Scan New Posts For Hide Tags

[Dj Smuggla]

Im using a hide hack on my forum & its hard to make members use it, especially new members.

So is there anychance a coder could knock up a quick lil script, that scans a members post for [HIDE] tags when they click
'Submit New Thread'.

If there's no hide tags in the message area, the member gets a error saying 'You must use hide tags in your message'
& their post does not get submitted.

I've just found another site that uses something like this, check the attached screen.

Thanks

[BirdOPrey5]

OMG why would you force someone to use HIDE tags if they don't want to? If you don't want non-members viewing threads you can set the permissions to keep them out.

[Dj Smuggla]

Thats the rules on my site. You hide a part of the thread, members reply & then can see the unhidden content.

Anyway all thats sorted my hide hack works perfectly, i just need a script that checks if the member has used them & gives a error if they havent. Like i stated in the first post^^^

Would that be somthing you could take a look at BirdOPrey5

[BirdOPrey5]

I could code the part where it would look for the "[HIDE]" tag no problem, but getting it to return an error instead of post is still beyond me at the moment...

[kh99]

OK Try this:

1. Create a phrase for your error message text and for Phrase Type choose "Error Messages". Let's say the varname is must_use_hide (or if you use something else, also change it in the code below).

2. Create a plugin using the newpost_process hook with this code:

PHP Code:

if (!preg_match('|\[HIDE].+\[/HIDE]|', $post['message']))
{
   $dataman->error('must_use_hide');
} 


I tested it a little but I hate doing regular expressions so it may not be 100% correct, so maybe BirdOfPrey has a good way to check for HIDE tags.

[BirdOPrey5]

I'm sure your method is more efficient, I was just going to search for the closing tag because if they use that they probably use the opening too but your implementation is better.

[Dj Smuggla]

Thanks guys for taking a look...

kh99 that works great m8 , but how do you add more of these:
''|\[HIDE].+\[/HIDE]|','

Because right now i have to use the hide in caps like in the code above.

Is it possible to add:
[hide]
[hiDE]

One last thing, how can i use it only in a certain set of forums, not every forum.

Thanks again m8, gud stuff...

[kh99]

For the hide, HiDe, etc issue, you just need to add an 'i' at the end of the pattern. You have access to the $foruminfo, so if you want to do it only for certain forums you can check $foruminfo['forumid']. There was one other problem in the above: newpost_process is actually called for all posts and not just new threads, so there needs to be a check for that.

PHP Code:

if ($type == 'thread' AND in_array($foruminfo['forumid'], array(1, 2, 3)))
{
   if (!preg_match('|\[HIDE].+\[/HIDE]|i', $post['message'])) 
   { 
      $dataman->error('must_use_hide'); 
   }
} 


Of course you want to replace the 1, 2, 3 list with your list of fourm ids. If there's some other forum option to check you might be able to do that instead of checking for certain ids.

[Dj Smuggla]

Thanks a million kh99, that worked perfect m8...

That'll save me & my mods a lot of time editing posts...