Mark User As Contributor

Quite simply, if you have a donation system on your forums, you may wish to have a way of having donating members stand out from the freeloaders

This hack will place text/icon/whatever you choose both within their profile and on their posts, in a spot of your choosing.

Administrators set whether a user is a contributor within the Admin control panel.

Please remember to backup your database first!!

This is a very simple hack including just a couple of file and template edits, and two new templates. The new templates and database changes are made by the included install file.

See this thread for screenshots

If there are any problems, please post below...

Mark

[pdatoon]

Help!

I ran the contribute.php file the first time, and it says everything was succesful. But it didnt add any customs templates : getinfo_donation & postbit_donation

Can someone post here or send them to me? I dont understand why it didnt create them

[pdatoon]

nobody?

Can someone send me the content of the two templates please? :ermm:

nghia@nguyendai.com

[pdatoon]

anyone? :tired:

[Frozen Dreams]

[QUOTE]07-10-03 at 12:08 AM pdatoon said this in Post #143
anyone? :tired:

[Illuvatar]

Okay...I've started out to install this hack as I am using Lesane's award hack for my contributors and with this I can put a nifty little image under the postbit to identify my staff.

Now, the only thing I'm hesistant about is that I want to change the code for the user panel to say "Is user staff?" instead of "Has user made a donation"

The current code reads

## AFTER, ADD THIS:

makeinputcode("Is $user[username] staff?","donation",$user[donator]);

Forgive my rookiness with this stuff......I figure changing the actuall sentance is easy enough.

makeinputcode("Is $user[username] staff?","donation",$user[donator]);

but what about this part......"donation",$user[donator])

Would that then be ."staff",$user[staff])?

If you can direct me here...I think I'll be able to get this up and running in no time!! Oh...also.....I've allready got my spiffy little staff image placed into the postbit_donation template....but what am I supposed to do with the getinfo_donation template? anything?

[Illuvatar]

Well...I guess you can just ignore everything that I posted earlier!! :ermm: :surprised: :lick:

Great hack mate!! Did exactly what I wanted it to do!!

I've now assigned the site logo (smaller version) to all my staff as we do not use 'Moderator, Admin, etc.) for titles and use a Silver ring to identify our site supporters.

[high]* Illuvatar clicks install and is very happy!!
[/high]

Here is an example of what I did with this hack.

I only had to hack the hack a little bit to modify how the question in the admin panel displays, and even assigned an 'alt' tag to the image. hehe

Tomorrow I'm gonna link it to the Forum Leaders page and be done with it! Thanks again!

In Fellowship,
Illu

[Holidazed]

is there a way to not only show who contributed but display what they contributed? Whether it was money, equipment, service, etc?? Have an option to show this in the ACP, in the user profile and/or in the Postbit??

[Holidazed]

pdatoon, the two templates are rather simple.

The "getinfo_donation" template contains 1 line that says "- Contributor".

The "postbit_donation" template contains 1 line that says "Contributor".

That's it.

[Illuvatar]

Well.....as I wanted to customise mine just a bit...my getinfo template has this

- Staff

and my postbit one has

<img src="/forums/vbulletin225/upload/images/sitestafflogo.jpg" width="21" height="22" alt="WotR Staff">

But as was said way earlier in the thread, you can put whatever you need to display into these templates.....the first one is what shows up in your users profile, and the second is actually what displays under the users post count.

[Buczilla]

Thanks so much for this hack!!!

Now, how could I setup a private forum for contributors? (without a usergroup) would I have to manually edit their access masks?