Invitation for Registration
 

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.

yea. I want this add on too.

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

i'll get started on it right away

this idea remainds me by gmail's Invitations :D

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

JUST upload and click....lol

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:just BEFORE, add:now, you simply have to create an invite url like this: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!

Thanks nexialys

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

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.