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.

[Adem GEN?]

Members of the new user name in the request

Example: Can request a new user name, 11 characters.

[Adem GEN?]

<div align="left">Okay, pardon the limit is applied quotas off.</div>

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by AdemGEN?

Okay, pardon the limit is applied quotas off.

If a username is against any rules (the same as signing up) it should be rejected by this product. Is it not?

[alfaowner]

I get this error message when I press approve? (vb 3.6.4)
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type vB_DataManager_PM as array in /usr/home/alfaow/public_html/forum/includes/class_bbcode.php(326) : eval()'d code on line 83

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by alfaowner

I get this error message when I press approve? (vb 3.6.4)
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type vB_DataManager_PM as array in /usr/home/alfaow/public_html/forum/includes/class_bbcode.php(326) : eval()'d code on line 83

I will look into this.

[abrecher]

I've been using this plugin since its inception and I'd like to really thank the author. It's saved my mods and myself a huge amount of time.

We'd like to allow our members the ability to change their usernames themselves, without having the process moderated. Is this possible with this plugin ? If not, are there any others out there that allow this ?

[King Kovifor]

It's not available in this plugin, yet.

[SkyCatcher]

So, I have a weird situation.

A User is trying to change his name to Synister. The system tells him it's in violation of forum usernamed. I cleared the list - no usernames are illegal right now.

It let me request Syn Syni Synis Synist Syniste but not Synister.....

Also Eightletters and Madmoo worked as well so it's not the length. Where is it getting it's conditional from since I have not added any usernames to the illegal list?

3.7

[King Kovifor]

Default vBulletin code handles the actual check. I just feed it in the username. But, has "Synister" been used before (in the past year?)

[abrecher]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

It's not available in this plugin, yet.

What I would give for this!

Are there any others besides this one out there ?