New Posting Features - Per Usergroup HTML Posting Permission

Just like the name says, this ultra-simple little Product will allow you to specify Usergroups that may make forum posts in HTML and have that HTML be parsed.

Default vBulletin - You can only choose whether an entire forum has the HTML permission, for all Usergroups. With this modification, you can give the permission to a specific Usergroup.

The code in this version is 100% identical to that in the 3.5 version (except for the lack of parseing in the Preview), which worked all the way through 3.6,7 and 8.

Blog HTML permissions are, for some reason, actually there in Usergroup Manager, they control HTML in Blog entries and posts, and override the settings in this Product.

***BE AWARE THAT INDISCRIMINATE USE OF THIS PRODUCT IS RISKY - RESTRICT IT TO ONLY THOSE USERGROUPS YOU TRUST ABSOLUTELY***

The scary message above is to make sure you are aware that enabling HTML for any group opens you up to security issues. This is why it is not a feature of Stock vB, probably.

Controlled by a Setting in Usergroup Manager, it's phrased and works in editpost.php in WYSIWYG and normal modes, AND the Forum Rules shows HTML is ON to allowed Usergroups.

In the current vB 4.0, this WILL apply retroactively.
That is, if a User posted something in HTML in the past, before they were given the ability, that post will be parsed. This could prove dangerous/troublesome for anything not wrapped in PHP tags.


Many thanks to Andreas for prodding me to figure it out by myself and not just telling me what to do.

A "demo" is here..html is OFF in that Forum, but those posts are made by an Admin with the setting to Yes, so the HTML is parsed.

Known Issues: It is not currently possible to choose whether the HTML in a post is parsed or not - it will be.. unless (weirdly) you wrap it in PHP /PHP tags.
I'll look into adding a toggle switch.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Somesite

Seems like when I try and post a table, I get like 900 breaks before the table itself within the post.

Yep!

I'm assuming you are using returns in your table code. These get converted to <br /> by vB.

The correct way to do it is to put the entire table code into one line.

[Lautaro]

it wont parse html if you try to "preview" the post / thread.

if you could get tha to work it would be awesome.

thanks.

[TrigZu]

I would use this, but I'm afraid of this line:

"In the current vB 4.0, this WILL apply retroactively.
That is, if a User posted something in HTML in the past, before they were given the ability, that post will be parsed. This could prove dangerous/troublesome for anything not wrapped in PHP tags."

I would like to see a version where only html inside tags like [htmlon] [/htmlon] works.

[ArchAngelz]

I have installed this and was having trouble editing already posted HTML posts.

I note that the first post says:

Controlled by a Setting in Usergroup Manager, it's phrased and even works in editpost.php (preview) in WYSIWYG and normal modes, AND the Forum Rules shows HTML is ON.

However, I realised that when I'm editing in WYSIWYG mode (which is the default interface in my forums for all users), I cannot edit the html code. Saving the edit will result in all HTML code being stripped/destroyed.

Changing my default interface in admin cp to the normal editor toolbar "Show Standard Editor Toolbar" and HTML editing works, even if I should switch to the WYSIWYG interface by clicking on the "Switch Editor Mode" button at the top right.

This is rather strange behaviour; anyone else also experiences it?

I am on v4.03

[Raeven]

works under 4.1.1 for me

[MortysTW]

That is the simplest, clearest mod I've ever installed. And permissions like this scare the hell out of me, but by default everyone is set to NO and the option to turn on is clear as day. You're an idiot if you turn permissions on by accident.

Thank you for such a crisp and clean Mod. I love it! It's exactly what I needed to get my Picasa image RSS feeds loading into my site as cell phone pics submitted by users.

Thank you thank you!

[mmacrypt]

nice job and completely painless, thank you for this mod.

[fishinstud]

Installed on 4.1.2, thank you

[Krishan]

I installed this plugin..but in usergroup manager..i cant find Should this usergroups HTML posts be parsed?

Any help?

[midnz]

Originally Posted by Krishan

I installed this plugin..but in usergroup manager..i cant find Should this usergroups HTML posts be parsed?

Any help?

It looks like this:



Have you tried searching for "Allow HTML Permissions" while viewing the Usergroup Permissions page?