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.

[Bruce Lee JR..]

I'm using the vBulletin Version 3.6.7 / I'm using the Request Username Version 3.6.8

[King Kovifor]

They should be fine. Did you upload the .xml product file?

[Bruce Lee JR..]

Yeah I did, but It's still not working, Lol.

[johnrizz]

maybe you need to reinstall it again. it should look like this...

[King Kovifor]

Try uninstalling and reinstalling from a fresh copy (meaning download it again). If that doesn't work I would require some investigation.

[Bruce Lee JR..]

Still doesn't work, ='(!

[King Kovifor]

Can anyone confirm this working in vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta?

[JulianD]

There's a bug (or something working wrong with my live and dev sites):

You're inserting the requested nick to the database in an escaped form, but once the admin approves the nick, it's given escaped to the datamanager. For example:

<julian> gets inserted as &lt;julian&gt; to the database. That's ok.

But once the admin approves the change, you're passing the escaped string without unescaping it. So vbulletin thinks that the username to change is &lt;julian&gt; and will produce an error.

[TCE Killa]

I have the exact same problem as Bruce Lee..... Hack installed correctly, I just can't activate in the Usergroup Manager.

[King Kovifor]

That is a very weird bug indeed. As soon as my programming workspace is back to normal I will check this one out.

TCE, you have the bitfield .xml uploaded to /forum_root/includes/xml/? That may be your problem as well as Bruce's.