Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Rank Ordering

This product will, upon installation, add a column to your "ranks" table labeled "rankorder" and will edit your "/admincp/ranks.php" and "/includes/functions_ranks.php" files so that you may assign display ordering for your defined ranks. The original code is stored as "/admincp/ranks_orig.php" and "/includes/functions_ranks_orig.php" respectively. When uninstalled, your database and files are restored to their original condition.

This add-on utilizes code written by DragonBlade and n8td as posted here:

where do I change the order of rank images?

This add-on simply automates all of the file edits and the database change into one easy step.

When you go to your "User Rank Manager" you will see a new field titled "Rank Order" associated with each defined rank:



And when you edit a rank, you will find a new field on the form into which you can set the rank order:



Rank ordering can be used to control the order in which your various ranks are displayed in user postbits and profile pages. The smaller the number, the higher in the stack a rank will be displayed.

For example, suppose you have a rank for the forum owner(s) and you want this to be on top regardless of the other ranks the owners might have. You could assign this rank a rank order of 0. Then you may have several ranks which indicate a user's position in your staff, such as administrators, global moderators, forum moderators, etc. No one user would have more than 1 of these ranks, and so you could assign these a rank order of 1. This way any of the owners who are also an admin/global mod/mod would have the site owner rank on top and then their staff position rank next.

In this manner, you can assign rank orders to completely control the order in which all of your ranks are displayed:



Note: Once you edit your ranks to assign the rank order, you must run "update user titles and ranks" in order for the ordering to take effect.

Update: version 1.1

• Added missed file edit which allows for new ranks to be successfully added after installing this add-on.

Update: version 1.2

• Reads path to admin control panel folder from config.php.

Note: If you have not renamed your "admincp" folder, then you don't need to update to v. 1.2. If you edited the v. 1.1 .XML file to use your renamed "admincp" folder, then you also don't need to upgrade to v. 1.2. If you do decide to upgrade to v. 1.2 anyway, then you need to uninstall v. 1.1 first. If you wish to keep the rank ordering you've already defined, then you need to edit the product's uninstall code to remove the following db query:

PHP Code:

// Remove "rankorder" column from "ranks" table

$vbulletin->db->hide_errors();
$vbulletin->db->query_write("
    ALTER TABLE`" . TABLE_PREFIX . "ranks`
        DROP COLUMN rankorder
"); 


To Install:

In AdminCP go to Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product.

Click on "Choose File" and browse to the product .xml file that was packaged in the .zip file.

Click "Import"

There are no settings to set, once installed, the product is active. :up:

Note: When updating your vB, please follow these steps after completing the upgrade:

First, delete the files "/includes/functions_ranks_orig.php" and "admincp/ranks_orig.php".

Next, edit the "Rank Ordering" product to remove the uninstall code completely and save it.

Then, uninstall the product.

Lastly, reinstall the product, and the new PHP files will be backed up and then edited, and you'll be back in business.

Support for this product can be found here:

• MHB - Rank Ordering
• TAZ - Rank Ordering

[Skyrider]

Missed that note , Will try later on, thanks!

[crower55]

MarkFL YOU ARE AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot...

[SpikeyWelsh]

ya i getting the same error when adding a new rank

[akz645]

Originally Posted by SpikeyWelsh

ya i getting the same error when adding a new rank

He updated the version.
Download the new one and re-upload the XML.

[friendlymela]

This mod is really nice and useful

[SpikeyWelsh]

got ever thing working

[Cody.9791]

I'm having an issue with this on vB 4.2.3. When I install it, I'm unable to see the area in the user ranks to edit the display order of existing ones as well as for setting up new ones.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by Cody.9791

I'm having an issue with this on vB 4.2.3. When I install it, I'm unable to see the area in the user ranks to edit the display order of existing ones as well as for setting up new ones.

In your file system, do you see the files:

• /admincp/ranks.php
• /includes/functions_ranks.php
• /admincp/ranks_orig.php
• /includes/functions_ranks_orig.php

In your database, doe the table named "ranks" have the column "rankorder"?

[Cody.9791]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

In your file system, do you see the files:

• /admincp/ranks.php
• /includes/functions_ranks.php
• /admincp/ranks_orig.php
• /includes/functions_ranks_orig.php

In your database, doe the table named "ranks" have the column "rankorder"?

I'm not seeing:

/includes/functions_ranks.php
or
/includes/functions_ranks_orig.php

I do see:
/admincp/ranks.php
and
/admincp/ranks_orig.php

When I'm in the database, I open the "Ranks" section, it says, "Rank Order" then has "NULL" in the column.

[MarkFL]

Did you get any errors when installing?

Here's what I suggest doing:

1. Rename /admincp/ranks_orig.php to /admincp/ranks_xxx.php
2. Uninstall this product.
3. Delete /admincp/ranks.php
4. Rename /admincp/ranks_xxx.php to /admincp/ranks.php
5. Upload a copy of "functions_ranks.php" to your "includes" folder.
6. Install the product again.
7. Verifiy the 4 files I asked about before are all present. If so, see if the rank ordering function works.