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!

[Mobo]

Originally Posted by shahryar_neo

Would you please explain the differences between this system and award one ?

Really sorry but I read all two threads but cannot understand . The award one just can work with Award Pictures but Rank one can be used without any ICon or Pic ?

Thanks In Advance !

They are pretty much the same and can be used interchangeably as well as can be used together. YARS is a little better supported and has one of the bugs fixed in the base code that YAAS does not. Both can use any type of icon or pic. YAAS does have an "automation" future, but it is not documented, supported or overly useful in it's functions.

I currently use YAAS, but if I was just starting out, I'd use YARS.

[Patriots1049]

Is there a way to change the number of awards in the showcase in user profile???

[KGodel]

Just switched over from YAAS and am glad I did. Are there plans to also port the automation?

Also, if this is actively being improved maybe, some great features might be the ability to chose where to display awards separate for each category, so maybe you have different types of awards (medals, trophies, etc) that you want to appear different places in posts or on the profile. Also, maybe the ability to have active awards that don't display on the awards page. Anyhow thanks, and marked as installed!

[DannyV]

How can I give permissions to certain users to add medals/categories, without giving them full access in vbulleting ?

[Mobo]

I've not tried it, but you might have to setup a new usergroup and give them Admin rights, then adjust the permission they have as Admin.

[ElfenLied1337]

Considering switching over from YAAS because this mod seems to be better supported. However, I have been using YAAS for some time now and have already given out a lot of awards--is there any way to import them from YAAS to YARS?

[Mukashi]

Hmmm. Just had a bit of an error in the installation of the mod which looks a bit unusual. Was complaining about class_core.php for some reason. I didn't catch exactly what it said, it flashed by too quick, but I know we do have a modified class_core.php thanks to Paul M's proxy IP mod. Anything to be concerned about there?

[Mobo]

Originally Posted by ElfenLied1337

Considering switching over from YAAS because this mod seems to be better supported. However, I have been using YAAS for some time now and have already given out a lot of awards--is there any way to import them from YAAS to YARS?

I don't think there is. There might be a way to do it if you export the database table "award_user" and then re-import it into the corresponding YARS table (not sure what that one is since I don't have it installed).

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Hmmm. Just had a bit of an error in the installation of the mod which looks a bit unusual. Was complaining about class_core.php for some reason. I didn't catch exactly what it said, it flashed by too quick, but I know we do have a modified class_core.php thanks to Paul M's proxy IP mod. Anything to be concerned about there?

Sorry, I'm no help on this one.

[KGodel]

It didn't take me long to move everything over from YAAS. I'm hoping the developer of YARS will implement some new features or something cool. :P

[Bluefin221]

I'm having issues with the postbit, the system is functioning normally but not the way I want. I will try to explain what it is I'm after properly.

If you look at the postbit of the user in this post: http://www.fpcforums.com/forums/f6/v...872/#post10149

You will see he has a few medals already, however where my problem occurs is that he has two caps for his country currently issued these display on the postbit each time, so he has the same medal twice, my issue with this is this member currently had 8 caps as he has played for his country 8 times, this will continue to grow, he could potentially play 3 matches per month home and away which is 6 caps per month, add this over a year and this member could have 72 medals, obviously I do not want 72 medals showing on the postbit as that would be ridiculous, so how do I show the same medal only once?

I want individual medals to show once but I can issue it as many times as I want and it updates his medals total, I have tried a few times to edit the code but have wrecked it each time, can anyone possibly help me as currently I cannot issue users the awards with the way its currently working. I would really appreciate any help anyone can give.