Mod Name:

The Rules

Created By:

Deprecated

Type:

Feature Enhancement

First Created:

August 17, 2008, 05:09:18 PM

Last Modified:

December 09, 2009, 01:14:16 PM

Latest Version:

1.3

Compatible With:

1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 2.0 Beta 3.1 Public, 2.0 Beta 4, 2.0 RC2

Total Downloads:

6311

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Description:

Almost every forum has some form of their rules and the usual practice is to post them in the forum's announcements board. This is problematic because new members are generally unfamiliar with the forum's organization and may overlook reading the rules post.

The Rules solves this problem by adding a "Rules" tab to SMF's top menu, visible from every page on the site. Not only does this make the rules easy to access, but the tab serves as a constant reminder that the site has rules that members are expected to obey. Additionally, the rules are presented in an integrated fashion rather than having been posted by some specific person. This depersonalizes the presentation of the rules so that they appear to come from the forum management team rather than from any specific individual.

Features

Adds a new "Rules" tab to SMF's top menu. Accessing this tab displays your forum's rules. Enter your rules contents into the configuration settings of

The Rules using plain text plus BBCodes. Optionally displays the agreement.txt file on a separate page, when feature is enabled. Optionally displays an additional page which you may customize for anything you want, when feature is enabled. The titles of all three pages are configurable by the administrator. The "Rules" tab label can be customized to suit your preferences or to aid in internationalization.Full configuration instructions are provided in the included readme.txt file.

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Note: In this example the names have been customized.

Revision history:

Version 1.3 (Dec. 0, 2009) Updated for SMF 2.0 RC2 and is compatible with both default/curve and core themes.

Version 1.2 (Nov. 24, 2008) Added British and British UTF-8 language strings and various other minor improvements.

Version 1.11 (Nov. 17, 2008) Improved 1.x installation script to avoid interference from other mods.

Version 1.1 (Oct. 21, 2008) New feature, tab text customizable from The Rules settings.

Verison 1.08 (Oct. 12, 2008) Fixed SMF 1.1.6 tab no highlight bug.

Version 1.07 (Oct. 10, 2008) Added English UTF-8 language support.

Version 1.06 (Sept. 13, 2008) Fixed error in package-info.xml.

Version 1.05 (Sept. 11, 2008) Fixed bug in 1.04 preventing uninstallation.

Version 1.04 (Sept. 7, 2008) Fixed bug in SMF 2 installation script, verified SMF 2.0 Beta 4 compatibility.

Version 1.03 (Aug. 27, 2008) Added title support. Also fixes installation script for SMF 2.0 which was broken in 1.01-1.02.

Version 1.02 (Aug. 27, 2008) Withdrawn.

Version 1.01 (Aug. 26, 2008) Revised install script to resolve conflict with another mod, affects SMF 2.0 only.

Version 1.0 (Aug. 23, 2008) Original release.

Donations

Over 370,000 downloads of my mod packages and so far I've received about a dozen donations. Thanks guys.