Dorm Manager System

What Dorm Manager System is:
-Creates forums based on your default dorms settings based on post count eligibility. The creator (leader) of the dorm is granted several powers, which only exist in the dorm manager system (there is no extra usergroup). These include regulating members who apply for membership to their dorm, creating threads when the default forum option is set to private, and regulating the existing threads of their dorm. This includes setting one of them as 'Public', which makes it accessible to the whole forums regardless of membership (guestroom). Leaders also can delete their dorm. Members can only exist in one dorm at a time, and everything is completely automated.

Requirements:
-(Optional) A specified parent dorm forum set up

Features:
Settings:
Dorm Name-- Dorm, Clan, Room, Floor etc
Guestroom Name-- Lobby, Guestroom, Closet etc
The Master Dorm Forum-- forum which all the dorm forums appear in
Postcount requirements to lead or join a dorm
Maximum members per dorm, maximum total dorms, maximum threads allowed per dorm
Options between name/numeric dorm name type, and limits on the sizes of both.
Standard forum settings--resembles the forum creation page in the admin cp, which all created forums recieve

-MANY more which I cannot remember!

Installation:
-Upload a few files, run a couple of them, a handful of file edits. Clean installation should take less than 10 minutes for the average admin. Complete instructions are inside the zip.

Upgrade hack version 3.1.3 to 1.4:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Upgrade hack version 3.1.2 to 3.1.3:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Supplemental Images:
-Additional Screenshots can be found in the second attachment, CLICK HERE.

Donations and Future Versions:
-PayPal Donations to blackwaltz4@msn.com are gladly accepted, and paid mods are something we could discuss.

This hack is fully free and I'll give support through vbulletin.org

Possible Future Features: None (?)

Notes:
-Long live RPGN & G-force2k2, to whom this concept is owed, but I automated years later.
-I refuse to make this like vBHosting, or anything that violates Jelsoft agreements.
-FFGON.com IS NOT LONGER OPERATED by me or my partner, Cloudclone.
-vB2 version of this hack can be found HERE.

I UPDATE WHEN NEEDED

If you like this hack and you don't want to miss an update:

THANKS! :up:

[Darkwaltz4]

thats why i said i wish i was here BEFORE you went to all the trouble to get what you wanted :-p but theres more than one way to skin a cat, my way would have done what you wanted, and also what someone wanted previous to you~

oh, and i just looked at your sites implementation of my hack, and im impressed o.o, even better than i intended it...

memo to self for next version: fix bug with title length for text titles...

oh, and i might make a hard-installer template utility, with a press/lift/stick functions...for admins, and release here..

[docvader]

Thanks. I like this hack, because I want an "invitation only" section on my forum, for people to discuss private issues, with invites out to only those that they want to invite. It's perfect.

Let me know what else you come up with, I'm more than happy to play with it on my site. Right now, my implementation of it seems to be doing exactly what I wanted it to.

[boydekort]

hey Darkwaltz4 you are one of the few that helps every user congratz on that I might install your hack when I get home
I just wanted to say that.

[Darkwaltz4]

o.o thanks, i want to see that my hacks end up working like i wanted them to, for more than just myself :-p

oh, and my template wizard is done :-p wrote it in under 3 hours, i feel special ^_^ ill be using it for the auto-template installer for the dorm hack (which is why i wrote this wizard) ill be putting it on vborg in the morning, going to bed now..

[boydekort]

goodnight

[Darkwaltz4]

on a side note, the next version of the dorm hack will have a template install file rendered with the hack i just wrote last night, PLS Hard Install Template Wizard ...so go check it out :-p (especially if you write hacks yourself, will find it very useful)

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

on a side note, the next version of the dorm hack will have a template install file rendered with the hack i just wrote last night, PLS Hard Install Template Wizard ...so go check it out :-p (especially if you write hacks yourself, will find it very useful)

this will give me a chance to check out the new upgrade to the PLS Hard Install Template Wizard! I will install both of them later this week. I assume this dorm system is OK with 3.0.5?

[Kali]

Just installed on 3.0.6 with no problems. Thought I'd mention it for those who aren't sure if they should try it or not.

[Zachariah]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks..again, apologzing for absense

Ismba: youve posted in both versions' threads of this hack, i hope you dont get confused, as each are slightly different, and this version i would say has more features and is easier/better to use, also.. to copy/paste from an email about the same question regarding uninstallation..
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The Dorm manager system manipulates existing features of vbulletin, built to circumvent blocks in certain situations.....therefor..

to remove the features from your forum, just delete dorms.php, and set the permissions of the dorm forums back from locked, etc. if you want to finish it off, delete the dorms_ tables in your database. this will not harm your forums in any way, and as long as you remove links and mention of it, it will be as if the dorm system never existed