Quick Account Switch

[akanevsky]

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

/*===================================*\
|| Quick Account Switch
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jul 03, 2009
||
|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
\*===================================*/

DESCRIPTION

This modification gives users the ability to easily switch between linked accounts. Accounts can be linked by administrators via admincp or by users via usercp as long as these users know the passwords for both accounts. Optionally, you can disallow users to link and unlink accounts from the usercp.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES


Adds AdminCP and UserCP controls to link and unlink accounts.
Allows to easily switch between linked accounts from the navbar.
Allows to disable the public UserCP controls and leave just the AdminCP part.


VERSION HISTORY

1.1.0
[+] Compatible with vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Removed all template modifications.
[+] Added option to disable usercp controls for linking accounts.

1.0.1
[+] The modification is now officially compatible with vBulletin 3.6.
[+] The hack has been optimized and now performs much less queries than before.
[+] Users now can link accounts without an administrator as long as they know the passwords for both accounts.

1.0.0
Initial Release (Port of Quick Account Switch by Ianomed (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=70971))

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

IF YOU LIKE MY HACK, PLEASE CLICK INSTALL (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=217771)

[akanevsky]

<font size="3">First Post Reserved.</font>

[Mecho]

Thanks . sounds good .

[thedvs]

the old 3.5.4 upwards version works on v3.6.4 too

[Valter]

Thanks for update.

What about option to allow or not users to link accounts without administrator?

Btw you are missing upgrade info.

[voteforbird]

Very cool, thank you.

[akanevsky]

the old 3.5.4 upwards version works on v3.6.4 too

You are correct. The 3.5 version, however, was not posted in the 3.6 section.

What about option to allow or not users to link accounts without administrator?

-> Please see the changelog. Thanks.

Sorry, the upgrade instructions are as follows (I assumed you reverted everything since 3.6 upgrade):
Re-upload the files.
Re-upload product xml.
Cancel previous template modifications, do the new ones instead.

[projectego]

Cool hack. Thank you. :)

[Slave]

Hi :)

Nice hack .. a couple of things ..

When you enter an incorrect username in the UserCP you get an error message "Could not find phrase 'badlogin_strikes'" .. perhaps use the same '5 goes and your out' type protection as vBMS does on normal account login?

The "Quick Account Switch" drop down menu in the welcome box doesn't seem to work on vBa CMPS pages. Do you know what is needed to get this to work?

Thanks :)

[Slave]

The "Quick Account Switch" drop down menu in the welcome box doesn't seem to work on vBa CMPS pages. Do you know what is needed to get this to work?

Looks like adding "switchbit" to "Portal Output Global Variables" in vBa's Default settings page did the trick :)

[Slave]

Oh, and if you have things like vBGallery or vBlogetin installed you need to edit the .xml to put your full URL in front of one instance of login.php in one of the templates before installing the product.

Seems to work on all pages then :)

[ragtek]

Psionic Vision thx for your great work

your products are great!

[HellRazor]

Thanks Psionic for the update and new features! :)

Suggestion for a new hack that would be similar (but not the same) as this:

Alias System:

1. Allow members to have an admin-defined number of alias names to post under.
2. Forums would have the option to allow users to post under an alias. Alias forums would have a dropdown of all the member's alias' in the "Post From" box.
3. Each alias would also be able to have its own seperate avatar.

The reason this would be useful is that a lot of roleplaying game forums have a forum set aside for users to post "in character". An alias would allow them to post under the name and with the avatar of their character without needing a seperate user account.

[akanevsky]

Hi :)

Nice hack .. a couple of things ..

When you enter an incorrect username in the UserCP you get an error message "Could not find phrase 'badlogin_strikes'" .. perhaps use the same '5 goes and your out' type protection as vBMS does on normal account login?

The "Quick Account Switch" drop down menu in the welcome box doesn't seem to work on vBa CMPS pages. Do you know what is needed to get this to work?

Thanks :)

That phrase is present in vBulletin by default. I don't know what you did with it. :)

Psionic Vision thx for your great work

No problem, but please click install.

