New Posting Features - Per Usergroup HTML Posting Permission

Just like the name says, this ultra-simple little Product will allow you to specify Usergroups that may make forum posts in HTML and have that HTML be parsed.

Default vBulletin - You can only choose whether an entire forum has the HTML permission, for all Usergroups. With this modification, you can give the permission to a specific Usergroup.

The code in this version is 100% identical to that in the 3.5 version (except for the lack of parseing in the Preview), which worked all the way through 3.6,7 and 8.

Blog HTML permissions are, for some reason, actually there in Usergroup Manager, they control HTML in Blog entries and posts, and override the settings in this Product.

***BE AWARE THAT INDISCRIMINATE USE OF THIS PRODUCT IS RISKY - RESTRICT IT TO ONLY THOSE USERGROUPS YOU TRUST ABSOLUTELY***

The scary message above is to make sure you are aware that enabling HTML for any group opens you up to security issues. This is why it is not a feature of Stock vB, probably.

Controlled by a Setting in Usergroup Manager, it's phrased and works in editpost.php in WYSIWYG and normal modes, AND the Forum Rules shows HTML is ON to allowed Usergroups.

In the current vB 4.0, this WILL apply retroactively.
That is, if a User posted something in HTML in the past, before they were given the ability, that post will be parsed. This could prove dangerous/troublesome for anything not wrapped in PHP tags.


Many thanks to Andreas for prodding me to figure it out by myself and not just telling me what to do.

A "demo" is here..html is OFF in that Forum, but those posts are made by an Admin with the setting to Yes, so the HTML is parsed.

Known Issues: It is not currently possible to choose whether the HTML in a post is parsed or not - it will be.. unless (weirdly) you wrap it in PHP /PHP tags.
I'll look into adding a toggle switch.

[BadgerDog]

Installed on v4.03 ....

Very nice... thank you ... :up:

We needed this for our forums ...

Regards,
Badger

[biosclan]

Thanks this worked like a champ!

[Halfhidden]

Perhaps I'm missing something. I uploaded the xml and then imported the product. I then set allow html for pm's in VB general setting (presuming that everybody would be blocked from using html with this new product) Then went to the the Usergroup manager and set Allow HTML Permissions "Should this usergroups HTML posts be parsed?" to yes for my group only.
Now I was able to send html pm's but so were the rest of the users. If I disable the html settings in private message nobody can send html messages regardless of the settings set for this plugin including my group.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Halfhidden

Perhaps I'm missing something.

Posts != PMs.

[Halfhidden]

Originally Posted by kall

Posts != PMs.

Sorry Kall you lost me. Are you saying that pm's don't work only posts do?

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Halfhidden

Sorry Kall you lost me. Are you saying that pm's don't work only posts do?

From the mod description:

Just like the name says, this ultra-simple little Product will allow you to specify Usergroups that may make forum posts in HTML and have that HTML be parsed

Red color added by me.

[Halfhidden]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Just like the name says, this ultra-simple little Product will allow you to specify Usergroups that may make forum posts in HTML and have that HTML be parsed.

Thanks cellarius..... that answers the question I asked Kall in post 57

[Mr Morningstarr]

Originally Posted by rajubd

when try to enable it error

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vbusergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
	`title` = 'Administrators',
	`description` = '',
	`usertitle` = 'Administrator',
	`opentag` = '<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" style=\"color:green;\">',
	`closetag` = '</span>',
	`passwordexpires` = '180',
	`passwordhistory` = '360',
	`ms_megaupload_upload_permissions` = '0',
	`ms_photobucket_upload_permissions` = '0',
	`allowhtmlpermissions` = '1',
	`ms_force_style_permissions` = '0',
	`force_style_id` = '',
	`forumpermissions` = '16777215',
	`genericpermissions` = '2147483583',
	`attachlimit` = '0',
	`pmquota` = '100',
	`pmpermissions` = '7',
	`pmsendmax` = '0',
	`pmthrottlequantity` = '0',
	`calendarpermissions` = '63',
	`wolpermissions` = '31',
	`adminpermissions` = '3',
	`genericpermissions2` = '1',
	`genericoptions` = '55',
	`profilepicmaxwidth` = '120',
	`profilepicmaxheight` = '120',
	`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
	`avatarmaxwidth` = '160',
	`avatarmaxheight` = '100',
	`avatarmaxsize` = '200000',
	`signaturepermissions` = '237567',
	`sigpicmaxwidth` = '500',
	`sigpicmaxheight` = '100',
	`sigpicmaxsize` = '10000',
	`sigmaxrawchars` = '0',
	`sigmaxchars` = '0',
	`sigmaxlines` = '0',
	`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
	`sigmaximages` = '0',
	`albumpermissions` = '255',
	`albumpicmaxwidth` = '600',
	`albumpicmaxheight` = '600',
	`albummaxpics` = '100',
	`albummaxsize` = '0',
	`usercsspermissions` = '63',
	`visitormessagepermissions` = '63',
	`socialgrouppermissions` = '262143',
	`maximumsocialgroups` = '5',
	`groupiconmaxsize` = '65535',
	`ms_imageshack_upload_permissions` = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=6;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'ms_megaupload_upload_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Wednesday, December 30th 2009 @ 07:40:44 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, December 30th 2009 @ 07:40:45 PM
Script        : http://www.symbiantalk.net/admincp/usergroup.php?do=update
Referrer      : http://www.symbiantalk.net/admincp/usergroup.php?do=edit&usergroupid=6
IP Address    : 119.30.36.20
Username      : Raju
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.20

I'm getting exactly the same error when I try to use this plug in, any idea how to solve this?

[Mr Morningstarr]

OK, I read what Kall said and checked the xml folder and ther was an xml file for a product I wasn't using anymore still in there, one for restricting urls. I deleted that, re-uploaded the xml file and imported the product and it works fine now.

Cheers Kall, great mod, I couldn't be without it.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Halfhidden

Thanks cellarius..... that answers the question I asked Kall in post 57

Sorry I missed the followup question. That answer cel quoted - its the very first thing in this thread, at the very top of the modification.

Pleas forgive me for feeling that I had already made the fact abundantly clear, by posting it as the first sentence of the mod.