[ABD] ACP April Fools Prank (STG Style)

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:01 am

Classification: Add-on
phpBB Part: Forum

MOD Author: Highway of Life
MOD Title: ACP April Fools Prank
MOD Description: This is not an actual MOD at this point, but as April 1st is coming up and I’ve been asked to release this hack, here it is.
There will be very LIMITED support. It is not packaged up in Typical MOD fashion.
There is no MODX file. You have to edit the files with very limited instruction, so if this scares you, please do not use this MOD.

NOTES:
Values to change are located in /acp/index.php, change to your liking. Many links may link to STG, I didn’t spend time to go through it, just packaged it up and put it together.
When I created this MOD, I never had the intention of releasing it, so it’s really very hacky.

MOD Version: 0.1.0

Works with:

phpBB 3.0.0

Format:
Manual Hack/install

Language: English

Licence: GNU General Public License v2

Installation Instructions:
OPEN: /includes/functions.php
FIND:

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'U_ACP' => ($auth->acl_get('a_') && $user->data['is_registered']) ? append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}adm/index.$phpEx", false, true, $user->session_id) : '')

REPLACE, WITH:

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'U_ACP' => ($auth->acl_get('a_') && $user->data['is_registered']) ? append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}adm/index.$phpEx", false, true, $user->session_id) : append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}acp/index.$phpEx"))

COPY: /acp/ to /acp/

Installation Level: Easy
Installation Time: 2 Minutes
Format: Manual (Hack)
Download: ACP April Fools Prank

MaXpl17 · Post by **MaXpl17** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:57 am

COPY: /acp/ to /acp/

Are you sure? I think, it should be:

COPY: /adm/ to /acp/

Sorry for my bad English

Post by **Brf** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:53 am

There is no /adm/ in this mod....
As the instructions say, copy the mod's /acp/ folder to your forum's /acp/ folder.

MaXpl17 · Post by **MaXpl17** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:16 pm

Hmmm.... Oh. Ok. Sorry for my previous post

I thought wrong.

I thought:

Copy phpBB3/adm to phpBB3/acp

I'm sorry

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:32 pm

No, remember its a prank, so we’re creating a "fake" ACP, therefore the directory name is "acp", it makes it even more convincing.

WhiteWolfSix · Post by **WhiteWolfSix** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:59 am

Highway: It's great but I am missing smilies folder in acp/images

bbjimbb · Post by **bbjimbb** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:56 pm

Nice

Only unfortunately you didn't use language varibles.
I hope my users are thinking a ACP is always english.

xer9281 · Post by **xer9281** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:45 pm

It's cool but i can guarantee that no one on my board will see the ACP link

if it's there (where it should be) how can i put it higher? maybe next to the user control panel?

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:56 pm

bbjimbb wrote:Nice
Only unfortunately you didn't use language varibles.
I hope my users are thinking a ACP is always english.

No indeed, it was a quick one-day hack that I created, I never meant for it to be a MOD or distributed outside of STG, but due to the requests, I decided to... ehm... make it available.

If there were more months until April 1st, I would have made it properly, but due to time constraints, I cannot.

WhiteWolf... heh, seems I didn't SVN commit them before I did the export... will get those uploaded ASAP

*Capmaster* · Post by ***Capmaster*** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:26 pm

My fault it's "rough". I bribed HOL to write it

RedTrinity · Post by **RedTrinity** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:51 pm

Highway of Life wrote: WhiteWolf... heh, seems I didn't SVN commit them before I did the export... will get those uploaded ASAP

Please please please

I just installed this ready for tomorrow, and its only 10 mins till midnight (April Fools Day) now here

*Capmaster* · Post by ***Capmaster*** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:58 pm

Works great! I've got the server files all ready and have linked to the bogus ACP so my mods know about it and they can try it out. Just need to upload the edited functions.php before midnight

I modified it a bit. Hope you don't mind. I replaced your smilies with my own in this section of index.php:

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if ($page && $_SESSION['clicks'] > 1)
{
	echo '<h1>';
	$joke_array = array(
		'Ha! April Fools!! <br /><br /><img src="./images/smilies/nelson.png" />',
		'Okay, yeah, it is an April Fools Prank <img src="./images/smilies/icon_tongue.gif" />',
		'Did you think we would really allow access to our Administrator Control Panel? <img src="./images/smilies/icon_naanaa.gif" />',
		'You liked it, didn’t you? <img src="./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif" />',
etc.........
etc......
);

The first click shows this now:

I also had to ditch the quick style change links at the upper right. If the member had a style other than Prosilver or Subsilver2, it would kaibash the html and display everything on the page as text.

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:43 pm

excellent, Capmaster! ... oh yes, feel free to modify, I posted it for you, afterall. It’s not really a MOD (as you can tell by all the breaching of coding guidelines, etc)

spiketmr · Post by **spiketmr** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:57 pm

awesome....can't wait to hear the reactions of my members

RedTrinity · Post by **RedTrinity** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:32 am

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks to those responsible for this MOD, it worked a treat on our forum! Coupled with the fact I changed all regular users to a dud Admin usergroup (colour, rank etc) and staff to a dud "banned" one, they all fell for it pretty fast!

As soon as I changed it over at 12am last night, I had a PM from a relatively new member within 15 mins asking if the system was bugged because of the colours/ranks being wrong

So a successful April Fools Day prank here

Thanks again!

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