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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[mktrilogy]

Originally Posted by Profusehost

Getting database error when I try to make changes to "usergroup" setting. Everything goes fine when I uninstall the product. I went over the "readme" file two times now and I checked all files.

I had same problems and did not have solutions for that. The best solution for that is when u change ur setting for usergroup, uninstall first the plugin for hide hack, then change the settings. No error will occur. Then upload the plugins again and hide hack will work again like nothing happen

[X-Jerry]

In Expanded version, there're 4 bbcode: [HIDE], [SHOWTOGROUPS],[hide-thanks] and [hide-reply]. I want to remove the [SHOWTOGROUPS] bcode and i want to "mix up" [hide-thanks] and [hide-reply] together. How can i do?
ex: Member can reply to see the hide content or they also can click thanks button to view.
Please help me to make it in, very special thanks!

[cyberphr]

It needs some major editing but thanks.

[Profusehost]

Originally Posted by mktrilogy

I had same problems and did not have solutions for that. The best solution for that is when u change ur setting for usergroup, uninstall first the plugin for hide hack, then change the settings. No error will occur. Then upload the plugins again and hide hack will work again like nothing happen

thanks its working now but having this problem with the code. For some reason, its putting the hidden code in the following format -

[HIDE="hidden content"]hidden content[/HIDE]

For it to work, its needs to be like this - [HIDE]hidden content[/HIDE]

any idea how to fix this.

[ragtek]

Will it be available for 3.6?

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by mktrilogy

I had same problems and did not have solutions for that. The best solution for that is when u change ur setting for usergroup, uninstall first the plugin for hide hack, then change the settings. No error will occur. Then upload the plugins again and hide hack will work again like nothing happen

The solution is to rebuild bitfields after installing the hack.

Originally Posted by Profusehost

thanks its working now but having this problem with the code. For some reason, its putting the hidden code in the following format -

[HIDE="hidden content"]hidden content[/HIDE]

For it to work, its needs to be like this - [HIDE]hidden content[/HIDE]

any idea how to fix this.

Install the hack correctly. Please do not ask about problems, all problems are due to bad installation. Make sure you follow your readme steps correctly.

[nonet]

WARNING!

If you purchase a hack from Vision Scripts don't expect the support your paying for. I've sent emails on 7-30 and 7-31 and today (8-2) with no reply. I've even used the contact form on the site and still no reply.

My site now gets a nice page the tells me to upload a new license key which I did...yet the error still persist. Their site says to follow the directions in the README file yet there are no instructions in the README file that even mention a license key much less directions on where to upload it or how to validate it.

If you can't provide clear documentation OR respond to your clients for which you have happily taken money from maybe you should clarify your support policy.

And that's all I have to say!

[mktrilogy]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

The solution is to rebuild bitfields after installing the hack.



Install the hack correctly. Please do not ask about problems, all problems are due to bad installation. Make sure you follow your readme steps correctly.

I think i did follow ur instructions. I tried it like 10 times before i post coz u always make a terrible comment or u r born "defensive". U are autocratic and assuming all members of this board r power users.

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

The solution is to rebuild bitfields after installing the hack.

I did rebuild the bitfields and it persisted. Thats y i tried removing ur hack and i can now update the usergroups. Since I really like ur hack in tried to install it again and it works. But having issues whenever i change the usergroup. so the best solution is whenever u update usergroup settings, just uninstall the plugin. update usergroup, reinstall the plugin. It works flawlessly that way.

Mine is just help extended to fellow board owners who are not elite users like u and the others. My instruction was "clear" and he easily understood it. works for me in my board. test board both and i assume it will work for him as well.

peace out

[louis_chypher]

I noticed that when I was viewing the vB code help page I received an error that pointed Me to this line

PHP Code:

 ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('misc_bbcode_complete')) ? eval($hook) : false; 


in misc.php. Looking into what modification that uses the misc_bbcode_complete hook I find product [Hde] Ressurection version 2.6 to be the user.

A review of the code attached to the misc_bbcode_complete hook shows that the lines

PHP Code:

if (($vbulletin->options['enable_hide_tag']) 


and

PHP Code:

if (($vbulletin->options['enable_showtogroups_tag']) 


to have an error in their syntax use. I corrected the lines to read out

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['enable_hide_tag']) 


and

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['enable_showtogroups_tag']) 


to eliminate the produced error.

[MajorFm.com]

Will this work on 3.6.0?