Miscellaneous Hacks - Yet Another Awards System

A lot of you have been waiting for this forever to work 100% with 3.7 due to the new profile tabs...Well wait no longer, here is the new revises version of HacNho's YAAS (Yet Another Awards System).

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Medals/Awards system. Admin can give members awards, and award icons will be displayed in member's profile, posts, as well as in a award list.

FEATURES:
In AdminCP
- Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
- Can Create/Edit/Delete awards in ACP (with Award Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
- Can Move one (or all) award(s) from one category to another
- Can set some awards un-classified (not displayed for public)
- Can re-order awards in awards showcase
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

In ModCP
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

Front page
- Display awards list in with: Award Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each award.
- Display awards showcase in profile, with Award information, Issue time and reason
- Display award icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)

CHANGES/MODIFICATION:
- Tables to add: 3 (award, award_user, award_cat)
- Files to add: 4 (/awards.php, /award_request.php, /admincp/award.php, /admincp/award_cat.php)


DIFFICULTY:
Easy
Time: about 5 minutes
Installer is included (1 product XML)

CREDIT:
Idea has been carried on by many people, here are some:
- Lesane for original Award hack for vB2, eventhough I've never use his hack
- AnimeWebby for Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3], which I write new code based on his.
- Mac ycl6 for phpBB Medal System for phpBB forum
- Dr Erwin Loh for FORM TO THREAD/ FORUM/ PM/ EMAIL hack
- Cypher for helping with the tabs in 3.7
- liwo for re-writing plugins
- and all others for supports and ideas

And most of all to HacNho

This MOD is 100% Supported.

Authors of YaAS 3.7:
Xanlamin
CypherSTL

Current Release: v3.7.4

[dknelson]

I upgraded from 2.1.4 (or whatever it was) to this version. The upgrade went fine and all seems to be working. The only problem is that there is no longer a link to the awards page in the nav bar. Should there be? Does it have to be added manually?

I ended up manually editing the Navbar, adding a link to the awards page. I'll watch this thread for answer though.

This is a great mod. I DID nominate it for MOTM

[ssandgirls]

Just wondering how server intense this hack is...

Will it add much load, Im on shared hosting, and would like to make sure its not going to slow anything down...

many thanks

[Xanlamin]

I have not noticed any extra load on my server, I am also in the process of turning all my images into .png which will make it load faster on the main awards page and for users who have a lot of awards in there profile.

[Scarface Claw]

When ever I add a user to an award I get this error:

Warning: mysql_insert_id() [function.mysql-insert-id]: A link to the server could not be established in [path]/admincp/award.php on line 581

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Whenever I click on the medal, the total awards or the awrds showcase links in the postpit I get :

Content Encoding Error


The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.



The page you are trying to view cannot be

shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

* Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.

^That's using firefox 3, with IE I get a blank page.

The above message is also displayed if I try to veiw a members profile page who has been awarded a medal, members with no medals awarded have profile pages can be viewed without error.

check this thread to see what I mean:
http://www.gamers-gateway.com/vb/sho...587#post411587

I have re upped the files into their folders on the server and uninstalled and reinstalled the xml through the plugin manager a few times.

Any ideas?

[dknelson]

Originally Posted by dknelson

I upgraded from 2.1.4 (or whatever it was) to this version. The upgrade went fine and all seems to be working. The only problem is that there is no longer a link to the awards page in the nav bar. Should there be? Does it have to be added manually?

I ended up manually editing the Navbar, adding a link to the awards page. I'll watch this thread for answer though.

This is a great mod. I DID nominate it for MOTM

You know, the more I've thought about this, I actually kind of glad that a link is not automatically inserted into the Navbar. There are several mods that do so and the bar gets a bit crowded. I have double Navbars on my site and by adding it manually, I was able to put it in the additional bar.

[Xanlamin]

This is why we do not have it auto adding it, since we do not know how many navbars people have nor which they would want it in anyways, it is always better to leave it up to them if they want to add it and where. My site for example does not have it in the navbar at all, since I have it in the navigation menu in vBAdvanced.

We will look into using that version of Firefox, I am still on 2.0.

[lostguy]

I acidently give 2 same award to same user ! Any idea i can remove ONE of them?

lg

[Scarface Claw]

Sorry I hadnt click marked as installed. So I guess my problem was skipped over, any help would be great as this looks cool, and other people have got it working so I dont see why I shouldnt be able to get it working.

[Xanlamin]

Originally Posted by lostguy

I acidently give 2 same award to same user ! Any idea i can remove ONE of them?

lg

In the Manage Awards you will see the persons name listed twice, check the box of one of them and remove them.

Originally Posted by Scarface Claw

Sorry I hadnt click marked as installed. So I guess my problem was skipped over, any help would be great as this looks cool, and other people have got it working so I dont see why I shouldnt be able to get it working.

Is this a fresh install or an upgrade?

[Scarface Claw]

Fresh.