[HTL] & [TXT] Awards/Medals/Cards Hack [vB3]

Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3]
By: AnimeWebby
Idea by: Lesane
Updated: 28nd May 2004 - Installer not table prefix friendly.

What this hack does:
This hack allows you to add awards, medals or cards to your vbulletin and assign these to members who you think deserve them.
These graphics will then show up in their member profile and/or their postbits depending on where you choose to add this hack.

New in v2
- Extra page showing all awards available as well as all the users who have earned an award.
- Support for full urls and relative ones for award icons.
- Support for awards on showpost and announcement

Other Stuff:
Although I give credit to Lesane for the idea this hack is totally recoded to be less server intensive and also uses a whole lot less queries. Therefor I do not consider this a 'port'.

Installation:
Download the appropriate .Zip file and follow the instructions in the readme file.

Upgrading:
So far there are no ways to upgrade this hack, if you have an old copy installed then you need to uninstall and reinstall from scratch.

Coming Soon:
- Awards added to the search and memberlists.
- Added functions to the addition of awards as well as cron functions to assign awards automatically to those members with 'X' posts, registered 'X' days etc...
- Option to show award name rather than graphic.
- Option to turn awards OFF & ON in postbit and memberinfo
- Request award on awards page (at Cyricx' request)
(not necessarily in that order)

Make sure you backup your files and database first! This hack has been tested on vB RC1 and RC4 only!

Please click the install button

If you experience any errors, problems or the hack doesn't seem to be functioning correctly then send me a pm with the following info:
- HTL or Standalone installer.
- Version of vB you are running.
- File where error is encountered.
- Exact error or description of error.

Views so far:
[NORMAL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.7 KB, 69 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.8 KB, 57 views)
[TXT]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (8.5 KB, 278 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (10.2 KB, 203 views)

If you installed this hack before 23rd May and are getting foreach errors in your showthread then follow the step below:

In /includes/functions_showthread.php find:

PHP Code:

    // sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template 


below that add:

PHP Code:

    // user awards
    global $userawards; 


If in your showthread.php member post counts show N/A, they have no profile link or their user title is guest you MUST run 'Fix broken user profiles' in the update counters part of the admincp. This is found under the nav bar 'Import & Maintenance' > 'Update Counters' > 'Fix broken user profiles'. This will add the awards for all the users currently in your database and prevent showing incorrent member info.

[trackpads]

Thank you!!

[kcradio]

trying to run the sql files and I am getting this error:

SQL-query :

CREATE award(

awardid smallint( 5 ) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
name varchar( 50 ) NOT NULL default '',
description varchar( 250 ) NOT NULL default '',
icon_url varchar( 250 ) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY ( awardid )
) TYPE = MYISAM

MySQL said:

You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'award (
awardid smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,

What am I doing wrong?

[Cyricx]

add a ; at the end

Only thing I can think of that would rock even more for this, would be to make some of the awards user requestable, and then the admin could approve.

Great job, I may use this.

[speedway]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

add a ; at the end

Only thing I can think of that would rock even more for this, would be to make some of the awards user requestable, and then the admin could approve.

Great job, I may use this.

Ummm....then it wouldn't be an award would it "I request the member of the month award please..." LOL!

[trackpads]

This might be a dumb question but once we give the user an award, it is permamnet right? For example I want to give people awards for things they do/volunteer to do on the site. And then give that award to others also, like military awards etc.

Thanks again,

-Jason

[lasto]

anyone got this in action so we can see it ??

[trackpads]

Originally Posted by lasto

anyone got this in action so we can see it ??

I REALLY want this but I am hoping for Gold soon so I dont have to re-hack it. It looks great!

-Jason

[lasto]

LOL nps trackpads - im just waiting for someone to test it and be the guinea pig.
I cant add hacks unless im 100 % sure as cant back up databse cause i have probs telenetting in

[Cyricx]

Your right, it would then be a Medal

Hehe reason I ask that is I run a forums for an Online Game. And there are certain achievments you can attain that I could have awards displayed for the members that have done them.

But I'd hate to have to go through and check every member, would rather have them request it, then I'd verify, and set it, if they had done it.

Hmmm, that make sense? :P

[blubber12]

Well I've been trying to install and am receiving a variety of errors on RC2...the biggest one, and it took me a while to figure out...The query for insert in phrases...14009 is listed twice...so I had to change it to 14005 in order for the query to run correctly. Have also been having problems with various functions..I will not list them now..Going to try a clean install and see if it sorts itself out first. If the same errors appear, I"ll post them