[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.

[mtha]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

T t t t haaaaank you!

Will you announce the new options also?

You can go here for information
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=78934

[lasto]

can anyone confirm if this hack works in latest version of vbull 3.0.7 ?

[Imperial Fritz]

Seems to work with my 3.0.7.

[mtha]

Originally Posted by lasto

can anyone confirm if this hack works in latest version of vbull 3.0.7 ?

As far as you can figure out how to edit files, it will work with 3.0.7,

I think there's few places in original files having different code from what you need to find (for editing).

[deathemperor]

the edit in admincp/misc.php cannot find, it's for updating member's info I think, without that it works fine

[lasto]

not bothered about members info - postbit will do just fine and i liek this hack as well

cheers for reply deathemperor and mtha

[deb0]

Ok, I uninstalled this tonight, and it crashed my database. Do youhave a log of all the changes that are made? How am I supposed to find out what files it edited and where?

[Polo]

Originally Posted by deb0

Ok, I uninstalled this tonight, and it crashed my database. Do youhave a log of all the changes that are made? How am I supposed to find out what files it edited and where?

That is easy, just use your backups..... you always do backups when you attempt to install a modification right?

[mtha]

Originally Posted by deb0

Ok, I uninstalled this tonight, and it crashed my database. Do youhave a log of all the changes that are made? How am I supposed to find out what files it edited and where?

was very surprised, thinking that this is my award hack making problems, wrote a reply, and look back, and recognize that this is not my hack :P oopsss

I think in the package, he has a file saying where to edit.

[EricaJoy]

Yup crashed my stuff too. I think it broke the templates or something because every page I go to now gets the blank white screen. I can't really figure what broke where. No DB backups either because my hosts mysql client runs out of memory everytime I do a DB backup. I have file backups but uploading my originals doesn't seem to help matters. ARGH! Oh this was on VB 3.0.6 by the way.