Invitation for Registration

[Lizard King]

Currently I disabled registration in my boards but my members are asking if there can a mod for inviting new members. Also I am thinking this I want my members to be able to invite members my sending e-mail to them. Is there a way to make an invitation mod. I still want to keep registration disabled but if someone is invited by a member then he will be able to register.

[Skyline_GT]

yea. I want this add on too.

[artonex]

yeah would be a kool hack, i would love something like this :D

[Dark s.s. Trunk]

i'll get started on it right away

[Essamz]

this idea remainds me by gmail's Invitations :D

[Dark s.s. Trunk]

lol
you should see the installer! I am making JAVA version installers....NO MANUAL CODING AT ALL

JUST upload and click....lol

[nexialys]

same as any Invite System, simple to have. you need a url that activate the permission to register... like register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=XX

so when people visit the register.php, instead of simply hitting the vboptions to activate registration, they activate it by this simple url.

SOOO SIMPLE!

EDIT: here is the code:

in register.php FIND:if (empty($_REQUEST['do']) AND empty($_REQUEST['a']))just BEFORE, add:if($_REQUEST['invite'] == 'yes') $vboptions['allowregistration'] = 1;
now, you simply have to create an invite url like this:register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=$bbuserinf o[userid]

that's all...

you can also join with this hack: Refer Friend from Erwin: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59708 and simply change the URL in the message to the one i just gave here!

[Lizard King]

Thanks nexialys

[spooler]

Just my opinion here..

A url like this register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=$bbuserinfo[userid]

can easily be made by any 1...
register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=1

The above url will work and will most prob be invited by admin himself:D (or who so ever has id =1)

So basically any random no. between 1 and total members of board will work.

Just my opinion :p:

So basically u need to have another table named invitee with fields ( random number(unique), timestamp)

When u generate invite url, add new row in the table and your invite url will be register.php?invite=random number

In register.php make a query to see if tht random number exists. If it does allow else kick him away:D

Do remeber to clear the row once used.
Also add to cron to clear rows in invite table with timestamp older than 1 day or whtever

[Adrian Schneider]

Couldn't this be bypassed/abused pretty easily? They can just enter 1 or look at your site and pick a user out. If you are serious about it you should prevent them from seeing your board.

[spooler]

Couldn't this be bypassed/abused pretty easily? They can just enter 1 or look at your site and pick a user out. If you are serious about it you should prevent them from seeing your board.

Even if you prevent them from seeing your board, a userid between 1-20 is bound to exist(99.99% :D)

[Lizard King]

Just my opinion here..

A url like this

can easily be made by any 1...


The above url will work and will most prob be invited by admin himself:D (or who so ever has id =1)

So basically any random no. between 1 and total members of board will work.

Just my opinion :p:

So basically u need to have another table named invitee with fields ( random number(unique), timestamp)

When u generate invite url, add new row in the table and your invite url will be register.php?invite=random number

In register.php make a query to see if tht random number exists. If it does allow else kick him away:D

Do remeber to clear the row once used.
Also add to cron to clear rows in invite table with timestamp older than 1 day or whtever
How can this be done :) Can you write a tutorial or some examples so i can work it out.

[T3MEDIA]

I was using this hack here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=650730&highlight=template#post650730)... and wanted to use a HTML template. I was asking Erwin but I never got a response so I dropped the idea.

Maybe nexialys or TheSpecialist could help out on that. Its done. I have even uploaded a template. This would boost users going to your forum in seconds.
Who ever wants the HTML for the example I posted is welcome to take the HTML code.

[Lizard King]

This url is not working. register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=1 when i invite someone with this link then it still gives me administration disabled registration.

[EricaJoy]

I too would be very interested in a hack for this. Any updates from anybody?

[techhouse]

I want too!

[artonex]

any updates?

[techhouse]

help please with this hack...

[akanevsky]

There is a "Refer your Friends" hack (I am not sure of its exact name). I think it would be a wise idea to make a mod to that hack instead of making a new one.

[techhouse]

The ideal variant would be this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=657520&postcount=9

[techhouse]

Nobody is interesting this hack?

[techhouse]

bump

[amcd]

The ideal variant would be this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=657520&postcount=9
I'm very much interested in that, but I'm not into php and html or sql... :(
so can someone well versed with those can implement spoolers suggestions pls..
and also is it possible to give this invite facility to only few usergroups?!

[GreysAnatomy]

This url is not working. register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=1 when i invite someone with this link then it still gives me administration disabled registration.


Same here. Is there any way I can fix this? I've searched the whole board as well as any other vBulletin help site I know of and everyone kept linking me back to this thread. :confused:

[T3MEDIA]

I think the idea is dead. Hi5 lets you upload your phone book.
check it out (http://hi5.com/friend/displayWhosIn.do).

Not sure if you have to be a member to see it.

Not sure if anyone wants to take that one on.