Major Additions - Yet Another Ranks System

* CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR FORUM AND DATABASE BEFORE INSTALLING !

I've had quite a few PM's in regards to this and seeing as how once upon a time I administered a gaming tournament forum it came in handy... we had virtual armies in battlefield games with Generals, LtCol's, Captains, squads of 6 and enjoyed a rank structure along with our awards so we converted the Awards mod into a Ranks mod, many also had a need for it and now we have it for 4.x. This is a complete re-write of the 4.x Yet Another Awards System by CypherSTL and Xanlamin ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 ) with updates including one fix by another community member for the profile tabs (noted in Changelog.txt). I hope everyone enjoys it who finds a use for it .

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

FEATURES:
In AdminCP

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

In ModCP

• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

Front page & other

• Display ranks list in with: Rank Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each rank.
• Display ranks showcase in profile, with Rank information, Issue time and reason
• Display rank icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)
• Separate Rank Request/Recommendation Forms
• CSS Customizable
• Points System *Requires MySQL 5.0+

Attention:

If you do not properly setup this modification you will see errors such as:

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I am getting this error when i recommend or issue rank request?

how to fix it ?

Basically here's the short on this:

• Edit your usergroups, for each usergroup set whether they can request and recommend ranks.
• Setup the mod options in AdminCP > Ranks System > Rank System Settings.
• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Bingo . You can create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members .
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute.
• Try disabling the Points System, do you still have a issue?

Other issues:

• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  - The core of the ranks sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System you must be running at least MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ranks_rankusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments = OFF
• Styling issues? - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....58&postcount=2
• If you have any other issues, post them however I need to know if this was the 2nd, 3rd or 4th request, what was done before the error and if issuing to another user worked afterwords! Thanks!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by odie3

Hmm, not sure then. I'll send myself another rank to see what happens.

Oh, after doing the full bits to sort out the "floating tab" in YAAS I still have two tabs for YARS -so I think that fix from that MOD is effecting this one in some way. Because now I am getting my ranks now but getting two tabs (once again only on this MOD not in Awards).


EDIT:
perhaps I misunderstood how that was supposed to work. that's clickable link, when I click it takes me to my rank, which is this: http://ghostdogs.net/ranks.php?do=viewrank&rank_id=38

Ahh do you use any DB Tech mods, anything other mod using the word "Rank" because this mod uses the "My Ranks" wording not "Ranks" so it could possibly be conflicting w/ another mod or vice-versa .

Edit: In the xml file the YARS - Profile Tab plugin is disabled, ensure while you were making those edits to your Yet Another Awards System mod due to the double-tabs, that you did not accidentally turn that back on etc.

[odie3]

You nailed it, YARS "YARS - Profile Tab" got enabled. Now I have one tab each both are showing their graphics properly.

The only question is if the Rank Graphic is suppose to show in the PM Message or just be a hyperlink that takes you to the rank.

[Badhabitz]

TheLastSuperman,
Thanks so much for transferring this over, it has been of great use to my community. We had over 200 usergroups with more on the way so we could display different ranks in each of the games we support.

My question is this,we currently use a roster and I could put in this code here {vb:raw userinfo.rank} And it would show up the usergroup ranks images. What code can I put in to display the image ranks from this plugin and possibly even the awards images from the original plugin as well. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Delazar]

Hi,

is there a possibility that the medals have to import the users in YAAS to YARS?

[Mobo]

A couple of questions:

1. Is it possible for the system to give out medals based on length of site membership automatically? I'd like to give all my members anniversary medals, but there are too many to check this daily and manually award them.

2. What are the points used for? I assume that as a member is awarded a rank/medal/award, that they get the points associated with those awards. But what do they use those points for?

Thanks!

[MalluParadise]

It's working perfectly in 4.1.6

[odie3]

I have "Unregistered" users requesting Ranks - is there a way to keep Unregistered from doing this?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Delazar

Hi,

is there a possibility that the medals have to import the users in YAAS to YARS?

You can via phpmyadmin however at this time there is no built-in option or "easy button" for that matter .

Originally Posted by Mobo

A couple of questions:

1. Is it possible for the system to give out medals based on length of site membership automatically? I'd like to give all my members anniversary medals, but there are too many to check this daily and manually award them.

2. What are the points used for? I assume that as a member is awarded a rank/medal/award, that they get the points associated with those awards. But what do they use those points for?

Thanks!

Yes however it will need to be added in at some point in the future .

Points, so you can have Ranks and those have points... making it a real Rank system per say... I would imaging a Lt.Col rank would have more points than a Private First Class rank follow? .

Originally Posted by MalluParadise

It's working perfectly in 4.1.6

Awesome

Originally Posted by odie3

I have "Unregistered" users requesting Ranks - is there a way to keep Unregistered from doing this?

Usergroup manager, now in the usergroups permissions scroll to the bottom and look for the option, set request to No .

[SN1PERCITY]

will you be converting this to 4.1.6

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by SN1PERCITY

will you be converting this to 4.1.6

Go up... four posts i.e. post #56 ^

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