Checking Hack Interest

Anyone interested in me creating a hack that will allow your users to enter a Custom Title for themselves? I will make it so that you can set a # of posts a user must have before being able to use it. I will also make an option for you to limit the length of the title. The title will then appear on their posts below their username, or below their avatar (or wherever you want in postbit). This would be in addition to the title that they are given automatically through the control panel based on their post count.

I have this list of 100 little hacks I want to make but I can never get around to doing it.

I like the idea!

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!!!! I have that now on my UBB and my visitors LOVE it!!!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

-jim

Is it possible to make custom title available only to moderators?

I do this now to reward them for helping keep my forums active.

Actually, I started work on this a while back but never finished it off. I had planned to allow an option of specifying date registered in addition to post count for the minimum requirement.

If you've already started, then I'll just wait for your code :)

Otherwise, I'll take a stab at finishing up the work-in-progress I had going.

Thanks,

I have written anything yet so have at it. It is not a major hack so I may be tempted to write it while at work though ;)

oh yes please :D this would be a great addition to the avatar hack :)

hey maybe this user specified title hack could be incorporated into the avatar hack ?

Now if someone could just add a custom picture (similar to avatar but with their own picture) - I'd be in HEAVEN!!!

Originally posted by Me2Be
Now if someone could just add a custom picture (similar to avatar but with their own picture) - I'd be in HEAVEN!!!

Where would this user picture be shown? On the Profile page only?

huh, i thought rangersfan's avatar hack already allows that option ? i haven't enabled it yet... my members are asking i enable it :)

Originally posted by eva2000
huh, i thought rangersfan's avatar hack already allows that option ? i haven't enabled it yet... my members are asking i enable it :)

It does, thats why I am confused as to what Me2Be is asking for...

Ah, I guess I'm so used to the avatar for UBB that didn't allow it, I just ASSUMED this one didn't either! (I know, I know - you know what happens when you assume.... ;))

But I would still love this custom title!

is this done yet?????

Originally posted by Martin
is this done yet?????

You are referring to the Custom Title Hack, right?

No Martin I will get to work on it. I got consumed in trying to figure out to make PHP save images in my web directory for an upgrade to my avatar hack - file permission problems, and all that (see my post in the PHP coding forum)

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-03-2000 at 02:10 PM]

This would be a great hack, but I have a suggestion
I would like to enter things that can't be used, so that my users for example can't use the same title that I use and appear to be an admin

But you were going to have that in anyway weren't you? I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot :)

Originally posted by thetakerfan
I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot :)

And we still like ya anyway :)

Originally posted by thetakerfan
This would be a great hack, but I have a suggestion
I would like to enter things that can't be used, so that my users for example can't use the same title that I use and appear to be an admin

But you were going to have that in anyway weren't you? I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot :)

Actually that hadn't occurred to me. The user text will not be in place of the field that says "Administrator" but I guess someone could be fooled by a cursory glance.

There doesn't really seem to be a nice way to determine who is a moderator and who isn't.

Admin is usergroupid 6
Super Mod is usergroupid 5

Moderators are usergroupid 7 and up but also any usergroups that one creates to restrict access could also be 7 and up. You can't count on the moderators user title to actually contain "moderator" but I suppose you could do a select on usergroup and see if the user's usergroup title contains the "!Auto Generated Moderator Please Leave!" string. Any suggestions?

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-03-2000 at 04:43 PM]

Perhaps you can add a field where if someone abuses this feature, you can turn off their ability to change this in their member profile? That way you can decide what is unacceptable for your forum.

[Edited by Me2Be on 08-03-2000 at 04:47 PM]

Originally posted by Me2Be
Originally posted by thetakerfan
I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot :)

And we still like ya anyway :)

good thing too, cause if you didn't I'd REALLY be annoying
Anyway, i think that there doess need to be some kind of title censor or something. For ex., if this was implemented here, i could make my title "Your Friendly Administrator", which is James' title, and that could be problem.

I'll make a field like the censor text field, ok? I won't use it but I'll put it in as mine looks like this and I think it is obvious.

http://www.hedgehogwheels.com/avatar/freddie.jpg

I think a censor text type thing should be fine.

okay, I'm not trying to complain here, but doesn't having 2 titles seem a little reduntant?

I was doing my thinking along the lines of a hack that would make the text field and radio buttons that exit in the CP viewable for those with over a predetemined number of posts.
That would let people set their custom title.

The only thing I would add to that is a CP per user permission so you can turn off abusive users while letting the good ones have one.

Just my thoughts...

Well I can make an Admin switch so you can have it change the usertitle or the new custom title. I really love how simple hacks just seem to keep growing and growing.

Make it change the user title

or

Make it add a new title also?

Anyone else in agreement with Martin?

I'm for just one title - either they get the standard title, or they can change it to a custom one. (I guess I'm with Martin ;))

I wasn't complaining, honest!!

I was just thinking this past week how to do this myself.

I was pondering the idea of an if() statement in the profile.php to handle it, but I'm not that confident in my PHP coding abilities yet.

Now I understand why you would be afraid of users entering words that might trick people into thinking they were more important than they really are. It was more along the lines of a "motto" hack.

I will change it to a hack that allows someone to change their user title based on a Post count option and a time registered option. It also has an option to allow mods to change it at will. Anything else??

Next someone will say "can you let it have HTML" and that will be followed up with "since it has html can you make sure it checks images for size". :)

HTML wouldn't be hard to do, just don't put in the strippers.

for my part, I plan on making the textbox a 31 character limit and the same for the table column. That should end any attempts at getting carried away:)

No HTML - I can just imagine the pretty colors and sizes they'll come up with - text only is fine by me.

You do realize that this will completely render any "stars" that you have added to titles as useless. You will have to install a stars hack (mine works fine) to go along with this.

We don't allow HTML cause who knows what "they" will put so we can no longer have <img src=stars.gif> in user titles.

"they" aren't always bad, just most of the time.

Originally posted by rangersfan
"they" aren't always bad, just most of the time.

sad, but true.

And yeah, I was thinking along the lines of having one title, no wonder I was kind of confused before