Blank Page Ban!

Blank Page Ban Hack by N9ne: 7th Feb 2003
vB version: 2.2.x

File edits: 1 (forum/global.php)
Templates to add: 1 (blankpageban)

Description: This is another form of banning members of your forum.
When you a ban a user, put them into the new usergroup you will
create during the installation of this hack, a group called Blank Page Banned.
If a user is in this group, they will get a blank page all over your forum, they
will not be able to see anything. They cannot even logout to avoid this. The
only way is to delete their cookies. You can also modify this hack very very
easily to change it so there's a message on this blank page, you can put anything
here though, anything using html! A good idea is to put a fake mysql or php parse
error making the banned user think there's something wrong with the forum when
really it's just him that's banned!



I can't provide a screenshot really, just imagine a blank page .

Basically this hack is just going to make life a bit odd for your banned users .

NOTE: If you have a banned usergroup already, and you wish to put all users in that group into the blank
page ban group quickly, you can simply rename the banned usergroup you have to Blank Page Banned and
enter the usergroupid of that usergroup inplace of the X in the code above.


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This is my first hack in a while, I want to thank TheMayhem for giving me the idea for this hack.

Download the attachment for installation instructions.
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[N9ne]

Well really, banned users can easily get around a ban, but things like this will make them think that there's something wrong with the forum, and they won't think they're banned.

Note to all: Please click install if you installed this hack thanks.

works great! thanks.

~clicks install.

[subu1]

it works fine

click click

[vB-Host.com]

can I do the following and if not can you tell me the correct way..

lets say group 12 is banned and group 13 have not verified an e-mail account yet and group 14 is still awaiting admin approvel...

if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==12) {
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('blankpageban')."\" );");
}else{
echo (""); }

if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==13) {
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('checkmail')."\");" );
}else{
echo (""); }

if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==14) {
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('adminapprove')."\" );");
}else{
echo (""); }

?>

[John the Artist]

Well, it doesn't work on 3.0.7. The user just gets a note they they don't have permissions and get a link to log out.

I want a blank page.