Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

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

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
+ Writes granting/removing awards to the log

In ModCP
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing award to the log

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)

New Features/Additions since 3.8
- Points System
- Separate Award Request/Recommendation Forms
- CSS Customizable

Current Release Version 4.0.9

• Added - Handling of user merges
• Added - Handling of user deletes
• Added - Manage awards on per user basis
• Added - Extra info to the logs for mass removal and editing of issued awards
• Added - Ability to collapse categories on awards.php
• Added - Checksum file for checking for suspect file versions
• Added - Various missing phrases
• Fixed - Memberlist not showing awards when option is active
• Fixed - Navtab not being selected (vb version < 4.2)
• Fixed - Category title not being displayed on awards.php
• Fixed - Logging not working in modcp
• Fixed - A few other minor bugs

[Gamelobby]

Hmm. i still have issues, some of which may not be this mod, but most of it is..

See Images*
When the Awards mod is enabled it screws up the background of the page, & moves the footer google ad all the way up. (which conflicts with other links, etc.)


*disregard the red circle around the broken image, that has nothing to do with this mod. (its a whole other headache. lol)


Correct (awards disabled)



Incorrect (awards enabled)



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Google Ad - Footer
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Correct, Google ad in footer (awards disabled)


Ad not in wrong place.. (because its in the correct place the footer)


Incorrect, Google ad (awards enabled)

[squidsk]

OK here's an additional fix, that gets rid of the two deprecation messages and appears to fix visitor messages being messed up if awards are active on member pages.

Again in the YAAS in Member Profile - Profile plugin attached to the member_build_blocks_start hook make the following deletions:

global $vbulletin;  
require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$bbcode_parser =[s]&[/s] new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

and

    function prepare_output($id = '', $options = array())
    {
        global $show, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $vbcollapse, $bgclass, $vbulletin;
        
        require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
        $bbcode_parser =[s]&[/s] new vB_BbCodeParser($this->registry, fetch_tag_list());

[russellw]

A great addition (as always). In the 3.6 version I'm just migrating from I had our simple 2 award requests added as entries on the member drop-down and used a conditional statement so that they didn't show if the user viewing the drop-down didn't have permission to actually give awards.

I can't see how to duplicate that functionality in this version?

Cheers
Russ

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by squidsk

OK here's an additional fix, that gets rid of the two deprecation messages and appears to fix visitor messages being messed up if awards are active on member pages.

Again in the YAAS in Member Profile - Profile plugin attached to the member_build_blocks_start hook make the following deletions:

global $vbulletin;  
require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$bbcode_parser =[s]&[/s] new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

and

    function prepare_output($id = '', $options = array())
    {
        global $show, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $vbcollapse, $bgclass, $vbulletin;
        
        require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
        $bbcode_parser =[s]&[/s] new vB_BbCodeParser($this->registry, fetch_tag_list());

Doesn't appear to do much on my site, should i keep the edits, or remove them.?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Hmm. i still have issues, some of which may not be this mod, but most of it is..
When the Awards mod is enabled it screws up the background of the page

Any idea where the issue might be that is screwing up my background.?

[russellw]

Originally Posted by russellw

A great addition (as always). In the 3.6 version I'm just migrating from I had our simple 2 award requests added as entries on the member drop-down and used a conditional statement so that they didn't show if the user viewing the drop-down didn't have permission to actually give awards.

I can't see how to duplicate that functionality in this version?

Cheers
Russ

Resolved the issue the long way around by hard coding usergroup access permissions in the drop down menu - will be a pain to maintain when there are already inbuilt user permissions for request award but at least it works this way.

The next step of that process is now to pre-fill the user name of the nominated person - shouldn't be too difficult given that the form request is done from the user options drop down.

Cheers
Russ

[Gamelobby]

Since i updated to 4.0, awards are only showing for admins..!?
I dont see a setting for usergroups is there another reason they wouldn't show.?

*edit*
I didn't specify, but i meant they are not showing in the signature area, everywhere else seems fine.

[LightFatality]

I got mine to work on 4.1.2 but with one issue: the medal on the user posts is appear on the right side of the avatar. I cannot figure out how to move it below. I looked around in postbit, but couldn't seem to find the spot.

I checked in the plugin too for the postbit options, but I couldn't seem to figure out if I needed to change anything there.

Can someone help?

[Gamelobby]

In the options you can put it anywhere..
3rd option is:

Postbit: Display Location

[pygmalion2008]

I was wondering if its possible to change the display location of the awards based on the award category. I have "Awards" and "Trinkets", and I want to display the trinkets on the right, and the awards next to the user. Is this possible?