If you want to learn how it works, you can simply make a test user on your forum (which isn't a bad idea anyways to test user permissions in general) & request a change from that account.

---> I only have one more issue with this module now: User requests a name change, admin approves; it Private Messages the user; WHAT IT the user turned off e-mailed notification upon new Private Messages? They'll have difficulties logging in next time unless they're smart enough to try their new username?!?! (this happened to me).

---> Plus, it would be nice to see a feature added which would allow an immediate change of the username if the admin allows; in cases where an admin won't have a reason not to approve a username change. In this case, history should still be kept.

thank you very much!
it's work excellent!

i'm recommended for Modification of the Month

Aha I dont know what happened but I did it again and it works now!!

Thanks so much for this.

thanks for the update!

I'm having a problem with this, it's showing in the default template but not my custom one. I have put on a couple of mods in the last week so maybe something is conflicting... but is there a reason you can think of that this would be happening?

Hi mate, some feedback on the newest version 1.0.7:

You might want to re-visit the phrases. I have had to modify a few for errors or small problems.

Example, a small spelling mistake I noticed:

Phrase: unreq_uniu_txt
A small tense issue:

Phrase: unreq_adminpm_txt
The one above maybe should include "she" also ;)

Character Issue:

Phrase: unreq_minpost_txt
Anyway dont mean to be picky, just something that maybe you should be aware of if you arent already.

Thanks for the great update all working fine :)

EDIT: A suggestion also:

Under Options in the Admin CP for this mod, it says "enter the notification ID for the admin to be PMed". Maybe add that so you can have several. For larger boards including mine, there is usually more than one admin and it would be great if we could add a few ID's there example:

I tryed doing that to no avail. It only seems to work with one admin :(

That is what the User History feature is for. It keeps track of the old name, the date, the status, and the requested name.

I was pointed that out, and I need to work that into either v1.1.0 or v1.0.8. Not sure which version I'm going to jump to (hopefully v1.1.0).

The immediate change was going to become a separate modification, but if I can get the name changed to "Username Management", I will probably be adding it to v1.1.0. If I can't change the name, I might create a separate modification. These would work together as a username management tools.

Make sure $navbar (the variable) is used within your default vBulletin template.

Thanks for the phrases. If I don't release a v1.0.8 to fix some things and add some small things, they will be in v1.1.0! And that is a planned feature for v1.1.0...

Looks nice! Is it also possible to limit the number of username changes a user can get?

Sure. Stop approving new requests. :)

All the data is in place now to limit that, but I never wrote the code for the feature. v1.1.0 will have it.

I am getting alot of errors while trying to unzip this download.

I dont think thats anything to do with this mod. I would advise you download the files again or alternatively re-install WINRAR or the extraction tool you use.

Yeah. I hate Windows so I couldn't help you.

The option "Username Request Permissions" in usergroup manager still not appearing.

I will continue with the version 1.03.

edit: problem solved. Solution is upload the new xml files do include folder

edit²: (bug?) open your prouct.xml... the phrase $vbphrase[unreq] doesn't exist and show default name of plugin, "Username Request".

it would be nice if admins and mods could see the username request option in their ACP as well.

Make it so only certain usergroups can request would be exellent (L)

Available in v1.0.7!

Any Administrator with "canadminusers" permissions can see this. And do you really want Moderators to have the ability to change usernames?

$vbphrase[unreq] Should exist. Maybe I set that to the wrong product. I will check.

Sorry- I meant to say "User CP" - I am deailing with moderator's name changes all the time.

So when will that version be avalible

They should be able to see the option. Can regular users see the option?

v1.0.7 is out and available for download right now... It's the .zip located in the first post.

KK You wouldn't mind explaining on how to install the Hook would ya? I'm a tad slow in the code department....:D

hmm - I guess they can't LOL - where should I be looking?

The bottom of the User CP left hand navigation...

