Dorm Manager System

What Dorm Manager System is:
-Creates forums based on your default dorms settings based on post count eligibility. The creator (leader) of the dorm is granted several powers, which only exist in the dorm manager system (there is no extra usergroup). These include regulating members who apply for membership to their dorm, creating threads when the default forum option is set to private, and regulating the existing threads of their dorm. This includes setting one of them as 'Public', which makes it accessible to the whole forums regardless of membership (guestroom). Leaders also can delete their dorm. Members can only exist in one dorm at a time, and everything is completely automated.

Requirements:
-(Optional) A specified parent dorm forum set up

Features:
Settings:
Dorm Name-- Dorm, Clan, Room, Floor etc
Guestroom Name-- Lobby, Guestroom, Closet etc
The Master Dorm Forum-- forum which all the dorm forums appear in
Postcount requirements to lead or join a dorm
Maximum members per dorm, maximum total dorms, maximum threads allowed per dorm
Options between name/numeric dorm name type, and limits on the sizes of both.
Standard forum settings--resembles the forum creation page in the admin cp, which all created forums recieve

-MANY more which I cannot remember!

Installation:
-Upload a few files, run a couple of them, a handful of file edits. Clean installation should take less than 10 minutes for the average admin. Complete instructions are inside the zip.

Upgrade hack version 3.1.3 to 1.4:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Upgrade hack version 3.1.2 to 3.1.3:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Supplemental Images:
-Additional Screenshots can be found in the second attachment, CLICK HERE.

Donations and Future Versions:
-PayPal Donations to blackwaltz4@msn.com are gladly accepted, and paid mods are something we could discuss.

This hack is fully free and I'll give support through vbulletin.org

Possible Future Features: None (?)

Notes:
-Long live RPGN & G-force2k2, to whom this concept is owed, but I automated years later.
-I refuse to make this like vBHosting, or anything that violates Jelsoft agreements.
-FFGON.com IS NOT LONGER OPERATED by me or my partner, Cloudclone.
-vB2 version of this hack can be found HERE.

I UPDATE WHEN NEEDED

If you like this hack and you don't want to miss an update:

THANKS! :up:

[bishop93]

I see that the permissions to create a dorm is based on post count. Is there any way (or plans) to make this where, say, only subscribers can create a dorm rather than based on posting points?

[JD210]

Does this work with 3.0.3?

[boxingscene]

Originally Posted by JD210

Does this work with 3.0.3?

Yes, I'm running it on a heavy modded 3.03 to boot

[JD210]

Thanks, I appreciate the fast response.

[docvader]

Works great on my heavily hacked 3.03. Wish I had started using it earlier.

[docvader]

AARGH. Darkwaltz, I'm not sure what I did, but once I moved the Dorms into an "inactive" and "invisible" forum parent. And now, I can't invite people to join the dorms, apparently, my PM's are not being sent to people to invite them.

Any idea what sort of things would stop this? Being a child of an "inactive" parent forum? A child of an "invisible" forum? Would permissions of the parent forum affect your dorm permission structure?? Wish I knew more about how you've got this set up so I can troubleshoot it, but, I'm a bit bewildered.

Had it working PERFECTLY before I moved the dorms into a parent forum. Didn't like them being exhibited on the forum index page on their own.

thanks
rich

[Darkwaltz4]

docvader: no, shouldnt have done anything, although you might want to try running the 'update dorm forums' function at the bottom of the dorm config page in the acp. UPDATE: yeah, just checked the code, the script should fix your problem (after all it was coded for stuff like that :-p)

bishop93: no, not really, although might be something to look into..

jd210: apparently yes

[bishop93]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Having it post based, I'm sure, works for many sites that would utilize such functionality. On the other hand, having this as a subscriber "perk" is exactly what I need and the functionality that you have already built into this mod is fantastic! I just need it to be able to be configured for subscribers only since I just can't allow anyone to post a 'dorm' and I don't want to created inflated post counts to limit people (my only other thought for a solution, that is).

I have the rest of this week to test anything out that you might want if you decided to take a crack at it. We go live on Sunday and I'll have to postpone this feature if not. But otherwise, I'm open to suggestions and implementation tests even on the test server later.

[Darkwaltz4]

hmm, maybe i could put in a usergroup thing.

oh, and to eliminate the 'inflated post count' problem, just set the default dorm setting of 'posts count towards postcount' to off (and run the update function if you have existing dorms) and if you want to undo any postcount from previous forums, update counters. thats what my forum does :-p

so, two things i might do if i have some time...
password and usergroup support, and the auto-template-installer

[bishop93]

Thanks! I'll be looking forward to it -- if you have time.