Add-On Releases - Contact's Inviter MSN/Yahoo/Gmail & MORE

I just finished this for my website and had it tested, every thing seems working fine
except the basic design i made, hopefully someone would redesign it and submit it

What is this ?
Like major websites, they grew using Invite systems , and prompting their users to send invites to their own contact lists.
This is a vbulletin clone, made as much simply as possible, to do its job
I am not a designer, that will explain the simple tables and designs used.

REQUIREMENTS : PLEASE PAY ATTENTION
You need PHP COMPILED WITH CURL WITH SSL FOR THIS TO WORK and can open remote urls.
The script works fine on many major hosts and custom configurations but the requirements cannot be bypassed.

Demo can be "viewed" on http://www.tchatting.com/forum/inviter.php
However, you need to be registered to test it and will send invites to my own forum.

Features :
Group Permissions , you can specify permissions for every group to be allowed to send invites or not.

Imports contacts from hotmail, live, yahoo, mail, lycosmail , indiatimes, rediffmail and aol
I have tested those mail successfully ( thanks for those who provided their mails to test upon as i didnt have time to register on all these sites )

Installation :
Import 1 xml file
Upload the rest to corresponding folders
EDIT postage.php BEFORE uploading
You will need to modify
$subject = "you are invited to join us!";

$from = "NOTSPAM@YOURDOMAIN";
and optionally $message variable to suit your own liking

I will try to support this as much as i can, to better help you please confirm with your host if curl with ssl is compiled at your host before asking.
If your running on Major Host companies, mention their name perhaps other members could help too or i might know of.

Thats it for now ! Be Kind , Click INSTALL !
If you appreciate this kindly reserve the copyright text, or contact me about branding free options.

As its the first release of this addon, provide feedback to help improve this product.
I will try to support it as much as i can but be aware that occasionally these mail providers change their structure, so there is no guarantees on working time.


Here is a demo on my test board http://www.dotleb.org/upload/inviter.php
This demo will NOT SEND MAIL OUT ! , it will import you contacts but will not send even if you click send ! ( we dont want inviting to a test board do we ! )

April 29th : Updated the zip file, for missing line in myhotmail.php resulting in not showing the send button for old hotmail style inboxes.

April 30th : Luky added another redesigned template here

In progress : Check invites against database to avoid inviting current users by Zia's suggestion

May 3rd :
Two changes were made
a-) Moved all files with proper changes to folder /inviter/ in forum root ( this is due to the fact that even though most hosts do not require chmod but seems some are still having this problem, especially when writing yahoo temporary files, also this cleans up a little on your forum root .
b-) Added a check array on emails against db,
This will check emails that are being sent against your own database, thus if someone is inviting a person who already exist as a member, will not receive the invite email !
Technical details : The line
$comma_separated = implode(",", $my_array); // you can change the , to another separator if you want
You can also use the variable $comma_separated to print a warning in the invite_code2 template , for example

The following list of emails did not receive your invitation because they are already members <center> $comma_separated <center>

Also note, that I did choose not to add the emails being invited to database because that is more like stealing user's contact list emails!

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
Delete all prior 11 php files on the forum root, and upload the new folder structure as
inviter.php and postage.php to forum root, and the folder as /inviter/
No other changes are necessary !
If you want to keep your folder structure and just obtain the DB Check feature, just replace the postage.php file !



Godaddy Hosting and Wild West resold hosting Note :
You will find pages loading and returning no result, that is because ythey use a curl proxy, for every file in the hack find

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

and replace with

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);         
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"http://proxy.shr.secureserver.net:3128");

This will enable the hack to work on their hosting setup !

MAY 30TH :

First sorry for not supporting this as much as earlier i did but due to the busy incidents at lebanon and my actual job in a local newspaper department there was no time for personal hobbies .
This update, with a special Thanks to The Bish who volunteered his ftp access to fix the Yahoo import error .
The script itself had no problems, but due to different servers configurations the problems he faced could also be yours .
Download and update your script with May-30 Project zip file ONLY IF all other scripts are working EXCEPT myyahoo.php !
Extra NOTES to avoid myyahoo.php errors :
chmod folder inviter 777
chmod *.php files (inside the /invite/ folder ) 755 ( ie: myyahoo.php mygmail.php etc )
chmod *.txt files (inside the /invite/ folder ) 777

Another issue was noted when using VBSEO script is to EXCLUDE inviter.php & postage.php from vbseo config administration page ( you should know how to when using vbseo )

These steps has resolved the errors caused by yahoo importer when other importers worked but not yahoo !

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Endurer

Chmodding the yahoocookie.txt doesn't help either. I think the script is trying to create a temp cookie file but the directory permissions do not allow it. I cannot chmod the home directory to 777 because it might create security issues. I think Lebanon has an alternative file maybe for yahoo specifically that'll save cookies in a different folder with necessary permissions.

Lebanon can you please upload it for those of us having issues with yahoo inviter?

Thanks.

mine is working fine and all i did was chmod the txt file...

[shokmuzik.com]

Great hack, her some more ideas for features

-invitation mail as template instead of php
-add some features to the mail like for ex. on the facebox invitation mail screenshot see attachment
-custom mail, user may edit a part of the text/insert his own text
-user can add custom addresses to the imported contacts
-put all files in a 1 directory (for ex. /invite/)
-make it easy to add custom services for other countries

[Mastar]

Hotmail works fine but I tried yahoo and get this:

Warning: fopen(****@yahoo.com) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /myyahoo.php on line 223
can't open file

[The Bish]

Originally Posted by Mastar

Hotmail works fine but I tried yahoo and get this:

Warning: fopen(****@yahoo.com) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /myyahoo.php on line 223
can't open file

That seems to be the issue at hand.

[Luky]

Originally Posted by shokmuzik.com

Great hack, her some more ideas for features

-invitation mail as template instead of php
-add some features to the mail like for ex. on the facebox invitation mail screenshot see attachment
-custom mail, user may edit a part of the text/insert his own text
-user can add custom addresses to the imported contacts
-put all files in a 1 directory (for ex. /invite/)
-make it easy to add custom services for other countries

Thats just stealing.

[Mupetz]

Originally Posted by lebanon

ok kindly do this ( for debugging purposes only )

this ofcourse will not send the mails but will print out its sending them ...
If it did print the emails as emailing , then the problem will be in mail() function as in ur host configuration (we'll get to that if thats the problem)

if that didnt print output, trying removing the whole three lines and replace with

echo "nothing";

echo ("emailing $to");

Yes, i get the email list above header and the confirmation where is supposed to be
Thank you so much for your support.
Waiting for the fix.

The Bish, uploading in binary mode didn't change anything for me, but thank you for sharing the information.

[lebanon]

weird, so its the mail() function, just a quick question
in your vb options, do u use smtp email option ?
If yes, we can port the sending to smtp, and if not, i can still port the posting to use vb own mail class... let me know ur setting , as this shouldnt have been a problem

[lazydesis]

except for gmail and hotmail, i am unable to get this to work on any other systems

its installed at http://lazydesis.com/fun/inviter.php

can you please check and let me know if i need to make some changes ?

does this happen to everyone or is it just me?

[Mupetz]

No, i do not use SMTP

[lebanon]

Mupetz, weird, but u can u send mails from vbulletin to your members right ?
The best i can do is make the postage use the mail class of vb itself , should that be a help in ur case

lazyindian , doesnt it at least throw an error ?