Major Additions - Yet Another Ranks System

* CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR FORUM AND DATABASE BEFORE INSTALLING !

I've had quite a few PM's in regards to this and seeing as how once upon a time I administered a gaming tournament forum it came in handy... we had virtual armies in battlefield games with Generals, LtCol's, Captains, squads of 6 and enjoyed a rank structure along with our awards so we converted the Awards mod into a Ranks mod, many also had a need for it and now we have it for 4.x. This is a complete re-write of the 4.x Yet Another Awards System by CypherSTL and Xanlamin ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 ) with updates including one fix by another community member for the profile tabs (noted in Changelog.txt). I hope everyone enjoys it who finds a use for it .

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

FEATURES:
In AdminCP

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

In ModCP

• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

Front page & other

• Display ranks list in with: Rank Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each rank.
• Display ranks showcase in profile, with Rank information, Issue time and reason
• Display rank icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)
• Separate Rank Request/Recommendation Forms
• CSS Customizable
• Points System *Requires MySQL 5.0+

Attention:

If you do not properly setup this modification you will see errors such as:

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I am getting this error when i recommend or issue rank request?

how to fix it ?

Basically here's the short on this:

• Edit your usergroups, for each usergroup set whether they can request and recommend ranks.
• Setup the mod options in AdminCP > Ranks System > Rank System Settings.
• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Bingo . You can create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members .
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute.
• Try disabling the Points System, do you still have a issue?

Other issues:

• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  - The core of the ranks sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System you must be running at least MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ranks_rankusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments = OFF
• Styling issues? - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....58&postcount=2
• If you have any other issues, post them however I need to know if this was the 2nd, 3rd or 4th request, what was done before the error and if issuing to another user worked afterwords! Thanks!

[ozzy47]

Right, edit those phrases and you can change them there. ACP --> Languages & Phrases --> Search in Phrases

[friendlymela]

Thanks for above now please tell what i should i put the box below?

[ozzy47]

You put what ever you want the text My Ranks to be changed to

[friendlymela]

Thanks alot dear i have done it

[ozzy47]

Not a problem, glad to help.

[TheLastSuperman]

Thanks ozzy! I can't like you enough lol "You must 'Like' someone else's post before liking any more by ozzy47."

Also as a reminder, this is a port from the Yet Another Awards System - it's available for download and use and you don't need to edit any phrases or templates. <-- Now with that being said every so often either myself or the authors of that mod may become behind on keeping it updated and one version may suffer from a few misc. bugs the other does not so you're free to install either and edit phrases as ozzy pointed out to get what you want i.e. Awards or Ranks .

[friendlymela]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Thanks ozzy! I can't like you enough lol "You must 'Like' someone else's post before liking any more by ozzy47."

Also as a reminder, this is a port from the Yet Another Awards System - it's available for download and use and you don't need to edit any phrases or templates. <-- Now with that being said every so often either myself or the authors of that mod may become behind on keeping it updated and one version may suffer from a few misc. bugs the other does not so you're free to install either and edit phrases as ozzy pointed out to get what you want i.e. Awards or Ranks .

Thanks u also u both guys are genius anyways i know about the Yet Another Award System if i will feel uncomfortable to use Yet Another Rank System then i'll switch on YAAS. Now my problem has been solved and i am happy

[hellcap]

i dont get the ranks.php working, why? i tested the Yet Another Award System and ther we go the award.php is working and i can see the hole list of awards. so why isnt the ranks.php working and showing the rank list?

[friendlymela]

Originally Posted by hellcap

i dont get the ranks.php working, why? i tested the Yet Another Award System and ther we go the award.php is working and i can see the hole list of awards. so why isnt the ranks.php working and showing the rank list?

maybe u have missed to upload any file on forum root

[hellcap]

all files from the upload folder are on the ftp.
And at the AdminCP is all working, there i have all options and settings.
The Ranks are listed in my Post also. in that case all is fine... the only thing is the ranks.php isnt working :/

http://thor-force.de/forum/ranks.php not working
http://thor-force.de/forum/awards.php working