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]

NEW VERSION 1.4
-Bugfixes: a few, correct template set

-Changes: some light template tweaks, optimizations for all pages, proper vB Code Standards

-Additions: allowed usergroups, optional passwords, log into any dorm cp if admin, automatic template installation/update

And a few more which I didnt keep track of....

Upgrade:
-Download the zip file in the first post, and the upgrade zip in this post. Follow the instructions in the upgrade zip.

Be sure to click install!

[Sykoi]

I've installed this version and I seem to have a bit of a problem; my members are complaining about not being able to join other dorms, and the admin control (To control dorms) isn't working right for me (When you submit any form it sends you back to your own family)

[Darkwaltz4]

users can only be a member of one dorm (family) at a time. i looked at your site and you seem to have many members who are joined properly. were you using an older version and it has now stopped working? or did you install this version and it has now begun working?

also i believe the admin workaround i believe is working properly. unless you are not able to complete actions which you specify, ill have to fix it. otherwise your meant to just do the one action at a time.

[Sykoi]

I installed new version (From old version, the version right before the latest) and it stopped working correctly.

Try creating your own family, then using the admin control system... It bugs out and always goes back to your own family (Sending anyone who has an invite to that family as well)

[Darkwaltz4]

alright i think i know of what the problem is.

i technically only applied the admin override system for dorm (family) leaders who vanish and leave their members stranded (as this was an issue on my implementation, and even as admin i couldnt do something easily to do this :-p).

can users still create dorms and manage them as before? can you as admin create and manage your own dorm? (so only the part about accessing through the ACP?)

[dotagious]

Is it possible to set a different leader requirement, such as reputation instead of post count or a comination of reputation, post count and/or days registered?

[Darkwaltz4]

sure, but this quick fix will need to be hardcoded

first, find this in dorms.php

PHP Code:

    if ($bbuserinfo['posts'] < $options['pcreatedorm'])
    {
        $reason = construct_phrase($vbphrase['dorms_err_create'], $options['pcreatedorm'], $options['dormname']);
        $cantmakedorm = true;
    } 


for reputation, first decide the target rep, ill call it X, then add this underneath that

PHP Code:

    if ($bbuserinfo['reputation'] < X)
    {
        $reason = 'You need a higher reputation to create a dorm';
        $cantmakedorm = true;
    } 


And likewise for days registered, target days is called X, add underneath again

PHP Code:

    if (floor($bbuserinfo['joindate'] / (3600 * 24)) < X)
    {
        $reason = 'You have not been registered long enough to create a dorm';
        $cantmakedorm = true;
    } 


to remove different requirements, just remove the respective 'if' block.
also, you can likewise impose the same restrictions on joining a dorm by doing the same, except changing $cantmakedorm = true; , to $cantjoindorm = true; , and changing the respective descriptions to match.

[ronoxQ]

Any chance you'll update to version 3.5?

[KBV]

Same as above. ^^ Looks like a sweet mod and just what I'm looking for actually.

[dotagious]

same here... 3.5 possible?