Dorm Manager System

What Dorm Manager System is:
-Creates forums based on your default dorms settings based on post count eligibility. The creator (leader) of the dorm is granted several powers, which only exist in the dorm manager system (there is no extra usergroup). These include regulating members who apply for membership to their dorm, creating threads when the default forum option is set to private, and regulating the existing threads of their dorm. This includes setting one of them as 'Public', which makes it accessible to the whole forums regardless of membership (guestroom). Leaders also can delete their dorm. Members can only exist in one dorm at a time, and everything is completely automated.

Requirements:
-(Optional) A specified parent dorm forum set up

Features:
Settings:
Dorm Name-- Dorm, Clan, Room, Floor etc
Guestroom Name-- Lobby, Guestroom, Closet etc
The Master Dorm Forum-- forum which all the dorm forums appear in
Postcount requirements to lead or join a dorm
Maximum members per dorm, maximum total dorms, maximum threads allowed per dorm
Options between name/numeric dorm name type, and limits on the sizes of both.
Standard forum settings--resembles the forum creation page in the admin cp, which all created forums recieve

-MANY more which I cannot remember!

Installation:
-Upload a few files, run a couple of them, a handful of file edits. Clean installation should take less than 10 minutes for the average admin. Complete instructions are inside the zip.

Upgrade hack version 3.1.3 to 1.4:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Upgrade hack version 3.1.2 to 3.1.3:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Supplemental Images:
-Additional Screenshots can be found in the second attachment, CLICK HERE.

Donations and Future Versions:
-PayPal Donations to blackwaltz4@msn.com are gladly accepted, and paid mods are something we could discuss.

This hack is fully free and I'll give support through vbulletin.org

Possible Future Features: None (?)

Notes:
-Long live RPGN & G-force2k2, to whom this concept is owed, but I automated years later.
-I refuse to make this like vBHosting, or anything that violates Jelsoft agreements.
-FFGON.com IS NOT LONGER OPERATED by me or my partner, Cloudclone.
-vB2 version of this hack can be found HERE.

I UPDATE WHEN NEEDED

If you like this hack and you don't want to miss an update:

THANKS! :up:

[rex_b]

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

Thanks,
Rex

[rex_b]

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

why is that?

[rex_b]

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

[Darkwaltz4]

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']

[Grohl]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

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

[Darkwaltz4]

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.

[boxingscene]

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.

[Grohl]

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

[docvader]

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

[Darkwaltz4]

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.