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

[MarkB]

This is what I'm using:

- create a new usergroup
- note the usergroup number
- For each user, set this group as a subgroup (alas, for now it can be the only subgroup, but I believe the vB team will be adding some conditional template options to allow for more than one... anyway, for now leave it as the only subgroup for this to work)
- Place the following where you want their 'contributing member' badge/label/whatever to show up:

(I have mine in postbit_userinfo)

<if condition="$post['membergroupids'] == 20">
<br />
<a href="/forum/subscriptions.php"><img src="images/premium_member.gif" border="0" alt="Become a Premium Member!"></a>
<else />&nbsp;</if>

'20' is the premium/contributing member ID, natch.

You'll substitute the above for your own HTML, of course

Mark

[gmarik]

Never heard of a subgroup ever, still fine.

[bada_bing]

Ok so I added this hack and everything seems to of went fine but I dont like where the text is located.It placed the text above the member name where the post date goes. Can someone explain how to move the text under the avator? Also I want to add a small image like a trophy just under or above the text, how do I do that? I am not a coder so please be specific.

Thanks

[bada_bing]

Can someone help me with this?

[MarkB]

Simply edit the HTML in the postbit template to change placement, or icon, or whatever.

[Skyline_GT]

what you need to do so you can add different contributes?

[Godzilla MR2]

I am really interested in knowing how to pull the list of users who have contributed from the database and list them on a separate page in the admin section. I would just need the user name.
Any idea how this can be done?

Bill Strong

[justsomedude]

[QUOTE]I am really interested in knowing how to pull the list of users who have contributed from the database and list them on a separate page in the admin section. I would just need the user name.

[bigdaddy04]

hmm, maybe something like this but mark a user as a contributor if they have 5+ referrals

[Illuvatar]

Will this hack work in VB 3.0 Gold????

I use the Ranks to award our subscribers with a pretty silver ring, but I used this previously to put an image under my staff's post bits. Sure would like to use it again.