Extended Reputation Display

[Paul M]

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This hack extends the existing reputation display system from just the light/dark green pips to green and golden pips, and then a series of bronze, silver and gold stars as the pips limit is reached.

The dark green pips are followed by light green pips, which are then followed by gold pips. When the limit these can display is reached, the (prefix) display of stars begins - starting with the bronze stars, then silver stars and finally gold Stars. If your reputation is zero then the neutral grey pip is displayed. Negative reputations are displayed in a similar manner using light and dark red pips and red stars - however, there is only one star level for negative reputation.

Each time you 'lap' the limit of the pips display, another star is added. The number of each star is limited by an ACP option (by default, 5 bronze = 1 silver, and 5 silver = 1 gold). The number and value of the pips in each group of pips is defined by six settings in the vboptions > reputation options. A line break can be inserted after the stars. The extended display system can be enabled/disabled in the options.

Just follow the install instructions in the zip file to install this product.


History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vb 3.7
v3.7.002 : Bronze and Silver stars added to make three star levels.

[katilkuzu]

thanx for release this (: installed*

[Barakat]

install thanks

[lasto]

does this work on 3.6.7

[Paul M]

No. This is the 3.7 version.

[Sofia]

Thank you Paul :) Nice hack ;)

[projectego]

* projectego clicks install :)

[jilly]

Just wanted to put it my plug again for adding one more level of stars - a 'super' star, so to speak. I promise to make the values high enough that I wont make you add a super super star! (lol) If you can make this, I will send you Dr. Pepper products from the USA! We have some cooooolll Dr. Pepper things here :)

[gforce75]

thanks. once 3.7 is gold, this hack will be very useful.

[OrionsMom]

Very kewl, TY :)

[Mr. Hoddz]

Installed but not working. I can't see as there are any problems with my settings in the vB Options. Any ideas?

[UncoderMom]

Just wanted to put it my plug again for adding one more level of stars - a 'super' star, so to speak. I promise to make the values high enough that I wont make you add a super super star! (lol) If you can make this, I will send you Dr. Pepper products from the USA! We have some cooooolll Dr. Pepper things here :)

ROFL! I second that.. Some how all out of no where my users have learned how "to get stars" and have like 20 each and its gonna break my template.. it already looks ew. haha

Suppa Suppa Star!!

THANKS Paul.

OT.. I tried upping the values of the pips but it didnt change the ones already given. Do I need to rebuild rep? Ifs so will that mess up the users rep count?

[Paul M]

Not sure what you changed, but the results will be instant if you change the values this uses.

[UncoderMom]

Thats what I though. Maybe I need to make it more.

[UncoderMom]

Okay.. I just jacked it way up.

I was no wheres near making it high enough LOL

now its

Extended Reputation Dark Green Count
The maximum number of dark green pips to display before moving onto the next level.
set to 8

Extended Reputation Dark Green Value
The value of each dark green pip in the extended reputation display.
set to 2000

Extended Reputation Light Green Count
The maximum number of light green pips to display before moving onto the next level.
set to 8

Extended Reputation Light Green Value
The value of each light green pip in the extended reputation display.
set to 4500

Extended Reputation Golden Count
The maximum number of golden pips to display before moving onto the next level.
set to 14

Extended Reputation Gold Value
The value of each golden pip in the extended reputation display.
set to 10000

I have a good 30 users or so that "figured it out" and was repping each other into the millions. Thanks to vbplazas unlimited rep. LOL

[airborneCAL]

Installed but have a problem. The graphics do not display - instead for each pip a user has the text version of that level is displayed. Any help?

[Paul M]

Put the images in the correct folder on your server.

[jim6763nva]

um.. ok I've installed it but what is it supposed to look like? All I see in the postbit is a little green dot.

Jim

[IRCMedya]

Installed thanks you ;)

[UncoderMom]

No chance of another level? LOL even though I jacked it up like that members STILL have 20 plus stars. :eek: Insane! so now they are upset that there stars are gone and some still have a bunch. *sigh*

I need to find a way to let them spend those rep points. LOL

[FinalX-TeaM]

Thanks:)

[egyptsons]

thanks
good one ;)

[Paul M]

No chance of another level? LOL even though I jacked it up like that members STILL have 20 plus stars. :eek: Insane! so now they are upset that there stars are gone and some still have a bunch. *sigh*
Actually yes, there are plans to add another level at some point as I'll be needing it myself.

