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!

[CharlieDelta]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Superman. We have been running a gaming site for years now and I have been manually giving ranks.
Now I can use this.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Thank you, thank you, thank you Superman. We have been running a gaming site for years now and I have been manually giving ranks.
Now I can use this.

We surely used this along w/ the Awards mod for a good virtual "army" forum atmosphere... it was fun when everyone played along and followed the ranks in-game not paying attention to actual game rank etc. Gosh you have me thinking back to my weeks as a Captain of a squad then my 2 and a half campaigns as General of the PAC where we dominated the EU division until my retirement! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNI02LZ8F20 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luauhr8Avxg I miss my gaming site days, sadly if I had more time I would still help out at that one community, in a galaxy far, far away now as it seems .

[NarutoFTW]

So can I upgrade from this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 to yours? i've been using that mod and have many awards on it.

[Sayid]

If the answer to NarutoFTW Q is no, then a converter from 3.x or 4.x version of Awards System to yours will be much appreciated.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by NarutoFTW

So can I upgrade from this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 to yours? i've been using that mod and have many awards on it.

Hmm I think you have this wrong... this can be used in conjunction w/ that mod if you wish, this way you have a separate need for Awards and Ranks it is so . That mod only requires a few updates for example the profile fix listed in the changelog i.e.

Fix for Member Profile Tab by sadiq6210 https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=111268 as shown in YAAS - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=742

Was made before this was released, special thanks to sadiq for helping so many in the Awards mod eh? Round of Applause indeed . So you see if you spend a few minutes and use Sadiq's fix you can have yours working on 4.1.3 and below, I'm not sure if it works on 4.1.4 as I simply have not tested, if so please post... so far one says no.

Originally Posted by Sayid

If the answer to NarutoFTW Q is no, then a converter from 3.x or 4.x version of Awards System to yours will be much appreciated.

I believe, from our mods being similar in the past that you should only be required to backup the awards mod tables, then import the product and mark it so it can be overwritten etc and you should then be upgraded, if any issues you may need to import some of the award tables you backed up back into the DB to repopulate the info.

[grey_goose]

How configurable is the position of the ranks? I'd like to redo my usergroup/ranks as just awards, but I'm pretty adamant on how I want my postbit to appear and would want the awards to be in the same location. Doable with minor postbit editing?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by grey_goose

How configurable is the position of the ranks? I'd like to redo my usergroup/ranks as just awards, but I'm pretty adamant on how I want my postbit to appear and would want the awards to be in the same location. Doable with minor postbit editing?

You should try using the custom css option first before editing any templates (this is located within the rank options, enable by selecting custom then either edit the rank css template or post your modified css you fabricated from the default.css file included and paste within additional.css. That way you could adjust it to suit and perhaps avoid unnecessary template editing by using css alone .

Edit: Although for us at one point in time... we displayed [S]ranks[/S] correction Awards on the userinfo right location and displayed our military rank just below the avatar and designed to compliment it as well - just a idea if your only showcasing one rank otherwise if a display box containing a few you may not desire such changes or that location specifically, it's up to you .

[grey_goose]

*facepalm*

Like "{vb:raw post.userranks}" ?

[grey_goose]

I'm getting some 'extra' info:

[grey_goose]

Fixed that by turning off adding template names as HTML comments.

However, requests don't seem to be working:

There's some error when sending your rank request. Please contact site's administrator for assistant.