End-User Options - Panic Button - Global

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What Does This Hack Do?[hr]Silver[/hr]
This is a variation to my vBulletin 4.0.x Panic Button - Postbit hack. If you have that hack installed, installing this one, will uninstall that hack.

Do your members ever view your site from work when they should not be doing so? Will they get in to trouble if they do get caught by their boss? If the answer is yes to both questions, then this hack is for you.

This hack gives your members their own vBulletin Boss Key (i.e. Panic button), which is displayed at the bottom right of every page including the CMS, blog and your own custom pages (as long as the headinclude_bottom template is being called by the custom page, which it should be), so your members can quickly click themselves to the safety of legitimate url if the boss turns up, while your members are at work.

NOTE: The Panic Button always floats at the bottom right, even when you scroll down the page.

This hack has been tested and works with Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 4+, Opera 10+, Safari 4+ and Internet Explorer 7+.

This should work with most other browsers and versions, but is not guaranteed, as the positioning is controlled by CSS.

This hack was created because I was inspired by the following two hacks:

• Panic Button 1.01 for vBulletin 3.5.x by yingyang.
• Panic Button 1.0.1 for vBulletin 3.0.x by dsboyce8624.

If your members report errors when clicking on the panic button, first thing to ensure is that they used the full url (including http://) when typing in the site their panic button will go to, ie http://www.google.com (will work) and not like this - www.google.com (will not work). The second thing to check for, is that the Panic Button - URL Jump box is not empty.


Limitation with this hack[hr]Silver[/hr]
People keep asking for usergroup permissions for this hack.

While this would easy to implement, what people fail to realise is that User Profile Fields are not controlled by usergroup permissions at all, and even if usergroup permissions were added to this hack, the User Profile Fields would still be viewable by members even if they do not have permissions to use them.

User Profile Fields are either viewable by all or viewable by none, this is how they were implemented in vBulletin by design, there is no in between with User Profile Fields.

So, I will not be adding usergroup permissions to this hack.


vBulletin Version Compatibility[hr]Silver[/hr]
This hack can be used with vBulletin versions 4.0.0 - 4.2.1.

For the v3.8.x version of this hack, which will also work with v3.7.x and v3.6.x - check here.


Hack Support/Feature Requests[hr]Silver[/hr]
IMPORTANT: This hack is no longer supported.



Install/Uninstall Instructions[hr]Silver[/hr]
The Panic Button - Global Installation Instructions 4.0.xxx.pdf instructions file is included in attached .zip


Version History[hr]Silver[/hr]
v4.0.2 - Saturday 5th February 2011
-- Changed: Version number formatting
-- Added: AdminCP exclude pages option

v4.0.001 - Saturday 20th March 2010
-- Released at Wolfshead Solutions on Saturday 13th March 2010
-- Initial v4.0.x Release


Thanks[hr]Silver[/hr]
Thanks go out to Paul M who gave me permission to use some of his install code.


Show Your Appreciation [hr]Silver[/hr]
Although not required, if you have enjoyed the benefits of this hack, and would like show your appreciation for my efforts, then please feel free to click on the Support Developer link and donate any amount you feel is appropriate.

[scottct1]

Does not work in vBullet 4.1.11 in fact it breaks the style chooser when the product is installed.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by scottct1

Does not work in vBullet 4.1.11 in fact it breaks the style chooser when the product is installed.

Sorry I did not notice this post earlier. Can you tell me if this happens with vBulletin's default style? As I can not replicate this issue, and it works fine with vBulletin 4.1.11 for me.

[CubicWebs]

Nice would be better if you can say set the URL to go to when your in Admincp

So if they click it, they are redirected to a private forum where the user and the admin can see it.

[justicechick]

<i>I've got this installed , my templates edited as instructed and the gif in the forum directory but there is still no button showing up?????</i>

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by justicechick

I've got this installed , my templates edited as instructed and the gif in the forum directory but there is still no button showing up?????

You may not have done Step 3 of the install instructions correctly, as it is a .png file and goes into your /images/misc folder of each style you have.

[justicechick]

Originally Posted by Mosh

You may not have done Step 3 of the install instructions correctly, as it is a .png file and goes into your /images/misc folder of each style you have.

I have it in public_html/images/Take5/misc
Take 5 is the style I am using.

[da prez]

Try public_html/images/Take5/images/misc
If the tree doesn't exist, try creating it and puttng the file in there and see if it helps.

[justicechick]

I have placed the image but still nothing. Nice concept but apparently over this newbs head.

[justicechick]

Originally Posted by da prez

Try public_html/images/Take5/images/misc
If the tree doesn't exist, try creating it and puttng the file in there and see if it helps.

This is the exact link I have on my server with the panic.png in it

/public_html/images/Take5/images/misc_

Still nothing. If anyone else has any suggestions or can help let me know plz.

[da prez]

Try : /public_html/forum/images/Take5/images/misc

Where "forum" = the name of your forum folder.

Somewhere in the tree will make it work, sometimes ya gotta search