ECR - Easy Content Restriction

Version 3.7.1-PRO - 2021-02-10

• ^ Added some additional type checks for core trigger events since many 3rd party extensions call them incorrectly with wrong types, leading to errors as ECR uses strict types internally.

Version 3.7.0-PRO - 2021-01-25

• + Global Syntax Protection - With this option, the content syntax is checked in the complete HTML output code, not only in the content component. Thus you may protect parts of the content on the entire website, e.g. in 3rd party components or modules.

Version 3.6.1-PRO - 2021-01-07

• ^ Maintenance release
• ^ Updated language files and custom field
• ^ Code optimisations

Version 3.5.0-FREE - 2020-03-12

• First release with increased technical requirements: Increasing Technical Requirements - Joomla! Core & PHP for Pro & Free Extensions
• + Multilingual Replacement Text - You may use a language override constant to allow a multilingual output in the option "Replacement Text"! Enter a self-defined constant into the option field in the settings of the plugin and then create your translations for this constant in Joomla!'s Language Manager.
• + New option: Allowed Groups - Password Mode - User groups that are allowed to access the hidden text without a password if the Password Mode is used.
• ^ Code Optimizations
• ^ Updated Language Strings
• ^ Updated Custom Fields

Version 3.6.0-PRO - 2020-03-11

• First release with increased technical requirements: Increasing Technical Requirements - Joomla! Core & PHP for Pro & Free Extensions
• + Global Password Protection - You may enable global protection for the complete website. In this mode, the plugin stops the execution of the application and shows a password input field. Visitors have to enter the global password to be able to load the content of the website.
• + New option: Global password
• + New option: Execution location - Enables the password protection in the frontend, backend or both
• ^ Changed plugin type from "content" to "system"

Version 3.5.2-PRO - 2019-09-22

• + New option: Allowed Groups - Password Mode - User groups that are allowed to access the hidden text without a password if the Password Mode is used. Thanks for the request to Meschkam!

Version 3.5.1-PRO - 2019-08-16

• + Multilingual Replacement Text - You may use a language override constant to allow a multilingual output in the option "Replacement Text"! Enter a self-defined constant into the option field in the settings of the plugin and then create your translations for this constant in Joomla!'s Language Manager. Thanks to Stefan O. B. for this suggestion!

Version 3.4.3 - 2019-06-23

• + Custom Field - Pro Button
• ^ Updated project page URL

Version 3.5.0-PRO - 2019-04-28

• + First Pro release based on ECR version 3.4.2

Version 3.4.2 - 2018-07-26

• ^ Changed replacement function to improve performance and avoid limit error "regular expression is too large at offset x" if the article text is too long - Thanks to Kirstin G. for reporting it!
• ^ Updated Custom Field
• ^ Code Style Optimization

Version 3.4.1 - 2017-08-14

• ^ Updated custom field krtitle to 3.3.0
• # User group ID was not handled properly which could lead to a wrong behavior under certain circumstances (if access right was set to guest or public in the global settings) - Thanks to Laurents M. for reporting it!

Version 3.4.0 - 2016-08-21

• + Notification Message - If the password is incorrect, then a notice message is displayed to inform the user.

Version 3.3.0 - 2016-07-22

• + Password Mode - Protects the content with a password! No user account required to load the content - just the correct password.
• ^ Code optimizations
• ^ Custom Field

Version 3.2.0 - 2015-07-31

• + Donation Code Validation Process - Improved the validation process with a new server (HTTPS request) plus an independent, separated fallback server (HTTP request).

https://check.kubik-rubik.de/
http://check.kubik-rubik.eu/

https://downloads.kubik-rubik.de/

Version 3.1.0 - 2015-06-30

• + Project page - Added project page on the official website for this extension
• + Update Server - Added the Joomla! core functionality for the update checks
• + Some code optimizations
• ^ Semantic versioning - Switched to semantic versioning, see http://semver.org/ for more details. Please update manually since the core update server functionality will not recognize the new version!
• ^ Updated Donation Code field - Uses the HTTP API for the requests and calls the check script via HTTPS
• ^ Links in the language files - Updated outdated links to the JED (Joomla! Extensions Directory)
• ! Removed Version Check field

Version 3-2 - 2014-07-03

• + Special treatment of @ character - the @ character can be used in the hidden text

Version 3-1 - 2013-12-14

• + First free, public version for Joomla! 3.x

Joomla! 2.5

Version 2.5-2 - 2014-07-03

• + Special treatment of @ character - the @ character can be used in the hidden text

Version 2.5-1 - 2013-12-14

• + First free, public version for Joomla! 2.5

Version 2.5-1 DEV-2013-10-04

• + Toggle selection - with the toggle function you may toggle the ID selection. It means that the selected groups are not allowed to see the hidden text. This is for example very useful if you want to show a advertising banner or some extra information for visitors who are not in a specified user group (e.g. VIP users). Please read the description in the plugin how to use the toggle as a parameter in the syntax call!
• ^ Optimized the user group determination - removed the loading of inherited groups
• ^ Updated version check, donation code and krtitle fields

Version 2.5-1 DEV-2013-06-07

• + This is the first public test release. The language files are incomplete, also the description is very minimal but the functionality is fully implemented. Check the short description to see how to use the plugin. In fact, it is very simple: enter the described syntax in your articles to hide text from unauthorized groups. The plugin uses the unusual syntax with square brackets, not curly brackets, due to security reasons. Extensions, like the search component, remove plugin calls before they call the trigger. If the syntax is removed, the plugin can not be executed and the hidden text could become visible. Square brackets are not recognized as the typical plugin syntax and the plugin also works in these cases. The replacement text can be entered in the settings or via the override feature in the syntax. You may use HTML tags (e.g. to set a link to the registration page etc.). There is also a safe mode which completely hides the text when the article is not called from the content component (e.g. search component or modules). Use the options of the plugin to set global settings and the override functionality to set local settings. Additionally you may allow access to the hidden text passages to certain users by adding their user IDs into the settings. Enter the IDs separated by commas. Please report any bugs or send me your feature request via the contact form!