Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Username Change v1 (vB4)

What is Username Change?
Username Change is Brought to you by the Designer of products such as RPG Inferno and Inferno vBShout and the programmer of RPG Integration v3.

Username Change from DragonByte Tech is a modification designed to allow users to change their usernames at will (within your configured limits, of course).

About Username Change
Your members will no longer bug you for username changes, you can let them change it whenever they want!

It also has a history feature in the member profile, showing a list of previous usernames. This history feature uses vBulletin's own Profile Change history - no additional tables needed!

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support is handled at the Developers Website.

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Feature List

• Uses vBulletin's "Profile Change History" feature for maximum compatibility with other mods
• Change username via UserCP -> Edit Profile
• One-click revert username via UserCP -> Edit Profile
• Username change history in a member's profile
• Moderators can change usernames at any time easily
• "Can Change Own Username" permission for users
• "Can Change Others Usernames" permission for mods
• "Can View Own History" permission for profile block
• "Can View Others History" permission for profile block
• Per-usergroup username change delay (in days)
• Per-usergroup profile history limit
• Per-usergroup maximum total username changes

ModCP Change Log

• Paginated results of all username changes
• Displays date of change, old value and new value
• Displays who changed the username
• Choose date range to display, or view all changes

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

I'll rename the folder to "upload" instead, to be consistent with other DBTech products


Fillip

[blue7]

Very useful, thanks a lot...installed.

[sung]

Originally Posted by sung

4.0.8 seems to have changed something (CSS probably?) so now the tabs in the user profile don't look quite right.



Notice the extra space around the tab between the light and dark blue lines as I'm hovering over the tab in the screen shot.

I haven't had a chance yet to look to see what needs to be changed to fix, but iTrader also had this issue until its newest update, so maybe that could help in narrowing down the problem?

Fixed this myself, which requires 2 changes.

1. Add a new template called: "dbtech_username_change_membertab_css"
   with the following contents:
   

   #usernamehistory-tab, #usernamehistory-tab a:hover {
   	height:25px;
   	display:inline;
   	background-color:transparent;
   	margin:0px;
   	padding:0px;
   	text-align:center;
   	border:none;
   	<vb:if condition="$stylevar['textdirection'] == 'rtl'">
   	float: {vb:stylevar left};
   	<vb:else/>
   	clear:both;
   	</vb:if>
   }
   
   a:hover#usernamehistory-tab {
   	background:transparent;
   }

2. Add this to the bottom of the "Member Profile: Add Username History Tab" plugin (the one that uses the member_build_blocks_start hook):
   

   if (version_compare($vbulletin->options['templateversion'], '4.0.8', '>=')) 
   { 
       $template_hook['memberinfo_css'] .= vB_Template::create('dbtech_username_change_membertab_css')->render(); 
   }

[smnet]

With such a large board I would love to see a feature whereby admins can see who has changed their username between X time period. Without that things could get very very difficult to track.

[midnz]

Originally Posted by smnet

With such a large board I would love to see a feature whereby admins can see who has changed their username between X time period. Without that things could get very very difficult to track.

Asked and answered.

Originally Posted by midnz

Is there are way of searching for a username that has since changed, apart from knowing in advance what their user ID number is?
Example: John changes his name to Jack. How do you find John if you need to contact him and don't know that he has changed his username?

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Nope that's not possible, though someone could write a mod that searches vBulletin's Profile History (which this mod utilises) - it's not something we've currently got planned, though.


Fillip

I agree with you smnet.

[smnet]

Originally Posted by midnz

Asked and answered.
I agree with you smnet.

Could anyone provide the sql query? I could *maybe* wrap it inside a mod - been looking for the chance to get dirty with vB4.

[Paul.]

I can't figure out where to put the files in the DBTech folder.. /actions/hooks folders have things in them.. Lost now

Guessed a few things but failed.

[DragonByte Tech]

Please follow the instructions in the readme.txt file


Fillip

[Paul.]

Hi Fillip, I have tried my best to do so and not sure now if I should find everything I added and just remove them. The folder named 'bdtech' is what confuses me. I know where to place the files from the other two folders.
Thanks for your reply.

[DragonByte Tech]

Step 1: Download the .zip file.
Step 2: Extract it.
Step 3: Open the "forum" folder, select all files, hit Copy
Step 4: Open your FTP program, navigate to your Forum folder (as per your screenshot)
Step 5: Paste the files.

If Copy / Paste doesn't work, substitute Copy and Paste with Drag and Drop, which should work.

Hope that helps


Fillip