Stone0075,

How customized is the template USERCP_SHELL? Or any of those templates for that matter. If it is a bought style, see if the creator has released a style update with template hooks.

Thanks for the response KK,

LOL - well - whaddya know? :D there it is just as advertised - thanks and sorry for the confusion.

Cool! I'll keep watching this mod then. Good work!

I uninstalled the ol' faithful v1.03 today and tried yet another install of a new version. It seems I can never get past the user group permission issue. I am uninstalling 1.07 and going back to 1.03 for good. It works good for me and my needs. Maybe one day you will get this issue fixed.

You have a great mod with a lot of potential and I am sorry I don't mean to sound ungrateful, it's just aggravating to do uninstalls and reinstalls of new versions and still not fix. :(

Alibass. I am not sure why your install is working, if you would like I will work it out on your server so this modification actually works (and to be sure, did you upload all the .xml files to the /includes/xml/ file?)

@King Kovifor

I would like to apologize to you a hundred times over if that would be enough for being such a damn idiot. I have been using v1.03 for awhile because of issues with some later versions. I did not realize you had added "User Name Request Permissions" in the User Group Manager and that was the reason I kept getting the no permission error. :erm: Your version 1.07 works great and thank you for sharing it with us. :up: :)

Can someone please explain this to me - which template do I need to check and what code needs to be there? My standard vanilla VB has the username request, just not my custom one which 99% of members use...

Getting an error when extracting the .ZIP File, I want to install this so bad on my Forums, can you reupload the .ZIP? Oh and quick question, where does the "Username Change History" display for the particular user, in their Profile?

Try again I just downloaded it and extracted it just fine.

Installed now ... There was an error I got when extracting, but the files were all intact, so I did the installation fine ... Awesome Hack!

I have a couple of questions regarding this Hack, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

1. How can I delete a certain username change from the "Username History" box for a particular user.
   
   
2. Is it possible to make the "Username History" box display ONLY "Approved" Username Changes?
   
   
3. Is there any news on when the "Reason" feature for a Username Change Request will be added? It would be a nice addition if it would display in the PM sent to the Admin or in the AdminCP under the corresponding username change request.

I have this installed and working fine, but the only problem i can see is that some users will get confused when their name is changed if not online while the whole process takes place.
What if they log off after a change name request, when they come back to log in they will be typing their old user name.
Once they realize the name must have changed they log in with the new name and get a PM telling them the new name has been accepted. (it's a bit late by then):D
Does this mod send out an email to the user to let them know about the name change, otherwise i can see many users coming back to forums after a few days and wondering why they cannot log in. :confused:

I copy that ^^^ & as previously mentioned by myself; would love to see that option to "allow more than one admin to be able to recieve the username request PM" set in the admin cp options.

Any expected date for the new version?

I may have been answering for a different hack. This hack should be within the User CP Shell template (with $template_hook[usercp_nav_bottom] as the hook).

1. You could manually remove it through SQL queries, as their is no built in function. I will add this to the next version.
2. I could make this an option in the next version.
3. The reason feature should be a next version update.

I have been told about that and forgot to put it in the last version, and with school / soccer / band / life it's been hard to code lately.

Nope. I try not to give out dates and I'm working on allowing more than one administrator to get e-mails.

King Kovifor, thanks for answering my questions. Could you please tell me which SQL Query to run to delete a certain username change from the "Username History" box for a particular user? I would highly appreciate it, thanks. Also, I really look forward to the Next Version release which will contain those things I was asking about by default. I'll keep a look out on this Thread to see when it comes out. I saw in the above post that you dont have an expected date set in mind for the next release, but could you say maybe like a couple of days, weeks, or months? Just curious. Thanks!

Your welcome. I need to revisit the table (i believe you could remove the ID of the request, but not sure...). And not really. If I get a good day to code stuff, it could be tomorrow, but with the current time crunch I have, that could be three weeks from now. So not definite date.