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.

[bada_bing]

Wow going to install tomorrow

[Tyegurl]

thanks amy hope it works with vbpager now.!! will let you know in a few hours.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by djsydeburnz

couple questions.

someone commented on the stuff not showing up in the admin cp and said to change the case of vBulletin to vbulletin. this makes no sense to me because there was no cpnav xml file included and there is no vBulletin in the regular xml file.

i cannot see anything in the admincp except for the spot in the usergroup permissions to allow.

i cannt see anything anywhere to add a forum.

im using 3.5.1 so I am guessing the new uploaded one will not work???

There's nothing to see in the admincp that's new. This script creates a forum for your users with certain parameters. It sets up the usergroup. It sets up the group leader. And, it sets up the moderator for the forum. You already HAVE tools in your admincp to manager forums, usergroups and group leaders.

[djsydeburnz]

so, do i create a new joinable group to make the forum show up? how does a user add a forum?

[amykhar]

The user clicks the link to the hideaway script. It automatically creates the forum and the usergroup they will need - if they have permission to do so.

[Tyegurl]

i still get an error....

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Administrators',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = 'Administrator',
`opentag` = '',
`closetag` = '',
`passwordexpires` = '180',
`passwordhistory` = '360',
`forumpermissions` = '1048575',
`genericpermissions` = '239075327',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '150',
`pmpermissions` = '3',
`pmsendmax` = '0',
`calendarpermissions` = '63',
`wolpermissions` = '31',
`adminpermissions` = '3',
`genericoptions` = '31',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '150',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '150',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '200000',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '125',
`avatarmaxheight` = '125',
`avatarmaxsize` = '250000',
`jukeboxpermissions` = '255',
`pagerpermissions` = '13',
`pagerquota` = '0',
`pagerminpost` = '0',
`pagerminpostperday` = '0',
`pagermaxperday` = '0',
`pagersendmax` = '0',
`pagersendmaxchar` = '300',
`vbppermissions` = '14233',
`vbp_discountrate` = '0.00000',
`vbp_paycheckamount` = '10000.00000',
`vbp_secondarycost` = '0.00000',
`vbp_primarycost` = '0.00000',
`hideawaypermissions` = '1'
WHERE usergroupid=6;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'hideawaypermissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Thursday, April 6th 2006 @ 07:21:38 AM
Script : http://www.teamrespawn.com/vBulletin.../usergroup.php
Referrer : http://www.teamrespawn.com/vBulletin...&usergroupid=6

[bada_bing]

How can you display all joinable groups with the forum titles? I wan to use this hack so that certain usergroups can create joinable forums but allow everyone to see the list is joinable groups. If a member that tries to join the group without being invited will get prompted with a permitions message asking them to upgrade there membership? Can this be done and how?

[djsydeburnz]

where is the link supposed to be? or do i make one. sorry for asking so many questions but it seems the txt file that everyone had awhile back is not here to download

[amykhar]

You make one and post it where you would like. I just noticed the install file seems to have disappeared. I'll write one up again when I get a chance. For now, go look at the hideaway support forum on my site and you'll see the format of the links.

I don't tell you where to put the create and edit link because I believe people will want to do different things with this mod.

[djsydeburnz]

cool. thanks for the extra support!