Ember's Pet Hack

This is currently version 2.0 of the Pet Hack.

The pet hack enabled each user to have their own pet, which is displayed in the postbit under the postcount (screen shot below).

The user can define their own Pet Name, as well as select the breed of pet from a drop down wether the pet is male or female.

Version 2 adds 2 major new features.

Number one is the images, each breed of pet has a male and female image which is displayed depending on what the user has selected.

The second is the stats, each pet has its own level, HP and EXP. This was taken directly from knomans levels hack, and edited slightly (more credits are given in the install file).

The images of the pets were created by danwei - she has been working very hard on them this afternoon, and without her this wouldnt have happened!!

Inside the zip you will find install instructions, the images needed and s txt file containing some information about what might be appearing in future versions.

I hope you enjoy v2 of the hack, and I will be accepted all comments and suggestions!

If you install this hack live, then please post the link here so I can link to some live examples. Remember to click the "install" button.

Live examples:

Gaming World
Rozhon.com

[mx3]

hey, i just installed, and it worked great. i can make that guide to adding more pets to choose from if you want. i'm not good with php, but this is actually pretty simple.

Ember, just pm me if you want me to make the 'add a new pet' guide

[SRozhon]

I have been looking for other Pet programs in Flash or whatever that are GPL but no luck so far. :-(

However, for the users who have no pet selected they used to get an empty image box on the postbit, but this is easily fixed by making a small image that says something simple like NO PET and naming it .gif here is mine for now real quickly, but it is nothing pretty.
I didn't know if that would work without a name but it did, in case anyone else wants to do it here you go.

[Sc0rp]

awesome hack! Though not gonna use it untill I figure out how can I can let my members pick their own pet and make their own images for it no offence to the one that made the images, they r naais

[Ember]

Thanks SR, I should have included that in the first place!

@Mx3 - write up that stuff if you want to, I am sure everyone else would appreciate it.

V3 hasnt been in development for a while, been busy with real world stuff, will get back on it ASAP though.

[snack]

for some reason when i edit the postbit my tables is all funky... are you sure the code for the postbit is right?

[Ember]

You need to add another </table> to the end I think.

[snack]

still looks a kinda funkey... can you redo the code for the post bit... and post it? thanks!

[Koutaru]

i installed it very nice -- good work! I hope it can be integrated with itemshop (it would be really cool ^_^)

[mx3]

snack, i made a new code for the postbit because i had the same problem. i just took out all the td's and tr's except for the main one so that it was just one small, simple table. i completely took out the graphic bar tables also. i'd post the code but its on my other computer and i'm too lazy to copy it from my acp right now

[jjdog2]

I dont know if I meesed up somewhere in installing but when I update the pet info in my User CP profile and press save it dont save it, no matter how many times I try to set my pet it dosent save so it dont look right in the postbit because of that.