Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

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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

[Capt C Ray]

I will admit I did no review all 97 pages of posts here, but I did go through the first 10 and did not see an answer to my question, so here it is:

What file types are allowed to be used? And what are the size restrictions for the icon and medal images?

Thanks

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Capt C Ray

I will admit I did no review all 97 pages of posts here, but I did go through the first 10 and did not see an answer to my question, so here it is:

What file types are allowed to be used? And what are the size restrictions for the icon and medal images?

Thanks

Any image type that is supported by browsers is valid, usually this would be jpg, gif and png and some other related image types (i.e. jpeg). There are no size restrictions for any of the images, but I'm pretty sure if you make the image too big things might not look as nice.

[Capt C Ray]

Thanks. Figured out I was not filling in the FULL URL to the medals. I'll learn one of these days.
And size does make a difference. Your setting size works and looks great. Most of my medals I am setting to 60 x 60.
One other questions: For the category descriptions displayed on the medals page, I would like to bold the text. Tried using what I thought was the bbCode values of <b> and </b>, but guess I was wrong. Can I bold the category description text?

[Max_69]

Originally Posted by Max_69

hi, in the postbit the user without a signature not see awards, how to fix this?
Thanks

help me please
Thanks

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Max_69

hi, in the postbit the user without a signature not see awards, how to fix this?
Thanks

If there's no signature, its rather hard to put output into the signature area. There's nothing I can do. You can edit your postbit/postbit_legacy template to make whatever changes you want but that's the extent of things. Your other option of course is to display it somewhere other than the signature or force users to have a signature (would require a hack mos likely).

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Capt C Ray

Thanks. Figured out I was not filling in the FULL URL to the medals. I'll learn one of these days.
And size does make a difference. Your setting size works and looks great. Most of my medals I am setting to 60 x 60.
One other questions: For the category descriptions displayed on the medals page, I would like to bold the text. Tried using what I thought was the bbCode values of <b> and </b>, but guess I was wrong. Can I bold the category description text?

You don't need full urls for images, I use relative links and everything works just fine. As for image sizes I've seen some odd dimensions used as well, I just looked at a site with 130px x 200px award images and they look just fine on the awards page, the awards tab and in the awards showcase.

[Capt C Ray]

Originally Posted by squidsk

You don't need full urls for images, I use relative links and everything works just fine. As for image sizes I've seen some odd dimensions used as well, I just looked at a site with 130px x 200px award images and they look just fine on the awards page, the awards tab and in the awards showcase.

Do not understand what you mean by 'relative links'.

[squidsk]

Full url: http://www.yoursite.com/forums/images/medals/medal1.jpg
Relative url: images/medals/medal1.jpg

[Capt C Ray]

Originally Posted by squidsk

Full url: http://www.yoursite.com/forums/images/medals/medal1.jpg
Relative url: images/medals/medal1.jpg

Thanks for the education. Will add this to my notes for future reference.

[marccap]

Any future plans to maybe add "Reputation" points to the automation option?