Hideaways

This extension lets you allow certain usergroups to create a private forum and an associated public usergroup. There are no queries to run, and you only need to change the parentid of the forums in hideaway.php before you upload it.

Access to the hideaway is denied to anybody except admins and the associated public user group.

The member who creates the forum becomes the usergroup leader and the forum moderator.

Users are responsible to advertise their own forum. No invite link is created. This is not automated. Users can either post an invitation to join their hideaway in some other forum on your site, or they can pm people to invite them. It's up to you on establishing the rules of hideaway promotion.

Users can edit their hideaway descriptions, but not the style or the forum title. The style can not be changed to ensure that we don't run into licensing issus. The title can not be changed because I use it to identify the forum for editing purposes.

The hideaway usergroups permissions are based on the registered user group's permissions. You can change what group their permissions are based off of within the code.

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FEATURES I WILL NOT ADD:
The ability for people to have more than one hideaway.
The ability for hideaway owners to create a new style for their forum.
The ability for hideaway owners to change the forum title.
The ability for hideaway owners to change any forum permissions.

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[lanoix]

You must add it in the 'Front-End error messages' to have it works... Also, you can add something like 'hideaway_added' in the 'Front-end redirect message' and modify this line:

PHP Code:

eval(print_standard_redirect('')); 


by

PHP Code:

eval(print_standard_redirect('hideaway_added')); 


It's what I've done, it's working perfectly now, people can create groups/forums.

[Vizionz]

well i dont know where i am at but i am not seeing anything in the permissions to even activate it to try to ad the actual phrazes that are missing

[PennylessZ28]

Thanks, your cod was very simple to use, I got it so people can add more than one hideway and change the title. Thanks this was an awesome idea.

[EasyTarget]

/me clicks install and waits patiently for update for 3.5.1

[amykhar]

you're going to be wating a while. I'm swamped

[EasyTarget]

haha np, I'll have it marked so that I can check in on it every now and then.
thanks for the great hack.

[tassoman]

err... I've followed hideaway.txt instructions, I've installed.... I've created an ordinary test user, and now how to create his personal hideaway?

I've tried to visit hideaway.php?do=create as user and as admin too but it tells I haven't privileges. :ermm:

[mindfrost82]

Originally Posted by tassoman

err... I've followed hideaway.txt instructions, I've installed.... I've created an ordinary test user, and now how to create his personal hideaway?

I've tried to visit hideaway.php?do=create as user and as admin too but it tells I haven't privileges. :ermm:

I get the same results

[cd1986]

1.) Make sure you've run the query shown on the 1st page

2.) Make sure you've changed the appropriate line in hideaway.php

3.) The phrases you should have added are:

name: hideaway_permissions
type: permissions
text: Hideaway Permissions

name: can_create_hideaway
type: permissions
text: Can Create a Hideway Forum

name: hideaway_exists
type: Front-End error messages
text: Hideaway Exists

name: hideaway_added
type: Front-end redirect message
text: Hideaway Added

NB: final phrase not necessary, only if you've edited hideaway.php accordingly

4. ) The AdminCP usergroup permissions for this hack might not show because the bitfield xml contains the line product="vBulletin" when it should be product="vbulletin" (small b). Edit the xml and it should work fine.

Works well on vb 3.52 for me.

[mindfrost82]

I found a small bug. Its not really a bug, just part of the functionality.

If someone deletes their Hideaway, it doesn't delete the usergroup associated with that Hideaway.

So if someone goes to UserCP > Group Memberships, they still have the option to join that usergroup even though that hideaway forum doesn't exist.