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.

[Kiros72]

Agreed. I wish I could get 1.0.9 to be compatable with my vBulletin 3.7.1 ='[

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Kiros72

Agreed. I wish I could get 1.0.9 to be compatable with my vBulletin 3.7.1 ='[

What isn't working one 3.7.1?

[Spinball]

Nice hack.
For 3.7.1 the position of the Request Username link in Admin CP could be better. How about in the Miscellaneous group further up rather than at the bottom?

Also could you sort the requests with the most recent at the top? We have several hundred in the list which take *ages* to load, so paginating the requests would be nice, too.

And lastly, I would remove the exclamation mark from the rejected PM title as this might incite the recipient to be even more upset than they already might be. And I would quote the rejected name in the PM in case the recipient forgot what name he requested.

Otherwise it seems to be working fine with 3.7.1 PL1

[edit: Oh and why are there .DS_Store files in every folder of your zip? They are an annoyance]

[Alex@Mk3OC]

Got this installed and working on 3.7.1

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Nice hack.
For 3.7.1 the position of the Request Username link in Admin CP could be better. How about in the Miscellaneous group further up rather than at the bottom?

Also could you sort the requests with the most recent at the top? We have several hundred in the list which take *ages* to load, so paginating the requests would be nice, too.

And lastly, I would remove the exclamation mark from the rejected PM title as this might incite the recipient to be even more upset than they already might be. And I would quote the rejected name in the PM in case the recipient forgot what name he requested.

Otherwise it seems to be working fine with 3.7.1 PL1

[edit: Oh and why are there .DS_Store files in every folder of your zip? They are an annoyance]

Thanks for the suggestions! While the back end could be improved, I will improve it. Also, the ! in the title is because it is THE same phrase used for the acceptance. And the .DS_Store files are OS X files. They are completely irrelevant to the mod.

[Conspiracy]

I've installed this on Vb 3.6.10 and everything seems to be fine, except I am sure I am being stupid but I can't find where to change the permissions for the usergroup, I've looked in usergroup manager and there appears to be nothing there to allow groups to request name changes. Some help please?

[King Kovifor]

Did you upload all the .xml files?

[Conspiracy]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

Did you upload all the .xml files?

Ah I just checked and Bitfield_unreq did not upload for some reason, I've put it in now and all seems to be working fine, thanks for your help :up:

[EagleNick]

Any word on if this works with 3.7.2 ?

Thanks

[King Kovifor]

I believe it does.