[MODDB] ACP Add User MOD 1.0.0

[Highway of Life]

#1: Okay, i didn't test the include personally, just couldn't imagine it working, but maybe you can explain that to me (i thought it was relative to the file being called, not to the included file?).
But i still don't like having an uninitialized variable in a lang file without IN_PHPBB check (even though $phpEx is much less critical than $phpbb_root_path). IMO the most logical place to put it would be adm/index.php, but that's just a suggestion. Right after:

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// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup('acp/common');
// End session management

Hmm... that's a good thought...
Actually, that's a really good idea, since then it will be most compatible with all languages, so they don't have to change every common.php language file.

#2: There's 2 folders in the zip root: "ACP Add User 1.0.0" and "__MACOSX", wich includes a folder named "ACP Add User 1.0.0". In there there are the same files like in the correct folder, but the file names are prefixed with "._", for example "._install.xml". Very strange. I'm on windows, using WinRAR.

Odd!
Not sure how to fix this.

#3: Because the MOD team requires it.

Good enough for me...
Thanks!!

Opened the file using WinRAR's file viewer, now i checked in ZDE (Zend Development Enviroment), wich doesn't seem to like it. It displayed correctly in PSPad and in Dreamweaver though. Also in notepad, but it didn't like the \n's

Update: I just had to open it in UTF-8 compatibility mode in ZDE, and now it's working. It didn't recognize it automatically... glad i found that

Okay, happy to hear it was not a problem with the MOD.

[Handyman]

eviL3 wrote:

#3: Because the MOD team requires it.
Good enough for me...
Thanks!!

If it's released under the GPL(GNU) you only need to provide a link to the license.
The phpbb mod team doesn't require you to have it in the zip.

[eviL3 Igor]

Highway of Life, glad you liked my suggestions (i just love these smilies here )

Handyman, follow the link from my previous post : http://phpbbmodders.net/viewtopic.php?t=1163
Of course it would be enough to link to it, but i don't think including it hurts anyone. Just imagine MODs being distributed over CDs in magazines Those people may not have any internet... (don't ask me what they would need the MODX file for anyway )

Edit, i just remembered that license.txt is actually required by the GPL. Drathbun quotes from the GPL here:

Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as "Copyright 1999 Linda Jones"), and a statement of copying permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL).

You should also include a copy of the license itself somewhere in the distribution of your program. In GNU programs the license is usually in a file called COPYING; it should be the plain ASCII text version of the license.

[hurry]

Greetings. When I Add a User with this MOD, it sends an email to user from phpbb3.mysite.com rather than abc.com in the email title and when someone tries to load phpbb3.mysite.com in the browser, it shows an error page. Where is this MOD taking the forum url which it is adding in the email title from? If I can know that I can get a clue of how to solve this problem. Sorry if I am repeating this problem but any help in the right direction will be appeciated as it seems that my addon domain name forum url is having some problems with the forum. The background of the problem is as follows:

I had installed the phpbb3 forum first on http://www.mysite.com/phpbb3 . Then I added an addon domain abc.com to point to the phpbb3 folder with url masking so that the forum url becomes http://abc.com . I also added this in the .htaccess file so all urls to the forum point to abc.com:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^abc\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://abc.com/$1 [R=301,L]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

When I had added the addon domain abc.com in the cpanel to the /home/user/public_html/phpbb3 directory, it had made a subdomain phpbb3.mysite.com even though the phpbb3 directory already existed with the forum. I tried removing all the above .htaccess rules but still the same problem. Thanks again.

[hurry]

Ok, my hosting company solved it partly though the email still shows phpbb3.mysite.com but now when they go to phpbb3.mysite.com, it redirects to abc.com due to the mod rewrite rules. So I guess it works for now. Thanks HoL for a fantastic and simple MOD. One feature request: To add new users in bulk would be very useful.

[LiamMac]

Planning to create a membership base of fakes to make it seem popular.

[Highway of Life]

Actually, I needed it for two non-profit organizations that I created forums for...
One has paid membership, and once you become a member, they add you (manually) to the forum.
The second one they only want the admins to be able to add the members... so again, manually to the forum.

[LiamMac]

Ohh so would that mean the add user in ACP would have two types of users to add. Normal Users, and these Paid Membership Users?

[Highway of Life]

Not really... you had to pay to be a member, and could only be a member if you paid... so nobody is able to be a ?Normal User?

[LiamMac]

Ahh I gotcha you now.