Anniversary Awards

This mod is based on something Smoker did for his community at www.smokers-board.de

To see what it does you should read this thread at vbulletin.org

This hack will add +1 star for every year a user is registered. If you have users which are registered for 1 year they will have 1 star next to their username.. Users who are registered for 4 years will have 4 stars and so on.

Here are the instructions and Iam sorry I can't post them as a *.txt but I need this thread to explain how everything works.

Edit your template ?postbit? and find:

class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>


Now add under that:
<if condition="$jointime > 1825"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 1460"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 1095"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 730"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>
<if condition="$jointime > 365"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif" /></if>

Save it.
Now you just have to upload the attached image to images/misc and you should be fine.

Explanation:
$jointime holds the days a user is registered. A simple example for a user who registered for more than a year (in this case 377 days):
<if condition="377 > 365"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>

This condition is true (377 is larger than 365) and he gets one star
Same if he is registered for more than 3 years (let's say 1099 days):
<if condition="1099 > 1095"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>
<if condition="1099 > 730"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>
<if condition="1099 > 365"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/star.gif"></if>

In that case all three conditions are true and he gets 3 stars Simple isn't it?

You may even use different images like a blue star for the third year, a red one for the second year and so on.


Have fun and don't forget -> Smoker did most of the work

[vol_freak]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Just make a new plugin for 'postbit_display_start' with the following:

$jointime = (TIMENOW - $this->post['joindate']) / 86400;

This seems to work but everyone seems to be getting 5 stars in the messaging system. When I am reading a PM from someone, everyone has 5 stars under their name regardless of join date. Any suggestions? Thank in advance.

[Kirk Y]

It's because the Plugin Code I supplied above is being used under 'postbit_display_start', which means the code is only being executed in the postbits.

You could try creating another hook with the same code using a location such as 'global_start' or 'private_showpm_start'.

[MysticMoon]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

It's because the Plugin Code I supplied above is being used under 'postbit_display_start', which means the code is only being executed in the postbits.

You could try creating another hook with the same code using a location such as 'global_start' or 'private_showpm_start'.

1st thanks for the post bit info, that worked like a charm

But neither of the above worked for fixing the PM's showing all stars available

[Kirk Y]

If you want something simple, you could just wrap the IF Condition Blocks with one larger condition like:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'">
Code here.
</if>

If you still want the awards to show in Private Messages; it's possible that the problem is in the "jointime" variable -- $this->post['joindate'] -- $this->post should be corrected for use with Private Messages.

[MysticMoon]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

If you want something simple, you could just wrap the IF Condition Blocks with one larger condition like:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'">
Code here.
</if>

Ok above worked to atleast remove the stars from PM's, would rather none show then all lol ~ so thank you

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

If you still want the awards to show in Private Messages; it's possible that the problem is in the "jointime" variable -- $this->post['joindate'] -- $this->post should be corrected for use with Private Messages.

Not sure if above will work or not, as I may just not know what to change it to
I tried $this->pm & $this->private as a plugin under "private_showpm_start" & no change - still showed all stars available in PM's.

[Kirk Y]

Yeah, that's why I figured I'd mention it to you - if you wanted to give it a try; as I don't know the right var. to use.

[MysticMoon]

Maybe someone else will post the answer then

Again, thank you so much with your help on this

[SVTCobraLTD]

Originally Posted by Kirk Y

Just make a new plugin for 'postbit_display_start' with the following:

$jointime = (TIMENOW - $this->post['joindate']) / 86400;

With this plugin add, it works on 3.6.11. Thanks