Mark User as Contributor
 

Mark User as Contributor
(By Boofo)

Original vB 3 version: assassingod

Thanks to assassingod for allowing me to port his hack to vBulletin 3.5 RC 2 and creating the original hack. And to Revan for teaching me about product management.

// Description:
This allows you as an Administrator to mark users if they have donated to your web site. The setting in in the Admin CP profile for each user.

You can use text/icon, whatever you want by editing the phrase. It appears in the postbit and the user's profile.

Nice work :)

I've got the PayPal Donations mod installed already so I won't need this one, but good work nonetheless.

This just gives your contributors a page to have "their name in lights" so to speak. A thank you jester for donating to your site.

Nice job sir. I was gana start that going.

Well, hello there, stranger. Nice to see you around, sir. ;)

Thanks, this is just what i was looking for :D.

Did you miss the install button then? ;)

very nice :)

:: Instaled ::

Nice way to make the non-contributing users contribute ;) Thanks muchly Boofo

Error
Footer Edit.
Try:
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/contributors.php">$vbphrase[contribs]</a> -


bf2_contribs :banana: ( you still got the brown bear I made ? as a logo ... ehhehe)





Idea


'POSTBIT', 'MEMBERINFO', template

vs.


It would be cool to add the same bit of code to the Members list too :o

**Note: In the XML file. I do not know if there is a way, but <if> the mysql Table / field has been done from an older hack ask the Forums Admin durring install to del and reinstall or skip DB edits.

I had the old hack (assassingod) in and when I did the install the DB edits told me to get Bent for the contrib field was already there. I edited the installer by hand and cliped out the DB installer code and all is well.

Guess make 2 XML's ? the upgrade one and the new install ?

You're probably one of the very few who would ever run into something like that. If it's there, you will find it. LOL

The contributors.php worked fine for me, but, yes, your code would be better, I guess. There! I said it! ;)

Feel free to make whatever additions you see fit and I will link them in the first post. ;)

And glad to see you still alive and kicking, my friend. ;)

also some type of WOL plug-in edit.

Perhaps this is a bit much ?

I have the same issue as Zachariah, but I don't know how to fix it. :(

Anyone have a new xml file for those of us who don't know how to edit it? *purty please*

Okay amazingly I edited the xml file correctly... I think at least. I have an error though. I had the old hack on my board, and I am trying to upgrade to this one. This is the error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/XXXXX/public_html/forum/contributors.php on line 43

This is for 3.5.0. Do you have 3.0.3 installed by chance? ;)

It didn't copy over the old contributors.php file. ;) hehe (user issues oops)

No problem. Glad you got it working. ;)

Where do the images show up? I'm not seeing them. am I supposed to be seeing them in the footer?

Anybody?

Well if there is no support here then I will scrap this mod. Pretty disappointing because it was a great idea that I was lookin forward too. :tired:

I don't see it at the footer either!

although my footer includes:
<a href="$vboptions[homeurl]">$vboptions[hometitle]</a> -
<a href="contributors.php">$vbphrase[bf2_contribs]</a> -

It just shows: Contact Us - Forumname - - Archive - Top

Make sure the phrase is there. ;)

Maybe if you would learn to click the install button, you might get some answers once in a while. ;)

As far as images, you will have to add your own if you want that. Right now it shows Contributor in the postbit and profile. The images are already there on the Contributors page. ;)

I just followed your instructions in the text file. I search for 'bf2_contribs" phrase but don't see it. So we have to add "bf2_contribs" phrase manually?

Yes. I must have missed that in the xml file. Glad you caught it. ;)

Please update it :p

When I get some time, I will.

So because I didn't click install "before" I actually installed it, I was being ignored for 5 days while I was waiting for help?

Works great thanks! Clicks install. :)

One questions is there a way to order the list of contributors alphabetically?

Ya most of the time. I usually make them wait 2-3 months or ignore them all together.

To me its like clock work. If I download, I hit install even if I install it 3 months later.

5 days is nothing 9/10 time I could care less about people that do not follow a set standard of rules or directions.

Your lucky he took the time IMO.

@BuRNZau
contributors.php

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Change:

Hey Zachariah. I was not aware that there was a set standard of rules or directions that I should click install "before" I actually had installed it. I have "never" had any problem with this before, & I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me, Thank You very much.
Maybe they should consider "you" for a moderator position. :up:

If you 'could care less' then that means you care at least a little bit. :p


:D

It would never happen. I would snap 25 times a day and start banning entire domain names.

I do not like bugs. :D

I do not like people to have extra stress, unless I am there to give it too them in person. :squareeyed:

That wasn't a bug. I left it out intentionally because I like to know what order users donated in. ;)

He was talking to me on my outlook of people that don't care to hit the "install" not your contrib port :p

I was referring to this:

My apologies if I took it wrong, sir. ;)

work on vb 3.5.2?

If this was to work with the paypal donations, that would have been super nice.. automatically mark them as contributors, so you wouldn't have to do it manually.

I am running 3.5.2 and when I import the XML plugin, I get a database error.

Works great.

TY! :)

EDIT: Also running it on vB v3.5.3 no probs.