Miscellaneous Hacks - vB Importance

vB Important
Formely vB Privacy
By Adrian at Development Chat.com

vB Importance is a easy way to add a privacy policy, tos, rules and Disclaimer page to your forum.
It's easy to install, and rather useful.

Installation

Import product-importance.xml
Go to vBulletin Options > vB Importance > and configure.
Upload privacy.php/tos.php/disclaimer.php and rules.php to your forums root directoy.

Template Edits

Open footer...

Find:

<if condition="$show['contactus']"><a href="$vboptions[contactuslink]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[contact_us]</a> -</if>

Add below:

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_privacy_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/privacy.php" rel="nofollow">Privacy Policy</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_tos_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/tos.php" rel="nofollow">TOS</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_rules_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/rules.php" rel="nofollow">Forum Rules</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_disclaimer_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/disclaimer.php" rel="nofollow">Disclaimer</a> -</if>

Save.

Upgrading
If you are upgrading from vB Privacy.

Reupload privacy.php, and upload the other 3 .php files.
Import product-importance.xml.

If it asks you to overwrite vB Privacy, do so.

Open Footer.
Find:

<if condition="$vboptions['privacy_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/privacy.php" rel="nofollow">Privacy Policy</a> -</if>

Replace with:

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_privacy_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/privacy.php" rel="nofollow">Privacy Policy</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_tos_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/tos.php" rel="nofollow">TOS</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_rules_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/rules.php" rel="nofollow">Forum Rules</a> -</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['importance_disclaimer_footer'] == 1"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/disclaimer.php" rel="nofollow">Disclaimer</a> -</if>

Done.

You can find the privacy page at http://yoururl.com/privacy.php
Disclaimer - /disclaimer.php
Rules - /rules.php
Tos - /tos.php

If you do use this, please click install.

Thanks.

Adrian

[JohnGBSA]

Very useful mod. Does this work on 3.6.3?

/John

[VBUsers]

this looks like what i need and thanks for the mod.

clicks install!

[iardon]

Nice mod but I only need a rules link and I'd like it in the header links (next to faq). Is that possible with this mod (with some editing) or does anybody know a different mod for that?

Thanks.

[thepub]

Originally Posted by iardon

Nice mod but I only need a rules link and I'd like it in the header links (next to faq). Is that possible with this mod (with some editing) or does anybody know a different mod for that?

Thanks.

good idea!

[Ronak]

superb hack !!! Installed !!**

[bandare]

excellent hack - great job - and great variables in the CP too...

[bandare]

Originally Posted by iardon

Nice mod but I only need a rules link and I'd like it in the header links (next to faq). Is that possible with this mod (with some editing) or does anybody know a different mod for that?

Thanks.

that's easy.

Just go in to your navbar template and add this line to there:

look for this in the navbar template:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>

and add this underneath it.

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="rules.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Rules</a></td>

Should still work fine.......

[Ski-Whiz]

Does anyone know if this works for 3.5.x?

[JohnGBSA]

You may wan to edit your 'tos' template, as it lists the title as "Terms of Servicre".

Otherwise seems to be working well on vB 3.6.3

/John

[pplc]

Very nice! Installed.