Remember Fallen Members

[ZacUSNYR]

Remember Fallen Members v1.0.2

Read Installation Text File included in Zip File.

File uploads : 1
Product Install : 1

Template Edits (optional) : Navbar Link

What is this used for?
I run a motorcycle forum. Unfortunately the name of the game is injuries and death. It's hard losing a member, but sometimes, it's just as hard remembering that member later on. This page is dedicated to the loss of a good friend of mine, and a great forum member as well.

Is this your first mod?
Yes it is. I am not a programmer and learned enough to get this working after my friend had passed away.

How does it work?
You create a usergroup for your fallen members. When a member is moved into that usergroup they'll show up on this page with a simple anchor driven menu. There is 2 Profile fields which you need to populate with data which will show the members last death date and biography/obituary.

Live Demo : http://www.ride-ny.com/forum/remember.php

Please click INSTALL

If you are a programmer and want to see this project furthered - then please PM me! Post support and feature questions in the thread - i'll do my best to try to help.

[ZacUSNYR]

Template change to add a link to the remember page in your navbar. You can put a link whereever - form of a ribbon in the footer - etc etc..

Open template navbar
Find :
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>

Add Above:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="remember.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">Remember</a></td>

If you run vBadvanced portal don't forget to put remember.php in your navbar replacements.

[apdcanari]

Other groups, it's possible ?

Example : 12;25;27

Thanks :rolleyes:

[SpanishHarlem]

Installed and working on 3.6.1. Thank's for this hack.

[bashy]

Very very good hack m8 well done, although i dont have a need for it at present. Thanks again for a great hack!

[ZacUSNYR]

Other groups, it's possible ?

Example : 12;25;27

Thanks :rolleyes:

It is - very easily as well. I assume you're thinking of a staff page - which I'm working on and will be releasing later. That's something with a little bit more end user customization and will easily be changeable by moderators and admins via their usercp. So it's more advanced then this and will take me a little while.

[ZacUSNYR]

Very very good hack m8 well done, although i dont have a need for it at present. Thanks again for a great hack!
I hope nobody has a need for it :(

[Rickie3]

what a wonderful idea,very well done,i dont have a need for it,but what a great way to show your respect

[oldfan]

great idea!

[trackpads]

Dittos, wonderfull idea and great work!

[Qwest]

I can definitely see some other good uses for this hack as well.

I'm bookmarking this...

[Comalies]

Although I don't need it now (and hopefully won't need it in the future), this is some great work.

[Ziki]

Sorry for your thread dude :(

[lasto]

sad to see people die and you come up with a good idea that can be used for other things besides fallen members.

Nice hack m8

[ChrisBaktis]

Id love to see this work with more then 1 user group (this is something I can use for a Hall of Fame listing) - We have more then 1 level of HOF user group. Being able to pull more then 1 group, being able to pull some custom profile fields, and to be able to sort the way the usergroups show would be great....just some suggestions for other uses.

[ZacUSNYR]

I'm working on another product that's going to be a staff page and can be modified for what you're looking to do.

[tazB.ca]

Hmmm..also U Could Use This For Member Of Tha Week Or Month Or Somin Like That....cause I Hope Noone Needs It For Its Base Use:(

[blue6995]

Is it possible for me to change the date format to a British Date format. If it is, how do I go about it?

Many thanks

[ZacUSNYR]

What is a british date format - can you give me an example? It pulls the birthday right out of vBulletin that the member puts in on sign up - and the end date is specified by you - which you can put in any way you want. If you need to change the - in between the dates that is easy - just a template edit.

remember_members

<td class="thead">$remember[birthday] - $remember[ripdate]</td>

[blue6995]

What is a british date format - can you give me an example? It pulls the birthday right out of vBulletin that the member puts in on sign up - and the end date is specified by you - which you can put in any way you want. If you need to change the - in between the dates that is easy - just a template edit.

remember_members

<td class="thead">$remember[birthday] - $remember[ripdate]</td>

British date is shown in the format dd/mm/yyyy and not mm/dd/yyyy

[ZacUSNYR]

British date is shown in the format dd/mm/yyyy and not mm/dd/yyyy
Ok. When you enter the ripdate you can change the format right in the profile. I'll work on figuring out how vB changes the birthday and post that up.

[ZacUSNYR]

New version uploaded - you can swap the birthday from the vBulletin Options --> Remember Fallen Members. And in the profile field just enter the RIP Date in the format you want it in.

To upgrade - upload the new remember.php. In the product manager upload the product-remember.xml and choose allow overwrite.

[whitetigergrowl]

Nice hack. Although I feel if you have that many people dying on your forum, lol there are bigger problems to worry about then. ;)

[ZacUSNYR]

It's not a video game forum or a vbulletin help forum. It's a motorcycle (mostly sportbike) forum. Unfortunately motorcycle riders get the short end of of the stick in an accident. This is just a way to remember those members who we have lost. I wish we could stop all the deaths.

[ChrisBaktis]

I'm working on another product that's going to be a staff page and can be modified for what you're looking to do.

Thanks - looking forward to the staff hack.

[Reeve of shinra]

While I hope to never have a need for it, I appreciate your work in releasing this.

[Konstantinos]

nice idea. too bad that it will be unpleasant to be used.

[username12]

When I first saw this, I wasn't expecting to ever have a use for it, but we lost our first member that we're aware the other day and are trying to come up with ways to make a tribute to him.

[ZacUSNYR]

I had lost 2 members previously in the year but did not know them. But I just lost someone who was a friend first and member second. That's when I came up with this. It sucks losing friends and members of your on-line community - sorry to hear about your loss :(

[cjwinternet]

Hope to never a have a need for this, but thanks. Never good to lose a friend like that.

[trackpads]

Does this work for 3.6.8?

Thanks,

-Jason

[ZacUSNYR]

I have not tested it in newer versions of vBulletin - I have not even played with the 3.6 Release. Setup a test site and give it a shot?

[trackpads]

It works! This is a great idea and very nice!

Thanks again!

-Jason

[ZacUSNYR]

Great glad to see it still works on the newer versions. I need to find some time to get back into this stuff.

[kiwivc]

Installed on 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 without a hitch. It all works perfectly. :)

We lost a 17yr old member to a vehicle accident today and this mod is perfect for her friends and especially her brother who is also a member but survived the accident. Awesome idea thanks :)

[NTMID8]

Just an FYI to let you know this works on 3.8.2. Thanks for the mod. I have an automotive forum that is geared around high performance cars and sadly, we lose people as well.

[NTMID8]

Curious also...

Would there be a way to add the ability for forum members to leave a comment for individual fallen members? Basically, you could click on the biography and see a list of comments, prayers, memories, etc that the other members have left.

Sending them to a moderation queue would be ideal, to ensure nothing inappropriate makes it onto the page.

[pwebb]

Hi,

Does anyone know if the Fallen Members mod works on vb 4?

Regards

[HMBeaty]

Hi,

Does anyone know if the Fallen Members mod works on vb 4?

Regards
Being that this is for 3.5, I highly doubt it will work with vB 4

[pwebb]

Hi,

Yeah as suggested the templates are not compatible with vb 4.

Thanks

[ilanyon]

Hi, I'm also interested as to whether anyone might be working on this or a similar mod for v.4...

cheers,

Ian

[NTMID8]

We just moved to v4 and this is one mod that I would really like to get back up and running. The least we can do for our fallen friends is remember them.

[NTMID8]

I have reached out to the developer on his website to see if he will update this for vb4 or mark the code as re-usable so another developer may do so.

[lapiervb]

Is there something like this for vb4?