Miscellaneous Hacks - Yet Another Awards System

A lot of you have been waiting for this forever to work 100% with 3.7 due to the new profile tabs...Well wait no longer, here is the new revises version of HacNho's YAAS (Yet Another Awards System).

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Medals/Awards system. Admin can give members awards, and award icons will be displayed in member's profile, posts, as well as in a award list.

FEATURES:
In AdminCP
- Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
- Can Create/Edit/Delete awards in ACP (with Award Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
- Can Move one (or all) award(s) from one category to another
- Can set some awards un-classified (not displayed for public)
- Can re-order awards in awards showcase
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

In ModCP
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

Front page
- Display awards list in with: Award Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each award.
- Display awards showcase in profile, with Award information, Issue time and reason
- Display award icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)

CHANGES/MODIFICATION:
- Tables to add: 3 (award, award_user, award_cat)
- Files to add: 4 (/awards.php, /award_request.php, /admincp/award.php, /admincp/award_cat.php)


DIFFICULTY:
Easy
Time: about 5 minutes
Installer is included (1 product XML)

CREDIT:
Idea has been carried on by many people, here are some:
- Lesane for original Award hack for vB2, eventhough I've never use his hack
- AnimeWebby for Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3], which I write new code based on his.
- Mac ycl6 for phpBB Medal System for phpBB forum
- Dr Erwin Loh for FORM TO THREAD/ FORUM/ PM/ EMAIL hack
- Cypher for helping with the tabs in 3.7
- liwo for re-writing plugins
- and all others for supports and ideas

And most of all to HacNho

This MOD is 100% Supported.

Authors of YaAS 3.7:
Xanlamin
CypherSTL

Current Release: v3.7.4

[merkaz]

Very nice mood .

Thanks man.

[inciarco]

Question:

I'd like the Poll to be Public on the Thread of Award Request for an User. What Code Lines on What Plugins Should I Change (and What Code Should I Use), for the Polls to be Public instead of Private (currently the Polls are Created Private), so that I can see Who Voted Yes or No to the Award Request?

I think is Important to Know Who Voted Yes and No, when making the Voting Recount, and to Exclude Votes from Users that Voted without any Criteria (Trolls).

(I think that Perhaps Adding a Yes/No Option to Choose to Create the Poll Public would be a Nice Feature on Your Next Update of this Great Mod.)

My Best Regards.

[BLykMik]

great mod... quick question...

Is there a way to change the column widths on the awards.php page? Specifically the "Name / Description" width is too narrow. We have longer descriptions to our awards and they're getting squeezed pretty bad.

Thanks!

[PinkDaisy]

I prefer the awards to show up in the signatures area... But it defaults to align to the left. Is there a way to center them?

[zombietom]

Installed and working fine now..i had a small issue with the "request an award" link as it was not sending the pm and giving the "you don;t have permission" text --but i got past it --seems you need to go to your usergroups and it will kind of refresh and then it should work.

thanks for the great and east to use mod!

[The_Rascal]

Wrong Mod :$
Oops

[KenDude]

SAD! There should be some sort of mod support ENFORCEMENT! The author and the person listed for support have not been here since December of last year! So I tried going to CypherSTL's site, guess what it isn't working, email and PM from here are either undeliverable or unreturned. Why should I risk installing this mod and breaking the 3.5 version I currently have had working for 2 years and which keeps working up through vbulletin 3.8.1?

Is anyone EVER going to upgrade this mod AND support it???

BTW there are no install docs or upgrade docs in the ZIP file here, it says nothing about what will happen to my existing awards for members that have been granted in my 3.5 version.

Ugh... FRUSTRATION!

[MTGDarkness]

The templates on this MOD don't cache right on my forum, and this leads to a lot of extra queries. How can I fix this?

[Pocket Aces]

How do we increase the width of the name/description column in awards.php page? Which template and particular code to edit?

[Makaveli007]

thanks, installed