[HTL] & [TXT] Awards/Medals/Cards Hack [vB3]

Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3]
By: AnimeWebby
Idea by: Lesane
Updated: 28nd May 2004 - Installer not table prefix friendly.

What this hack does:
This hack allows you to add awards, medals or cards to your vbulletin and assign these to members who you think deserve them.
These graphics will then show up in their member profile and/or their postbits depending on where you choose to add this hack.

New in v2
- Extra page showing all awards available as well as all the users who have earned an award.
- Support for full urls and relative ones for award icons.
- Support for awards on showpost and announcement

Other Stuff:
Although I give credit to Lesane for the idea this hack is totally recoded to be less server intensive and also uses a whole lot less queries. Therefor I do not consider this a 'port'.

Installation:
Download the appropriate .Zip file and follow the instructions in the readme file.

Upgrading:
So far there are no ways to upgrade this hack, if you have an old copy installed then you need to uninstall and reinstall from scratch.

Coming Soon:
- Awards added to the search and memberlists.
- Added functions to the addition of awards as well as cron functions to assign awards automatically to those members with 'X' posts, registered 'X' days etc...
- Option to show award name rather than graphic.
- Option to turn awards OFF & ON in postbit and memberinfo
- Request award on awards page (at Cyricx' request)
(not necessarily in that order)

Make sure you backup your files and database first! This hack has been tested on vB RC1 and RC4 only!

Please click the install button

If you experience any errors, problems or the hack doesn't seem to be functioning correctly then send me a pm with the following info:
- HTL or Standalone installer.
- Version of vB you are running.
- File where error is encountered.
- Exact error or description of error.

Views so far:
[NORMAL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.7 KB, 69 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.8 KB, 57 views)
[TXT]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (8.5 KB, 278 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (10.2 KB, 203 views)

If you installed this hack before 23rd May and are getting foreach errors in your showthread then follow the step below:

In /includes/functions_showthread.php find:

PHP Code:

    // sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template 


below that add:

PHP Code:

    // user awards
    global $userawards; 


If in your showthread.php member post counts show N/A, they have no profile link or their user title is guest you MUST run 'Fix broken user profiles' in the update counters part of the admincp. This is found under the nav bar 'Import & Maintenance' > 'Update Counters' > 'Fix broken user profiles'. This will add the awards for all the users currently in your database and prevent showing incorrent member info.

[turbidblue]

sweet jesus!

i finally got this installed!

only took me 4 hours!

but, i am slow at this, so thats why..lol


i love this hack and have been trying for months to get it to work!

thanks!!


*click install finally!

[Eagle Creek]

Wish my luck, I'm going to install it (3.0.3 board)

[teksigns]

any idea when the request award link will be added ....

my members kept asking how to use it .....

so i had to disable all the awards ......

[Oldfart]

I made the link to request an award live and I installed Erwin's form hack and made a generic form to request an award. Very simple to do.

In the awards_earnedawards_bit find this pice of code:

<td class="$bgclass" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[request_award]</td>
</tr>

then change it to look like this:

<td class="$bgclass" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="http://yourwebsite/forums/form.php">$vbphrase[request_award]</td>
</tr>

Change the address to your web site and thats it. Just modify Ewrin's form hack to whatever you want to request an award.

[treez]

at the risk of sound stupid... how do you add an award to a user? in the admin cp you can only edit/add/delete awards and stuff... wheres the add button?

[treez]

nvm I got it

[Eagle Creek]

Originally Posted by treez

nvm I got it

Go to edit a profile and in the left corner, under the page it is .

[edit]Owh, didn't see you reply [/edit]

[teksigns]

Originally Posted by Oldfart

I made the link to request an award live and I installed Erwin's form hack and made a generic form to request an award. Very simple to do.

In the awards_earnedawards_bit find this pice of code:

<td class="$bgclass" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[request_award]</td>
</tr>

then change it to look like this:

<td class="$bgclass" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="http://yourwebsite/forums/form.php">$vbphrase[request_award]</td>
</tr>

Change the address to your web site and thats it. Just modify Ewrin's form hack to whatever you want to request an award.

can you attach the form and template your using from the Erwin's form hack so i dont have to recreate something .

[Oldfart]

Originally Posted by teksigns

can you attach the form and template your using from the Erwin's form hack so i dont have to recreate something .

My form is customized to my board so it probably wouldn't be of any use to you. You would have to re-write it over anyways so a fresh form would be the best IMO. Erwins form hack is a very easy and generic form. there isn't a lot of "guess work" to get it to look the way you want it just follow the instructions and you'll be fine.

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

clicks install