Show Thread Enhancements - Hide Images from Guests

Hide Images from Guests

Description:
Allows you to show a message to guests instead of images in posts.

Installation:

1. Import "product-hideimg_guests.xml" as a product, overwrite if it's already installed

Where to set option:
Settings-> Options-> Thread Display Options (showthread)-> Enable Hide Images from Guests

Languages:
- English

History:
28-12-10: v4.0 First Release

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[Acido]

Thanks for your help sv1cec. I was checking the plugin, and it is giving troubles with the preg_replace function. Works with any thing that i want insert into the post, but that function is not working on my installation. May be it's another hack giving conflicts, or my php version (5.3.3-7+squeeze16)

I stop to work with this mod because i choose another method to control the images in my site. So i unistall it. May be in the future i'll back to this mod.

Thanks!

[Wajow-community]

How it can work with vbulletin 4.2.1??? I have installed butt doesn't work.

[sv1cec]

As I said, it works with 4.2.2. Have you set the "hideimg_enabled" setting to Yes? I don't remember where exactly that can be found, but it should be somewhere. The plugin checks if you have set that, if not it won't work.

Ah yes, here: Settings-> Options-> Thread Display Options (showthread)-> Enable Hide Images from Guests

[Wajow-community]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

As I said, it works with 4.2.2. Have you set the "hideimg_enabled" setting to Yes? I don't remember where exactly that can be found, but it should be somewhere. The plugin checks if you have set that, if not it won't work.

Ah yes, here: Settings-> Options-> Thread Display Options (showthread)-> Enable Hide Images from Guests

Yes i have set it on butt don't work with vbulletin 4.2.1.. what can i do to make it work?

[aspen0]

It isn't working for me anymore either, it had been working, but it stopped with the 4.2.2 upgrade.

I've tried it with a default style as well, doesn't seem to help at all.

This is a very important thing to have if you run Google adsense, they've been very strict lately with user uploaded photos.

[aspen0]

Originally Posted by cric2k

For anyone else who can't get this working, or is struggling to get it to work on all threads - I found another plugin was fighting with it - and also modify the plugin so that it also references the 'pagetext' variable which was for some reason used in about half my threads, so... copy the $this->post['pagetext_html']... bit and paste a $this->post['pagetext']... version as well.

This made it work for me. My Plugin code nowlooks like

if($this->registry->options['hideimg_enabled'] AND $show['guest'])
{
	$this->post['pagetext_html'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext_html']);

	$this->post['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext']);
}

[john7911]

Thank you
How can I change the language to French?

[cric2k]

Originally Posted by aspen0

This made it work for me. My Plugin code nowlooks like

if($this->registry->options['hideimg_enabled'] AND $show['guest'])
{
	$this->post['pagetext_html'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext_html']);

	$this->post['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]/im', construct_phrase($vbphrase['hideimg_message'], $session['sessionurl_q']), $this->post['pagetext']);
}

Yeah that's pretty much what I'm doing - although it also seems to have affected random logged in members on certain styles (where they are logged in and can't see images). The crazy thing is that even if I disable the plugin it still hides the images for the logged in member, so it's as if the PHP logic itself has been stored in the post. If I edit and save the post as an admin after the plugin has been disabled it removes the logic and everyone can now see the image - anyone any ideas?

[cric2k]

oh it turns out the replaced text is being stored in the vb_postparsed table, as if it's a guest - but only on one styleID and not on another styleID. Maybe the guest reading the page is caching it first - anyone any ideas?

[cric2k]

After a lot of hours I figured out how to finally get this working properly.

It turns out that the first person to view a thread via showthread.php would cache that version of the thread in vb_postparsed - so if a guest views the thread first it is cached with the replaced text and everyone else who uses that style logged in or not will have the cached version.

I've managed to get around this by having a copy of a style dedicated to guests, setting it as the default and using the Restrict Style to Usergroup mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95910 to prevent logged in members from changing to that style.