I just need the time and will power to do it. It should be sometime in the next few months. :)

[Guest210212002]

Quick question - I'm still sporting the 3.6.x version on 3.7. If I install/overwrite, it should keep the same settings, correct?

Thanks again for this - definitely one of my favorite mods.

[meolangthang]

Thank you

[Paul M]

Quick question - I'm still sporting the 3.6.x version on 3.7. If I install/overwrite, it should keep the same settings, correct?
I think so, however, Ive not tested it for months.

[Paul M]

Star levels increased to three (bronze, silver, gold).

Note that if you upgrade to 3.7.002 then you must upload the images again - also the settings have moved to their own vb options group and will be reset to their default values.

[MeMySelfNi]

<font face="Century Gothic">update........thanks</font>

[Dragonahcas]

Great mod, once I figured out what settings to change. :)

[legionofangels]

Paul,

Why can't we, we as in someone who knows what they're doing, just change the max value in the PHP file to adjust the maximum amount of pips shown?

Granted, that would change the concept of your tri color pip layout, but wouldn't that be easier to change the max in there, and just go from there?

[Paul M]

You can do whatever you want on your forum. :)

[UncoderMom]

I just wanted to drop in and say thanks for this new version Paul! The three levels make a HUGE difference!

Thank you!!

[Sykko]

hey paul, any chance of adding in an option for alignment of the stars?

for example, currently they default to start from the left...

it would be great if I could tell it to align the row of stars in the center of the below pips (the way it displays in the member listings)

for example,

http://tehpix.com/tehpix/files/2/centered.png

now I redid my stars... so that they would be 5 point stars that would match the dark green, light green, and gold... but the rest is simply from the memberlist page...

if you arent interested in adding an option for it, would you perhaps be willing to help me find which template that I could edit myself in order to incorporate such a change on my own board? (I cant seem to find it :\ )

note: I am talking about specifically where the rep is displayed in the profile, and in the postbit

[ndut]

cool.. installed

[Sykko]

no responce still huh?

perhaps he is bored with this mod???

oh well... guess I will have to dig into the code myself then :\

screw it, im too busy with other projects too... :p

[Paul M]

Perhaps he just didnt see your post, did you think of that :rolleyes:

No, im not going to add an alignment option.

[Sykko]

well then maybe you need glasses :p

sorry if I seemed pushy :( I didnt mean to

I think I was kinda frustrated and pissy at the time... I shouldnt have blahed out here as a result :\

I love your mods... and didnt mean any disrespect :D

[dai-kun]

For some reason, the reputation stars don't show up correctly. Like someone having 60000 rep points have less stars than someone having 20000 rep points... I didn't like the 3 pictures rep thing so I renamed all the same image to the gold,red,brown stars. Thanks.

[Paul M]

Stars are not cumulative, if you have 4 bronze and then get enough points for silver, you will just get one silver star, not one silver plus four bronze.

[AdrianH]

Installed and looking good, thanks Paul.

[dai-kun]

Stars are not cumulative, if you have 4 bronze and then get enough points for silver, you will just get one silver star, not one silver plus four bronze.

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH thanks :)

[rajrana007]

compatible with VB v3.7.1 too, works great!

[Audentio]

Brilliant as usual! Installed.

[Captain Tycoon]

Marked and Installed! Excellent Mod!

[April7]

Thank You!

[rune-flame]

I did everything you said correctly, but it doesn't show any of the reputation images.

Why is that? =/

[Paul M]

How could I possibly know that ?

The only answer I can give is that you have missed something.

[Scarface Claw]

I'm in the same boat.

I uploaded the images to images/reputation and imported the XML.

Turned it on in the vBoptions but images do not display.

Using vB 3.7.1 Patch Level 2

EDIT:
I know why, its because I am using a custom style and the style gets its reputation images from its own directory.

/vb/ambience/reputation

How do I work around this?

[Paul M]

Just put the new images in that directory.

[Scarface Claw]

good one, thanks

One thing though.

It seems as though the gold and bronze stars are mixed up, it was displaying gold stars when it should have been only displaying bronze ones. I had to change the file names of the gifs to get it to display proper.

