Dorm Manager System

History:
Well, about 3 years ago I was on a forum, which had a dorm system. What that meant was that a bunch of people would be granted a forum created by the admin, and they could post whatever they wanted in there. When I began my own forums 2 years ago, I liked the idea and did the same thing. It gets tons of activity, but it had several major flaws: I as admin had too much involvement with this, constantly adding forums for the hack, and adding users to descriptions. Also couldn't keep up with growing demand and the system which supposedly kept only the members of the dorm from posting was actually completely nonexistant. It was all the honor system. So it all breaks down, and for a year I haven't had a dorm system. Until now, when I've created a dorm management system which allows exactly what we had before, except with more control and far more automations.

What this hack DOES:
Creates forums based on your default settings (in dorm configuration) based on eligibility for it (post count). The creator of the dorm (leader) is granted several powers, which only exist in the dorm manager system (there is no extra usergroup). They are: regulating members who apply for membership to their created dorm, creating threads in their dorm (which is set to closed to the public in the default options), and regulating the existing threads of their dorm, including setting one of them as 'Public' (postable in by everyone, a guestroom). Leaders also can delete their dorm. Members can only exist in one dorm at a time, and everything is completely automated.

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, and maximum dorm number (just to keep the numbers from getting outlandish)
Standard forum settings--resembles the forum creation page in the admin cp, which all created forums recieve

Future:
This hack was just meant for me to hammer out the idea and concepts before I get into the technicalities of vb3. This hack completely works for vb2, I spent a week testing it. But in a few days I should hopefully have it ported to vb3, and then I'll have a place where you can see it in action. (the vb2 test forum is on a laptop which is not accessible online)

I'm here for help to get this working on vb2, and also for questions or comments, and if anyone uses this, do click install :-p

Long Live RPGU, and g-force2k2 :-p thats where we all fell in love with dorms from (or at least we at ffgon did)

INPORTANT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION MISSING:
RUN THIS QUERY
ALTER TABLE user ADD dorm_forumid INT(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'

[PixelFx]

sweet hack, can't wait to see it for vb3 .. do you ever plan to release a vb3 version of your top100 hack?

[Darkwaltz4]

top100 hack? you mean my topsites? yeah, were working on it for neo ffgon, but it wont be a vbulletin hack. completely standalone, and it might be custom designed for our site only :-/

[MindTrix]

Sounds like something i could use for my hip hop site, WHEN it comes out on vB3 Nice one mate great work, will the vB3 have anything different?

[Darkwaltz4]

yes, it wont work for vb2.

lol, actually i might add some prefix things to the hack, but it will be for both versions :-p
keep eyes peeled for vb3 version :-p

[Darkwaltz4]

Sorry for the doublepost, I'll edit these two posts together once the next person replies, but I found something I forgot to put into the instructions (and the vb3 copy-over for attachments takes too long, and nobody hit install, but 9 people downloaded it)

RUN THIS QUERY
ALTER TABLE user ADD dorm_forumid INT(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'


>.< Sorry about that

On a side note, the vb3 version is about 40% complete. Also, this version WILL be getting a revision after I've seen all the stuff wrong with it when trying to port it to vb3 :-p

[dndog]

Is there a way that you can allow users to customize the name of the dorm instead of just a number?

[Darkwaltz4]

i was thinking of allowing a number + suffix thing, or a mix of both, or something like that :-p so in the next version sure, im just focusing on the vb3 one first :-p

[donBLACK]

i would really wish there was something else besides that number...any ffixes to get it to the actual name that is typed in

[Darkwaltz4]

alright, the new version will have an admin option for number/string dorm names (which means the vb3 version, now at 95%, will take another day :-p) which will also get that option

[pie]

I think its a bit iffy the fact that they wont allow vBHosting but will allow this. :| Good hack all the same mate.