thats because the style you are on is missing the templates :-p

the newest version will auto-install templates onto the main template set.

im compiling a list the next version will have fixed/changed/or added to, and ill do it tonight and put it up tomarrow :-p

how do you quit someones dorm?? I want to leave the members i am with at the moment and go to someone elses.

But because i am part of a dorm i cannot find anywhere that lets me request to join or leave

originally i was going to include a request to leave thing for members, but then whats the point, the member can just send a pm requesting they be removed :-p the reason the initial request does this is because its more than pm sending, it adds the user to the queue.

and i have the next version ready

There still seems to be a bug with joining the dorm...it gives me a database error.

aha, found it, and ill post up the changes right now

find in dorms.php

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO dorms_queue VALUES (NULL,$bbuserinfo[userid],$_POST[reqdorm],0)");

replace with

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dorms_queue VALUES (NULL,$bbuserinfo[userid],$_POST[reqdorm],0)");

any more botched queries anyone finds tell me, theyre hard to spot in the code

New UPDATE:

Version 3.1.3 Update
Fixed Multiple PM Liquidate Bug
Fixed Last Missing Phrase
Fixed Query Missing Prefix
Fixed No-dorm ACP Warnings
Fixed Forum-Crippling Description Bug
Fixed Potential Double Action Value Bug
OPTIMIZED ALL FILES

I actually recoded the bulk of the dorms.php file :-p go download it. I think this one is the most important upgrade, because it fixes the problem of when you have too many members in your forum (and it overloads mysql)

Upgraded from the first version without a single problem. Nice one. Any plans for any future versions or new features etc?

The only feature I can think of, would be some sort of admin controller in the acp. You know, like adding/editing/removing dorms. But im not sure of the point of that. Simply editing the actual forums will do the trick, and be sure to just use the forum refreshing system, so I dont know how needed such a function will be. Thats it for the planned addon list, and FFGON is very happy to have their dorms back :-p Anything else I might be able to do custom, but I'm trying to work on the next ffgon project, which is converting my tt hack to vb3 (which wont be available here), and theyll be of minor costs, like from 5-10$ depending on evasiveness to the hack :-p

FRANKLY IM HAPPY ITS FINALLY BUGFREE !

Hehe what an original idea - thanks for sharing with the community :)

ok i have i guess would be a bug

I made a dorm to test it out. I manually deleted the dorm and now i can`t liquidate or leave this dorm. I tried to remake it and still a no go

I installed no problems, but when I go to dorms.php I get a page with headers and footers saying 'Welcome to the Dorm Control Panel' with nothing else on it, no links, no controls, nada. How do I populate/create a dorm?

and I got 13 templates instead of 9

never mind, that was the cookies driving me crazy, showing the page sometimes, and some other times not showing it.

DBC-DevNull: The dorm is linked to the forum via the forumid. The forum has no formal connection to the dormid. The dorm table contains formal lists of members including the leader, as well as the dorm number. Deleting a forum and then manually making it back would not work, because the dorm table needs to be updated with the new forumid, as well as each member needs the new forumid, or else nothing will be linked.

What happens when you try to leave or resign? Any vb errors? Any db errors? Or does it appear that the dorm manager simply refreshes?

Lionel: It REALLY sounds like you tried to install the vb2 version of the hack, instead of the vb3 version. I highly suggest you check the php files, the tops should say 3.1.X, and if they don't you should download the file from the beginning of this exact thread, and start all over. If it does, they tell me if there is still problems and I will help you with them.

no errors and i can`t leave the current dorm

first of all, leaders cant resign from their dorm without liquidating it. so there isnt a resign problem, its a liquidation one. and im looking into it. if i have to change something, i might be adding member thread creation support as well as auto-installer for templates. maybe. and only if this requires a new version

one thing to check: are you checking the checkbox before clicking liquidate? without it the action would just be ignored.

no that was the latest version.... i had a cookie problem, everything seems to be fine

okay...good to see everythihng worked, although i dont know how a cookie problem could have produced what you described was happening

but congratulations nonetheless :)

this is awesome! im definately gonna download this thanks alot no problems for me except is the otion public acess mean if u put no for any other non-members of the dorm cannot see? and do u make threads in the dorm.php or valid members can make threads in the forum itself? just wanting to make sure....

Public Access means that if you set it, ANYONE in your forums, regardless of if they are joined to the dorm or not, can post in any thread in it. with this off, this only applies to the public threads. As a member of a dorm, all threads in it are in your posting reach.

