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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[Tralala]

Wondering, does this work on vB 3.6?

[akanevsky]

It should, but since I am not even going to look at vB 3.6 until gold release, I can give no guarantee.

[Tralala]

Well I won't look at vB 3.6 until gold release then, either.

[bogie]

I'm trying to install this mod and have ran into issues adding the code to the UserCP template. When I add the code from the readme file I get this error:

vBulletin Message
The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/*****/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3537) : eval()'d code on line 1

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

Appreciate any help anyone can give me on this.

[akanevsky]

Try reverting the template and trying again.

[Kronomancer]

Thanks - this is a good plugin. I find that it works okay with 3.6 beta 4.

One feature I would really appreciate is setting permissions to allow members of a particular usergroup invite new users to a particular usergroup. For example, as administrator, I would like to be able to invite collaborators to register, after which they would automatically be upgraded to a group with private access to workgroup areas. Or for other (non-administrator) workgroup members to invite other colleagues to join the same group, etc... with vB's powerful permissions system, it opens up many options for where you could take this invite system.

[bada_bing]

What do you gain with the paid version that you dont get with this one

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by Kronomancer

I find that it works okay with 3.6 beta 4.

Thanks for the heads up

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

What do you gain with the paid version that you dont get with this one

From http://www.visionscripts.com/?page=p...&vsproductid=3

Support for msn contact list retrieval.

History of issued invites, with color highlights and options to purge expired or rejected invites.

Daily invite reminders and expiration notifications, can be turned off if desired.

Ability to define how often reminders can be sent.

Ability to reject received invitations.

Automatic prevention of invites from being sent out to already registered e-
mails.

Automatic prevention of invites from being sent out to the same e-mail multiple times.

It is possible to either keep registration process open or to restrict it to invited registrants only.

Ability to define users as "First Friends". Such users become mutual buddies with all new registrants, whether invited or not.

[akanevsky]

One feature I would really appreciate is setting permissions to allow members of a particular usergroup invite new users to a particular usergroup. For example, as administrator, I would like to be able to invite collaborators to register, after which they would automatically be upgraded to a group with private access to workgroup areas. Or for other (non-administrator) workgroup members to invite other colleagues to join the same group, etc... with vB's powerful permissions system, it opens up many options for where you could take this invite system.

That is available in the new, commercial version.

What do you gain with the paid version that you dont get with this one

http://www.visionscripts.com/?page=p...&vsproductid=3