Dorm Manager System

History:
Well, about 3 years ago I was on a forum, which had a dorm system. What that meant was that a bunch of people would be granted a forum created by the admin, and they could post whatever they wanted in there. When I began my own forums 2 years ago, I liked the idea and did the same thing. It gets tons of activity, but it had several major flaws: I as admin had too much involvement with this, constantly adding forums for the hack, and adding users to descriptions. Also couldn't keep up with growing demand and the system which supposedly kept only the members of the dorm from posting was actually completely nonexistant. It was all the honor system. So it all breaks down, and for a year I haven't had a dorm system. Until now, when I've created a dorm management system which allows exactly what we had before, except with more control and far more automations.

What this hack DOES:
Creates forums based on your default settings (in dorm configuration) based on eligibility for it (post count). The creator of the dorm (leader) is granted several powers, which only exist in the dorm manager system (there is no extra usergroup). They are: regulating members who apply for membership to their created dorm, creating threads in their dorm (which is set to closed to the public in the default options), and regulating the existing threads of their dorm, including setting one of them as 'Public' (postable in by everyone, a guestroom). Leaders also can delete their dorm. Members can only exist in one dorm at a time, and everything is completely automated.

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, and maximum dorm number (just to keep the numbers from getting outlandish)
Standard forum settings--resembles the forum creation page in the admin cp, which all created forums recieve

Future:
This hack was just meant for me to hammer out the idea and concepts before I get into the technicalities of vb3. This hack completely works for vb2, I spent a week testing it. But in a few days I should hopefully have it ported to vb3, and then I'll have a place where you can see it in action. (the vb2 test forum is on a laptop which is not accessible online)

I'm here for help to get this working on vb2, and also for questions or comments, and if anyone uses this, do click install :-p

Long Live RPGU, and g-force2k2 :-p thats where we all fell in love with dorms from (or at least we at ffgon did)

INPORTANT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION MISSING:
RUN THIS QUERY
ALTER TABLE user ADD dorm_forumid INT(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'

[Darkwaltz4]

I have 7 screenshots

keep in mind the appearance you see is for the default vb2 skin, so the width is liquid. On forums which restrict the width, the panel looks much better :-p

[Darkwaltz4]

and the second set. dont forget that clicking them enlarges them (youd be amazed how much I have to remind people on my forums)

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

and the second set. dont forget that clicking them enlarges them (youd be amazed how much I have to remind people on my forums)

Is this for vB2 or vB3?

[Darkwaltz4]

this is for vb2 right now, although for some reason, it marked it as vb3.......

im working on the vb3 version of it right now, and should be done within a few days, if i dont hit any snags.

(and is anyone else seeing my sig as ads? o.o i wonder if its a remote linking thing my server is doing, or maybe i have adware on this computer -_-)

[Vivi Ornitier]

*waits for the vb3 release*

[Darkwaltz4]

Also it should be noted, that the only option that a user has in the creation of his dorm, is the dormnumber :-p So its safe. The dorm that is created uses the default settings in the admin page, and it formats the rest (description and title)

(id really like to know about my signature >.<)

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Also it should be noted, that the only option that a user has in the creation of his dorm, is the dormnumber :-p So its safe. The dorm that is created uses the default settings in the admin page, and it formats the rest (description and title)

(id really like to know about my signature >.<)

I don't see any adds in your sig.

And nice hack, I'll consider using for my 2.3.5 forum.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Ryan Ashbrook

I don't see any adds in your sig.

And nice hack, I'll consider using for my 2.3.5 forum.

Edit the first post in the thread and change the version number then

[Darkwaltz4]

ah, right. its been a long while since i released anything here, i generally dont like to. they should put the settings into the newthread template

oh, and looking at your vb2 forums ryan, clubs is exactly what this can be used for :-p and you can set them to be called clubs also....but it uses a number indentification system hmm.. Club #23 doesnt seem very interesting...maybe ill add in some prefix settings for things like that, and also for descriptions