Major Additions - Adoptables hack for vBulletin 3.6

(For screenshots, please view this thread for vBulletin 3.5.)

Note that if you already have this installed for vBulletin 3.5 and then upgrade to 3.6, it should not be necessary to upgrade this hack; however, if something is wrong, by all means try the new product. No changes have been made to the hack files since the 3.5 version.

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This hack adds a little adoption center to your forum where your users can adopt lovely little adoptables which will be 'upgraded' as the user gains the posts needed for the next stage. (Thus, an adoptable can be originally adopted as an egg, ten posts later the egg has cracks in it, twenty posts after that it hatches into a baby [insert something cute and loveable here], still fifty posts after that it has grown a little, and 100 posts later it's an adult - or something in that direction.)

2 template edits
4 files to upload
1 product to install


FEATURES

Admin features
- Specify which usergroups can view adoptables, which can adopt, which can create adoptables and which can edit/delete others' adoptables
- Specify whether all users can view the full adoptable list or only those who can administer adoptables
- Specify a maximum number of adopted adoptables per user for each user group
- Specify whether users can adopt adoptables that they created themselves
- Specify whether to use a "general description" for each adoptable, a description for each stage for an adoptable, or both

Adoptable creation features
- Create adoptables with up to five "stages", each with its own image, minimum posts to adopt it, user-specified posts needed to get from the previous stage to this one, and a custom description (if stage descriptions are enabled)
- View list of all your created adoptables
- Edit the adoptables that you have already created if you slipped up
- Only the first stage can be seen by a potential owner - surprise them with what their adoptable grows into

Adoptable management features
- Easily view a list of all adoptables (adopted and available)
- Edit or delete any adoptable easily from the list

Adopter features
- View a list of all available adoptables, only a button-click away from being yours, or of your own adoptables
- Disown an adoptable if you change your mind
- Release adoptables that are at their final stage to the wild so you can adopt new ones without leaving them for somebody else to pick up
- Show your own adoptables off in your profile


INSTALLATION

1. Download the zip file attached to this post and unzip it.
2. Upload all the files from the upload folder to the appropriate folder in your forum directory.
3. Import product-adoptables.xml through the Admin CP.
4. Two template edits:

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In template MEMBERINFO

FIND

$footer

ABOVE it add

$useradoptables

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In template navbar

WHERE YOU WANT THE ADOPTION CENTER LINK, add

		<if condition="$permissions['adoptpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_adoptpermissions['canview']"><td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="adopt.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[adoption_center]</a></td></if>

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5. Modify the adoptable permissions for all your usergroups and the adoptable options under vBulletin options as you want them.
6. You're done! Go notify your users. And if you like it, click Install.


UNINSTALLATION

1. Undo the two template edits above.
2. Uninstall the Adoptables product.
3. Remove adopt.php, includes/functions_adopt.php, includes/xml/bitfield_adoptables.xml and includes/cron/updateadoptables.php from your forum directory.


SUPPORT

Just ask in this thread and I'll do the best I can to help.

[antialiasis]

You didn't uninstall the product, did you?

If you didn't, I don't know any possible explanation for that...

[Spookysalem]

I didn't but i have now. Could not get anything to work.

[Zelos]

wow, this looks like an awesome hack. I'll try installing this later...

[eNforce]

Thanks

This is a very cool mod, installation was smooth.

About 15 minute after I introduced Adoptables 5 of my members had already created an Adoptable. Just shows how popular this can be. As another bonus it encourages members to post!

I had to modify my memberinfo quite differently however but the outcome was great.
http://www.areyouserios.com/member.php?u=68

[haytham]

i ran ALTER TABLE usergroup DROP maxadoptedand lost my registered users group..any way to get them back?

[Detomah]

I've clicked install, but haven't actually installed it yet as egg designing isn't really one of my strong points, so i'm going to have to wait at the mercy of some kind person to actually design a few initial eggs to get me going.

[WhyDoesItMatter]

Me too Detomah. I tried, and it went bad lol

[Berethorn]

This is a great idea - has anyone created adoptables?

[talenak]

Is there a way to show the adopted thingies in the postbit?

edit to add: I just went to the p3tz site to check it out. They won't even let you buy a license unless you subscribe to their site first. I've never seen such a sneaky underhanded method for milking a person's wallet!!! Perfect way for them to ensure I stuck with this mod.

[talenak]

Is this hack still supported? I even PM'd the guy on the off chance he'd get email notice the thread begged attention. He's been online since but no answer to PM or this thread.