Refer Friends!

First off, I need to thank c-pr0mpt's template driven pages hack for helping me with the online bit and template help.

Second, I must add a disclaimer. I am NOT fluent in PHP and this is my first publicly released hack. This may not be perfectly coded or the most efficient, but I have tested this numerous times on fresh vB's as well as hacked vB's and installation went smoothly every time, so I hope it works for you. I tried my best to make this hack as compatible as possible but I am sure I could have messed up somewhere. This is mostly an addon but optional integration is also supplied in the hack. If installation gets messed up it's not hard to revert, but it never hurts to backup your database first.

Now onto the details of the hack. This hack creates a new page for members that will send out emails to people of their choice with their referral links in them. It's a great way to get your members to promote your site. You could also start a referral contest and grant special prizes, like a custom title or avatar, to whomever gets the most referrals. You do not have to have referrals on, but it would help if you wanted to keep track of who has referred the most members.

Features:

1) Only registered members can use the referral page, guests will get an error page.
2) An error will also occur if a required field is left blank
3) Users can refer 3 friends at a time
4) Users can edit the title and message of their outgoing referral email
5) The user's referral link is in the email message by default (index.php?s=&referrerid=xxx)
6) Default title and message can be edited in the refer.php page
7) "Referring Friends" link appears in the who's online page when a member is referring people

Only 1 file edit (optional)
Only 1 template edit (optional)
3 new templates
1 new PHP file

4 screenshots in my next posts.

Support will be given, but as I said before, I am not fluent in PHP or MySQL, so I can't guarantee that I can make every addon or fix every error.

UPDATE: If you get a bug that sends you straight to the error page, install version 2.0. If the hack is already working for you, do not install version 2.0. This is just a bug fix, a patch, and is only needed if you can't get the original hack to work properly.

Enjoy.

-Marcus

[glo]

clicks install on vb2.3.0

Thanks Unknown553!

Gspot, i havent added yours yet, as its only on my test board. But i also cant see where to add your code? Have i missed something? where are your instrauctions?

[gspot]

sorry, download the files that the original designer created for this hack and compare the ones that I have attached. If you want to use exactly whay my addition adds-on. Then just go ahead and use the files I have attached in place of the original hackers files.. They are named the same. Then all you have to do is add a link to the page as in the instructions from the original hacker..

HOPE THIS HELPS..

[ashley53680]

I am getting this error...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gettemplate() in /home/sbcamp/public_html/forum/refer.php on line 21

What the heck did I do wrong?? It's pointing to where it gets the template 'refer'... that's exactly what I have the template named. Any ideas?

thanks!!

Ashley

[ashley53680]

Anyone??

[gspot]

Originally Posted by ashley53680

Anyone??

what version are u using this on??

[ashley53680]

vb3 gold

[gspot]

Originally Posted by ashley53680

vb3 gold

You could try changing line 21 to this:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('refer') . '");');

Or you can just download and install the modified version for VB3 Gold. This would probably save alot of headaches for you.. Here is the link:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=refer

[ashley53680]

Thanks G-Spot (giggle)

I thought I had a new version of it... but I will download it again and see if that works!! THANKS A BUNCH!!!

Ash

[ashley53680]

Hey... isn't that a totally different hack? The one I was interested in was where you could add multiple emails at one time. I mean the other is great too... but I thought that this one would be better.

[gspot]

Originally Posted by ashley53680

Hey... isn't that a totally different hack? The one I was interested in was where you could add multiple emails at one time. I mean the other is great too... but I thought that this one would be better.

Yes, this one is a little bit better, because if the multiple email address referrals, but the other hacler is working on adding that feature as well. Did that help at all??