Membership Management

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Membership levels assign rights to users for specific functions and programs in osDate. If you want to allow any user to use any particular program/function/option, it should be allowed at the Member's Membership Level, which are set in the admin panel's Membership Management tool.

The following rights can be assigned for any membership level:

a) Allow chat program? (chat)
Whether to allow the member to use the Chat Program (FlashChat, of course!).

b) Allow forum? (forum)
Whether to allow the member to use the installed Forum. The forum can be any of: phpBB, vBulletin, Phorum, or MyBB.

c) Allow User Blog? (blog)
Whether to allow the member to manage his/her own Blog.

d) Include in Search results? (includeinsearch)
Whether to include this member in search results of other members.

e) Allow use of message system? (message)
Whether to allow the member use of the messaging system.

f) Number of messages allowed to be stored in system. (message_keep_cnt)
Maximum number of messages allowed to be stored by the member.

g) Days after which unflagged and read message can be removed. (message_keep_days)
Number of days after which the unflagged and read messages will be removed from system.

h) Number of messages that can be sent per day. (messages_per_day)
Maximum number of messages that can be sent per day.

i) Allow using of Instant Messenger?. (allowim)
Allow the user to use the instant messenger. Please be aware that this could substantially increase your server's SQL load, and is only suggested on dedicated servers where MySQL load is less of an issue.

j) Allow loading of pictures? (uploadpicture)
Whether to allow the user to load pictures?

k) If allowed, maximum number of pictures that can be loaded (uploadpicturecnt)
If loading of pictures is allowed, maximum number of pictures that can be loaded.

l) Allow use of the album? (allowalbum)
Whether to allow using of albums for picture uploads, and video uploads if that feature is also enabled.

m) Allow Event creation and management? (event_mgt)
Whether to allow the user to manage events in the calendar system. The calendar system must be enabled for this option to be effective.

n) Allow viewing of profile pictures? (seepictureprofile)
Whether to allow viewing of pictures of other profiles.

o) Allow management of Buddy/Ban/Hot list? (favouritelist)
Whether to allow management of Buddy / Ban / Host lists.

p) Allow sending of Winks? (sendwinks)
Whether to allow sending of winks to other members.

q) Number of winks that can be sent per day. (winks_per_day)
Maximum number of winks that can be sent per day by a user.

r) Allow advanced searching facility? (extsearch)
Whether to allow advanced searching.

s) Number of days this level is valid (activedays)
Maximum number of days this level is valid for. For example, if a user upgrades to "Gold", that upgrade will be active for this many days, at which time the membership level would be downgraded to the previous level if the membership level is not renewed.

t) Allow saving of profiles to watch list? (saveprofiles)
Whether to allow saving of profiles to watched profiles list.

u) If allowed, number of profiles that can be saved to watched list. (saveprofilescnt)
If saving of profiles is allowed, maximum number profiles that can be saved in Watched Profiles list.

v) Allow videos in profiles? (allow_videos)
Whether to allow videos in profiles.

w) If allowed, number of videos that can be loaded per profile. (videoscnt)
Maximum number of videos that can be loaded, if videos are allowed in profiles.

x) Allow personalized settings of mail receiving options? (allow_mysettings)
Whether to allow management of email receiving preferences by user. If enabled, the user will be able to specify whether or not to receive certain types of admin and/or user emails.

y) Allow php121 instant messenger? (allow_php121)
Whether to allow using of php121 instant messenger. Please be aware that this could substantially increase your server's SQL load, and is only suggested on dedicated servers where MySQL load is less of an issue. php121 is not a program that is supported by TUFaT.com, but has been integrated with osDate on the request of many osDate users.

In addition to these, all Plugins have the ability of whether to allow use of that plugin at a particular membership level. This is managed using the Admin. interface to manage plugins.