[Roms]

This is a great idea. They used something similar on ezboard and I've always missed it here. :) (I'll click install if i end up using it. :) )

[Snake]

Wow! This is GREAT! :D

[Caerydd]

So just to check, to use in a CMS that is intergrated withe vbulletin I just need to call the $switchbit variable? None of the others I found in the plugin, live psi_qas ?

And also which line of the plugin to input the full url, as my CMS runs in root, and my vbulletin runs in a /forums subfolder.

This worked great otherwise, but I really need it to work every where the navbar appears!

[akanevsky]

So just to check, to use in a CMS that is intergrated withe vbulletin I just need to call the $switchbit variable? None of the others I found in the plugin, live psi_qas ?

Yes.

[Saskia]

Just upgraded from 3.5. Nice work! I especially like the option of allowing users to link their profiles by themselves, good integration.

I placed it all in a custom profile page, because that was of better use for my forums and just changed the location of one of the plugins, the two redirect links to the appropriate profile page and changed the link in the qas_userbit template. Works like a charm!

This was definetly something that a lot of my users highly valued when I installed it. So thank you!

/me clicks install.

[The dman]

This looks like just what I've been looking for but before I install it I wanted to know if I can set it so only the mods or administrators can use this?

[Caerydd]

Hmm, well no joy at present getting it to work outside the forum pages, and I had to reset the system/reinstall it after fiddling around with the source code :(

Other than that, works great and my users love it! Now all I need is something built on this to integrate it into our premium features that allows one to have more than one account >>

Also, perhaps some way of viewing all accounts that are mapped at all in this system.

[buileminh]

Thanks for this nice hack!
Suggestion: Only certain group(s) can use this feature

[voteforbird]

Does this script lay a cookie entitled "userid"?

[akanevsky]

Does this script lay a cookie entitled "userid"?

No.

[scan-pa]

Anthony,

Great mod, but can you please add a feature for only certain groups to be able to access this function?

[stomph]

Anthony,

Great mod, but can you please add a feature for only certain groups to be able to access this function?

I simply enclosed the whole modification to the USERCP template with:
<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(2, 6, 7))">
and:
</if>

Now only users from the groups 2, 6 and 7 will see the hack in UserCP.

[Mastar]

Anyone got it working on Vb3.64?

[akanevsky]

Anyone got it working on Vb3.64?

This works on 3.6.4. 3.6.0 is the minimum version required in the 3.6.x series.

[Caerydd]

I simply enclosed the whole modification to the USERCP template with:
<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(2, 6, 7))">
and:
</if>

Now only users from the groups 2, 6 and 7 will see the hack in UserCP.

This only seems to work with 'primary' usergroups, either that or it doesn't work for a more than three numbers in an array?

I have users awarded a usergroup as their secondary usergroups, and want the ability to link available to them then.

[akanevsky]

This only seems to work with 'primary' usergroups, either that or it doesn't work for a more than three numbers in an array?

I have users awarded a usergroup as their secondary usergroups, and want the ability to link available to them then.

Please use is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 2, 6, 7) in the conditional instead of what he posted.

[Mastar]

Psionic Vision for some reason it isn't working on my board.

[akanevsky]

Psionic Vision for some reason it isn't working on my board.

What exactly isn't working? Sorry, I don't know how to read minds yet.

[wolfyman]

oh good lord this is cool :D

[ragtek]

is it possible that this hack is defect / not safe?

i have a problem that sometimes (until now 2 times) a user logged in with a other account
i mean:
i log in as ragtek but i'm logged in as another user which is neither linked with me, nor has been on the computer before.

[wolfyman]

that doesn't sound good.

if the wrong person accidentally logged in as admin.... uh oh.

Anybody got any strong opinions on this?

[akanevsky]

is it possible that this hack is defect / not safe?

i have a problem that sometimes (until now 2 times) a user logged in with a other account
i mean:
i log in as ragtek but i'm logged in as another user which is neither linked with me, nor has been on the computer before.

That's not something that could be caused by this hack.

