New Posting Features - vS-Hide Hack Resurrection

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|| vS-Hide Hack Resurrection
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Oct 07, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~2 minutes
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

Have you ever wanted your users to be able to define who exactly can view the information in any particular post? vS-Hide Hack Resurrection, a vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x expansion, features a set of handy tags that together give your users an opportunity to do just that:

[HIDE-POSTS]: defines the minimum number of posts required to read the content within.
[SHOWTOGROUPS]: defines the usergroups that may read the content within.
[HIDE-THANKS]*: defines that the content within may only be read after the person says thank you by pressing a special button. (Expanded Edition Only)
[HIDE-REPLY]*: defines that the content within may only be read after the person replies. (Expanded Edition Only)
[STU]: defines the users that may read the content within. (Expanded Edition Only)

*(1): The HIDE-THANKS tag comes with a full-featured Post Thank You System. See features for further details.
*(2): The HIDE-REPLY tag can be reversed to HIDE with just one easy switch of an admincp option.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
File Changes: 10
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

General

• Stylish, HTML-formatted output.
  
• Compatible With Regular and WYWIWYG editors.
  
• Compatible with all vBulletin Versions from 3.5.x through 3.8.x.
  
• Unregistered, Unverified and Banned users are prevented from seeing any hidden content.
  
• Post owners can always see hidden content in their own posts.
  
• Users can always see hidden content in posts that they can edit.
  
• It is impossible to quote hidden text even if it is revealed - it is stripped from the quotation.
  
• Ability to specify usergroups that can always see hidden content.
  
• Zero template edits.
  
• Works fast on large boards.
  
• Ability to enable / disable any of the tags:
  
  • on global basis - vBulletin Options
    
  • on per-forum basis - Forum Options (Expanded Edition Only)
    
  • on per-usergroup basis - Usergroup Options (Expanded Edition Only)
    
  
  
• AJAX Features for HIDE-REPLY, HIDE-THANKS, and HIDE-REPLY-THANKS, with full non-ajax functionality for older browsers. (Expanded Edition Only)
  
• Online vB Code Documentation.
  
• Case-Insensitive Tags.
  
• vB Code Shortcut (HIDE) that can be linked to any of the tags featured by this engine.
  
• There is no way to go around the tags. They are parsed correctly everywhere, including:
  
  • Showthread / Showpost.
    
  • Search Area
    
  • Forum Display (First Post Preview)
    
  • New Reply (Thread Review)
    
  • Post Preview
    
  • Archive
    
  • Print Version
    
  • E-mail Subscriptions
    
  • RSS Feeds
    
  
  

Integrated "Thank You" System ? (Expanded Edition Only)

• Works fast on large boards.
  
• Automatic prevention of users from saying Thank You more than once for the same post.
  
• Automatic prevention of users from saying Thank You to themselves.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can post thanks.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can remove own thanks.
  
• Ability to define which usergroups can remove others' thanks.
  
• Ability to define in which forums to enable the system (can also be enabled/disabled globally).
  
• Ability to define in which forums to bump thanked threads (can also be enabled/disabled globally).
  
• Ability to define whether to allow thanks on first post only.
  
• Ability to define whether to allow thanks in closed threads.
  
• "Remove All" button displayed to those who can remove both own and others' thanks.
  
• List of users who clicked "Thank You" below each post, with an option to limit the maximum amount of such users displayed.
  
• List of latest Thank You's received is displayed in each member's usercp.
  
• Administrator can specify a certain amount of reputation to be given to users who upon the receipt of a 'Thank You'.
  
• AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's, with a stylish progress indicator.
  
• AJAX posting and removal of Thank You's degrades gracefully to non-javascript functionality when AJAX is disabled.
  

INTRODUCTION

Why "Resurrection"?

The reason is simple: This hack has been written many times by various people, and nobody ever got their version working correctly.
This product presents a professional version written from scratch, and there are no backdoors through which hidden information can be illegally retrieved. Unlike other systems, this one works correctly with the vBulletin Post Cache.

Usage Syntax:

[HIDE]information[/HIDE]
Shortcut code, can be mapped to any of the below ones. By default, it is mapped to HIDE-POSTS.

[HIDE-POSTS=X]information[/HIDE-POSTS]
Information is not shown to people who have less than X posts. Has an alternative syntax: , where X is automatically set to the value defined in vBulletin options.

[HIDE-REPLY]information[/HIDE-REPLY] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is not shown to people unless they reply.

[HIDE-THANKS]information[/HIDE-THANKS] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is now shown to people unless they press "Thank You" button.

[HIDE-REPLY-THANKS]information[/HIDE-REPLY-THANKS] (Expanded Edition Only)
Information is not shown to people unless they either reply or press "Thank You" button.

[SHOWTOGROUPS=x]information[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
Information is not shown to people unless they are a member of the X usergroups, where X is a comma-separated list of usergroupids.

