vBPrivate Threads

vBPrivate Threads

This hack has been ported to vBulletin 3.5.4 from the vBulletin 3.0.0 version with permission granted by:

"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"

in Kentaurus's post for its original release, found here

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This is my first major ported and released hack for vB.
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With this Code Modification you can add private threads to your forums. A private thread is:

• A thread that some users or usergroups can view. Others cannot.
• A thread that some users or usergroups cannot view. All others can.

Using this Modification, any user in a forum that has Private Threads turned on may create a private thread. It is useful for holding private moderator conversations, or for making a thread private when some users would like to see the discussion closed and others want it to continue.

Future Plans:

• Add Super Moderators and Moderators to override the standard permissions
• Admin Options for allowed private thread types
• Admin Options to define users with override-permissions privilages
• Admin Options for those who can make private threads
• Private Threads will NOT show in the lastpost column when user does not have access to thread
• Creator can view thread by default

Hack History:

Version 1.0.6

• Changed several file edits to plugins (Thank you waza)
• Some plugins were reverted back to file edits, no version change as it is going a bit backward

Version 1.0.5

• Updated queries for install
• Added queries for uninstall
• 1 Added Plugin
• Fixed copy/paste errors in file edits find/change
• Added missing printthread edit
• Fixed Search problem

Version 1.0.0

• Initial release

Hack Overview:

• Products: 1
  • 2 Queries
  • 1 Phrase
  • 13 Plugins
• File Edits: 5 files (7 edits)
• Template Edits: 3
• Estimated Install time: Under 10 minutes

If you liked this hack then please Install it!

[Eikinskjaldi]

When did you install the hack? Do you have any other plugins or file edits to forumdisplay.php? Could you show what that line (and surrounding lines) contains in your file?

The only change to forumdisplay.php (from my hack) should be a plugin, and I'm not experiencing any problems using it at all.

[Ambie]

Originally Posted by Eikinskjaldi

When did you install the hack? Do you have any other plugins or file edits to forumdisplay.php? Could you show what that line (and surrounding lines) contains in your file?

The only change to forumdisplay.php (from my hack) should be a plugin, and I'm not experiencing any problems using it at all.

I installed it tonight. Yeah I have a lot of things in the forumdisplay. This is what is around line 938



I will go disable things one by one and see if it is another hack causing it

[Eikinskjaldi]

I think you're supposed to use CODE or PHP tags to hide the code from non-licensed users
If line 938 is the hook, and other plugins are using that hook, then the problem may be the order that the code is executed in. I know that the order can cause some problems. Perhaps try turning off the other plugins for that location?

[Ambie]

Originally Posted by Eikinskjaldi

I think you're supposed to use CODE or PHP tags to hide the code from non-licensed users
If line 938 is the hook, and other plugins are using that hook, then the problem may be the order that the code is executed in. I know that the order can cause some problems. Perhaps try turning off the other plugins for that location?

I just took it out of my post.:nervous:


Thanks, that is what I am trying now.

[Eikinskjaldi]

Tell me how it turns out so I can look into why it might be eroring for you, need to fix bugs even if I cant reproduce it.

[waza]

@ambie: If you disable the product of this hack, do you still get the error, if so it has nothing to do with this hack, otherwise:
post the content of the plugin from this hack in the hook: threadbit_display.

[drex]

@Eikinskjaldi (or anyone else) -- before i go live with this, is the issue about the last post linking fixed, or can anyone see the thread/and or its contents?

do i have to do this?

I think you missed out something like:

Code:
$threadinfo['privateusers'] = $threadinfo['privateusers'] ? implode(";",unserialize($threadinfo['privateusers'])) : "";

in the showthread.php file, and then change $restrictedusers to $threadinfo[privateusers] in the showthread template.

And I've made it admin only, by doing things like the following in the newthread and the edit thread templates:

Quote:
<if condition="$foruminfo['allowprivate'] == 1 and is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6)">




Where 6 is the id of the Admins usergroup

I didn't follow the above..

Thanks

drex

[drex]

crap new posts in the vbcmps doesn't work now. whole board is screwy.

uninstalling....

[drex]

ok, now that i was able to stop a disaster. (and no, i don't have a test board -- too much work), the issues are:

1) if you are not an admin, or one of the 'allowed' users, and you click on the LAST POST link, you get the error listed above that ambie stated.

2) the search for 'New Posts' on the Vbadvanced CMPS front page doesn't work either

luckily, if you turn off the 'private threads allowed' forums, all goes back to normal.

this is a little too buggy to use live. needs more work, though great hack...

[drex]

the vbcmps error:

Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /home/-----/public_html/search.php(2207) : eval()'d code on line 4
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