[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.

[xug]

Rename the above file and load it into a browser.

Where it states to modify the templates follow these instructions (these are all original instructions, no changes made) and see if the changes are still there or not, if not execute these instructions

All files changes must be done for sure, because with an vB upgrade you upload new files and these need to be adjusted again.

And please be patient because it's a pretty big hack, make a copy of the file you want to change before you do so.

[Flow Fusion]

Thanks I'll try it in the morning.

[Flow Fusion]

I don't know why it went out but I installed the HTL installer and I got a database error cause it was already installed but somehow it fixed it lol. But thanks for the help. All my files were edited as the attachment stated. Hope they stay up.

[GamerzWorld]

Is there a way to make it so that i can have small version in postbit and when you click larger image. I made large and small images of same awards but obviously it ruins style with large images. Any ideas

[Arial]

Don't think so, I am having to have one written for me from scratch to support that and other features.

[dssart]

Arial, if you're having an awards/medals/cards hack written from scratch and you're interested in sharing some of the development costs PM me. This hack appears to be dead or at least dying. I had this working on my forum for 2 months, all my members loved it, but I never re-installed it because it was to much of a hassle to do the uninstall/install whenever VB updated. I was also thinking about having someone re-do this also complete with a one-click install/uninstall and many of the additional features discussed here. Let me know.

[trackpads]

I am willing to invest in a new one as well.

[Creed]

As far as an Install script, wouldn't be too hard to write. As far as completely re-writing it...may take more time than I have to do so. I would like to help, but I'm stretched thin as it is right now

[mtha]

Originally Posted by GamerzWorld

Is there a way to make it so that i can have smallversion in postbit and when you click larger image. I made large andsmall images of same awards but obviously it ruins style with largeimages. Any ideas

Idea is having another field in award table, call it bigimage_url, and give it the link to your bigger image.

When displaying award (in award page, or in member profile), use big image instead of the small one.

Simple as it is. thinsg to do:

01. a query to add additional field
02. change /admincp/award.php to show this field, so that you can put URL for big images
03. change AWARD and/or MEMBER template, to use new URL for big image instead of old one.

I might be interested in writing something like this too.


Additional features would be ...


- Giving One award to One person multiple time,
For example, if you have a "Member of the month" award, and someone get it twice, you can give your member 2 of the award.

- A complete - seperated award management system in AdminCP would be nice.
this would include
+ list all award and add new award (already featured)
+ list all members who get each awards (and/or all awards for one member)
+ give/take away some member some award(s), without having to edit userprofile (using the vB's user.php) because giving award is a seperatework from editing profile.

and other features mentioned.

[GamerzWorld]

Originally Posted by mtha

Idea is having another field in award table, call it bigimage_url, and give it the link to your bigger image.

When displaying award (in award page, or in member profile), use big image instead of the small one.

Simple as it is. thinsg to do:

01. a query to add additional field
02. change /admincp/award.php to show this field, so that you can put URL for big images
03. change AWARD and/or MEMBER template, to use new URL for big image instead of old one.

I might be interested in writing something like this too.


Additional features would be ...


- Giving One award to One person multiple time,
For example, if you have a "Member of the month" award, and someone get it twice, you can give your member 2 of the award.

- A complete - seperated award management system in AdminCP would be nice.
this would include
+ list all award and add new award (already featured)
+ list all members who get each awards (and/or all awards for one member)
+ give/take away some member some award(s), without having to edit userprofile (using the vB's user.php) because giving award is a seperatework from editing profile.

and other features mentioned.

Do you think you could do simple addition of making bigger