Anniversary Awards
 

This mod is based on something Smoker did for his community at www.smokers-board.de :)

To see what it does you should read this thread at vbulletin.org

This hack will add +1 star for every year a user is registered. If you have users which are registered for 1 year they will have 1 star next to their username.. Users who are registered for 4 years will have 4 stars and so on.

Here are the instructions and Iam sorry I can't post them as a *.txt but I need this thread to explain how everything works.

Edit your template ?postbit? and find:

class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>


Now add under that:
<if condition="$jointime > 1825"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 1460"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 1095"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 730"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 365"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>

Save it.
Now you just have to upload the attached image to images/misc and you should be fine.

Explanation:
$jointime holds the days a user is registered. A simple example for a user who registered for more than a year (in this case 377 days):
<if condition="377 > 365"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>

This condition is true (377 is larger than 365) and he gets one star :)
Same if he is registered for more than 3 years (let's say 1099 days):
<if condition="1099 > 1095"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>
<if condition="1099 > 730"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>
<if condition="1099 > 365"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>

In that case all three conditions are true and he gets 3 stars :) Simple isn't it?

You may even use different images like a blue star for the third year, a red one for the second year and so on.


Have fun and don't forget -> Smoker did most of the work :)

That's a cool idea! Not sure I'll use it but I like it!

Indeed, a good idea. :)

yep, very nice idea...

My forum isn't even a year old! :(

Very cool and easy to do. Thanks!!

Creative genius it is ... nice work!

nice idea but still my board needs 9 months to complete one year ;)

this is quite cool, i'm thinking of adding a party hat :)

but really i'd like to have it so it only appears on the aniversary what would be the condition i needed for that?

this is nice :D I can use it for people who have been at my site since the beginning :D

I seen something like this on a board I visit but they do it differently, on the 6 month they give a light colored star then on a year a bright colors star. Year and a half a bright one and a light one...

Would it be hard to make this do that?

so then just change the dates. i did mine to 3 months then 6 months then 1 year then 2 years then 3 years.

nice little mod... :banana:
i would like to know though

i have this below and would like to know how i can automatically turn the 3 month star into the 6 month star then the 6th into the annual and after the annual it just ads the stars like to original code is desisgned for?

Anyone know how to make this work with 3.5?

I was searching around for the very same thing.. the $jointime variable was obviously changed in 3.5

Yep, thats what I am trying to figure out now. Uggggh, help!

Anyone?

anyone for 3.5

Just make a new plugin for 'postbit_display_start' with the following:

Thank you!!!

This seems to work but everyone seems to be getting 5 stars in the messaging system. When I am reading a PM from someone, everyone has 5 stars under their name regardless of join date. Any suggestions? Thank in advance.

It's because the Plugin Code I supplied above is being used under 'postbit_display_start', which means the code is only being executed in the postbits.

You could try creating another hook with the same code using a location such as 'global_start' or 'private_showpm_start'.

1st thanks for the post bit info, that worked like a charm :D

But neither of the above worked for fixing the PM's showing all stars available :(

If you want something simple, you could just wrap the IF Condition Blocks with one larger condition like:

If you still want the awards to show in Private Messages; it's possible that the problem is in the "jointime" variable -- $this->post['joindate'] -- $this->post should be corrected for use with Private Messages.

Ok above worked to atleast remove the stars from PM's, would rather none show then all lol ~ so thank you :D

Not sure if above will work or not, as I may just not know what to change it to
I tried $this->pm & $this->private as a plugin under "private_showpm_start" & no change - still showed all stars available in PM's.

Yeah, that's why I figured I'd mention it to you - if you wanted to give it a try; as I don't know the right var. to use.

Maybe someone else will post the answer then :)

Again, thank you so much with your help on this :D

With this plugin add, it works on 3.6.11. Thanks