ComZ
Invitations Counter 6.2
About

I. Release Notes

Current Version: 6.2
(Version 1.0 to 4.0 have been released as Successfully Invited Members)
Requirements: Ossn >= 6.5
GDPR affected: Most likely Yes. Since the component intransparently stores information about who invited which member(s) - visible to site admins only - you'd better mention this in your data protection declaration.
License: GNU General Public License v2

 

II. Purpose and Usage

The idea behind this component is increasing kind of a members_invited counter of an already existing member (the inviter) whenever the invited member has registered (as requested by Balamurali https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/discussion/view/5320).

The administrator is shown at the top of each EDIT USER page by whom the member has been invited and how many successful invitations the member has made.

Figure 1

There is also a ranking list sorted by the number of invitations.

Figure 2

 

III. Changes

V 6.2

  • applied compatibility fixes for changed admin backend menu handling introduced with Ossn 6.5

V 6.1 (compatible up to Ossn 6.4)

  • Ossn 6.x support
  • verified PHP 8 compatibility
  • added missing localization

 

Outdated Ossn 5.x relases (showing the progress of development step by step)

V 5.0

  • will add a new page named 'Inviter Ranking' to the admin backend
  • will decrement the invitation count when the account of an invited member gets deleted

V 4.0

  • is replacing the former low-level handling of entities by a much smarter method
  • besides that two new language files are introducing Ossn localization because it's a good practise to support all available Ossn core languages with your component
  • error logging has been commented out now, and the number of invitations have been added to the backend.

V 3.0

  • comes with a new method to add the invited_by attribute to the invited member's user record, and the successfully_invited_members_add_invited_by_field_to_admin_backend function has been completed to display the real name of the inviter instead of the formerly hardcoded Mary Greg.

V 2.5 'Mary Greg'

  • is displaying Mary Greg as inviter on every user page on the admin backend.

V 2.0

  • will add the necessary code inside that method to create and update the members_invited records in the ossn_entities table.

V 1.0

  • is a first skeleton preparing the basic setup in ossn_com.php and a dummy method in the SuccessfullyInvitedMembers.php class file.