Invites System

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|| Invites System
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.0
|| Released : Dec 19, 2005
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|| Time required to install: 1 minute
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

A complete invites system for your vBulletin board.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 3
Template Changes: 4
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Configuration Options:

• The system can be turned on and off.
• Registration can be set to either require invite code to sign up or to continue allowing regular registrations when the system is on.
• Invite Expiration Period.
• Minimal Posts Required to Receive Changes in Number of Invites.
• Minimal Reputation Required to Receive Changes in Number of Invites.
• Number of Posts Required to Get One (1) Invite.
• Number of Invites Received or Subtracted per Reputation (+ for positive, - for negative).
• Initial Number of Invites Given on Registration (Sign Up).
• Usergroups that May Not Use Invite Manager.
• Usergroups that May Use Invite Manager (Optional Override).
• Initial Registration Usergroup (only pertaining to registration by invites).
• Do or Do Not make users linked by an invite mutual buddies after the completion of registration of the person invited.
• Single / Multiple Address Line Field.
• If Multiple, Number of Fields to Show.

Miscellaneous Features:

• Upon invite-based registration, the person who issued the invite is set up as a referrer of the person invited. Therefore, free specification of a referrer is restricted during such registration.
• Image (GD) Verification.
• Administrator can manually edit any user's invite count.
• If a user is permitted to issue invites (based on both the number of unused invites and the system permissions), that user has a link to invites of usercp home (says "Click here to invite new users!"). When a user has no invites left, the link does not show up. Nevertheless, as long as system permissions allow access to the Invite Manager, the usercp navlink continues to show up, so that the user would have access to his/her invite history, which is available just below the "Issue New Invite" form.
• If registration is set to require invite code to sign up, the navbar register link becomes hidden.
• If registration is set to continue allowing non-invited sign ups, the number of invites available to any single user is unlimited. Therefore, the number of invites left does not show up.
• Invite History in UserCP, on the bottom of the invite manager.
• Single-Line AddressField, with Unlimited # Of Simultaneous Recipients, within the bounds of invite tokens.
• Multiple-Line AddressField, with Limited Configurable # Of Simultaneous Recipients, within the bounds of invite tokens.
• Unregistered Users, Banned Users and Users with No Forumview Permissions cannot use invite manager. Therefore, you do not have to specify those usergroups in the list of usergroups that may not use the invite manager.
• Invite counts are automatically updated once a week, based on the admincp-configured settings.
• Per-user invite usage restriction.
• Inactive users, who do not post anything new, will gradually lose all of their invites.

VERSION HISTORY

1.5.0
A new, commercial release.

1.4.0
[+] Image verification to avoid multiple submits.

1.3.0
[+] New Config Option: Single-Field / Multiple-Field Address Line (Default: Multiple-Field)
[+] New Config Option: Number of fields to show if multiple option is chosen.
[+] User Option, which lets an administrator restrict invite system usage for that single user.
[F] Fixed Bug, which prevented a user from registration if COPPA was enabled.
[F] Fixed Bug, which prevented a user from sending out an invite if he had zero invites and dependency on registration was turned off.
[F] Fixed Bug, which continued to show the invite form after it was submitted, even if there were no more invites left.

1.2.0
[+] New Config Option: Usergroups that May Use Invite Manager (Optional Override).
[+] New Config Option: Initial Registration Usergroup (only pertaining to registration by invites).

1.0.2
[+] Ability to send unlimited simultaneous invites, within the bounds of invite count owned.
[+] Improved invite interface (see screenshot).
[F] A couple of hard-coded forgotten phrases have been moved into the phrase system.

1.0.1
[+] Amount of posts required to get one invite is now configurable
[+] When a user can issue invites, he/she has a link on usercp (which says "Click here to Invite a New User!")
[+] When invites are required to register, there is no direct "Register" link in the navbar
[+] When invites are not required to register, there is no limitation on invites, and therefore the number of invites left is not shown
[+] Administrator can now edit invite counts manually using Admin Manager
[+] Administrator can now specify which usergroups cannot use Invite Manager
[+] More descriptive AdminCP Hack Options
[F] Added TABLE_PREFIX to the Install Code
[F] Fixed a Typo in Registration Code
[F] In the Invite History, invites are now lister in a descending order, rather than ascending. In other words, the latest invites are now on the top.

1.0.0
Initial Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by nalim

Ok now how do i change the invite text?

language phrase manager / edit ....and search for them and save :-)

[maroulis]

amazing hack - but here's a question...

is there any way under invite history to be able to see name/email/date sent because right now I get this

Invites History
Status Issued Received Accepted By
Pending... Today
Pending... Today
Pending... Today

thanks

[nalim]

Well your invites need to be accepted first

[maroulis]

i understand but it would be nice from end-user point of view to know who he/she invited even though they are in pending state so adding email address or first/last name is what I'm asking

[opteek]

Ok, I've found a major problem in updateinvites_count.php.

I am getting a ton of users who have 0 reputation and no significant post count recieving 7 invites, one user on my system, who has a reputation of 0 and has not posted significantly this last week (I have one invite per 25 posts set) recieved -11 invites this last update.

If this could be looked into, I would greatly appreciate it.

Also, an option to give someone 1 invite per 5 reputation recieved, instead of having 1 invite per 1 reputation be the minimum, would be nice.

[akanevsky]

Also, an option to give someone 1 invite per 5 reputation recieved, instead of having 1 invite per 1 reputation be the minimum, would be nice.

Decimal invites? Doesn't make any sense.

If this could be looked into, I would greatly appreciate it.

There is nothing to be looked into. Specify a minimum required reputation to receive updates.

[XtremeOffroad]

Since upgrading to 3.5.3 the invite link no longer shows in the user cp, Any ideas?
I have reupped all files and still no luck.

[akanevsky]

You must also redo template edits.

[XtremeOffroad]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

You must also redo template edits.

Did that as well.

Edit: It appears to be a permission setting but I can not find where.
Where is the system permissions to allow access to the Invite Manager?
I'm wondering if that is my problem.

Also If I go to mysite.invite.php I get the following error.
you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[opteek]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Decimal invites? Doesn't make any sense.



There is nothing to be looked into. Specify a minimum required reputation to receive updates.

So basiclly, I can't disable the min_reputation_torecieve invites? I don't think you're understanding. These people are reciving way more invites then they are supposed to. They have not had any reputation changes since the last inviteupdates_count and much less than 25 posts, if any, yet they are reciving 7 invites, which clearly should NOT be happening...

And what is the deal with some guy getting -11 invites?? He has had a reputation of 0 from the beginning, so where is this coming from??

Any how do "decimal invites" not make any sense? It is the same principle as for posts. User recieves on invite for ever 25 posts; user recieves one invite for every 5 reputation he recieves..