[ragtek]

allright
than i must check the other plugins

[Gsmdenis]

no bad, supported

BR.,

[bluesoul]

Looks like adding "switchbit" to "Portal Output Global Variables" in vBa's Default settings page did the trick :)

This gets me about halfway, but when I go to switch users from the vBA portal it takes me to a white page with "No Input File Specified." It also leaves off the /forum/ in the URL (it tries to access http://www.wifom.net/login.php?do=qas_switch&userid=168 instead of http://www.wifom.net/forum/login.php?do=qas_switch&userid=168), but login.php is included in all 3 Replacement lists.

[dutchbb]

I can link an account but the drop down menu in the navbar doesn't work. And yes I did every step correct.

[nymyth]

^^yeah i have this problem now too, after i upgraded to 3.6.5

Fixed:

There was a change in the navbar code from the older version:

<if condition="$show['qas_switch']"> -- this is what it is now

<if condition="$show['switch']"> -- this is what it was before....

Works fine now....

[dutchbb]

I can see the drop down button but it doesn't show a menu when clicked. It's the correct one with the 'qas_switch'

[lostgirl815]

If you only change the templates on one style, will the ID switch only be available on that style?

[akanevsky]

If you only change the templates on one style, will the ID switch only be available on that style?

Since you make the template changes to a specific style, the chooser will, of course, only appear on that style. Unless you have nested styles and the children's version is unmodified.

[lostgirl815]

Great! That's what I was hoping.

[akanevsky]

Great! That's what I was hoping.

However, if the person knows the URL's from the chooser, those URL's can be used regardless of the style.

[lostgirl815]

That's fine - they'd still need to be registered to know about it in the first place.

I'll mark this installed, although I haven't installed it yet. (That'll take awhile to figure out.) :)

[akanevsky]

That's fine - they'd still need to be registered to know about it in the first place.

They won't know about it unless they are linked from the admincp. Or approved via request from usercp. :)

[lostgirl815]

Perfect! :) This is a great hack, I really missed that feature changing from EZ to vBulletin!

[lostgirl815]

Any chance someone will take pity on me and tell me what this means?

Example: If you need to copy ./admincp/thehack.php to ./somefolder/thehack.php, it would mean that you need to copy a file, called thehack.php from the admincp subfolder of the package you have downloaded to the somefolder subdirectory of your forum engine.

Where's the admin subfolder? Where's the subdirectory of my forum engine? What's a forum engine?

[raiderlax]

Does this work on 3.6.7???

[ragtek]

yes

why you don't try it yourself?

[akanevsky]

The forum engine is the whole vBulletin software package.
The subdirectory of your forum engine is where you've uploaded vBulletin files when you installed it.
The admin subfolder is the folder called "admin" in the place where you've uploaded vBulletin files.

[rayw]

This is great mod. Thanks a lot! :D

Please use is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 2, 6, 7) in the conditional instead of what he posted.

I've just set this up for Admins and Mods (usergroups 6 and 7) and it works great.

*Clicks Installed

[rayw]

Is there a way to add the post count of each user that is in the drop-down menu? I've tried adding $post[posts] but it doesn't display anything?

Thanks :)

[lostgirl815]

Anybody???? I've uploaded the product, I've changed the templates, but I don't know what this means:

Example: If you need to copy ./admincp/thehack.php to ./somefolder/thehack.php, it would mean that you need to copy a file, called thehack.php from the admincp subfolder of the package you have downloaded to the somefolder subdirectory of your forum engine.

Where am I supposed to be where I would see this folder? In cPanel? In the admin panel? I don't see it! And nobody who says they'll install Mods for a price is answering their PMs.

[rayw]

Anybody???? I've uploaded the product, I've changed the templates, but I don't know what this means:

Where am I supposed to be where I would see this folder? In cPanel? In the admin panel? I don't see it! And nobody who says they'll install Mods for a price is answering their PMs.

I had no idea what it meant either, so I skipped that part. Everything appears to be working perfectly fine though.

[lostgirl815]

Thank you for your reply! Could you tell me, where are you switching IDs? I see the form to link them, I don't see anything for switching them. (I'm perfectly happy to leave it out if it worked for you.)

--------------------never mind, figured that out ----------------

You're right - it works without that file upload, whatever it was. Thank you again!

[Trana]

I installed this and after a day or so all of the users who had a linked account started getting major errors in IE which caused the browser to close. Anyone else experience something like this?

