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.

[EagleNick]

Okay, I tested it but I am getting the Security Token Error.

I was reading a thread about some code that has to be added to the templates, and I did that for all of the Username Request templates... but I am still getting the error.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

Okay, I tested it but I am getting the Security Token Error.

I was reading a thread about some code that has to be added to the templates, and I did that for all of the Username Request templates... but I am still getting the error.

It seems you are using v1.0.8, which doesn't include security token support. Please update to v1.0.9 for them to be added.

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

It seems you are using v1.0.8, which doesn't include security token support. Please update to v1.0.9 for them to be added.

Before I upgraded I went through all my mods to see which ones have been updated and for some reason I marked this one as not updated.

I upgraded and of course, it works.

Thanks

[BBF]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

Any word on if this works with 3.7.2 ?

Thanks

it's works fine for me

[EagleNick]

It's working fine for me, too.

I finally upgraded earlier tonight.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

Before I upgraded I went through all my mods to see which ones have been updated and for some reason I marked this one as not updated.

I upgraded and of course, it works.

Thanks

Glad it was a simple fix.

[ti07shadow]

Umm is there a way to clear the history in the admin panel? Because its becoming clutteredd and hard to manage. BEcause it doesnt put the newest on top, it jus tputs them in like a abc order or something. because sometimes its in the middle of the list and whatnot.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by ti07shadow

Umm is there a way to clear the history in the admin panel? Because its becoming clutteredd and hard to manage. BEcause it doesnt put the newest on top, it jus tputs them in like a abc order or something. because sometimes its in the middle of the list and whatnot.

I don't believe so. I may either add pagination to the next version, or allow the administrator to remove history items. You could always drop the table and re-add it.

[Amenadiel]

I'm prolly out of line here, but I'm using this mod on VB 3.7 and can't find the username history in the public profile.

I'm the admin so I can see it, but I want every user to be able to see the username history of the rest.

[King Kovifor]

Well, the thing is I do it automatically. So the 3.7.x series has a completely different MemberInfo, this will require me to rewrite the portion. And I have it on my todo list to start and finish a new version.