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:

[Lionel]

I installed no problems, but when I go to dorms.php I get a page with headers and footers saying 'Welcome to the Dorm Control Panel' with nothing else on it, no links, no controls, nada. How do I populate/create a dorm?

and I got 13 templates instead of 9

never mind, that was the cookies driving me crazy, showing the page sometimes, and some other times not showing it.

[Darkwaltz4]

DBC-DevNull: The dorm is linked to the forum via the forumid. The forum has no formal connection to the dormid. The dorm table contains formal lists of members including the leader, as well as the dorm number. Deleting a forum and then manually making it back would not work, because the dorm table needs to be updated with the new forumid, as well as each member needs the new forumid, or else nothing will be linked.

What happens when you try to leave or resign? Any vb errors? Any db errors? Or does it appear that the dorm manager simply refreshes?

Lionel: It REALLY sounds like you tried to install the vb2 version of the hack, instead of the vb3 version. I highly suggest you check the php files, the tops should say 3.1.X, and if they don't you should download the file from the beginning of this exact thread, and start all over. If it does, they tell me if there is still problems and I will help you with them.

[DBC-DevNull]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

DBC-DevNull: The dorm is linked to the forum via the forumid. The forum has no formal connection to the dormid. The dorm table contains formal lists of members including the leader, as well as the dorm number. Deleting a forum and then manually making it back would not work, because the dorm table needs to be updated with the new forumid, as well as each member needs the new forumid, or else nothing will be linked.

What happens when you try to leave or resign? Any vb errors? Any db errors? Or does it appear that the dorm manager simply refreshes?

Lionel: It REALLY sounds like you tried to install the vb2 version of the hack, instead of the vb3 version. I highly suggest you check the php files, the tops should say 3.1.X, and if they don't you should download the file from the beginning of this exact thread, and start all over. If it does, they tell me if there is still problems and I will help you with them.

no errors and i can`t leave the current dorm

[Darkwaltz4]

first of all, leaders cant resign from their dorm without liquidating it. so there isnt a resign problem, its a liquidation one. and im looking into it. if i have to change something, i might be adding member thread creation support as well as auto-installer for templates. maybe. and only if this requires a new version

one thing to check: are you checking the checkbox before clicking liquidate? without it the action would just be ignored.

[Lionel]

no that was the latest version.... i had a cookie problem, everything seems to be fine

[Darkwaltz4]

okay...good to see everythihng worked, although i dont know how a cookie problem could have produced what you described was happening

but congratulations nonetheless

[Mystictrunks03]

this is awesome! im definately gonna download this thanks alot no problems for me except is the otion public acess mean if u put no for any other non-members of the dorm cannot see? and do u make threads in the dorm.php or valid members can make threads in the forum itself? just wanting to make sure....

[Darkwaltz4]

Public Access means that if you set it, ANYONE in your forums, regardless of if they are joined to the dorm or not, can post in any thread in it. with this off, this only applies to the public threads. As a member of a dorm, all threads in it are in your posting reach.

If the dorm forum is closed to the public (same option) then the only way for threads to be made is via the DCP, otherwise, the new thread button is usable by ANYONE in your forums. also this will disable the thread limit.

Everyone can view these threads, just not post in them if the public option is turned off.

[Mystictrunks03]

r u gonna have a next version thats gonna have some more features like turn off public view cept for admins and mods of the forum?

[Darkwaltz4]

if enough people want it and DEV ends up NOT having an issue with deleting dorms