per-user/usergroup HTML posting permissions v2.0

Another slant on this much requested hack.

Designed for and tested in vB3.0.1

This hack is designed to allow only specified users and/or usergroups to use HTML in their posts.

Usage

You can grant and deny users the ability to use HTML in their posts by userid or usergroup.
Primary usergroups and membergroups are taken into account.

Four comma separated lists in config.php specify:

Usergroups that CAN use HTML,
Usergroups that CANNOT use HTML,
Users that CAN use HTML,
Users that CANNOT use HTML.

User settings take precedence over usergroup settings.
In each, denial of permission takes precedence over granting of permission.

If you have the same user or usergroup listed as both grant and deny then they are denied permission.

Settings have the following order of precedence:

vB's per-forum setting

is overridden by...

Usergroups that CAN post HTML

is overridden by...

Usergroups that CAN NOT post HTML

is overridden by...

Users that CAN post HTML

is overridden by...

Users that CAN NOT post HTML

All users not specified either individually or by usergroup will take their permission from
vB's default forum permissions.

Adding and removing userids is retroactive and will affect all posts belonging to those users.

There is a master switch in config.php allowing you to enable/disable this system
without having to edit your allowed and denied lists.

When this system is diabled, control reverts back to vB's default forum permissions.

Known limitations

When editing another user's post, "HTML code is On/Off" displays *your* permission not that of the user who owns the post.
HTML is parsed based on the permissions of the owner not the editor.

Getting the poster's usergroup and membergroups adds a query.

Installation

File edits: 4

See attached.

[Dennis Olson]

Did the $post var issue get resolved?

[Dennis Olson]

bump for the answer...?

[kau]

How could I change this to do the same thing for IMG tags.

Certain user groups can only use IMG tags.

[kau]

Anyone?

[Revan]

damn nice hack!
[high]* Revan clicks install[/high]

[theArchitect]

*theArchitect clicks install*.

Nice hack.

[mferguson]

On one of my sites we have the ability for members to upload travel stories to a forum. Given that these users do not have html enabled I have the person email me pictures for there story and then edit his post to include them. Based on the way this hack currently functions you can't (if you have HTML enabled for yourself as the admin) go to another member's post and edit it to contain html. I've looked at the code but don't see an obvious way to modify it to support this capability. Can any one supply ideas on how this might be accomplished?

Thanks!

Mark

[nubian]

i migrated from phpbb to vb 3.0.3.
i just install this hack but i don't think it works.
anyone else get this working for 3.0.3?
please help.
thanks in advance

[ataraxia]

(bump) Anyone get this to work on 3.03?

Seems like a great concept. Does it work?

[nubian]

Originally Posted by ataraxia

(bump) Anyone get this to work on 3.03?

Seems like a great concept. Does it work?

i've tried this for 3.0.3 and never got it to work