Whenever an outside user is invited to join a group or the GJG web site, they should automatically become friends with the user who invited them upon registration of their blocked account.

We have a lot of language like Invite Friends in GJG, but at the same time we have a My Friends page where the friends that you invite (your own friends) do not automatically become friends upon joining the site.. People will become ingratiated in the Friends process better if the system works more intuitively like a Linked In.

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madhatter commented

I was thinking the same thing. :) Somehow by utilizing both the invite module and buddylist module, this can be done.

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ajwwong commented

Well, gjg uses its own "friendship database" (gjg_user, I think) separate from the buddylist database.

Why not just use buddylist.module? I believe this arose as a result of the following:

(1) buddylist currently is *not* an invitation based-system and also

(2) "buddies", oddly enough, is not a "symmetrical" relationship in the current buddylist formulation

Anyhow, ... I created an extensive mod to buddylist which makes it invitation/confirmation based and uses "symmetrical" buddy relationships, in case anyone wants to check it out. One advantage is that it uses the preexisting buddylist database, but simply reinterprets the information in the manner described in this node.

http://drupal.org/node/11892

The modified buddylist module is attached at the end of that node. Maybe this will be of assistance to future iterations of gjg, so that its gjg_user database can be more closely integrated with buddylist.

All the best to everyone and thanks for the hard work!

Albert
www.ithou.org