Dorm Manager System

What Dorm Manager System is:
-Creates forums based on your default dorms settings based on post count eligibility. The creator (leader) of the dorm is granted several powers, which only exist in the dorm manager system (there is no extra usergroup). These include regulating members who apply for membership to their dorm, creating threads when the default forum option is set to private, and regulating the existing threads of their dorm. This includes setting one of them as 'Public', which makes it accessible to the whole forums regardless of membership (guestroom). Leaders also can delete their dorm. Members can only exist in one dorm at a time, and everything is completely automated.

Requirements:
-(Optional) A specified parent dorm forum set up

Features:
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
Options between name/numeric dorm name type, and limits on the sizes of both.
Standard forum settings--resembles the forum creation page in the admin cp, which all created forums recieve

-MANY more which I cannot remember!

Installation:
-Upload a few files, run a couple of them, a handful of file edits. Clean installation should take less than 10 minutes for the average admin. Complete instructions are inside the zip.

Upgrade hack version 3.1.3 to 1.4:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Upgrade hack version 3.1.2 to 3.1.3:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Supplemental Images:
-Additional Screenshots can be found in the second attachment, CLICK HERE.

Donations and Future Versions:
-PayPal Donations to blackwaltz4@msn.com are gladly accepted, and paid mods are something we could discuss.

This hack is fully free and I'll give support through vbulletin.org

Possible Future Features: None (?)

Notes:
-Long live RPGN & G-force2k2, to whom this concept is owed, but I automated years later.
-I refuse to make this like vBHosting, or anything that violates Jelsoft agreements.
-FFGON.com IS NOT LONGER OPERATED by me or my partner, Cloudclone.
-vB2 version of this hack can be found HERE.

I UPDATE WHEN NEEDED

If you like this hack and you don't want to miss an update:

THANKS! :up:

[Darkwaltz4]

your member has to apply for your dorm before he will show up in your queue. this is to prevent leaders from roping people into their dorms without their consent :-p

he needs to access the dorm control panel, and find the list of created dorms, and sign up for yours. then you should get a pm, and then he will show up for whatever you plan to do with it.

and the sendpm function posts up the pm to the database just fine. if it isnt appearing then it is probably caused by filtering things, such as being ignored, viewer having admin notifications off, or the pm being sent when the viewer has a full pm box. (thus the 'extra' isnt grabbed when pm listings are queried)

[MindTrix]

if you go to dorm.php it does not show a list of created dorms though

[Darkwaltz4]

can you get me a screenshot of that? its working on ffgon.com, like 9 people have signed up to the 5 dorms right now, all but one created by me

[MindTrix]

look back a page, i added a screenshot, and at the time there was another member who had created a dorm and invited me 2 it, and i had invited him 2 mine

[Darkwaltz4]

the invitations would have been stopped, because it wont invite a member who is already joined to a dorm. both yours to him, and his to you.

i would bet you have redirects turned off, there are important messages being posted in those redirects :-p mainly 'user is already a member of a dorm and it makes no sense to invite them to ours' (only more elegantly)

[MindTrix]

Ahh i get you. Does that mean dorms are not beeing shown because we are both already owning a dorm? but if one of us wasnt we would see the dorms?

[Darkwaltz4]

that is true :-p when you load dorms.php, it goes like this

if your regged to a dorm {
if you are leader {
member+leader view
} else {
just member view
}
} else {
outview (lists dorms to join, or outputs create form)
}

i didnt think a formal listing of dorms was needed to people who were already registered to a dorm, because they wouldnt be able to join a new one until quiting their current dorm, and they could just look at the forum listing.

[MindTrix]

Yeah i getcha i thinkkkkkkkkkkk i got it figured now lol, i guess ad ons can be made for this huh? like the thing i requested earlier, or errrm dorm with most members on forum home etc

[Darkwaltz4]

yeah for forumhome addons, its pretty simple, but i tend to despise them because there is never a way around the extra query it adds to the most trafficed page. both would take more than a few seconds for me to eck out :-p so i might come up with something for later versions

[dndog]

When I go to dorms.php, I get a blank white page...

How can I fix this?