I see that you have not started work on this project yet. Because the Invite project (http://drupal.org/project/invite), which provides the same functionality, has just released a D7 version, could you please consider contributing to that project instead of starting to recreate the same module? I believe it would be more profitable for us to concentrate our effort in one place.

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simon georges commented

I don't think this module provides the exact same functionnality as Invite module. Invitation seems to handle codes to allow the user to see some pages of the site before registering, whereas Invite handles especially the mail sending part.
I agree that "could" be an addition to the Invite module.

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glekli commented

I can't seem to be able to find the code neither under All releases nor through git, so I have not been able to assess what the module aims to do.
What caught my eye was, two of the three features listed on the project page are covered in Invite. If you are saying that Invitation allows a visitor to access some of the site's pages with a code, but without them having to create an account (that is, invitation codes are not used to create new accounts at all), then that really is a different approach. It may have not been clear to me that this is the case.
Nevertheless, I would be happy to add any of your features to Invite. Would you like to post an issue and/or patch against 7.x-2.x?

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plusfront commented

I have used the invite module in several projects, and that is a good module.

The reason I create this module is that the invite module works in the old Gmail invitation way. The invite only can be send by mails, and that have some problems. The invitation send from a logged in user but from the email address of the website, the emails only can be send by logged in users, etc.

After the popular of facebook and twitter. I think a code or a unique URL with the code will be more efficient. A code or a URL with the code can be spread by twitter, facebook, blogs.

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glekli commented

IMHO, the option to just generate a code/url instead of sending an email can easily be added to Invite; it would be a minor enhancement. You don't need to write a whole new module for that. You are welcome to post patches.

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I'd say this is more similar to Registration codes: http://drupal.org/project/regcode

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IWasBornToWin commented

I have installed and uninstalled the invite module twice for two reasons;

1. I keep getting big red warnings
2. For the same reason plusfront posted in #3.

In today's world...people do not want to list a bunch of emails in order to forward stuff. Particularly when they can go to their own email program and paste something in an email and then send to a lot of people. I would rarely , if ever, forward a video from youtube if I had to type in, or copy a bunch of emails somewhere.

I like your idea in post #4 by Gergely. I'd reinstall the module immediately if I had that. The last time I had it installed (yesterday( i couldn't get it to give userpoints to the initer or invitee. It did it the first time--maybe something changed on my end, not sure yet.

One last thing--not sure why you have the 10 times and 5 times stuff going on with this module. Wasn't really clear what that was all about?

My main goals are to motivate my users to forward, share, paste a link anywhere and everywhere which will bring in a new user and give them credit for it.

Invite is the best I've seen so far but not the simplest at getting the word out because it's lacking the link.

I hope you two collaborate. I think it would be awesome. I will tell you something that I haven't been able to find and I think Invite could do it. I would love to show my users a tree view (multi level) hierarchy of all the people under them. I'd think this could be done since you have (i assume) an invited-by-id field.