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

[CypherSTL]

4.0.2 PATCH 1: (05/16/2010)
* Fixed - Possible XSS Exploit in recommend_award.php and request_award.php
award_request_reason and award_request_recipient_name variables changed to "TYPE_NOHTML"

* Date in change log of 4.0.2 release
* Updated Version in version phrase

4.0.2 RELEASE: (04/10/2010 5:30AM CDT)

* Fixed - Spacing on primary Awards Display page
* Fixed - Display Order in AdminCP Options not saving properly
* Fixed - "Awards" displaying on all profile tabs.
* Fixed - Award Profile Tab Phrased

* Added - Award Recommendations and Requests are viewable in the AdminCP
* Added - Diagnostics Tab (Currently not used, place holder).

* Database - Database Errors on installation are now displayed.
* Database - award_requests table added

* Removed - Automation Phrases (Automation will be a seperate plugin)

4.0.1 RELEASE: * INTERNAL RELEASE *

4.0.0 GOLD: * INTERNAL RELEASE *

Frequently Asked Questions

• What are you using in your development environment?
  PHP 5.2.11, MySQL 5.0.87, Apache 2.0.63. Latest version of vBulletin 4 and YaAS.
• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  The core of the awards sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System, or the Automation System, you must be running atleast MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: awards_awardusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Display Template Names as HTML Comments -> OFF

[ProFifaLeagues]

This looks great,will watch the progress and install asap!

[Kolbi]

Perhaps you can upload some screens?

[n_only]

hi..

nice work

I do have this hack on vb.8.4
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=196244
when I upgraded my forum to 4.0 , I disabled it . can I upgrade it with this release ?

[CypherSTL]

Originally Posted by n_only

hi..

nice work

I do have this hack on vb.8.4
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=196244
when I upgraded my forum to 4.0 , I disabled it . can I upgrade it with this release ?

As far as I know you should be able to. Just remember to do a backup of everything first.

I didn't have a test board setup with 3.8 with YAAS 3.8, and upgraded both. Product IDs are the same as previous versions, so it should work fine.

[Sador]

Nice, glad to see this got upgraded. I'll use this when it's more stable.

[CypherSTL]

Originally Posted by Sador

Nice, glad to see this got upgraded. I'll use this when it's more stable.

Shouldn't be much longer than a few days. Just trying to figure out two display bugs, and fine-tune the XML Sheet and write up upgrade instructions.

For the most part upgrading should be pretty self-explanatory.

[silverfox_uw]

Brilliant, can not wait for this to be final

[Veer]

Thanks for the vb4 release.

I tested this on a vb4 test board (upgraded from 3.8.2 version to 4.0.0 BETA RELEASE) upgrade is ok, everything looks fine except Postbit: Style and Profile Tab Style.
both needs style improvements.

Can you please describe Point system?