MAF: (Moderator Application Form & Application Rating Module)

FAQ:
What Does It Do? it enables your members to apply to be a mod, cuts down on all the asking and stuff

That It? basically

What about the cool back end? ooh yeah, so anyway it will email on the 14th day to either let em know they've been shortlisted or to try again at a later date

How will it know? mod ratings innit, if their under 7 their outta there

Anything else? nah i guess it starts a thread in your mod forum to tell your mods to rate em

How does it know what forum and who's the threadster? you tell em via the admincp options (where the rest of the vboptions are) theirs a handy little group for the MAF and i don't mean 2+2

Ok so that's gotta be it now? nope

What else does it do? it logs it all in the admincp schedules tasks and sends you a copy of the email

Damn who taught you all that? various folks, special thanks to Dean, Marco, OBK and Zero Tolerance who helped me on this specific hack though.

Ok so what's the install like? swift the long thing is the upload

Ok rumour is it needs to run a cron, what's a cron? :squint: it's the automated do-dad in the admincp

How do i set it up? it's so straight forward you could close your eyes and do it, the file you're cronning is called "maf-cron.php" and i recommend running it at 12.30 (that means leave the rest as stars)

Ok so if their an installer? there is indeed thanks to Link and his magical HIS

Well now that's sorted can i install it? please do!

How can i help you become cooler? click install and let's see if i can become hack of the month innit

Bye now? yes go :ermm:











So you heard their was an upgrade and you're wondering just what you have to do right? simply reupload all the files (not including your cron if you wanna be special and then just run the installer, if that gives you trouble just click overrite original settings, all it's gonna do it reinstall the phrases, reinstall the templates and tell you the two file mods to remake.


So you heard their was an upgrade this time around? simply reupload all the files (if you wanna pretend to be uber 1337 just upload the admincp file and the cron folder file)

latest zip: 10/05/05 16:59

[sabret00the]

doh, give me 45 minutes to fix it, i'll set another update when it's fixed

sorry about this OBK

[Oblivion Knight]

Hey no worries Sabe.. I knew it would be kinda risky installing it straight on to my live board so early in development without me testing it on my test board first. Other than the occasional errors, it's a very nice mod indeed and I see a lot of potential..

Once the bugs have been ironed out, I'll look in to seeing if there's anything I can improve upon. I'm sure in some of the e-mail notifications I receive, there are usernames repeated (ie. in more than one notification) and it would be nice to have the applicant usernames printed in the thread notifications too..

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

there are usernames repeated (ie. in more than one notification) and it would be nice to have the applicant usernames printed in the thread notifications too..

the repeated usernames thing, i aint had that but as soon as i'm able to replicate that i'll iron it out, regarding the names in the thread, that's quite an easy one, so no doubt you'll see that soon, just need to make sure theirs no more bugs before i start adding more stuff.

[Slybone]

hmmm on the 4th step I continue to get that SQL error (read up) any clue what thats about?

SUGG: can you put the cron texts in some text-files and load it depending on $vboptions[languageid] so we can have multiple lang ?! (/includes/cron/maf/lang/1.php) or something...

thanks (i'll do it for myself anyway, but...)

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Slybone

hmmm on the 4th step I continue to get that SQL error (read up) any clue what thats about?

upgrade or fresh install?

Originally Posted by nexialys

SUGG: can you put the cron texts in some text-files and load it depending on $vboptions[languageid] so we can have multiple lang ?! (/includes/cron/maf/lang/1.php) or something...

thanks (i'll do it for myself anyway, but...)

i knew someone was gonna ask for that sooner or later

but mainly it comes from an experiment, basically grabbing the email stuff from templates goes straight to inbox rather than junk mail, so i wanted to see how this behaved too.

Originally Posted by sabret00the

i knew someone was gonna ask for that sooner or later
but mainly it comes from an experiment, basically grabbing the email stuff from templates goes straight to inbox rather than junk mail, so i wanted to see how this behaved too.

hum ?!.. i don't see the link with lang text...

and yes, i'm the tricky guy that stuck everybody with stupid questions ya know!

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by nexialys

hum ?!.. i don't see the link with lang text...

and yes, i'm the tricky guy that stuck everybody with stupid questions ya know!

i have no idea where the link is with the language text but if when dragging an email out of the templates rather than the phrases it's going to inbox, something has to be different right?

oh well just for you when i add the OBK request i flagged i'll move the email text over to the phrases

[Oblivion Knight]

/install/hacks/MAF/2/index.php has a typo..

			require_once('../upgrade_queries.php');

Should be:

			require_once('./upgrade_queries.php');

Otherwise, the error that I mentioned earlier still appears.

Originally Posted by sabret00the

i have no idea where the link is with the language text but if when dragging an email out of the templates rather than the phrases it's going to inbox, something has to be different right?

oh that... problem easily solved: trim($the_text) will correct the situation, as a non-trimmed text will send a EOL that bug off the emailers...