Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Username Request

Introduction
I was looking through the Modification Requests forum here and found a pretty good idea. The basic idea was to add a list of users who would like a name change for the administrators. I added the basics and released it. In consecutive versions I have added the abilities and features you have requested and this is the product. It is morphing into a more powerful, more useful system each and every version.

The Tools

User Tools
Inside the User Control Panel, there is an area that is added where a user is given the ability to submit a username that they would like their name changed to. They receive PM updates depending upon the "status" of their request, whether it is Accepted or Rejected.

Administrative Tools
As soon as a request is added to the database, the specified administrator is sent an e-mail saying that a user would like a username request. Inside the Administrators Control Panel, a new section is added under the "Users" navigation tab, that lists all the "Pending" requests with the ability to "Reject" or "Approve" the request. A user will be notified via PM when an action is taken. When a username is approved, the system will automatically change the username.

Username History
This tool will list all username changes that a user has requested. It will also display the status of the request, meaning that if you reject it, this will be displayed. This tool will be built upon in a later version.

Username History Changes:
In the next version, the status of a username change request has been revamped and no longer includes hard-coded "Accepted", "Rejected", and "Requested" status values. More information will be given at the release of v1.1.0!

Requirements
This hack has several requirements. They include:

• vBulletin v3.6.6 or higher (This is the minimum version required for the next requirement)
• The usercp_nav_bottom template hook.

To get around the second requirement, you can copy the cell manually or add $template_hook[usercp_navbar_bottom] at the end of the User Control Panel navigation.

Installation
Installing the product is easy. Just follow these steps:

1. Upload Files into your Administrators Control Panel directory.
2. Import the product through the Product Manager.
3. Click Install Here

Known Bugs:

1. No e-mail is sent out to users upon username change. Fix: The next version will include a fix that will respect all the users settings on receiving e-mail from administrators.
2. The setting for PM sender was ignored within the code and uses the userid of the administrator who changed the username through the administration back-end. Fix: In the next version, revamped settings and improved back-end will now properly use a setting similar to this.

Big Thanks!
I would like to give a big thanks to Paul M for helping me with my stupid mistakes in v1.0.4 - v1.0.6! Now all of my mistakes should be taken care of (unless I made a mistake in the disallowed if statement). Thanks Paul!

I would also like to say thanks to Marco for pointing out a possible SQL Injection that was in v1.0.4 - v1.0.6 (It was inside the ACP, and used a wrong variable name / clean type).

And to Dannyloski for fixing my modification on his forum and providing the fix here. Much faster than I did it.

Final Remarks
I hope that you will enjoy this product as much as I enjoyed making it.

[m002.p]

In version 1.1.0, will it include the allowance of an array of admins for the "Administrator Notification" feature listed in the vb options > username request, opposed to just one admin recieving the notification PM?

Would be such a great feature to allow say your site staff, board admins or leadership team to be able to recieve a notification of a username request opposed to just one appointed admin at current.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

It should work with 3.7.0 but I haven't done a clean 1.0.x install. I am working for a new updated version to be 3.7.0 only, but that could be a while.

i'm waiting for this Jeremy! keep up the good work!

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by m002.p

In version 1.1.0, will it include the allowance of an array of admins for the "Administrator Notification" feature listed in the vb options > username request, opposed to just one admin recieving the notification PM?

Would be such a great feature to allow say your site staff, board admins or leadership team to be able to recieve a notification of a username request opposed to just one appointed admin at current.

Yes. It will most likely allow for this type of notification scheme.

Originally Posted by KURTZ

i'm waiting for this Jeremy! keep up the good work!

Well glad someone does. I feel like I have been slacking big time since about May of 2007. LOL. But thanks for the encouragement. I think I may take advantage of the user name history in vB 3.7 too.

[m002.p]

Great shall look forward to the release ^^^^^ Thanks for your response & great work so far!

[Seiyaboy]

Thanks for the update and the fix of some functions that didn't work before. Keep up the wonderful work!

[TCB]

I have uninstalled 1.03 (I believe) and then tried to import the latest version. I received this mysql error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `vb3_usergroup` ADD `unreq_perms` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error   : Duplicate column name 'unreq_perms'
Error Number  : 1060
Request Date  : Tuesday, May 6th 2008 @ 01:04:17 PM
Error Date    : Tuesday, May 6th 2008 @ 01:04:17 PM
Script        : http://www.mysite.com/cpadmin/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer      : http://www.mysite.com/cpadmin/plugin.php?do=productadd

[m002.p]

Login into MYSQL using Phpmyadmin, then delete the column 'unreq_perms' before importing the latest product ^^^

EDIT:

Or run the query below as stated

[King Kovifor]

Looks like the column wasn't dropper properly. You would have to remove the column. You may run this query:

[sql]ALTER TABLE `vb3_usergroup` DROP `unreq_perms`;[/sql]

Then reimport your product.

[sturdy]

How to fix, that users can user special chars like < oder > or " ? and that i can approve this nicks without getting an error ?

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by sturdy

How to fix, that users can user special chars like < oder > or " ? and that i can approve this nicks without getting an error ?

What is your error?