New Posting Features - 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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[MalebolgiaHR]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Yes, you can do that by either editing the hidetag_ prhases or the bbcode templates.

How do you edit the hidetag_phrases? I guess my question really is, where do I edit the hidetag_phrases?

Nevermind, I found it!!!

Thanks for the help.

[MalebolgiaHR]

Ok, I have another question. Can I create custom BBCode based on the SHOWTOGROUPS code? I want to create code that has hard-coded groups in the SHOWTOGROUPS code.

[akanevsky]

No, that's not possible with vB's bbcode manager... It would require additional hacking.

[MalebolgiaHR]

Sorry for all the questions. I have an issue that you may have already addressed, but I don't know that it has been addressed.

After creating text within the SHOWTOGROUPS tag, anyone without SHOWTOGROUPS access cannot view the information by looking at the post directly.

HOWEVER, if they were to go to a User's public profile and look at that User's posts, the resultant is that they can see the SHOWTOGROUPS info as well.

Is this a known item? If so, is there a fix for it?

Thanks.

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by MalebolgiaHR

Sorry for all the questions. I have an issue that you may have already addressed, but I don't know that it has been addressed.

After creating text within the SHOWTOGROUPS tag, anyone without SHOWTOGROUPS access cannot view the information by looking at the post directly.

HOWEVER, if they were to go to a User's public profile and look at that User's posts, the resultant is that they can see the SHOWTOGROUPS info as well.

Is this a known item? If so, is there a fix for it?

Thanks.

Are you saying that the information hidden by SHOWTOGROUPS is revealed during a show-user's-posts search?

[wolfe]

i was woundering if it was possible instead of using the bbcode to hide stuff is there anyway i would add another box to the newthread template so when content is put in it it is hidden until a reply is made.

example

message box

hide box

?

urgently needed.

thx in advance

[betablue]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Are you saying that the information hidden by SHOWTOGROUPS is revealed during a show-user's-posts search?

I just checked it and Yes, with vb3.6.5 and vS-Hide Hack Resurrection ver. 2.80 the information hidden by SHOWTOGROUPS is revealed during a show-user's-posts search in msg. preview if that post is short enough to fit the hidden content in that preview.

When unauthorized user clicks on the post that preview reveals the hidden content (or a part of it) the full post appears and the protected content appears hidden (as it should)

I will update to v.2.8.1 and see if that issue repeats.

[betablue]

Just updated to v.2.81 and the issue appears to be fixed - in post preview now it shows:

".:: Hidden Block (for usergroups: N/A :: 0 - Invalid Usergroup(s) Specified) ::."

as it should for unauthorized user-groups.

For authorized users is reveals hidden content.

[MalebolgiaHR]

Originally Posted by betablue

Just updated to v.2.81 and the issue appears to be fixed - in post preview now it shows:

".:: Hidden Block (for usergroups: N/A :: 0 - Invalid Usergroup(s) Specified) ::."

as it should for unauthorized user-groups.

For authorized users is reveals hidden content.

When you do the update, is it just installing the product? Are there code changes in addition to what was done previously?

Thanks.

[MalebolgiaHR]

I did the update, but this still did not fix my issue. Does it only work in the Expanded Version?