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.

/*===================================*\
|| 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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[nymyth]

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

				INSERT INTO setting
				(varname, grouptitle, value, defaultvalue, datatype, optioncode, displayorder, advanced, volatile, product)
				VALUES
				(
					'hidetag_defaultposts',
					'hidetag',
					'10',
					'5',
					'number',
					'',
					100,
					0,
					1,
					'psionic_hide'
	),
	(
					'enable_hide_tag',
					'hidetag',
					'1',
					'1',
					'boolean',
					'yesno',
					110,
					0,
					1,
					'psionic_hide'
	),
	(
					'enable_showtogroups_tag',
					'hidetag',
					'1',
					'1',
					'boolean',
					'yesno',
					120,
					0,
					1,
					'psionic_hide'
	);

I get this error when importing script...any ideas?

Peace

N/M: Fixed it by running excuting this command:

DELETE FROM setting WHERE varname = 'hidetag_defaultposts' OR varname = 'enable_hide_tag' OR varname = 'enable_showtogroups_tag'

and then reinstalling.....

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by hypnoticpimp

dont you think paid members, should get something out of this, for the downtime, and problems. and making our forums slow, cause right now wheni go to my forum. its not saying my license it invalid, and taking me to a Generate a New License Key page, why is that

If you took the time to read our terms of service, you would see that we are not responsible for any damage you may or may not suffer.

nymyth

That would happen if you are updating from vBulletin 3.0.x... Yes, that query should fix it.

[hypnoticpimp]

i generated a new licenskey key, Where do i place this license Key at?

[akanevsky]

You place it in the same place where you placed the old one.

[budswope]

This is actually insane. Your hack has now had my forum down again. I have tried to get a hold of someone. Are that many people stealing your hack that you feel you need to take down forums to protect a few bucks?

Are you kidding me?

I overreacted and tried to delete the hack -now I am really in trouble-but I did that after trying to contact you.

I paid for the hack and installation and no one uses the damn thing anyway because "view source" reveals whats hidden anyway.

I know "you are not responsible". Ok -as a "company" maybe not but as a possible "decent human" you are very very responsible because you are failing miserably.

Install time 2 minutes?

I paid for you to do it and it took 10 times that long!!!

I still have NO forum. I still just want this whole hack/experience to go away.

Keep the money. Please return my forum.

[akanevsky]

Please read this post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....60&postcount=7
and the rest of the thread in which that post is posted.

I did not receive any messages from you, perhaps because I have no access to visionscripts e-mail accounts until the site move is done. If you need to contact me, please do so via vbulletin.org pm.

[budswope]

WHEW!

A phone number would help next time--A recording-anything. I was lucky I tried coming here just to find where I got the original link to you.

[budswope]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Please read this post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....60&postcount=7
and the rest of the thread in which that post is posted.

I did not receive any messages from you, perhaps because I have no access to visionscripts e-mail accounts until the site move is done. If you need to contact me, please do so via vbulletin.org pm.

Ok-well then you might want to ignore 40-50 emails that may or may not have come from me. You can probably spot them by the consisitent overuse of capitalization and exclamation points.

[akanevsky]

I once again apologize, - and you are right, I should have provided more information with contact handle at the old location.

[TRR]

Originally Posted by iTaLiAnBoY165

why evrytime i try to use the hide hack.. it doesn't come out. the way is supost . and ahout this.!!

[HIDE="Serials:sdsdasd"][/HIDE]

no picture and nothey.!!

did i do something wrong..

My users all keep doing this too. Where is the phrase "Please enter the option for your [HIDE]tag" placed? I would like to reword this so that my users understand that this box is for the post number, not their text.