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 !

[akulion]

abramelin its likely to work with CURL

the thing u should be worried about is when it uses fopen

[akulion]

everything seems to be working
but when i invite people i get this

PHP Code:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/.cash/akulion/path-to-peace.com/community/postage.php
Line: 6 


any ideas?

[abramelin]

Warning: fopen(/home/hebele/public_html/gmailcookie.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /mygmail.php on line 26

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /mygmail.php on line 27

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /home/hebele/public_html/mygmail.php on line 43

any ideas?

[lebanon]

yes the uploaded postage had uncleaned code i updated the attachment
For you just open postage.php remove the first lines
<head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> </head>
and save, that will fix the headers issue.
Sorry, i uploaded the first attachment first time !

[lebanon]

akulion ! yes this happened today, i was updating phrases and this happened, thank you for bringing this to my attention, ill get to fix it right away !

edit: fixed i accidentally duplicated my phrases with another, i reverted them and working fine now.

[abramelin]

Originally Posted by abramelin

Warning: fopen(/home/hebele/public_html/gmailcookie.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /mygmail.php on line 26

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /mygmail.php on line 27

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /home/hebele/public_html/mygmail.php on line 43

any ideas?

does this mean that i dont have curl and fopen?

[kartik786]

Does it support CRON ?

If someone adds hundreds and thousands of contacts and then sends invites.. my host will shut down the mail server.

[akulion]

Originally Posted by kartik786

Does it support CRON ?

If someone adds hundreds and thousands of contacts and then sends invites.. my host will shut down the mail server.

let me tell u a neat lil trick for this problem

I used to have it too - my host would give me a LOT of trouble when I would send a news letter to my 1500+ members

this is what I did...

Go to: https://domains.live.com

It will give u instructions on how to get your domain registered with hotmail.
Once you do that and change your custom MX settings to point to their servers...guess what?

You will be able to make and even give out (optional) email address like username@yourdomain.com

The good thing about this is..since your email is now powered by hotmail...so you dont get annoying restrictions with amount of emails u can send or other stuff
enjoy

[GizmoPhreak]

Im with dreamhost..will it work?

[bazzup]

probably being stupid here but once you import how do you send?

bazz