Display Board Authorities in Forum Home

[Logician]

This small hack displays forum authorities (Site Admins/Super Moderators/Moderators) in your forum home page under today's birthdays. It's like a "showgroups.php" alternative. Anyway I guess the screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=263662) tells better than me.

To have online authorities list check Tubedogg's hack here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38648). Tubedogg's hack lists the online authorities only while this one lists them all.

The hack works in all vb versions I know and easy to install..

This hack is requested by The Rock in this thread (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40074) and thx to The Rock, Squawell, Hellsatan and Smoothie for testing it and convincing me to release it although I dont use the hack myself. :)

Enjoy..

Logician

[N9ne]

Great hack, been wanting this for a while, thanks for releasing it! Everyone install this hack NOW lol

[Brad]

Im best friends with the guy that developed this for UBB, i was looking into doing it myself but you saved me some time, dank

[N9ne]

Can I just add something...

To separate the authority list from the bottom of your forums, open your forumhome template, find $authority_list and add before it, the following code...

</table>
</td></tr></table><br>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#0A293E" width="95%" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">

And if you want to separate users by commas in the authority list...credit to Logician...

do the following...

open root/index.php

find

eval("\$authority_list = \"".gettemplate('authority_list')."\";");

add the following before it

if ($siteadmins) {$siteadmins=substr($siteadmins,0,strlen($siteadmi ns)-2);}
if ($supermoderators) {$supermoderators=substr($supermoderators,0,strlen ($supermoderators)-2);}
if ($boardmoderators) {$boardmoderators=substr($boardmoderators,0,strlen ($boardmoderators)-2);}


Then find in root/index.php (after doing the hack of course...)

if ($otorite[usergroupid]==6) {$siteadmins.='<a href="member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid='.$otorite[userid].'">'.$otorite[username].'</a> ';}

if ($otorite[usergroupid]==5) {$supermoderators.='<a href="member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid='.$otorite[userid].'">'.$otorite[username].'</a> ';}

if ($otorite[usergroupid]==7) {$boardmoderators.='<a href="member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid='.$otorite[userid].'">'.$otorite[username].'</a> ';}

And change it all to

if ($otorite[usergroupid]==6) {$siteadmins.='<a href="member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid='.$otorite[userid].'">'.$otorite[username].'</a>, ';}

if ($otorite[usergroupid]==5) {$supermoderators.='<a href="member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid='.$otorite[userid].'">'.$otorite[username].'</a>, ';}

if ($otorite[usergroupid]==7) {$boardmoderators.='<a href="member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid='.$otorite[userid].'">'.$otorite[username].'</a>, ';}





I hope that helped some people :)

[squawell]

YES....i love this hack......

great job Logcian....................:D:D:D:D

[Chris M]

Great!!!:)

Satan

[Logician]

Originally posted by Tha Rock
And if you want to separate users by commas in the authority list...credit to Logician...

already included in the instructions. ;)

[N9ne]

Originally posted by Logician

already included in the instructions. ;)

ok ;) good work on the hack, and everyone get installing!!!

[Dark Shogun]

How can you add another usergroup because when I added one it gave me a sql error.

Dark Shogun

[Dark Shogun]

I fixed it and added another usergroup. :) Hack works great by the way.

Dark Shogun

[Triality159]

hello i couldnt find

-- cut---
// get newest member
---

in my index.php

[kushtiUK]

Yesterday at 09:45 PM Triality159 said this in Post #11 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=411148#post411148)
hello i couldnt find

-- cut---
// get newest member
---


in my index.php


don't look for the --cut-- just look for

// get newest member

The "cut" part is just to show the start and end part of the instructions.

[Triality159]

oh lol i feel stupid....thanks man!

[dano]

Works great! *clicks install*

[Triality159]

it doesnt seem to refresh....i add more mods but no more mods show up....how do i get the new moderators listed?

[Logician]

if you didnt create a new special usergroup for your new mods (that is your mods are in default usergroups with ID 5 or 7), it should refresh .

[Triality159]

how do you do this? i dont believe i did that