[STU=x]information[/STU]
Information is not shown to people unless they are a listed in X, where X is a comma-separated list of userids.

:: Copyrights ::
The Engine & Toolbar Images - Copyright ? Anton Kanevsky, 2006 - 2009
Locked and Unlocked Images - Copyright ? vBStyles.com, 2004 - 2006, huge thanks to Miko for providing the PSD files!

VERSION HISTORY

Please see the attached change log file for version history.

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[Xeder]

A small question:
If i buy the expanded version would i be able to see how many thanks i've received and how many i've given?

[ade_dnb]

Im having trouble with vbadvanced. Text is hidden correctly when viewing a post but when viewing the vbadvanced home page it shows the code plus the hidden contents.

Any ideas?

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by pooker

I clicked install, is there anyway for when you hide the content for usergroups instead of it showing this

Hidden Block (for usergroups: Registered Users :: 2, Super Moderators :: 5, Administrators :: 6, Moderators :: 7):

It can just show in red

"content only allowed to be viewed by registered users"

Yes, just edit the bbcode_showtogroups template.

Originally Posted by Xeder

A small question:
If i buy the expanded version would i be able to see how many thanks i've received and how many i've given?

Yes.

Originally Posted by ade_dnb

Im having trouble with vbadvanced. Text is hidden correctly when viewing a post but when viewing the vbadvanced home page it shows the code plus the hidden contents.

Any ideas?

Yes, vB Advanced needs an additional file modification to work with the hack, since it is not a part of vBulletin. Here's a quote of old instructions, which hopefully will work:

Integration Product Requirement #1: vS-Hide Hack Resurrection 2.7.0+
Integration Product Requirement #2: vBadvanced 2.1.0/2.2.1
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In ./modules/news.php, Find:

PHP Code:

// Strip characters and add "read more" 


Add Above:

PHP Code:

$news['message'] = $GLOBALS['hhr']->parse_bbcode($news['message'], $news['forumid'], $news['threadid'], $news['postid'], $news['userid']); 


[BANDiT600]

[high]* BANDiT600 installed...
[/high]

Seems it's working good, but I don't know how it parsed in mail, because I have posted message under test account and I've got admin email without parsing:

***************
[HIDE="5000"]xdfgzdgzdgzxdgzgzdbzbzfbzbnzdsbfzsbdbfzfb[/HIDE]

[SHOWTOGROUPS="12"]xdfgzdsgzdfgzsdfgbzdfbzdfbzdsfbzdsfbzdfbzdbzdsbzds bzdbzdsbzdsfbzdfb[/SHOWTOGROUPS]
***************

Is it because I'm admin and all admin emails goes without parsing or it's a bug???
Email was sent to me by notification system, when new messages are posted in section.

And another question, permissions for usergroup of Administrators doesn't take effect. Is it Ok??? I mean if I turn off opportunity to see always hidden content I still can see hidden content as Administrator.

[germinus]

Psionic, anyway to make it so that it can hide an attachment until the user clicks the thanks button?

[Veo]

I've installed this addon, but if i write [hide]-Tags, they are not posted to the post. If checked the Version in the Readme and used only the code for 3.7, but nots happen.

If i post a thread/reply with hide tag, they are not posted.

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by BANDiT600

[high]* BANDiT600 installed...
[/high]

Seems it's working good, but I don't know how it parsed in mail, because I have posted message under test account and I've got admin email without parsing:

Is it because I'm admin and all admin emails goes without parsing or it's a bug???
Email was sent to me by notification system, when new messages are posted in section.

Did you apply all the file changes?
E-mails should be processed such that all hidden text is stripped out of there, so that's a bug. Unless you haven't done one or more file changes correctly, which I'd like you to check.

And another question, permissions for usergroup of Administrators doesn't take effect. Is it Ok??? I mean if I turn off opportunity to see always hidden content I still can see hidden content as Administrator.

You certainly haven't installed something correctly. Because the permission works, I have checked.

Originally Posted by Veo

I've installed this addon, but if i write [hide]-Tags, they are not posted to the post. If checked the Version in the Readme and used only the code for 3.7, but nots happen.

If i post a thread/reply with hide tag, they are not posted.

And you probably don't see buttons in the editor, either? If so, please check all permissions: vBulletin Options, Forum Options, and Usergroup Permissions.

[BANDiT600]

Psionic Vision, yes, all changes was made carefuly by me, believe me, I'm not noob in it. What version of vBulletin are you running???

P.S.: In my way I think it's better to use words "above" and "after" instead of "underneath" in manual.

[puredarkness]

Psionic Vision, please can you help I have instaled and it is still showing links I have made all the changes But its always unhidden

I have been trying to work it out for a few days now

PLEASE HELP

[akanevsky]

Psionic Vision, yes, all changes was made carefuly by me, believe me, I'm not noob in it. What version of vBulletin are you running???

3.7 GOLD. PL1/PL2/3.7.1/3.7.2 do not have any relevant changes that could break the hack.