Invites System

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|| Invites System
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.0
|| Released : Dec 19, 2005
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|| Time required to install: 1 minute
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

A complete invites system for your vBulletin board.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 3
Template Changes: 4
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Configuration Options:

• The system can be turned on and off.
• Registration can be set to either require invite code to sign up or to continue allowing regular registrations when the system is on.
• Invite Expiration Period.
• Minimal Posts Required to Receive Changes in Number of Invites.
• Minimal Reputation Required to Receive Changes in Number of Invites.
• Number of Posts Required to Get One (1) Invite.
• Number of Invites Received or Subtracted per Reputation (+ for positive, - for negative).
• Initial Number of Invites Given on Registration (Sign Up).
• Usergroups that May Not Use Invite Manager.
• Usergroups that May Use Invite Manager (Optional Override).
• Initial Registration Usergroup (only pertaining to registration by invites).
• Do or Do Not make users linked by an invite mutual buddies after the completion of registration of the person invited.
• Single / Multiple Address Line Field.
• If Multiple, Number of Fields to Show.

Miscellaneous Features:

• Upon invite-based registration, the person who issued the invite is set up as a referrer of the person invited. Therefore, free specification of a referrer is restricted during such registration.
• Image (GD) Verification.
• Administrator can manually edit any user's invite count.
• If a user is permitted to issue invites (based on both the number of unused invites and the system permissions), that user has a link to invites of usercp home (says "Click here to invite new users!"). When a user has no invites left, the link does not show up. Nevertheless, as long as system permissions allow access to the Invite Manager, the usercp navlink continues to show up, so that the user would have access to his/her invite history, which is available just below the "Issue New Invite" form.
• If registration is set to require invite code to sign up, the navbar register link becomes hidden.
• If registration is set to continue allowing non-invited sign ups, the number of invites available to any single user is unlimited. Therefore, the number of invites left does not show up.
• Invite History in UserCP, on the bottom of the invite manager.
• Single-Line AddressField, with Unlimited # Of Simultaneous Recipients, within the bounds of invite tokens.
• Multiple-Line AddressField, with Limited Configurable # Of Simultaneous Recipients, within the bounds of invite tokens.
• Unregistered Users, Banned Users and Users with No Forumview Permissions cannot use invite manager. Therefore, you do not have to specify those usergroups in the list of usergroups that may not use the invite manager.
• Invite counts are automatically updated once a week, based on the admincp-configured settings.
• Per-user invite usage restriction.
• Inactive users, who do not post anything new, will gradually lose all of their invites.

VERSION HISTORY

1.5.0
A new, commercial release.

1.4.0
[+] Image verification to avoid multiple submits.

1.3.0
[+] New Config Option: Single-Field / Multiple-Field Address Line (Default: Multiple-Field)
[+] New Config Option: Number of fields to show if multiple option is chosen.
[+] User Option, which lets an administrator restrict invite system usage for that single user.
[F] Fixed Bug, which prevented a user from registration if COPPA was enabled.
[F] Fixed Bug, which prevented a user from sending out an invite if he had zero invites and dependency on registration was turned off.
[F] Fixed Bug, which continued to show the invite form after it was submitted, even if there were no more invites left.

1.2.0
[+] New Config Option: Usergroups that May Use Invite Manager (Optional Override).
[+] New Config Option: Initial Registration Usergroup (only pertaining to registration by invites).

1.0.2
[+] Ability to send unlimited simultaneous invites, within the bounds of invite count owned.
[+] Improved invite interface (see screenshot).
[F] A couple of hard-coded forgotten phrases have been moved into the phrase system.

1.0.1
[+] Amount of posts required to get one invite is now configurable
[+] When a user can issue invites, he/she has a link on usercp (which says "Click here to Invite a New User!")
[+] When invites are required to register, there is no direct "Register" link in the navbar
[+] When invites are not required to register, there is no limitation on invites, and therefore the number of invites left is not shown
[+] Administrator can now edit invite counts manually using Admin Manager
[+] Administrator can now specify which usergroups cannot use Invite Manager
[+] More descriptive AdminCP Hack Options
[F] Added TABLE_PREFIX to the Install Code
[F] Fixed a Typo in Registration Code
[F] In the Invite History, invites are now lister in a descending order, rather than ascending. In other words, the latest invites are now on the top.

1.0.0
Initial Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[jesus likes pie]

Nice hack but I have no use for it

[The Chief]

looking great, nice addon

*clicks install

[The Chief]

One question, how do you raise the number of Invitations that you can send for the already registered members, like me for an instance???

[akanevsky]

Right now you have to wait until the Cron raises it for you.
However, I will add that control in the user admin in the next release.

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Right now you have to wait until the Cron raises it for you.
However, I will add that control in the user admin in the next release.

well it says for all the New Registrations? so will it do it for the already registered members also?

[Reef]

New invites are just getting a no permissions page when following the link in mail.. I tested and verified.

vBulletin Message
You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

But when clicking the regular register link they get the must be invited error

vBulletin Message
You must be invited in order to be able to register on our board. Have a nice day.

Using VB 3.5.1

This is a great and useful mod for me if this can be worked out.

Any ideas?

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by Reef

New invites are just getting a no permissions page when following the link in mail.. I tested and verified.


But when clicking the regular register link they get the must be invited error

Using VB 3.5.1

This is a great and useful mod for me if this can be worked out.

Any ideas?

You probably didn't adjust your settings in your AdminCP vBulletin Settings --> Invites System.

Try putting the Registration by Invites Only to No. For the Mail error, I have no idea

[uae]

Great hack, thanks

[The Chief]

I would also like to reccommend a new feature also for the next release again Psionic.

The ability to send multiple invites at the same time...when you don't have any invitation limits. As I have recognized that when I have announced this mod on my forums that alot more people were motivated to invite people because it was so easy, but I don't really want to give them a limit...

[Reef]

Thanks for replying gamebgs but that only opens up registrations again

I did find the cause and have it working now

In usergroup admin I had to give Unregistered / Not Logged In users access to view the forum

It is now working but I would like to fix it to where I can reset these permissions to how they where. There never was problems accessing the register page before for anyone