vBcustompage 1.0

vBcustomPage
Version 1.0 | A hack by Velocd :ninja:


Update - 7/27/02 - Bug fix

I accidentally forgot to add the instructions on how to allow the admin to modify the custom page name and content via ACP.

Please refer to the 7-27-02fix.txt for instructions on how to fix it.



What does this hack do?

This integrated vB add-on will allow your users to have their own custom page built on simple HTML. In addition, the admin can specifiy a minimum post count that all users must achieve before they are allowed the creation of a custom page.


Why is it useful?
More creativity and ways for the users to express themselves on your forum. Users who do not match the postcount needed to create custom pages will want to post more in order to get it. Ofcourse this isn't going to happen just because it's written here, but the possibilities are unknown until you try it out.


Features:

• Via the ACP users page, the admin can toggle whether a member is allowed to use custom pages.
• Via the ACP users page, the admin can also modify the users custom page name, and also the content.
• Javascript code filter + offensive language block
• The name of your custom page will show up in the title bar of your custom page (big wow, I know )
• ..more creativity for your users!

WARNINGS:
As with HTML in posts and signatures, the vulnerabilities of allowing your members to create pages using HTML could be risky. Please moderate your member custom pages (view the source) on a daily basis, insuring that no malicious code is hidden away somewhere.


Screenshots?
Screenshots are included in the zip.

Bugs?
None that I know of, but if you find any please let me know!



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Attached is the hack zip. If you use this hack on your forum, please click the install!

Suggestions and comments are always welcomed

[Mithan]

Ok another question.

How would I modify the code so that this will work from the postbit template? Ie- show right up on the forums itself, without requiring a user to click on your name before he can access your site?

You can see my forums here:
http://www.ac2hq.com/forum/showthrea...&threadid=2286

What I would like to do is under a persons name on the left side, put the Custom Page link. If I do it now, nothing shows up.

Any tips?

[ripman]

If you have any problems I suggest to reinstall whole hack :P Mayby you missed the instruction eg. REPLACE instead of BELOW.

At the second time everything works fine exept that damn non-registered users access. Blah...

[Chris M]

Then...

You either havent removed that code, or you dont allow Guests to do much...

@Mithan...

Change this below, from yoursite.com/forums to the path to your boards...

<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forums/member.php?s=&action=getcustompage&userid=$userid">Custom Page</a>

You can format it how you like

Then, in the posbit template, find :

$post[usertitle]

And below it add the code from above...

Satan

[DemiNeo0101]

i have a feeling its conflicting with a hack i allready have installed. B/c i re-installed, but still a no go.

[Mithan]

Hellsatan:

Thanks, that didnt work though. I had to change it to this:

<a href="http://www.ac2hq.com/forum/member.php?s=&action=getcustompage&userid=$post[userid]">Custom Page</a><br>

the $userid didnt work, needed to change to $post[userid]

Again, thanks.

[Chris M]

Ah right...

I thought that wouldnt work as just $userid...

Satan

[Velocd]

@mithan, use this if you want their page name to show up:

<a href="http://www.ac2hq.com/forum/member.php?s=&action=getcustompage&userid=$post[userid]">$post[custompagename]</a>

You can also use $post[custompageviews], to display that users hits for their page.

Originally posted by DemiNeo0101
i have a feeling its conflicting with a hack i allready have installed. B/c i re-installed, but still a no go.

The major areas that a mistake could be caused is in the members.php. So by chance in one of the areas that require you to select a large amount of code then replace it with the code I gave, you could have overwrited another hack maybe. This calls for you doing it manually then, since most of the time I only added a variable or something within the code.

[Thewnagchung]

HEY VELOCD! its me Jeff

i may add this to VGT

[KnightDebonair]

well, i'm a poster at his website and I've messed with that hack first hand . I know nothing about html but it wasn't too hard to get the basics through a post he made, it would be awesome if that hack had a quick FAQ link to the side, just telling the basics of HTML, it didn't but luckily velocd posted them so it was ok.

anyways, thats all ^^;

[Kumaro]

This hack is just what I have been looking for, except i stilll can't use it because none of the users know any html at all. It would be great if this hack had three different sections for the user to fill out; such as an image field, a body text 1 field, and a body 2...

just a suggestion..amazing hack.