Block Images and Signatures to Unregitered Guest

This is my first submitted hack to Vb.org, so please go easy on me.
I will be unable to provide any support for this little hack so please do use it at your own risk. I honestly feel you will have no problems with this hack do to there is very little editing and it can also be reversed.

NAME: Chris’s Image and Signature Blocker to Unregistered Members.

VERSION SUPPORTED: Vb 3.0.0 or better

FILES TO EDIT: One

QUARRIES TO RUN: None

INSTALL TIME: Less then two minutes

SUPPORT OFFERED: None

I wrote this hack for my website to stop eveyone from leaching members pictures from our forums. We had a bad case of hyper-linking and other issues like this.

It will also aid in increasing your forums traffic, and member count.

I will try to check this thread as often as I can to get your feedback, but I am one busy person. Our site gets on adv. about 10,000 hits a day.

Take care and hope you can find some use for this.

[ecarabin]

clicked on install.

thanx ^_^

[Mythor]

Will this also affect Guests being able to view emoticon/smilies images? And if not, you may want to add the instructions for doing that, too. I'll be installing this tomorrow I think.

[TwinsForMe]

I ended up with a parse error on line 454.

[high]* TwinForMe clicks uninstall[/high]

[Moparx]

the problem with your way is if a post full of text has an image in it, it removes the entire post's content from the guests view instead of just the image... which isnt good.

this is what i use for my forum:

open functions_bbcodeparse.php and find:

PHP Code:

// do [img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img]
$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[img\]\s*(https?://([^<>*"' . iif(!$vboptions['allowdynimg'], '?&') . ']+|[a-z0-9/\\._\- !]+))\[/img\]#iUe', "handle_bbcode_img_match('\\1')", $bbcode); 


replace with:

PHP Code:

// do [img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img]
        if($bbuserinfo[userid]== 0) {
        // replace image with error for guests.
          $bbcode = preg_replace("|\[img\](.*)\[/img\]|i", "<a href=\"http://www.your-url-here.com/register.php\"><div class=\"panel\" style=\"width:500px;\"><strong>ERROR: </strong>Guests may not view user posted images. Click here to join our forum!</div></a>", $bbcode);
         } else {
        // members get to see the image.    
          $bbcode = preg_replace('#\[img\]\s*(https?://([^<>*"' . iif(!$vboptions['allowdynimg'], '?&') . ']+|[a-z0-9/\\._\- !]+))\[/img\]#iUe', "handle_bbcode_img_match('\\1')", $bbcode);
      } 


(dont forget to replace 'your-url-here' with your forum's url)

[bold]

Originally Posted by Moparx

the problem with your way is if a post full of text has an image in it, it removes the entire post's content from the guests view instead of just the image... which isnt good.

this is what i use for my forum:

open functions_bbcodeparse.php and find:

PHP Code:

// do [img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img]
$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[img\]\s*(https?://([^<>*"' . iif(!$vboptions['allowdynimg'], '?&') . ']+|[a-z0-9/\\._\- !]+))\[/img\]#iUe', "handle_bbcode_img_match('\\1')", $bbcode); 


replace with:

PHP Code:

// do [img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img]
        if($bbuserinfo[userid]== 0) {
        // replace image with error for guests.
          $bbcode = preg_replace("|\[img\](.*)\[/img\]|i", "<a href=\"http://www.your-url-here.com/register.php\"><div class=\"panel\" style=\"width:500px;\"><strong>ERROR: </strong>Guests may not view user posted images. Click here to join our forum!</div></a>", $bbcode);
         } else {
        // members get to see the image.    
          $bbcode = preg_replace('#\[img\]\s*(https?://([^<>*"' . iif(!$vboptions['allowdynimg'], '?&') . ']+|[a-z0-9/\\._\- !]+))\[/img\]#iUe', "handle_bbcode_img_match('\\1')", $bbcode);
      } 


(dont forget to replace 'your-url-here' with your forum's url)

thanks moparx

[NineToez]

Can someone please port this for 3.5.x?

[Moment]

SIGNATURE

this for 3.0.7

open
and edit the file functions_showthread.php



find

PHP Code:

if ($post['showsignature'] AND $vboptions['allowsignatures'] AND trim($post['signature']) != '' AND (!$bbuserinfo['userid'] OR $bbuserinfo['showsignatures'] ) AND $checkperms["$post[userid]"]['genericpermissions'] & CANUSESIGNATURE) 


replace

PHP Code:

if ($post['showsignature'] AND $vboptions['allowsignatures'] AND trim($post['signature']) != '' AND (!$bbuserinfo['userid'] OR $bbuserinfo['showsignatures']) AND $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != '1' AND $checkperms["$post[userid]"]['genericpermissions'] & CANUSESIGNATURE) 


and save

[zylstra]

For just blocking signatures for 3.5, all that is needed is to change the postbit template from:

		<if condition="$post['signature']">

to:

		<if condition="$post['signature'] AND $show['member']">

[SnitchSeeker]

Originally Posted by zylstra

For just blocking signatures for 3.5, all that is needed is to change the postbit template from:

		<if condition="$post['signature']">

to:

		<if condition="$post['signature'] AND $show['member']">

Thank you, that's what I was looking for.

EDIT: That didn't work for me. I can still see siggies when I am not logged in on my site.

EDIT 2: I found one that worked for me on vBulletin.com: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166091