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.

[Danny W]

I installed v1.0.4 today but couldnt find any usergroup options. So then I tried 1.0.3 but when I go to make a request the 'request' button just takes me to blank 'profile.php' page. Could this be a conflict with other mods (sorry if there is a fix for this stuff on previous pages but I havent had time to read through them all )

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Danny W

I installed v1.0.4 today but couldnt find any usergroup options. So then I tried 1.0.3 but when I go to make a request the 'request' button just takes me to blank 'profile.php' page. Could this be a conflict with other mods (sorry if there is a fix for this stuff on previous pages but I havent had time to read through them all )

You click on the page and it's profile.php?do=requestusername and it is blank? Seems like your plugin is disabled.

[Danny W]

No, it just loads to 'profile.php', nothing after it. Its after I enter my username request and click on 'Save Changes'

EDIT: Nevermind I got it working...for some reason when I install the plugin, the template called modifyusername was being created by an old admin who worked on the same site as me, so I just reverted it and now works

Great Mod

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Danny W

No, it just loads to 'profile.php', nothing after it. Its after I enter my username request and click on 'Save Changes'

EDIT: Nevermind I got it working...for some reason when I install the plugin, the template called modifyusername was being created by an old admin who worked on the same site as me, so I just reverted it and now works

Great Mod

I'm glad it worked. I was away for the week. I'm sorry I couldn't help you!

[GekkoPixie]

I got this (and so did several others) but I can't find a usergroup control for it:

Originally Posted by board

Username Request Permissions: Your group does not have the necessary permissions required to request a username change.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by GekkoPixie

I got this (and so did several others) but I can't find a usergroup control for it:

I'm working hard on a fix to this. I just got back from band camp so I couldn't work on this... It looks like permissions were never added to your installations.

[GekkoPixie]

I read the rest of the thread and figured that out. It's cool, I've reverted to 1.0.3 for now.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by GekkoPixie

I read the rest of the thread and figured that out. It's cool, I've reverted to 1.0.3 for now.

What gets me is everything works on my local installation.

[tank14]

Something I think that would be awesome, is a username logger in the user's profile showing previous usernames. Also, I had an error saying this

Rule Violation: The username that you have submitted violates one of the Username Rules that the administrator has specified.

Also, when it sends a PM the title is unreq_userpm_title and the text is unreq_userpm_atxt.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by tank14

Something I think that would be awesome, is a username logger in the user's profile showing previous usernames. Also, I had an error saying this

Also, when it sends a PM the title is unreq_userpm_title and the text is unreq_userpm_atxt.

Nice catch on the unreq_userpm stuff. And the error is caused my it being in use, or that it is against something defined within the user name rules within vBulletin... I used a vBulletin Function to find that one.