add in the next update some others like AUP (Acceptal use policy) or a manual on how to add more as well.

Thanks again.

[Snake]

Thanks! Works great.