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

[katie hunter]

Hey squidsk, why is there 3 files? what are these files used for?

Default CSS Data.txt
YaAS-Automation-R2.zip

Where do you upload the default css data? I presume this is for the style of the award in potbit_legacy?

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

There is one feature that is needed, i hope it gets implemented. For sites which has many awards per category, we'd need to have the categories displayed in a drop down menu.

Having a very long 1 page with all categories and awards is really really bad. It would be nice to display awards per category. Visually too it is more organized and better.

It just isn't feasible, since there's no requirements that every category has to have X awards making pages look lopsided or having categories spread over pages.

Originally Posted by katie hunter

Hey squidsk, why is there 3 files? what are these files used for?

Default CSS Data.txt
YaAS-Automation-R2.zip

Where do you upload the default css data? I presume this is for the style of the award in potbit_legacy?

The first is an old version of the default css, that would have been used to reset the css if you screwed it up. It's outdated right now so not helpful. The automation is an addon for the mod that grants awards to users based on certain criteria like post count, time as a member, etc.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Hey hey Squidskster, any news on the action log to see who awarded and deleted awards for the admin panel yet?

[katie hunter]

Hey Squidskster =) well i would really love to see a sort of a navigation with a drop down menu that helps me jump to a category, but i know what you mean but having a very long page of award is really bad, especially if someone has 100s of awards to upload.

Installed http://forum.nihonomaru.com/awards.php

[katie hunter]

Hi Squidskster =) do you know how can i apply a url redirect with vbseo ? so my url is /awards/ instead of awards.php

It is usually like this:
ex for calender ==> //'calendar/\?(.+)' =&gt; 'calendar.php?$1'

[TRG]

Any Idea or thoughts on a version of this for VB5*?

[PAPPACLART]

does this work fine for VB4.2.1

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

Hi Squidskster =) do you know how can i apply a url redirect with vbseo ? so my url is /awards/ instead of awards.php

It is usually like this:
ex for calender ==> //'calendar/\?(.+)' =&gt; 'calendar.php?$1'

Since I don't use vbseo, its hard to say, but my guess would to copy an existing entry, such as the calendar one you've provided and rename the appropriate parts

Originally Posted by TRG

Any Idea or thoughts on a version of this for VB5*?

Not anytime soon, I have a lot on my plate and even the changes/improvements/additions I want to make to the vb4 version are not yet complete.

Originally Posted by PAPPACLART

does this work fine for VB4.2.1

Yes, with the exception of the fact that you will have to manually add an item to the navigation manager.

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Hey hey Squidskster, any news on the action log to see who awarded and deleted awards for the admin panel yet?

Sorry I missed this yesterday. I'm currently working on it and it should be in the next release. The next release will also include an option that should provide a performance boost, most noticeable for sites with lots of users with awards.

[netzwart]

Hi,

first of all: Congratulation for this brilliant MOD!

I am running this MOD in its version 4.0.4 and found out, that the latest version is 4.0.6, such that I want/need to update the MOD. How do I update? Is it possible to simply exchange those parts which have changed? Do I have to run the whole installation procedure again?

Thanks for your help !!!

nw