Miscellaneous Hacks - Group Leader PM Notification

Keywords: group, leader, notification, usergroups, public


Description:

Notifies the group leader(s), via PM, of join requests to their respective usergroup(s). Also notifies the users the status of their join requests upon moderation.

Details:

Basically, this is a continuation of the SEND A PRIVATE MESSAGE TO PUBLIC GROUP LEADERS UPON A JOIN REQUEST plugin by AMYKHAR. Many people were having various errors returned from the plugin, so in my attempt to fix it I kind of did things a little bit different.

Installation:

1. Download the attachment and import the product-glpn.xml file via the Product Manager.

2. ???

3. Profit

Support:

Officially, this hack is UNSUPPORTED. However, I will attempt to help you as much as possible. Please understand that this plugin was tested within a rather limited environment. Provide as much detail as possible when reporting any unwanted behavior so I (and others) may better assist you.

Version History:
v1.0 - Initial version.
v2.0 - Added ability to notify users the status of their request once moderated. All replies are phrased.
v2.1 - Passed usergroup title to JOINREQUET_NOTIFY_MESSAGE_APPROVED and JOINREQUETS_NOTIFY_MESSAGE_DECLINED phrases (requested by EasyTarget)

* THIS PLUGIN HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED ON USERGROUPS WITH A SINGLE LEADER. I'VE CODED IT TO, THEORETICALLY, SUPPORT MULTIPLE LEADERS. HOWEVER, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY.

[dooch]

great mod, installed

[fintan74]

Great product; just what I was looking for. Thanks!

[airborneCAL]

This is excellent. Anybody have this for 3.7?

[Icy]

Yes I'm using it with 3.7

[tako]

Not working anymore with latest version, 3.7.1 pl1

[JohnChapman]

I'm running 3.7.2 on a new forum. I dropped this mod in this afternoon and it appeared to work great...until one of the forum moderators changed their profile to not allow PM's (which is WIERD for a moderator...but hey). Anyway, the message post action bombed with:

Fatal error:
• Chris has chosen not to receive private messages or may not be allowed to receive private messages. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her.

If you are trying to send this message to multiple recipients, remove Chris Barbour from the recipient list and send the message again.
Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_pm in [path]\includes\class_dm.php on line 810

So...I yanked Chris out of the moderator list and it appeared to work again, but then one of the new users was getting a 500 page after requesting to join. So... I disabled it for now, but will do some more local testing.

[IR15H]

Another bug occurs if the the group the user is requesting membership to has more leaders than the maximum amount of PMs the user is allowed to send at once;

[Jafo232]

We kinda needed this plugin for a site, so I modified it so it will not break if a user has PM's turned off. Here is my version (2.2). Submitting to product author so they can update it. Working for 3.7.x

[Cocko]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

We kinda needed this plugin for a site, so I modified it so it will not break if a user has PM's turned off. Here is my version (2.2). Submitting to product author so they can update it. Working for 3.7.x

Thanx, thats the difference. Installed.

[MediaHound]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

We kinda needed this plugin for a site, so I modified it so it will not break if a user has PM's turned off. Here is my version (2.2). Submitting to product author so they can update it. Working for 3.7.x

Thanks +1!