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 djbaxter

Which version? Mine isn't that way and I didn't do any Belly Belly modifications to the add-on.

Sorry. That was badly phrased. The first part was for you.

Originally Posted by Pocket Aces

Would be better if usergroup permission is added. Only specified usergroups will be allowed to use that feature or request for username change.

The should be there. They were added completely in 1.0.7...

[djbaxter]

With version 1.08, this is all I see as options in the Admin CP:

What is the minimum posts limit. The modification will check to see if you are able to change username with this first.

Administrator Notification
Please place the id of the user who you would like to receive notifications.

PM Sender
What is the id of the user who you would like to "send the message".

Where am i supposed to be able to limit usergroups viewing name change history?

[jGas]

hi!
great modification!

but..is there a way to make the user to change his nickname himself?

thanks!

[Bilderback]

Is there any way to add a check feature which will check to see if a request is pending?
I had a user submit 10 requests for the same name change because the PM was overlooked.
It would be nice to give the user a message stating they already have a name request pending.

[DssCrazy]

Known Bugs:
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.
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.

have these bugs been fixed yet?

Thanks

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by DssCrazy

Known Bugs:
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.
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.


have these bugs been fixed yet?

Thanks

Yes. But not released. My computer won't let me access my localhost. And I have a lot of unfinished features in there...

[Grampz]

*Clicks Installed*

Great mod, King. I had a name change thread but this is much easier for me to keep track of.

[King Kovifor]

The next update may be vB 3.7.0 only. I may back-port it and remove vB 3.7.0 only features (like tabs in the profile) and things like that. Hopefully this is good news for some!

[stwilson]

Can't wait for the 3.7 version. Good work King!

[Martin-TMGRS]

Can someone help please!!! I'm getting a database error.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.9:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE `unreq` (
`id` INT(5) AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,
`userid` INT(5),
`requested` VARCHAR(255),
`username` VARCHAR(255),
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

MySQL Error : Table 'unreq' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Date : Tuesday, April 8th 2008 @ 06:40:06 PM
Script : http://**.**.**.***/forum/admincp/pl...=productimport
Referrer : http://**.**.**.***/forum/admincp/pl...?do=productadd
IP Address : **.**.**.***
Username : Martin
Classname : vB_Database