Hideaways

This extension lets you allow certain usergroups to create a private forum and an associated public usergroup. There are no queries to run, and you only need to change the parentid of the forums in hideaway.php before you upload it.

Access to the hideaway is denied to anybody except admins and the associated public user group.

The member who creates the forum becomes the usergroup leader and the forum moderator.

Users are responsible to advertise their own forum. No invite link is created. This is not automated. Users can either post an invitation to join their hideaway in some other forum on your site, or they can pm people to invite them. It's up to you on establishing the rules of hideaway promotion.

Users can edit their hideaway descriptions, but not the style or the forum title. The style can not be changed to ensure that we don't run into licensing issus. The title can not be changed because I use it to identify the forum for editing purposes.

The hideaway usergroups permissions are based on the registered user group's permissions. You can change what group their permissions are based off of within the code.

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FEATURES I WILL NOT ADD:
The ability for people to have more than one hideaway.
The ability for hideaway owners to create a new style for their forum.
The ability for hideaway owners to change the forum title.
The ability for hideaway owners to change any forum permissions.

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[Tyegurl]

yes but her files have not been edited....not the templates the files you uploaded...i believe there are edits on them if i am not mistaken...look at post hold on...#82 have to make edits to hideaway.php

i have the same error...post #76

[amykhar]

wait a sec gang - the file edits are't there. They're here in this support thread.

[Tyegurl]

i must have missed them then....i thought they were for something else. lol sorry....i will look and read a little closer this time.

[SuperFly]

ALTER TABLE xusergroup ADD hideawaypermissions INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL

Edit x with your userbase data table, for instance mine is vb

open hideaway.php
Find

// Throw the whole mess in the database.
$db->query_write("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup (title,usertitle,showinlist,ispublicgroup) VALUES ('$title','$usertitle',$showinlist,$ispublicgroup)");

Replace with

// Throw the whole mess in the database.
$db->query_write("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup (title,usertitle,ispublicgroup) VALUES ('$title','$usertitle',$ispublicgroup)");

[Tyegurl]

tyvm! finally got it to work....couldn't do the query for some reason through my vbulletin...contacted my host...but i went to mysql directly and ran it from there. perfect and finally!!! woohoo ty amy

okay not so perfect....still getting errors and i tried both ways of that code...

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_forum in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

i do not understand i am sorry can someone treat me like a 2 year old and tell me what i haven't done?

i have my usergroup but i just don't get how i get this message after i hit my hideaway.php link....

[amykhar]

Tyegurl, it looks like you also didn't do the required edits to the hideaway.php file to set the parent forum for the hideaways.

[Tyegurl]

Find

// Throw the whole mess in the database.
$db->query_write("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup (title,usertitle,showinlist,ispublicgroup) VALUES ('$title','$usertitle',$showinlist,$ispublicgroup)");

Replace with

// Throw the whole mess in the database.
$db->query_write("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup (title,usertitle,ispublicgroup) VALUES ('$title','$usertitle',$ispublicgroup)");

these right? i did them....and my phrases are there i checked each one....
okay i reread that line about 20 times and now i see what you are saying....omg i am so frutsrated!! sorry it just wasn't registering in my brain....

i need to do the file edit dealing with the parent forum...i will go look through this again but i don't remember seeing it and i know the txt file is still missing because i tried to download and reinstall last night....

i get my line 758 error...i refresh and i get the all ready have a forum....then i delete the user group and i get try again...back to the beginning....

okay so i have looked through the thread again and i came up with the one post anywhere...and theput the link anywhere you want....what is the edit link? and what is the create link?(hideaway.php??) and they go in the hideaway.php file file right?

nm i guess if i actually read the php file it would tell to change the forum ID omg do i feel blond....

[amykhar]

No. I'm talking about the line near the top of the code that is clearly commented and tells you to put in the parent forum id. Forums have parents - sometimes categories, sometimes other forums.

Amy

[Tyegurl]

okay and finally lol i have it up and my own hideaway is running...phew

i think it might have been easier to just say read the the hideaway.php file where the main script starts and edit between the " " and then replace the code in this thread...IMO that is. There is no install text and you have been very vague about where to look. Alll you keep saying is code code code... I am not stupid but when you say file edits and i did the "file" edits listed in the thread...you could have just been a little clearer. but thanks i finally got it just before you posted. which btw is still very vague. We are not all coders like you Amy. Wish I was. I am still learning a lot here. I hope some day to be able to code. Until then well I just have to muddle through.

[amykhar]

There was an install text file and I lost it somehow during the upgrade. I just haven't had time to rewrite the thing.