[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.

[Glenn379]

Yeah I would love to install this on 3.0.6
Hope someone does that soon

[Glenn379]

Okay it works for me in 3.0.6 now. There were a few things that didn't work though. the whole functions.php does not work at all. I can't find it in there and I cannot find CLowNxPE's PHP. I tried substituting something almost exactly identicle, but it messed it up.

Basically what happens is, it works for the postbit, but not with Member Info. Any ideas?

PS: sorry for the double posting, just looking for answers

[Eagle Creek]

Originally Posted by Glenn379

Okay it works for me in 3.0.6 now. There were a few things that didn't work though. the whole functions.php does not work at all. I can't find it in there and I cannot find CLowNxPE's PHP. I tried substituting something almost exactly identicle, but it messed it up.

Basically what happens is, it works for the postbit, but not with Member Info. Any ideas?

PS: sorry for the double posting, just looking for answers

Does it work under 3.0.7?

[Glenn379]

I don't know, I'm still in 3.0.6

>> Does anyone know where to find some good award images

[Eagle Creek]

Originally Posted by Glenn379

I don't know, I'm still in 3.0.6

>> Does anyone know where to find some good award images

http://images.google.nl/images?q=med...-NL%3Aofficial maybe?

[Glenn379]

Well I started making some pretty good gaming ones. I can't find any good medals anywhere though. If anyone wants help with gaming awards I'd be glad to help . Contact me

[Creed]

I've made a (semi) add-on for anyone who would like it. It makes the awards system a standalone page. You can view the list, or any member's awards. As well as go back to his/her profile, and link's from user's post in postbit in Username dropdown. If anyone is interested, I'll post some screenies tomorrow

[Glenn379]

Oooo interesting, I'd like to see this

[Creed]

The only thing I don't currently have working is the request an award, imagine that However, I should have it working in the next couple of days. The screenies are attached, as I see there is interest...so I didn't want to keep you waiting

[Creed]

The only thing I haven't been able to figure out, is how to pull the information for the current awards, so that they can be listed for selecting in the form to submit request for an award. If I had more knowledge of mySQL I would probably have this done by now. Everything else works like a charm Any ideas, possibly from the author? Can you help me call a list of available awards to put in something like this:

<select>
<option value=$awardid>$awardname
<option value=$awardid>$awardname
</select>

Obviously they would have to be different, but I am apparently not versed enough in mySQL to get the job done quite yet. Any help would be appreciated