[secret] tag (secret text in posts)

With this special tag you can have "secret" messages in the posts.

For example, in a post I can write:
[secret=John]Happy Birthday, John[/secret]

And that text (happy birhtday) will be readable by John only, and nobody else
in the forums (well, the admin of course).

Since this is a tag it can be used anywhere in a post.

Some of the features:
- Hidden text only seen by intended user
- Hidden text seen by admin also
- Text cannot be revealed by (seeing only the post in showpost, previewing the thread while replying, in the printthread view, while previewing in the threads list (forumdisplay), in the preview on the search).
- Useful for text that is intended to be in the same post and where a pm would be clumbersome

Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[Fanboys Suck]

Another flaw:

Moderators can read secret tags that are not meant for them to read by clicking the edit post. That's not a problem because they can see what everyone says anyway. BUT, is there a way that keeps them from seeing admin's secret tags? Such as not allowing them to edit admin's posts?

[Yahhoon23]

You could always install the Message Editing Hierarchy Hack

That's the route I went and works well.

[H2k]

THIS IS WHAT I GOT AFTER I INSTALL THIS HACK .. ANY IDEA PLEASE

THANKYOU

Parse error: parse error in c:\apache\htdocs\forums\includes\functions.php on line 1887

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_browser() in c:\apache\htdocs\forums\global.php on line 59

[H2k]

hello i have fix this problem

i have remove from functions.php

this part 		$debughtml .= " (<a href=\"" . htmlspecialchars_uni(SCRIPTPATH) . iif(strpos(SCRIPTPATH, '?') '?')'?')'?')'?')=== false, '?', '?','?','?','?','&amp;') . "tempusage=1\">Template Usage</a>) (<a href=\"" . htmlspecialchars_uni(SCRIPTPATH) . iif(strpos(SCRIPTPATH, '?') '?')'?')'?')'?')=== false, '?', '?','?','?','?','&amp;') . "explain=1\">Explain</a>)<br />\n";

so is there any problem with this ..?

after i Remove this part this hack is work great with me but id ont no what this part about ..

[OrionDesigns]

Cool little hack, thanks!

[TheRayden]

Is it possible to do this for usergroups instead of users?

[dndog]

Is it possible to allow anybody who moderates a forum (but not in the moderator usergroup) to have access to the secret text?

Thanks.

[sketch42]

would this work on 3.0.7 and have all the bugs been fixed liked being emailed the secret text, logged out users able to read the text etc...???

[budlite74]

dosnt seem to be working for 3.0.7

[ciocsy]

yeah... it is not working on 3.0.7
too bad... because it was very useful

can you release a version to work on 3.0.7 ?