Thanks.

[ragtek]

i have no problems with this hack

[lostgirl815]

So far so good here, although I never did upload that other file.

[nymyth]

any luck with this and VBAdvanced?

[kjhkjh]

I'm still having a problem with one of the template changes:

Can't find
<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->

in navbar


I've searched and can't find it there, i guess another mod may have changed it, like the mood mod, or number of new threads... does anyone have advice on this?

Plus the info on uploading that file as the other memmebrs have mentioned above was sketchy... can anyone clear this up?

Tanks

[nymyth]

I'm still having a problem with one of the template changes:

Can't find


in navbar


I've searched and can't find it there, i guess another mod may have changed it, like the mood mod, or number of new threads... does anyone have advice on this?

Plus the info on uploading that file as the other memmebrs have mentioned above was sketchy... can anyone clear this up?

Tanks
Look for a block of code similar to this - It should be near the bottom of the navbar template

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="pagenav_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="thead" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[go_to_page]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
<form action="$vboptions[forumhome].php" method="get" onsubmit="return this.gotopage()" id="pagenav_form">
<input type="text" class="bginput" id="pagenav_itxt" style="font-size:11px" size="4" />
<input type="button" class="button" id="pagenav_ibtn" value="$vbphrase[go]" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

Put the code after it.

[nymyth]

So far so good here, although I never did upload that other file.
There isnt another file for that. I think he uses his html install page for all his mods, and some of them require the addition of a custom php page to be uploaded to your server.....for this hack you can just ignore it

Peace

[kjhkjh]

thanks myth...

turned out my navbar template didnt have that block of code, but i saw that it did originally exist in the default template, so I pasted it back in... fingers crossed it doesn't affect my other mods.

Thanks again

[rainyleaves]

Awesome mod.

But I think this mod have little bug.
I get database error when I didn't input username and password and click 'Link Account' button.

Database Error

Please try the following:

* Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
* Open the ****.net home page, then try to open another page.
* Click the Back button to try another link.
I think this mod have not standard error page like this.
'You didn't input username or password!'

Please... Anybody who can fix?
Thanks.

[bazzup]

Excellent mod don't know why we have'nt installed this before, as me and my better half are both admin on our forums

[rnmcd]

Oh, and if you have things like vBGallery or vBlogetin installed you need to edit the .xml to put your full URL in front of one instance of login.php in one of the templates before installing the product.

Seems to work on all pages then :)

Can someone explain what Slave is talking about. I have vBGallery installed and am considering installing vBlog.

Thanks.

[rainyleaves]

Looks like adding "switchbit" to "Portal Output Global Variables" in vBa's Default settings page did the trick :)
Thanks!!

[HellBoy]

Great, this is just what I was looking for! :)

[rayw]

Anyone have this running on 3.7 by any chance???

[rayw]

Ok, it does work with 3.7 but the code in the navbar is a little different. Apart from that, the product installs perfectly as far as I can tell.

[plothook]

Anyone else having problems with this and the new security tokens in 3.6.10?

The problem shows up when you make new linkages, but the actual switching still works perfectly.

[plothook]

found the problem
edit template USERCP and find where you added (when you added this product):
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
and after it, add
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
EDIT: The above is all you need to fix the issue, but what I ended up doing was take all the code out of USERCP and made a new template called qas_usercp

and then added a plugin for this product at usercp_complete with the following code
eval('$template_hook["usercp_main_pos6"] = "' . fetch_template('qas_usercp') . '";');

and changed the code in the cache_templates plugin for this product to:
$globaltemplates[] = 'qas_switchbit';
if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'usercp') {
$globaltemplates[] = 'qas_usercp';
$globaltemplates[] = 'qas_userbit';
}

And then I reverted template USERCP - reverted templates are good. Once less template to review at the next upgrade!

[VPI97]

plothook - Could you be a little more specific with what you did to fix the issue? I'm having a little trouble following along.

Thanks

Edit - Nevermind, I figured it out

[lostgirl815]

Has anybody tried this on 3.7 yet?

[Veer]

any update?

[Veer]

Doesn't work with vb 3.7.0

Getting error:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

Any help?

