sounds cool i'll be checking this out.

would it be possible to show who had accepted your invites on the account page of the person who sent the invite out?

On the account page, we were think to put all the list of members that have been invited by you, somethink like the role history.

For the invitation that have not been used, our choice is more to delete them (the extension allow the admin to delete the ones that are not valide anymore). We didn't think to what you want. That could be done, but on the invitation page.

Hey!

I love this add-on it works great I just have a few questions;

1) This add-on destroys the "Whipser to:" input form everywhere on my vanilla installation as well another member of lussumo's install (they replied to a help topic I made making the connection between Invite-Only and Whispers) so do you know how this could be remedied.

2) How can I change the outgoing email to only send the Link to the Registration page with the Activation code seperate and then also the custom message below it instead of a link taking you to the registration page with the activation code already in the input field.

Thank you!

1) No idea about this one to be honest.. never did it like that for me.

2) Just edit the Email_Invitation.txt that's with the addon.

I find a bug with whisper (failed to enable whisper) in my addons.
To fix the bug download the version 0.2.1 (or be sure that whisper is enable on your forum, you need to look into conf/settings.php).

This addons force whisper to be enable:
in version 0.2.0:
if ( in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array('people.php', 'account.php', 'settings.php')) ) {
...
if ( $Context->Configuration['INVITATION_SYSTEM_REQUEST_ON'] == 1 ) $Context->Configuration['ENABLE_WHISPERS'] = 1;
}
In the version 0.2.1, I took off the first condition.

You have to activate the extension in the registration setting page.
You also need to add the permission to send invitations (settings >> Role and permission).
(Add also to your moderators and admin the permission to add more invitations to user)

Then there will be a new link to invite someone in your account page.

One more thing (not required), you should set you forum private in the forum option (Application settings).

"Category to request" is the category where you will receive the request from your users for more invitation.

bump. anyone know what i can do about this?

Normally, I'd just bang my head against my laptop until I get a solution, but it's a little late for that.
This is my problem:

A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred

Error Message
Could not create the Invitation Table
Affected Elements
Invite System Installer.OpenConnection();
The error occurred on or near: Duplicate column name 'InvitationID'

Happens right after I activate the extension.
What do I need to edit? I can undo the fatal error by deleting and uploading a backup copy of my config folder, but I'm getting tired of doing this while poking around.

Anyone know how I can fix this?

I'm on it. Thank you very much. I appreciate the help.

Sounds like the same issue I had with the announcement bar - were there carriage returns in your announcement message?

I just upload the version 0.2.2 that fix this problem.

For info, here is the fix:

• Line 348 of default.php, replace:$Presentation = ForceIncomingString('INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM', '');
$ConstantManager->DefineSetting('INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM', $Presentation);by:$Presentation = ForceIncomingString('INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM', '');
$Presentation = addcslashes($Presentation, "\n\r");
$ConstantManager->DefineSetting('INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM', $Presentation);


• Line 375 of default.php, replace:$Presentation = $RegistrationForm->Context->Configuration['INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM'];by$Presentation = stripcslashes($RegistrationForm->Context->Configuration['INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM']);


• And line 148 of library/Class.InviteSystem, replace:stripslashes($this->Context->Configuration['INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM']),by:stripslashes(stripcslashes($this->Context->Configuration['INVITATION_SYSTEM_PRESENTATION_FORUM'])),

Another fsockopen() warning:


Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.aim.com:25 in /home/domainname/public_html/directory/forum/library/Framework/Framework.Class.Email.php on line 184
A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred
Technical information (for support personel):

Error Message
Could not connect to SMTP host smtp.aim.com:25
Affected Elements
Email.SMTPSend();

The error occurred on or near: 13: Permission denied


Could this be related to permissions on the host server?

Oops - just looked more closely at the settings form, and I see that users can request more invites. How does that actually work, then?

Ta!

This is perfect for the way my board will work. I was thinking that it might be nice if ADMIN had unlimited invites or perhaps just a big number. I suppose this is really only important at the beginning of a boards life. Thank you for this extension and I hope I didn't miss a way to do this for the ADMIN.

Cheers,

Great. This'll be very useful for my forum... ;)

I love the idea of this extension so downloaded it and tried it out.

I disabled it because I didn't like the way the options became part of the Vanilla core options in the panel.

I've noticed this for a few other extensions and my feeling is the options for configuring extensions SHOULD have their own sub heading
in the panel e.g. Extension Options (or similar), then it lists the extension names and when you click on a name it brings up
its own options screen in the content.

By intertwining the options in the core screen makes it difficult for administrators to keep track of everything, particularly if they
are running many extensions of this type.

My suggestion would be to create some kind of protocol whereby any extension configurations are separate from the core options
for Vanilla.

Not sure how do this but it can be done, of that I'm sure.

I'm getting an error after I installed the extension:


Error Message
Could not create the Invitation Table
Affected Elements
undefined.Invite System Installer();

The error occurred on or near: Duplicate column name 'InvitationID'

any ideas on how to fix this?

i fixed it by wiping any invitation related databases and reinstalling the extension. thats for the help though

everything works now

That's possible. It should be in one of the next version.

yep, I will have to update to my extensions for vanilla 1.1. I will look at it them. if nodody post the code before...

If the addon work correctly, the only way to sign in is to get an invitation. Let me know if it doesn't work that way.

You can set the default role when someone sign in to be applicant (need approval) or member (no approval needed).

I can't promise I will do soon what you suggest, bur I will keep in mind the suggestion.

@Infecxd: perhaps, like me, you did not notice the new/additional 'INVITATION CODE' field...

IMHO this add-on could benefit from a clearer explanation, e.g. update the text on the left
or add some pop-up explanation that clearly mentions where/how to GET an invitation...

Ex. current text:

This membership application form does not grant immediate access to the site.
All membership applications are reviewed by an administrator before acceptance.
You are not guaranteed access to the application by filling out this form.

Could read:

An invitation code from a current forum member is required to apply...
This membership application form does not grant immediate access to the site.
All membership applications are reviewed by an administrator before acceptance.
You are not guaranteed access to the application by filling out this form.

You can set $Configuration['INVITATION_SYSTEM_REQUEST_ON'] to 0 in /conf/settings.php
Users won't be able to request you more invitation.

After installing and configuring the Invite Only extension, I get --- Fatal error: Call to undefined function: isvalidformpostback() in ../extensions/InviteOnlySystem/default.php on line 112. I'm running Version: 0.3.0.a

...hmmm?