Invites System

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|| Invites System
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.0
|| Released : Dec 19, 2005
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|| Time required to install: 1 minute
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

A complete invites system for your vBulletin board.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 3
Template Changes: 4
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Configuration Options:

• The system can be turned on and off.
• Registration can be set to either require invite code to sign up or to continue allowing regular registrations when the system is on.
• Invite Expiration Period.
• Minimal Posts Required to Receive Changes in Number of Invites.
• Minimal Reputation Required to Receive Changes in Number of Invites.
• Number of Posts Required to Get One (1) Invite.
• Number of Invites Received or Subtracted per Reputation (+ for positive, - for negative).
• Initial Number of Invites Given on Registration (Sign Up).
• Usergroups that May Not Use Invite Manager.
• Usergroups that May Use Invite Manager (Optional Override).
• Initial Registration Usergroup (only pertaining to registration by invites).
• Do or Do Not make users linked by an invite mutual buddies after the completion of registration of the person invited.
• Single / Multiple Address Line Field.
• If Multiple, Number of Fields to Show.

Miscellaneous Features:

• Upon invite-based registration, the person who issued the invite is set up as a referrer of the person invited. Therefore, free specification of a referrer is restricted during such registration.
• Image (GD) Verification.
• Administrator can manually edit any user's invite count.
• If a user is permitted to issue invites (based on both the number of unused invites and the system permissions), that user has a link to invites of usercp home (says "Click here to invite new users!"). When a user has no invites left, the link does not show up. Nevertheless, as long as system permissions allow access to the Invite Manager, the usercp navlink continues to show up, so that the user would have access to his/her invite history, which is available just below the "Issue New Invite" form.
• If registration is set to require invite code to sign up, the navbar register link becomes hidden.
• If registration is set to continue allowing non-invited sign ups, the number of invites available to any single user is unlimited. Therefore, the number of invites left does not show up.
• Invite History in UserCP, on the bottom of the invite manager.
• Single-Line AddressField, with Unlimited # Of Simultaneous Recipients, within the bounds of invite tokens.
• Multiple-Line AddressField, with Limited Configurable # Of Simultaneous Recipients, within the bounds of invite tokens.
• Unregistered Users, Banned Users and Users with No Forumview Permissions cannot use invite manager. Therefore, you do not have to specify those usergroups in the list of usergroups that may not use the invite manager.
• Invite counts are automatically updated once a week, based on the admincp-configured settings.
• Per-user invite usage restriction.
• Inactive users, who do not post anything new, will gradually lose all of their invites.

VERSION HISTORY

1.5.0
A new, commercial release.

1.4.0
[+] Image verification to avoid multiple submits.

1.3.0
[+] New Config Option: Single-Field / Multiple-Field Address Line (Default: Multiple-Field)
[+] New Config Option: Number of fields to show if multiple option is chosen.
[+] User Option, which lets an administrator restrict invite system usage for that single user.
[F] Fixed Bug, which prevented a user from registration if COPPA was enabled.
[F] Fixed Bug, which prevented a user from sending out an invite if he had zero invites and dependency on registration was turned off.
[F] Fixed Bug, which continued to show the invite form after it was submitted, even if there were no more invites left.

1.2.0
[+] New Config Option: Usergroups that May Use Invite Manager (Optional Override).
[+] New Config Option: Initial Registration Usergroup (only pertaining to registration by invites).

1.0.2
[+] Ability to send unlimited simultaneous invites, within the bounds of invite count owned.
[+] Improved invite interface (see screenshot).
[F] A couple of hard-coded forgotten phrases have been moved into the phrase system.

1.0.1
[+] Amount of posts required to get one invite is now configurable
[+] When a user can issue invites, he/she has a link on usercp (which says "Click here to Invite a New User!")
[+] When invites are required to register, there is no direct "Register" link in the navbar
[+] When invites are not required to register, there is no limitation on invites, and therefore the number of invites left is not shown
[+] Administrator can now edit invite counts manually using Admin Manager
[+] Administrator can now specify which usergroups cannot use Invite Manager
[+] More descriptive AdminCP Hack Options
[F] Added TABLE_PREFIX to the Install Code
[F] Fixed a Typo in Registration Code
[F] In the Invite History, invites are now lister in a descending order, rather than ascending. In other words, the latest invites are now on the top.

1.0.0
Initial Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[akanevsky]

That would be a great option to add to this for private boards who want to monitor who is inviting who..

Do you need to know accepted invites only? Or every single invite that was sent out?

It would also be nice if we could edit individual members invite options

What kind of options?

Great start on this mod. I really hope you continue adding features to this Psionic

I will, as long as I think they are useful

[Reef]

accepted invites would be good enough for me

As far as individual user options, I think being able to turn on/off for certain members and the ablity to increase/decrease the amount of invites they have would be convienient.

Everyone here I'm sure has some members they trust more than others to invite quality members to thier forums. This would allow us to easily give these trusted members more invites without doing it globally.

Note: this might moreso benifit those like me that have turned off automatic invite increasing.. I only gave each member 5 invites to start and would prefer to hand out increases on an as needed basis instead of having people with 100s of em throwing them all over the place like gmail accounts

[HansMuenchen]

Hi,

today I install the inviting system. So fine so good
I send one test inviting out to see how and if it works. The Emails was send out and allways if I klick on the inviting link the only thing what will be happend is that I can give in the birthdate and after I do that and press continue that error comes up:

You must be invited in order to be able to register on our board. Have a nice day.

Does I forgotten somthing? If I set "Registration by Invites Only" to NO I can register but the name of the person who invited is also empty(?)

Can someone tell me how it must normaly work if it works perfect?

(Sorry for my maybe badly english, but I hop you will understand what I mean!)

Greetings out of Munich
Hans

[Developer]

wonderful hack
installed

[akanevsky]

accepted invites would be good enough for me

then be it

As far as individual user options, I think being able to turn on/off for certain members and the ablity to increase/decrease the amount of invites they have would be convienient.

how about "usergroups which are allowed to use the hack", which will override "usergroups which are not allowed to use the hack"?

[HansMuenchen]

Hi Psionic Vision,

do you have any idea or maybe you can say me why it not work at me?

Because I've 2 questions:

1) Why there comes up the message (when I an inviting and click on the link into the mail):

You must be invited in order to be able to register on our board. Have a nice day.

2) Can I see somewhere, who has invited and whom?

Thnx for answer my questions!

[Reef]

then be it

Excellent, Thanks

how about "usergroups which are allowed to use the hack", which will override "usergroups which are not allowed to use the hack"?

That wouldn't be as helpful as being able to edit an individual user. I was hoping something like this could be added to ACP/User Manager

Really the on/off option isn't necessary now that I think about it since the total invites could just be set to 0.

Couldn't the Total invites option just be added to read/update the data stored in User/invites DB column for that user?

[one9er]

Thank's Psionic Vision!

[sevster]

great work psionic. truly nice my friend. thank you for your hard work.

[akanevsky]

That wouldn't be as helpful as being able to edit an individual user. I was hoping something like this could be added to ACP/User Manager

Last time I checked, you could edit any person's number of invites.

great work psionic. truly nice my friend. thank you for your hard work.

Then you know where to click.