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

[AhmetYerli]

Is there a version of vBulletin 3?

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by AhmetYerli

Is there a version of vBulletin 3?

It's possible this will work with vB3 with just a version dependency change. I will look into this soon.

[Inked_Mono]

This plugin works like an absolute charm! Had to run the update tool on "Update User Titles and Ranks" just to see the order changes, but that was completely expected.

Amazing plugin, Mark. Thanks a ton.

[twistedsoul]

Sweet! Ty!

[boggseric]

Worked perfect. We use a custom admincp folder name for security, I just modified the xml file before installation and replaced all the admincp occurrences with my actual folder name.

[Webion]

Not working on 5.2.4

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by Webion

Not working on 5.2.4

This product isn't intended for use with vBulletin 5.x.

[mikez006]

Doesn't work with 4.2.0. I get a bunch of errors on import. No 'Rank Order' column appears after import.

Warning: Illegal string offset 'dependency' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 912
Warning: Illegal string offset 'template' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1242
Warning: Illegal string offset 'stylevargroup' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1253
Warning: Illegal string offset 'stylevar' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1258
Warning: Illegal string offset 'plugin' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1274
Warning: Illegal string offset 'phrasetype' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1294

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by mikez006

Doesn't work with 4.2.0. I get a bunch of errors on import. No 'Rank Order' column appears after import.

Warning: Illegal string offset 'dependency' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 912
Warning: Illegal string offset 'template' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1242
Warning: Illegal string offset 'stylevargroup' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1253
Warning: Illegal string offset 'stylevar' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1258
Warning: Illegal string offset 'plugin' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1274
Warning: Illegal string offset 'phrasetype' in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1294

Have you renamed your "admincp" folder?

[vpcarrocci]

Installed!

It didn't work on the first install but I quickly figured out that it was due to the fact that I had changed the name of the my "admincp" folder. I uninstalled the plug-in and created a new empty folder that I titled as "admincp" and uploaded the rank.php file into it. I then installed the plug-in again, moved the two files from the "admincp" folder into my renamed admincp folder and everything is working just as advertised. I also deleted the dummy admincp folder.

Thanks for the cool plug-in!