Other than that good mod dude, cheers.

[fukdawrld]

excellent thank s

[kinggori]

My members are starting to hit the Golden stars and they were wondering what happens afterwards... is there any possibility of extending the stars further somehow?

[Paul M]

There are three levels of stars already, there is no chance of any more. I suggest you change the values.

[trigatch4]

Paul,

Regarding the need for additional star levels... I think I have a solution. Perhaps everything should be on a "scale". For example, suppose you were to rank all users by how many "rep" points they have.

Those in the bottom 25% (with the lowest rep) would get 0 stars. 25-50 would get bronze, 50-75 would get silver and 75-100 would get gold.

Within those levels, the higher up you were, the more stars you'd have. So if you were like the 49th percentile than you would have a row of maybe 8 bronze stars whereas someone with 26 percentile would only have 1 bronze star.

This way, there is a CEILING of reputation. The top user with the MOST rep will have all gold stars and a "scale" will be built around them... with them being the 100th percentile.

There are a bunch of ways to handle this but I just wanted to share this concept with you. Because, anyone who has a forum with some age will eventually have a ton of people with tons of stars and the novelty will kind of "wear off" - or could at least.

This way, you have an ever changing dynamic system for displaying rep that will never get old regardless of how many rep points any one person achieves. I had thought about installing your mod but I know I will run into the same problem as everyone else... and then if you fix it you have to explain to all your members why their hard earned stars have disappeared!

Also, I'd love to see screen shots in your first post. Other than that really... job well done. I'm just offering some ideas and in no way intend to criticize as I think you've done a beautiful job!

[worldwide2]

awesome mod, but any chance of an option for cumulative stars, so it shows dark green, light green and yellow as well as the stars? Right now it seems to show dark green and light green and the stars if someone has a lot of rep, and seems to skip the yellow gems.

[Paul M]

It does not skip the yellow.

Not sure what else you mean, but either way no changes are planned to this.

[Guest210212002]

Can you add counts for negatives as well? I'm not sure what the cause is, but I setup my "ticks" so that they're borderless so that it's a solid bar. It works just peacy for positives, but for negatives the ticks are still spaced out.

[Paul M]

Not really sure what you mean, can you link to an example. There should be no difference between positive and negative (spacing wise).

[JoyB]

This is great, thank you :)

[Drocr]

so um we turn it on and it just brakes the display of our current rep system....

[wundermummy]

How do I upload the images....and to where. thanks

[BigJohnny]

Hi Paul, I have some replacement star images I'd like to use on my board, but the problem is that they are png files and not gifs like the original files.

There are only 3 of them. How would I go about making this hack use png files for those 3 images instead of gifs? Ive looked through plugins and stuff and couldnt find anything.

[BigJohnny]

How do I upload the images....and to where. thanks

You upload them with FTP to your server, in your /images/reputation/ folder.

[Paul M]

vbulletin is hard coded to use gifs (in one of the templates I believe). You would need to edit that template and the plugin code - or re-save your images as gifs.

[BigJohnny]

Yes, i think ive seen the template, it has one reference to gif files, which tells me that it will only look for/use one type of file.

From looking at it I would say that if I changed the reference to png, it would need all of the reputation images to be png files.

How would I need to modify it to use png files for only those 3 stars, do you know?

[Paul M]

Take the gif/png reference out of the template and add them to the names in the plugin code.

[BigJohnny]

what names in the plugin code am I changing? Im not quite sure what your referring to.

[Adeawan]

Thanks Alot

[xGriffin]

Hey, Paul.

I've edited the settings a little bit for it to work the way i need it to, but what i want is, once a user reaches the required amount of green pips, say 10. Once they do that, i want them to have a bar, and not the green pips next to the bar.

Is there anyway i can remove the green pips once the user reaches the required amount of rep? Thanks.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/07/57.png

There's a image of what i mean, i need to remove the pips on the left. Cheers.

[Sworm]

Hi Paul,
this mod will be supported by vb4 too?

TX

[Paul M]

Yes, there will be a vb4 release.

[Luis]

Yes, there will be a vb4 release.

hi Paul can u help me? i have this problem

http://puu.sh/QnRq

How can I add a space between images?

Need to get this

http://puu.sh/QnTo