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Introduction
A simpe modification for members to refer new members and see who referred who. Modification versions 2.0 and below made by karlbenson, all later development by YodaOfDarkness.

If you're using a non-custom theme I recommend the Modification Parser by Daniel 15 to get the manual theme edits required.

Features
o Adds a referral link to each users profile area
 :: http://www.fustrate.com/forum/index.php?referredby=1 - where 1 is the user ID
o Users can then paste the link to whoever they want to invite - suitable for email, signatures, messengers, webpages, forums etc
o When a guest/visitor uses the referral link a 'tracking' cookie is placed on their computer, so they can browse away from the link and register on your forum upto 60 days later (unless cookies are deleted) with the referral credited to the referring user.
o If no referral cookie is found, prospective members can type in a name to be their referral
o Adds 2 Referral stats section showing;
 :: Top 5 Referrers (By Referrals)
 :: Top 5 Referrers (By Referred Members Posts)
 :: Daily/Monthly/Yearly Referrals Stats
o Total Referrals of each user shown in the poster information of each post
o Referrals information shown in Profile Summary
 ::  Shows referral link in profile
 ::  Shows number of referrals
 ::  Dropdown showing each member user has referred (Linked to the members profile pages)
 ::  Referral Hits (a.k.a number of clicks on your referral link)
o Referred member information also shown in Profile Summary
 ::  If user was referred, shows the user who referred them and the original date of referral

Support
Please use the modification thread for support with this modification. Personal messages for support are discouraged.

Languages
o English
o English UTF-8
o British English
o British English UTF-8
If you have any translations for any other languages, I would be grateful if you would send them to me via PM or in the Mods topic.

Changelog
1.0 BETA - 29th May 2007
o Initial release made per SMF user request.
1.1 - 14th June 2007
o Few tweaks - moving it out of BETA
o Wrote out the manual edits
o Improved the readme/documentation for this mod
1.2 - 31st July 2007
o Fixed a stats bug (Reported by Nitins60/Fixed by Lanthan)
1.3 - 6th August 2007
o Fixed XML stats bug (Bugfix provided by Lanthan (thanks again!)
o Fixed stats bug (unfortunately caused some stats bugs)
o Fixed install mysql bug (Reported/BugFix by Lanthan)
o Fixed error referredby (caused when user registered without using referral link)
o Members referral link now shown in an input box to copy
1.4 - 2nd September 2007
o Added - Profile - Selecting a person you referred in the drop down menu will take you to their profile
o Fixed huge stats bar bug
o Added English UTF-8 Support
2.0 - 14th March 2008
o Code by karlbenson, mod transferred to YodaOfDarkness for future development
o Added fill-in referral option, if no cookie is found
o "Copy to clipboard" for referral link in profile

2.1.0 - 12th July 2008 (Released 22nd August 200
o Package upgraded for SMF 2.0 Beta 3.1 Public

2.1.1 - 22nd August 2008
o Installer updated for SMF 2.0 Beta 4
> Will not work on SMF 2.0 Beta 3.1 and below!

thx

I mean you may bump into people who may know you in reality.