[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.

[mtha]

Originally Posted by GamerzWorld

Do you think you could do simple addition of making bigger

Working on it, as your request


... and done, wait for update

and here's the quick release
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=78466

anyone who want to improve the original hack, feel free to include the add-on

[Creed]

Here is also a nice little fix for the postbit image sizing...as well as a couple of new features I guess Please make note, that you can change the size of the images by specifying your own height= and width= in the awards_postbit template.

[mtha]

just went to phpbb site, and look at their Medal System Mod:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=148362

Didnt install that mod and test it, but the database structure looks much better.

They add medals (awards) by issue_id, with fields medal_id, user_id, issue_reason, issue_time, which allow you to limit the size of database, without adding a whole bunch of empty awards for all users (like the current one does)

I know that Arial is paying for the hack to be made, but ... just wondering if anyone can share the idea
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=621249

[mtha]

Originally Posted by Arial

Don't think so, I am having to have one written for me from scratch to support that and other features.

Arial, how far do you have your new hack coded on?

I am thinking about writing something like that too, but there's no point making duplicate versions.


well well, I have 50% code done. database structure setup, able tomanage awards, give/remove awards in AdminCP. Now just need to do thedisplay part

I may have the first release in few days.

[uaetoon]

i have this prop in part 3

what can i do plez

=-
Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: CREATE TABLE award (
awardid smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
name varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
description varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
icon_url varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (awardid)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ';
' at line 7

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Wednesday 23rd of March 2005 06:10:51 PM
Script: http://xxxxxxx/vb/admincp/awards_ins...step=doqueries
Referer:
Username:
IP Address:

[Arial]

Originally Posted by mtha

Arial, how far do you have your new hack coded on?

I am thinking about writing something like that too, but there's no point making duplicate versions.


well well, I have 50% code done. database structure setup, able tomanage awards, give/remove awards in AdminCP. Now just need to do thedisplay part

I may have the first release in few days.

Well the guy was only starting tommorow to be honest, having seen your doing one that may well do the job I have also asked just asked him to hold off and see how yours works.

[Arial]

Originally Posted by dssart

Arial, if you're having an awards/medals/cards hack written from scratch and you're interested in sharing some of the development costs PM me. This hack appears to be dead or at least dying. I had this working on my forum for 2 months, all my members loved it, but I never re-installed it because it was to much of a hassle to do the uninstall/install whenever VB updated. I was also thinking about having someone re-do this also complete with a one-click install/uninstall and many of the additional features discussed here. Let me know.

Sorry was not recieving notifications on this thread, if you want to share the costs and use the hack that would be fine, feel free to PM,, it also looks like Mtha is creating a new version as well, which you may find suits your purposes and not cost you anything.

The version I am having done is basically a complete copy of the phbb version with a few extra toys thrown in but I've just asked the developer to hold off as he has not started yet, if Mtha version turns out to be as good as the phpbb version I would rather use that and make Mtha a small contribution for the time spent.

[Arial]

Mtha

What is your hack based on ? Will it work / display in the same fashion that the Phpbb version does or is it more along the lines of this version?

[dssart]

Arial: Sounds good. My opinion, it seems mtha is enjoying the project and is visible within the forum. That's great for any of us who like to read how he's doing on this great add-on.

mtha: keep going man! but whatever you do, please make installation as easy as uninstallation. Ideally two or three clicks. No more hand-editing of code. That's stone-age. I'll bet 75% of the problem messages pertaining to this hack are errors in inserting the code. If that isn't possible, then at a maximum 2 or 3 files which need to be hand-edited. Also, a hack which is "version change resistant" would be great (although probably not realistic from a coding point of view) when VBulletin goes on their update binges every few months. I can't speak for Arial, or anyone else who may be interested in this hack, but if it works and installation is a breeze, I'd be happy to send you a few bucks when you've got a working app.

[Arial]

Ditto dssart, I'm happy to contribute if its' what we are after, personally I feel the phpbb version displays the medals etc in a far more appealing fashion, so that's what we are after.

If Mtha is going down that route, I will happily donate / contribute to your time, if not I will carry on with my guy and pay him to do the entire thing for us as a personal project.