Guernica Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Is there a feature or is it possible to make it so people can not register without putting in the name of someone who referred them, or only being able to register through a referral link? I have the referral mod installed, but I am not sure if you can integrate it with the registration forum/process.Thanks.Guernica... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon C Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 I like the idea of an invite-only feature registration link, but it seems it should best be left to modifications for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomek__w Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Funnily enough I am trying to do something along similar lines - I have a question/post on IPS Beyond....I do think something like this should/could be implemented as there are quite a few 'invitation only' boards about.In the simplest form it could simply be a 'configurable' link to the registration page, so instead of having ....forum/index.php?act=Reg it could be ....forum/index.php?act=x5g7s3. I would guess that the 'standard' link to the registration page is known by every hacker/cracker/script kiddie and bot on the planet.This type of link, if implemented, would only be known by existing members (link act= xxx linked to the member id maybe?) or only accessable from a 'secure' location.Just my 2 pence worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stobbo Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 And a secret password which the refferer can give to the invited member maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernica Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 Yeah, kinda like that possibly. ^^But I thought this was a feature on IPB...or at least some other boards. I've seen it on boards before but I am not sure. It might have been a vbulletin forum. O well, thanks for the replies everyone. If you find a mod for me please let me know, I have been looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 I did a mod for someone like this during 2.0. What I did was I did something along the lines of what Google did with gmail: In order to register you have to be emailed an invitation and each member has a certain amount of invitations, etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernica Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 Do you know if there is anything like this for 2.1? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arancaytar Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 And a secret password which the refferer can give to the invited member maybe.Or a one-time link / referral code that can only be used for a single registration. That would be safer, at least... And perhaps the referral link could be automatically sent by the board to an email address the user enters. Similar to how Gmail invites work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stobbo Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Yeah, kinda like that possibly. ^^But I thought this was a feature on IPB...or at least some other boards. I've seen it on boards before but I am not sure. It might have been a vbulletin forum. O well, thanks for the replies everyone. If you find a mod for me please let me know, I have been looking.vBulletin does have it.I did a mod for someone like this during 2.0. What I did was I did something along the lines of what Google did with gmail: In order to register you have to be emailed an invitation and each member has a certain amount of invitations, etc..That would be a good variation too :)Or a one-time link / referral code that can only be used for a single registration. That would be safer, at least... And perhaps the referral link could be automatically sent by the board to an email address the user enters. Similar to how Gmail invites work.That was what I was leaning towards.Anyway, maybe in the user CP you could send a email to someone with a random refferal code. Then when they register you have to enter that code.Also in the ACP the amount of invites per day, amount of cumulative invites and other settings could be added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Buzzo Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Here is the one I use.http://forums.invisionize.com/index.php?showtopic=104237 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestingSomething Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Yes that one linked to is for 2.1. And any 2.1 mod can be quite easily converted to 2.2.I personally can't get enough people on my sites with public being allowed to join, let alone if I cut it off to invitation-only. lol I suck at advertising. I care much more about the useer than any admins whose sites I ahve gone to, but when nobody is posting,m obviously nobody else will. sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolRock Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I apologise for bringing up such an old post but I believe this has not been implemented into IPB. Any chances that it would come soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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