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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[slvr ralliart]

I have a request to add for this...

For the note... can you make it so we can put our invite msg by default, so when a user goes to invite it automatically shows:

Welcome to the test site...

we hope that...blah blah blah

let me know!

[akanevsky]

It does display that. Send yourself a message and you will see it.
The contents of that message can be edited easily because they are stored in a phrase.

[slvr ralliart]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

It does display that. Send yourself a message and you will see it.
The contents of that message can be edited easily because they are stored in a phrase.

awesome...

So instead of what is automatically there now as a msg, please tell me step by step onto how and where to set my own msg instead of what you put as the default.

Thank You

[akanevsky]

vBulletin ACP -> Search in Phrases -> invites_letter (type it in) -> ENTER

[slvr ralliart]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

vBulletin ACP -> Search in Phrases -> invites_letter (type it in) -> ENTER

ok i'm in invites_letter so I click edit then where exactly do I put it? I don't see the box to edit.

do i put it in that big box that says english to the left next to that?

[HansMuenchen]

Hi Psionic,

do you have any idea why it not work at me? Means why it's not possible that users can us the link what is send by email and only become the forbidden message? Must I disable the Birthday option to work? Does I must set something into the usergroups?

Thnx for help me!

Greetings
Hans

[lazyseller]

Psionic Vision Great hack i installed it and everything running good ....

Thank You so much ... another high quality hack once again..

I do have a question though what happans to invites that are not ? accepted or recieved ? For example if a user sent a invite and it never got accepted will it still be listed in the invites section forever ?

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by slvr ralliart

ok i'm in invites_letter so I click edit then where exactly do I put it? I don't see the box to edit.

do i put it in that big box that says english to the left next to that?

Yes, I believe so.

I do have a question though what happans to invites that are not ? accepted or recieved ? For example if a user sent a invite and it never got accepted will it still be listed in the invites section forever ?

Yes, but it expires after a certain amount of days that you may configure using vBulletin Options -> Invites System.

[lazyseller]

Thanks Psionic Vision

Do you know if there is a simple way of resetting a users referral count ? for some reason members have entered in my name when signing up 6 times

[akanevsky]

UPDATE PFXuser SET referrerid = 0 WHERE referrerid = YOURID
change PFX to your table prefix (if any), and YOURID to your userid.