Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Username Change v1 (vB4)

What is Username Change?
Username Change is Brought to you by the Designer of products such as RPG Inferno and Inferno vBShout and the programmer of RPG Integration v3.

Username Change from DragonByte Tech is a modification designed to allow users to change their usernames at will (within your configured limits, of course).

About Username Change
Your members will no longer bug you for username changes, you can let them change it whenever they want!

It also has a history feature in the member profile, showing a list of previous usernames. This history feature uses vBulletin's own Profile Change history - no additional tables needed!

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Feature List

• Uses vBulletin's "Profile Change History" feature for maximum compatibility with other mods
• Change username via UserCP -> Edit Profile
• One-click revert username via UserCP -> Edit Profile
• Username change history in a member's profile
• Moderators can change usernames at any time easily
• "Can Change Own Username" permission for users
• "Can Change Others Usernames" permission for mods
• "Can View Own History" permission for profile block
• "Can View Others History" permission for profile block
• Per-usergroup username change delay (in days)
• Per-usergroup profile history limit
• Per-usergroup maximum total username changes

ModCP Change Log

• Paginated results of all username changes
• Displays date of change, old value and new value
• Displays who changed the username
• Choose date range to display, or view all changes

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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

There's a comparable mod out for 3.x so we have no plans to release this for vB3 at this time.

Fillip

[David Karol]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Please re-check your usergroup permissions, we're running 4.1.3 on DBTech and it's working fine here


Fillip

Got it. The files weren't merged in the includes folder.

Another question: I changed my username using the mod, and was unable to change it back through it. I changed the field in the database back to the original user name. Is there anything that is affected by the mod?

[DragonByte Tech]

That'd be the Username Reuse Delay setting in vBulletin.

Fillip

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by David Karol

Got it. The files weren't merged in the includes folder.

Another question: I changed my username using the mod, and was unable to change it back through it. I changed the field in the database back to the original user name. Is there anything that is affected by the mod?

You can change it back without the delay from the profiles in your AdminCP. I changed mine, then changed it back immediately through the AdminCP.

[Domenico]

Can this be linked with your own vBactivity and/or vBcredits product? So peoiple can earn/buy their username change?

[Alfa1]

Is there a paid version as well? If yes, then what extra functions are in that version?

Is it possible to only display the user name history to moderators and admins?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Domenico

Can this be linked with your own vBactivity and/or vBcredits product? So peoiple can earn/buy their username change?

There's no integration with other products at this time, sorry

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is there a paid version as well? If yes, then what extra functions are in that version?

Is it possible to only display the user name history to moderators and admins?

Not at the moment no, we'll take it into consideration if we ever update this mod though


Fillip

[HMBeaty]

Since questions are being asked, are you ever going to update this mod with the fixed template changes posted throughout this thread?

[sung]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is it possible to only display the user name history to moderators and admins?

Sure, edit the "Member Profile: Display Username History Tab" plugin to the following:

if(is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, X,Y,Z)){
require_once(DIR . '/dbtech/username_change/includes/hooks/member_complete.php');
}

Change X,Y,Z to the usergroups that you'd like to be able to see the tab.

[Domenico]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

There's no integration with other products at this time, sorry

Not at the moment no, we'll take it into consideration if we ever update this mod though


Fillip

Will you ever support add this? I mean why no integration for your owns products? It will make them more valuable.