[lostgirl815]

Thanks for posting that. Rats! I used that one for a lot of games.

[Project Boredom]

This (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268468)thread shows you how to validate your security information, for people who were having trouble with the hack.

So you can change all the templates at once, I went to styles and templates>search in templates>find and replace in templates, had it find the first line of text in the url above and replace it with that line and the add on line. Make sure you click to permanently replace rather than test replace otherwise your changes won't stick.

Good luck and happy hack use!

BTW, this works on a 3.7 board guys. :D

[lostgirl815]

Thanks for that!

[Project Boredom]

NP. I figure if I can figure it out, I might as well share with everyone else. :D

[SAReefer]

this hack is not working on my 3.7.3 anybody know why?

[FireFish]

This (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268468)thread shows you how to validate your security information, for people who were having trouble with the hack.

So you can change all the templates at once, I went to styles and templates>search in templates>find and replace in templates, had it find the first line of text in the url above and replace it with that line and the add on line. Make sure you click to permanently replace rather than test replace otherwise your changes won't stick.

Good luck and happy hack use!

BTW, this works on a 3.7 board guys. :D
Yep, that did it for me.
It's working fine.

Thanks.

[lostgirl815]

Anybody have this working on 3.7.3?

[RedeemedWarrior]

working great on 3.8.1 once you fix the templates

[Elenna]

Brilliant!! Thank you, this is EXACTLY what my users were looking for.

[lostgirl815]

Has anyone figured out a way to put the switch thingy on the post form? Because that would be really really handy.

[Elenna]

Can you explain where you'd like to see that option? I'm not sure where you mean.

[lostgirl815]

When you're composing a post you know that area in the upper right that says "you are logged in as ___ " ? That's where I mean.

[akanevsky]

Why couldn't you just switch up top and then use the post form?

[lostgirl815]

There's no reason why not, I was just wondering if it was possible. (I wasn't criticizing, just wondering.) It's a great, handy Mod. :)

[akanevsky]

There's no reason why not, I was just wondering if it was possible. (I wasn't criticizing, just wondering.) It's a great, handy Mod. :)

I understand you are not criticizing (and it would be perfectly fine even if you did), I was just curious as to why you would need the switch to be in the form if it's already on every page.

It is certainly possible and too difficult, maybe I will implement it later. :)

P.S. This hack was just updated to eliminate all template edits and make it compatible with 3.7.x+.

[lostgirl815]

Well don't laugh, but suppose you were having the board version of a costume party, and you had more than one 'costume,' it would be handy to be able to switch as you were replying to posts. It's no big deal, I just wondered. In any case thanks for this Mod, which has been invaluable for games. :)

[akanevsky]

Well don't laugh, but suppose you were having the board version of a costume party, and you had more than one 'costume,' it would be handy to be able to switch as you were replying to posts. It's no big deal, I just wondered. In any case thanks for this Mod, which has been invaluable for games. :)

Using a board for costume party sound interesting.

[lostgirl815]

Oh it can be a lot of fun! And it's a handy thing to do for special events/holidays. Especially Halloween. Everyone wears a 'costume' and at the end of the night people guess who they really are before they 'reveal' themselves. Awards for best costume, best character and so on. It's one of my staples. :)

[Elenna]

Thanks very much for the update!

Lostgirl - that sounds like fun! :) Thanks for the idea. ;) May just have to try that.

[Joseph Witchard]

I understand you are not criticizing (and it would be perfectly fine even if you did), I was just curious as to why you would need the switch to be in the form if it's already on every page.

It is certainly possible and too difficult, maybe I will implement it later. :)

P.S. This hack was just updated to eliminate all template edits and make it compatible with 3.7.x+.

So can this be used for 3.8.3 now?

[akanevsky]

So can this be used for 3.8.3 now?

Yep.

[Joseph Witchard]

This is exactly what I've been needing. Thanks:) Keep up the great work!

[HellBoy]

Are there any plans to make a vBulletin 4.0 compatible version of this mod?

[iNate19]

I need this for vB 4.2.2

[Max Taxable]

I need this for vB 4.2.2https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=237286

Next to last post in the thread has this.