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]

Updated to v4.1.4 on 7/2/2011
Notes:

• Removed some residual Awards references in snippets of the code.
• Updated two phrases.
• Tested and initial bug report of database error depends on settings from tests ran, please be sure to test on a site with more than one user and have the options set correctly in admincp.
• Tested and confirmed to work on vBulletin 4.1.4.

Updated (Remains at v4.1.4) on 7/3/2011
Notes:

• Updated SQL to properly delete awards.
• Confirmed the dismissed DB error upon request/recommend after further testing and this has been sorted.

Updated (Remains at v4.1.4) on 7/11/2011
Notes:

• Updated installation SQL to check for MySQL version and define as TYPE or ENGINE correctly.

Updated (Remains at v4.1.4) on 10/29/2012
Notes:

• Fixed Security Vulnerability UNIT => UINT etc.

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Custom Style - Display issues on the Rank Page?

Edit template RANKS and find:

{vb:raw header}
{vb:raw navbar}

{vb:raw rank_categories}

Add [S]{vb:cssfile additional.css}[/S] {vb:raw headinclude_bottom} as shown in blue then save template:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{vb:var vbcsspath}editor.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{vb:var vbcsspath}bbcode.css" />
{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
</head>

*I'll include the call of additional.css in the next version .

[lapiervb]

Demo, pics?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by lapiervb

Demo, pics?

Up .

[Kaspersku]

It's great, I very like but I have some question for you:
It can use for 4.1.x or 4.x.x ?
Are you test it in all verison 4.x.x?

Thanks you much

[Kaspersku]

Oh dear, it can not be installed on vbb 4.1.4
When I installed the 4.1.4 database, then it fails, I try to install on localhost, it was like, you can explain ?

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE rank ADD rank_allowrecommend TINYINT( 1 ) DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL,ADD rank_pointvalue TINYINT( 3 ) DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;

MySQL Error : Table 'vbb4.1.4.rank' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Tuesday, June 28th 2011 @ 04:42:20 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, June 28th 2011 @ 04:42:23 AM
Script : http://localhost/vbb4.1.4/admincp/pl...=productimport
Referrer : http://localhost/vbb4.1.4/admincp/pl...?do=productadd
IP Address : 127.0.0.1
Username : Admin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.8

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Kaspersku

Oh dear, it can not be installed on vbb 4.1.4
When I installed the 4.1.4 database, then it fails, I try to install on localhost, it was like, you can explain ?

[S]I've only ran this on 4.1.3 and below per the info in the mod description: vB Version: 4.1.3[/S]

Edit: Works fine in 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 etc and this was due to MySQL version i.e. Type or Engine as pointed out by Ninjapaul - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=33

[nacaruncr]

so.... is the same as awards hack, right?
only a few changes.. the words, isn't it?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by nacaruncr

so.... is the same as awards hack, right?
only a few changes.. the words, isn't it?

Bingo, so you can install this and use in conjunction w/ the Awards mod if your running a military or FPS gaming community etc etc same as it's been since we first converted Hachno's mod into the Ranks system pretty much, I simply used Cypher and Xan's code to make it easier on me to update since a few had requested it for 4.x .

In fact you could rename the Awards mod into well.. anything and use it like a badge/ribbon/award/rank whatever mod, it is marked as re-usable code after all .

[nacaruncr]

ohhh... it's awesome men, this is so good