vS-Hide Hack Resurrection

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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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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[akanevsky]

What exactly is the problem?

[The Notorious]

I also noticed on some boards that got this hack that when the person used more than one hide-reply tag people who reply only see one of them unhidden. I think that's a bug and needs to get fixed...

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

What exactly is the problem?

it wont show the images and hide the text

ive installed the product and done the template mods now all i want it to do is when i leave the [HIDE-REPLY]text[/HIDE-REPLY] in a topic i want to appear and after they have replied i want to appear revealling the hidden text, i have the extended version installed but i cant get this to work !!

Can you help ?

Janet

[Mr.T]

Have you now fixe the problem with more than one hidden-text in a thread? Only the first text is after replying unhidden. the other not.

T

i cant get the images to appear ive uploaded them to the root, is that where they should be ?

if you would like to try it in my site its located Here

[akanevsky]

Yes, the problem with the only-first-text has been fixed in the updated version of the extended hide hack.

[Mr.T]

And where can I get the updated version?

T

[The Notorious]

You have to PM Psionic Vision, thanks man.

[sirblack]

Thought this might help the members as mine seem to have problems so heres how this works

I'm sure a lot of you have had some sort of problems with the HIDE tags, they either don't work or won't let you view the hidden message. I've found the proper way to use them and how to reveal the hidden messages, so I wrote this short guide.

First, when making a new post/thread, please write your message (the words) before anything else. So if, say, you're uploading Photoshop CS2 you should write the application's description first.

Now after that you should write the [.hide] tag, then the [.code] tag, then the message and/or attachment you want hidden, then the [./code] tag, then the [./hide] tag. This last tag MUST be the last thing you write in your post, no more, no less. Also, for this to work properly you should NOT leave any spaces between the each of the tags or between the hidden message and the tags. Trust me, its better that way.

So, here's an example:

[.hide][.code]This is hidden![./code][./hide]

That should hide the message, and remember, the tags are used without the dots, the dots are just for example purposes!

Now, for the rest of the public to be able to actually view this hidden message you just posted they just have to do two (2) simple things. First they've got to reply to the post, and then they have got to reload/refresh the page on their browser of choice. After these steps, the message should magically appear before their eyes!

I hope this elevated your IQ, and that you learnt something!

all the best sirblack

[akanevsky]

I hope this elevated your IQ, and that you learnt something!

Eh. Sorry, but you go into ignore list for a proctorial tone... :/
Why is everyone like that these days?

pm-ed you psionic

[[Stryder]]

]Just wanted to say that i have tried the new 2.01 and i have found the same trouble as someone earlier. I am using 3.5.3 vb. The only thing that shows up is:

Hide:

I searched in the templates and that comes up in:

BB Code Layout Templates
bbcode_hide
bbcode_hide_noaccess

I have re-checked and re-done the install a few times. I was wondering if you have any ideas on this.

Appreciate any help you can give.


ADDED: Problem Fixed:
(Thankyou to LionDen)

The code from here originally:

BB Code Layout Templates
bbcode_hide

seemed to be re-written by an old HIDE hack and with the new code in it, will not work with this one (only show 'Hide:'), i replaced the code in 'bbcode_hide' with:

<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px;">
	<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset">
			<div>$caption:</div>
			<div style="font-style:italic">
				<if condition="$hidetag['canview']">
					$text
				<else />
					$vbphrase[hidetag_accessdenied]
				</if>
			</div>
		</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
</div>

Now it works fine. I placed this here as some had problems earlier and for anyone that has the same problem in the future. The 'bbcode_hide_noaccess' has nothing to do with this HIDE Hack, do as you please with it. Hope this helps you guys.

Thankyou to LionDen for the fix.

[akanevsky]

The extended version of the HIDE hack has been updated to fix bugs, PM for update.