Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Username Request

Introduction
I was looking through the Modification Requests forum here and found a pretty good idea. The basic idea was to add a list of users who would like a name change for the administrators. I added the basics and released it. In consecutive versions I have added the abilities and features you have requested and this is the product. It is morphing into a more powerful, more useful system each and every version.

The Tools

User Tools
Inside the User Control Panel, there is an area that is added where a user is given the ability to submit a username that they would like their name changed to. They receive PM updates depending upon the "status" of their request, whether it is Accepted or Rejected.

Administrative Tools
As soon as a request is added to the database, the specified administrator is sent an e-mail saying that a user would like a username request. Inside the Administrators Control Panel, a new section is added under the "Users" navigation tab, that lists all the "Pending" requests with the ability to "Reject" or "Approve" the request. A user will be notified via PM when an action is taken. When a username is approved, the system will automatically change the username.

Username History
This tool will list all username changes that a user has requested. It will also display the status of the request, meaning that if you reject it, this will be displayed. This tool will be built upon in a later version.

Username History Changes:
In the next version, the status of a username change request has been revamped and no longer includes hard-coded "Accepted", "Rejected", and "Requested" status values. More information will be given at the release of v1.1.0!

Requirements
This hack has several requirements. They include:

• vBulletin v3.6.6 or higher (This is the minimum version required for the next requirement)
• The usercp_nav_bottom template hook.

To get around the second requirement, you can copy the cell manually or add $template_hook[usercp_navbar_bottom] at the end of the User Control Panel navigation.

Installation
Installing the product is easy. Just follow these steps:

1. Upload Files into your Administrators Control Panel directory.
2. Import the product through the Product Manager.
3. Click Install Here

Known Bugs:

1. No e-mail is sent out to users upon username change. Fix: The next version will include a fix that will respect all the users settings on receiving e-mail from administrators.
2. The setting for PM sender was ignored within the code and uses the userid of the administrator who changed the username through the administration back-end. Fix: In the next version, revamped settings and improved back-end will now properly use a setting similar to this.

Big Thanks!
I would like to give a big thanks to Paul M for helping me with my stupid mistakes in v1.0.4 - v1.0.6! Now all of my mistakes should be taken care of (unless I made a mistake in the disallowed if statement). Thanks Paul!

I would also like to say thanks to Marco for pointing out a possible SQL Injection that was in v1.0.4 - v1.0.6 (It was inside the ACP, and used a wrong variable name / clean type).

And to Dannyloski for fixing my modification on his forum and providing the fix here. Much faster than I did it.

Final Remarks
I hope that you will enjoy this product as much as I enjoyed making it.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Amenadiel

ok my users got really used to send their request through this hack, so I resisted myself to uninstall it even with the vulnerability. Thanks for updating it though, I ran 24hrs with the faulty one without any problems lol.

Your welcome. I had planned on fixing it in the next release, but the exploit prompted me to release a version with just this fix.

[Tynian]

Thanks for this nice addon. With the latest update, however, I get this error when choosing Username Requests in the AdminCP: Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS in /home/dumburk/domains/dumburk.org/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 1591
Any idea what that might be?

[turbo.:R]

doesnt work with 3.6.8... 1.0.3 worked fine with it..

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Tynian

Thanks for this nice addon. With the latest update, however, I get this error when choosing Username Requests in the AdminCP: Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS in /home/dumburk/domains/dumburk.org/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 1591
Any idea what that might be?

Um... Not sure.... I'm not having that error. There might still be an ini_set() in there, but I'm not sure if that will do it...

Originally Posted by turbo.:R

doesnt work with 3.6.8... 1.0.3 worked fine with it..

It's working find on my install. What is your errors?

[GekkoPixie]

I got this message in the Users/Username Change Requests section of the Admincp:

Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS in /home/worlds/public_html/includes/class_core.php on line 1599

Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS in /home/worlds/public_html/includes/class_core.php on line 1599

1. Will this affect functionality?
2. Is this an issue with this mod?
3. Can it be fixed?

[King Kovifor]

It is an issue with this mod, I need to fix this. How, not sure. And no, it shouldn't affect functionality... Anybody find any errors so far?

[katie hunter]

I tried this mod before but it didn't work and tried it when it get upgraded , i uploaded all the files and run the xml but when i go to admin cp under user , i don't find the extra option at all " the request option"

but nice hack =3

[NitroXploit]

Same Here:

Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS in /home/ussername/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 1591

Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS in /home/userrname/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 1591

[Jasiu]

To fix the issues change the following:

unreq.php in ADMINCP

PHP Code:

// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL); 


Change to:

PHP Code:

// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 


The error was because of notice reporting. You forgot to tell PHP not to report the notices.

[Jasiu]

I keep getting a permissions error and my Admin panel has no options to set the user group permissions.