This extension does what it promises, though as other reviews mentions, without some really needed features (resending invitations, removing them, reviewing the message sent; or more advanced: sending invitations to multiple recipients, importing recipients from email services, such as gmail or hotmail).

For the bug, it is a very basic thing - ($i % 2) + 1 in invite.php should be put in brackets (operator precedence), so:

$html .= '';

I can't get the 1"> to go away, the fix lilixkan posted didn't work, I can't find a "$html. ">" or anything, I'm looking in invite.php

Good plugin though

The installation is quick and easy. It's a good plugin. For those of you want to get rid of the 1">, the code is in invite.php. The problematic line is:
$html .= '';

You can do the following:
$val = $i % 2 + 1;
$html .= '';

Few other functions that would be nice to have is the ability to delete and/or archive the invitations that I sent, and having a "Resend" button for each invitation that doesn't acceptance yet.

But overall, great work. thanks!

It's definitely a very good plug-in, but the problem I have been facing quite a lot is that all the invites that are being sent through the website are going to spam folder, and hotmail doesn't seem to even receive, hence other users are not able to register as they don't get the invite. Any solutions for that?

It worked right away, which is already piling on the praise. It is close to what I needed, but falls short because the user can't tailor or preview the message, and the user can't enter multiple email addresses. Many people will be reluctant to post an invitation if they don't know what the email says. So this is an important limitation. Also there is that distracting problem of the 1"> at the top of the tab, which at least one other person has mentioned. But overall I'm really pleased. Good work!

This is just what the doctor ordered for me and my sites.

I do have one issue, which is some characters which appear above the invite list. So far I get one set of these for each invite:

1">

I've looked at the code but I'm not a php expert.

Hi,

the basic idea is really good - a free plugin that takes the invited person to the cb registration page. It tracks invites/registrations for the already registered user.

Needs for improvement:
- give the user the choice between using default or own invite message-
- enable multilingual plugin (I created language files, added these in the invite.xml, still doesn't work)
- Invite multiple people at once

--> There is not a lot to improve, but these things would increase the quality of the plugin a lot.

Thank you for this plugin!! FRANK

I'll give it an excellent rating because it worked JUST like it should! These are my favorite kinds of plug-ins, the ones that work the first time ;)

Exactly what I was looking for, a nice and simple invite plugin. It would be nice if the invite page would allow to submit more than one email address at a time. The send button on the invite page also has a very ugly title "submit Query".
I simply added the following line
DEFINE( '_PLUG_INVITE_FRONTEND_BUTTON_TITLE', 'Send invitation' );
in the english language file and changed line 86 in the file comprofiler_invite.php

Cheers
Martin

Owner's reply:
Language constant added in 1.0.1

Hello Peter!!

Thank you for this great open source plugin! Very easy to install and supports multi-language. But the only thing is that it made tags on every lines when I received the invitation mail, that is if I have made changes to the template.

Overall 5/5 for providing this great plugin. :)

It's a shame that not only does it not have an import tool (like plaxoinvite), it only allows 1 email per invite, which makes it so tedious that users won't even bother. It also doesn't track the difference when 2 users sent an invitation to the same email.

This is an excellent addition to Joomla. It works perfectly and seamlessly.

Note: If your link takes you to a page that says you aren't authorized to view it, just log out. You simply can't register if you are already logged in :)

Hi!

Thanks for this plugin! It's very useful and work fine. Hope for an ajax version in the future :D

Cheers!

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who got this to work. Whenever I invite someone, it just sends them to a url that is only available for already registered users. Where does that url come from anyway?

Potential to be very useful, but so far, nothing.

Owner's reply:
The url included in the email points to the regular Community Builder registration page. If you logged into the site to send the invite, you need to logout before trying to view that page. Community Builder generates a rather unfriendly error message when a logged in user tries to view the new user registration page.

Worked out of the box without a hitch -- as advertised.
(remember to enable the CB tab!)
The installer is written the way I wish all extensions were -- directory access permission checks, choice to preserve prior data if upgrading the plugin, and it even created a link in the user menu to the front side component!

It has good features: Displays a list to admin of all invitations sent and shows which ones have been accepted, and individual users see their own list in a CB tab. You can limit the number of invitations a user can send per day. You can choose to allow or disallow multiple invitations to the same email address. Here is where I see some room for improvement -- to be able to set a maximum number of duplicate invitations rather than all or nothing. And... perhaps future versions will have html templates in the email invitations... for a picture e-card effect...

This Plugin gets 5 stars from me for ease of use, utility, and competent programming! I hope the developer will continue to share his obvious talent with the Joomla! community. Thanks Peter.