Invitation for Registration

[Lizard King]

Currently I disabled registration in my boards but my members are asking if there can a mod for inviting new members. Also I am thinking this I want my members to be able to invite members my sending e-mail to them. Is there a way to make an invitation mod. I still want to keep registration disabled but if someone is invited by a member then he will be able to register.

[Skyline_GT]

yea. I want this add on too.

[artonex]

yeah would be a kool hack, i would love something like this

[Dark s.s. Trunk]

i'll get started on it right away

[Essamz]

this idea remainds me by gmail's Invitations

[Dark s.s. Trunk]

lol
you should see the installer! I am making JAVA version installers....NO MANUAL CODING AT ALL

JUST upload and click....lol

same as any Invite System, simple to have. you need a url that activate the permission to register... like register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=XX

so when people visit the register.php, instead of simply hitting the vboptions to activate registration, they activate it by this simple url.

SOOO SIMPLE!

EDIT: here is the code:

in register.php FIND:

PHP Code:

if (empty($_REQUEST['do']) AND empty($_REQUEST['a'])) 


just BEFORE, add:

PHP Code:

if($_REQUEST['invite'] == 'yes') $vboptions['allowregistration'] = 1; 


now, you simply have to create an invite url like this:

register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=$bbuserinfo[userid]

that's all...

you can also join with this hack: Refer Friend from Erwin: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59708 and simply change the URL in the message to the one i just gave here!

[Lizard King]

Thanks nexialys

[spooler]

Just my opinion here..

A url like this

register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=$bbuserinfo[userid]

can easily be made by any 1...

register.php?invite=yes?referrerid=1

The above url will work and will most prob be invited by admin himself (or who so ever has id =1)

So basically any random no. between 1 and total members of board will work.

Just my opinion :

So basically u need to have another table named invitee with fields ( random number(unique), timestamp)

When u generate invite url, add new row in the table and your invite url will be register.php?invite=random number

In register.php make a query to see if tht random number exists. If it does allow else kick him away

Do remeber to clear the row once used.
Also add to cron to clear rows in invite table with timestamp older than 1 day or whtever

[Adrian Schneider]

Couldn't this be bypassed/abused pretty easily? They can just enter 1 or look at your site and pick a user out. If you are serious about it you should prevent them from seeing your board.