Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

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

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
+ Writes granting/removing awards to the log

In ModCP
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing award to the log

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)

New Features/Additions since 3.8
- Points System
- Separate Award Request/Recommendation Forms
- CSS Customizable

Current Release Version 4.0.9

• Added - Handling of user merges
• Added - Handling of user deletes
• Added - Manage awards on per user basis
• Added - Extra info to the logs for mass removal and editing of issued awards
• Added - Ability to collapse categories on awards.php
• Added - Checksum file for checking for suspect file versions
• Added - Various missing phrases
• Fixed - Memberlist not showing awards when option is active
• Fixed - Navtab not being selected (vb version < 4.2)
• Fixed - Category title not being displayed on awards.php
• Fixed - Logging not working in modcp
• Fixed - A few other minor bugs

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

And yes I know what you mean about the "bug" ... it bugs the heck out of me as well when I can't figure something out as well ...

By total fluke while working on something else I was finally able to replicate the issue that's causing the absolute urls not to display while in admincp. The reason I wasn't able to find it before is the issue only occurs with absolute url's that use https instead of http. Now I'm going to have to figure out how to fix it, but it definitely will be fixed in the next release. It should still work for all relative links (i.e. all links like image/medals/...)

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by squidsk

By total fluke while working on something else I was finally able to replicate the issue that's causing the absolute urls not to display while in admincp. The reason I wasn't able to find it before is the issue only occurs with absolute url's that use https instead of http. Now I'm going to have to figure out how to fix it, but it definitely will be fixed in the next release. It should still work for all relative links (i.e. all links like image/medals/...)

HA!!! good stuff my Man !!!

So what else are you going to try and add to the next release?

Point value in the awards page by default?

Mass award approval?

Tell me ! tell me !!! MUAHAHAHAA !!!

[alcazarx]

+ fix that "bug" in #1775
+ add permission as in #1731
+ modcp option as in #1723

[Mangahaven]

Might have been answered already, but will this plugin work for vb 4.2.X ?

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Mangahaven

Might have been answered already, but will this plugin work for vb 4.2.X ?

Yes. The version listed at the top is the minimum version required for this mod, not the maximum.

[Mangahaven]

Originally Posted by squidsk

Yes. The version listed at the top is the minimum version required for this mod, not the maximum.

Ah thanks. I'm relatively new to the scene, so the info escaped me.

Thank you. Will likely install this bad boy.

[Bit]

Great add-on! Will this be ported for 5.x?

[squidsk]

Thanks, and certainly not before 5.2 comes out and unlikely for the foreseeable future afterwards.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Can you give extra permission so that Super Moderators can view the Award Requests and grant them from the Admin Control Panel?

So this is what I actually want, Super Moderators to be able to administer everything except for Award settings, or be able to give them individual permissions on all of the menu items in the Admin Panel. Can you make this happen my Man?

[alcazarx]

Award Settings should be only accessible when the user has the "Manage Settings" permission in vB (or how its called) since its linking to the settings page.
Dont know if this can be seperated.
To set permissions for the plugin itself, it should work with custom admin permissions (like we have).
Have to look in our code-change-library for the necessary changes.
Thanks.