Username Management - Control who can change Usernames plus history
 

<font size="4">Username Management - Version 1.04</font>

Hack: Username Management
Version: v1.04
Author: MarcoH64

Description
With this modification installed you can let your members change their own username, or let Staff members change the usernames of other members.

Also a history of previously used names for a member is kept.

Features
- Users can change their own username controlled by Usergroup Permissions. If needed a time limit between changes can be set.
- Staff can change the Username of other members. This is again controlled by Usergroup Permissions.
- Previously used Usernames of a member can be viewed in posts, by hoovering over their Username. This is also controlled by Usergroup settings
- Full searchable history of Username changes in AdminCP
- Fully Phrased
- Optimized for server performance
- Documented API for addon developers

Changelog
23-12-2005 v1.04
- Changed master="true" to false in cpnav file.
- Fixed bug where history was generated when running Update User Names from Update Counters

v1.03
- Changed the size of the 'mh_unm_changelimit' & 'mh_unm_changelimit' columns in the usergroup table
from TINYINT to SMALLINT to support values > 255

23-11-2005 v1.02 (maintenance release)
- Improved internal caching routines
- Added internal routine for retrieving the latest changed usernames
- Coders: Parameter value change for parameter '$overridelimit' in 'mh_unm_fetch_username_history'
This release is needed if you want to use some fo the new Addon's!!
Known issues: Coder documentation not complete, no examples are given, although the 2 released addon's can be used as examples.

22-11-2005 v1.01
- Fixed bug messing up Private Messages (thanks mini2)
- Fixed bug in install routine that would create a wrong tablename if using table prefixes
- Changed the internal caching routines
- Added more parameters to mh_unm_fetch_username_history for more flexibility for Addon coders
- Added extended information mode
- Created first version of the Coders documentation
Known issues: No example code for an Addon Plugin yet.

22-11-2005 v1.00
Initial release

Upgrades
Upload all files from 'upload' folder.
Install the new product file, choosing an overwrite install.

Notes
Copyright ©2005 MarcoH64
This Modification may not be redistributed in whole or significant part or changed without prior agreement of author.
Please don't forget to click Install.
If you like this work and would like to support the author, donations are always welcome at Paypal: Marcoh64 AT gmail.com

If you are running version 1.00 and have problems viewing your Private Message, please apply the following fix (thanks to mini2 for pointing it out and providing the fix):
Goto AdminCP->Plugin System->Plugin Manager.
Click on Edit behind plugin 'Add Username history to postbit(legacy)'
In the Hook Location dropdown, change 'postbit_display_complete' to 'postbit_factory' (2 lines higher) and Save. All should be fixed now.

Better is to upgrade to 1.01, all known problems have been fixed.

Awesome.. This will certainly be useful for my future plans (premium users). :D

this hack rawks. And I got the second post. Yay!

Edit. Dangit I was too slow! :nervous:

Then please click Install ;)

Awesome. I am definitely going to install this hack for all my premium users too! :) Thanks.

One thing, do you think you can make a mini addon for Previous usernames too? That would be useful so users may notice the user's previous names anytime, just like this forum. http://forums.adventchildren.net/member.php?u=1

Help...My postbit_legacy

This seems to work even if you don't edit the postbit legacy. But...
And I get this error also...

You kinda alrady can do this (only the list of old names), but i forgot to add that to the documentation. Will see if i can add this to the documentation today.

PS That would basically just require you to create a new plugin with (almost) the same code as the Postbit plugin, and the same edits to the template.

When do you get this error, and what vB version are you using? Did you rebuild the bitfields as instructed? Are all files uploaded (in ASCII) correct?


Please be clear, does it work or not for you?

For some reason, (and I had posted something else before (sorry...but I am still fairly sure that the $ was missing from the db variable ;))

It created the history table without the table prefix as well...thought you'd care to know....


But I installed it anyway and it seems to work fine now :)

Thanks