Rank Images?

[Syxguns]

To be honest I don't know what they would be called, but they are images that I created that I would like to post under the Username in the forum. I've been searching for a modification that allows this, because I've seen it on a lot of forums. I did a drawing as an example of what I'm talking about. Each image, "Admin, Musician, Guitar" I all want under my username in my forum. I have created a total of 19 different images for different users. Please tell me how I can go about doing this.

Thank you!

[Lynne]

Hello,

Are the Musician and Guitar and Admin tags given based on the usergroup a user is in? Or how do you decide who gets each image? If they are based on usergroup, you may just use ranks - https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/user_ranks

[Syxguns]

Well as you can see I'm an Administrator, musician, and I play guitar. So I have 3 tags for that. Let's take another member:

Musician
VIP
Strings
Keys
percussion

I'm guessing from the manual, that I have to create custom group for each type of user and then create separate tags? For example usergroup: Musician may have 5 tags. Is what I'm wanting to do impossible?

[Lynne]

Well, I was asking because if these were based on usergroups, then it is very easy to just use the ranks. Another option is to use the Custom Profile Fields and then based on their answers there, you would spit out an image.

[Syxguns]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Well, I was asking because if these were based on usergroups, then it is very easy to just use the ranks. Another option is to use the Custom Profile Fields and then based on their answers there, you would spit out an image.

Is there some instruction on setting this up? This would be perfect, if it will work.

Edit: I found some information in the manual, let me see if it will walk me through the process! Thanks Lynne! I still may need some help on adding the images though. I'll let you know.

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Sorry Lynne! It is a great feature for the profiles, but I don't have the option to add multiple images that way. I will do a little more searching, and if I can't get any information then I may have to just use the basic rank images, and not have multiple images.

[Lynne]

what you would do is have a question like:

Check the instruments that you play:
- keyboard
- guitar
- drums
- bass
- etc

and then based on that answer, you would spit out an image for those they select. If you have PHP experience, then you'll be able to code the image results yourself. If not, it will be more difficult since I think the results are stored in a binary format (1 for the first option, 2 for the second, 4 for the third, etc). So, you need to take that result and break out what the actual answers were first before you spit out an image.

[Syxguns]

Originally Posted by Lynne

what you would do is have a question like:

Check the instruments that you play:
- keyboard
- guitar
- drums
- bass
- etc

and then based on that answer, you would spit out an image for those they select. If you have PHP experience, then you'll be able to code the image results yourself. If not, it will be more difficult since I think the results are stored in a binary format (1 for the first option, 2 for the second, 4 for the third, etc). So, you need to take that result and break out what the actual answers were first before you spit out an image.

Okay, so you are saying that I would have to add the image with code (PHP) for that specif user ID correct? I did create the question as you suggested and set it so they could only select 2 of the options. I also created a question asking if they were a musician, but I did not add these to the registration yet. I don't have that much knowledge of PHP, so I would probably have a hard time doing it, but it's a project that I can place on the back burner for right now.

I'll probably create a signature area and change the different badges to be more like signatures which they may use instead of it being in their profile field. This would be a great modification to create! I say that because default badges can be done in the User Ranks area, but additional badges that you may want to assign for a particular member, you could use the modification to assign as many badges as you want. I may mention that in the coder area.

[Syxguns]

Wow, it works! I may have to make a listing on this but tell me if I should or not!

Okay, so I was a little frustrated an trying to figure out how to make it work correctly when I decided to just go ahead and make a bunch of usergroups. I made one for each of my items that I wanted to list, and the only downfall is that it lists it doesn't seem to list it in order, but I will continue to work with it and see if I can figure that part out.

Anyway, because I have so many different badges, I decided to give it a whirl and it works. I'll post an image of it here. I've got two members in the pic for you to look at. I also can add more images, but I haven't had the time to test it out as far as permissions go yet. I'm sure it will be fine, but that is still up for debate!!

[Lynne]

Nice!