If the dorm forum is closed to the public (same option) then the only way for threads to be made is via the DCP, otherwise, the new thread button is usable by ANYONE in your forums. also this will disable the thread limit.

Everyone can view these threads, just not post in them if the public option is turned off.

r u gonna have a next version thats gonna have some more features like turn off public view cept for admins and mods of the forum?

if enough people want it and DEV ends up NOT having an issue with deleting dorms

Any update on auto adding templates?

again, ill add this in if a new version is required :-p i might add some things in the next week, seeing as my tt project is almost done. well see....until then, you all can come up with things and ill think about them :-p

hmmm posting of new threads doesn't work for me, doesn't post for some reason, no errors though

Works PERFECT, thanks!

Can I set a switch somewhere that will allow members to be active in more than one dorm?

That would be nice.

Anyone?

making membership applicable globally would make this hack too much like vbhosting :-p however if you spend a few seconds looking at the code, you could remove the conditional which checks if someone is joined to a dorm. personally i believe removing this aspect would break down the hack anyway.

if you make your default forum settings to make the forum active, then anyone can post in it regardless of membership to it, and in either scenario, guestrooms are still free of membership restrictions.....so this feature isnt needed, its already there technically

Well, but, with this system, people get to create their own forums, which adds to the fun.

Or, maybe it don't add to the fun?

oh um, i refer you to my original posted warning, i wont do anything to make this hack work along the lines of vbhosting, and giving that power to the users would make it such :-p sorry

I'm trying to make a post in my form and it never shows. What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Rex

I found it's setting the "forum is open" option to no

why is that?

Ok I tried setting that option to yes and it wouldn't show a post that I created in the dorms.php But I'm beginning to think that dorms.php bypasses that option that's why it's set to no b/c only you and members can post in that forum.

I'm still confused... hehe

okay if you changed the options in the dorm config that affect how all dorms are and you want to update them all (such as what you just did) then you have to access the dorm forum update script which will reflect changes onto existing dorm forums.

from how you describe it it seems like the problem, but if using the update script doesnt work then please tell me

ACP -> Forums & Moderators -> Dorms Configuration -> [Bottom] Update Existing Dorm Forums -> [Click 'Refresh']

When I downloaded, I also got 13 templates in the file instead of 9. Would this be why I'm having problems? =p

1) what are your 'problems'?

2) and there are 13 templates, i dont know where the number 9 is floating around from...might be a typo from the vb2 version instuctions or something. whats in the zip is what needs to be applied. [UPDATE] yeah, typo. theres 13 templates, the 9 is something i forgot to change.

anyway, please describe what you believe isnt working correctly.

I think this hack is great, especially for my forum which is very busy and near 8200 members. The one thing I noticed that I would like to have is making Dorm threads readable only to Dorm admins and Dorm members. I want these Dorm to be private club areas for users, they arent that private when any member can see them.

The problem is the layout, see attachment.
I assumed this was a template error, and don't know enough to mess with the php

Brilliant hack. Just what I've been looking for. Do you have any suggestions as to how to set up the forum permissions, ie, what "parent" the dorm system should have, and what permissions the "parent forum" should have??? If you do not assign a "parent" to the dorm system, threads will just show up on the main forum index page.

I created a forum category which is not active and not visible. I use that as the parent of the dorm hack system. This way, dorm functions and threads are not visible on the forum index page. You access my dorm area, which I use as a secret area, via a navigation bar link. So far, it keeps everyone out, unless they've been invited. The general public can't even see activity within it. I think....

Any ideas would be welcome.

rich
http://x.russbo.com/vb/index.php

boxingscene: you could set permissions for now... the only other hack alternative would be to have it create sub-usergroups for each dorm room and create access masks for them...but large amounts of dorms mean equal amounts of usergroups. however, i just came up with something right now...utilizing the password system. however the dorm leader would be in control of that (editable by the admin of course, from the forum editing screen) well see, when i have time of course. (i have to make the auto-template installer! [ive done it for other hacks, so not difficult])

grohl: templates are all designed to work correctly with the default vbulletin 3 layout. any discrepencies are caused from your custom layouts, and i cant help you too much on making them more uniform, because i wasnt one of the creators of the custom layout, sorry :-/

docvader: without a parent forum, then the dorms themselves show up on forumhome, not any inner threads, but the other settings will work just fine (just cleaner to have a parent forum with many dorms). for the parent forum itself i tend to make it visible but not active, and in the description, leave a link to the panel. this keeps random people from making threads in the parent forum itself (which has no normal locks). however if you want like a faq page, where users can contribute to it, you have to set up access masks. whatever is easier to get the effect you want.