Community support hack

[snags204]

I have seen on another board . This board was not a vbull. But they had a system setup where the members would get a icon by their name if they had donated to help support the site

They had bronze, silver, gold and platium setup for the different amounts people had donated.. I noticed that the members liked it and would donate more to the board to help pay server costs and so fourth.. The members just liked having the icon saying that they are a supporter of that site.

Has anyone seen this hack or do any of the coders wanna take on this challange.

Thanks in Advance

[Hellcat]

You might wanna check this one:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=94836

That's a pretty good thing, I use it myself, and sounds like it does exactely what you want

[peterska2]

ok, there is probably a really long winded way of doing this, but this way definately works.

Create your images and decide on donation amounts per image.

Create some new secondary usergroups for each amount donated (you can use these to control additional forum access, PM box quota's, larger avatar sizes etc).

Set up paid subscriptons for those amounts, ensuring that each amount is assigned to a different user group selected from the ones created above, as a secondary group.

Set up user ranks per secondary usergroup, adding the link to the image, setting the usergroup to the correct one to show that image, and set the postcount to 0.

When you have set up all the user ranks, click the link that says about rebuilding user ranks, then click the rebuild user ranks button. It may take a while for this to run depending on the number of members.

Finally add the following to your navbar

find

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

Add below

<if condition="$show[member]"><td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="payments.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Donate</a></td></if>

Save it, and you are done.



[edit]
Hellcat's way will work, but requires a modification to do so, and also is not automatic. This way uses standard features, is automatic, and just one small template modification which is optional.
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[snags204]

Thanks guys for helping out... When it comes to making Icons and stuff like that i suck.. I was hoping for something i could just add to my site and click on when members donate to add to their profile and in their posts. A way of saying thanks and showing all the other members that he/she has help support the site

I have a very large site with 3 big servers running it and the costs can be very high. I do have sponsors but at the end of the day there is always more money needed....

It would also make life alot easier if you could have a setting for days they have the icon. Weather it be 30/60/90 days.

If you guys needs some doantion for this hack i would throw in a few bucks. I sure once made it would be very popular with your members.

So having a hack like this would really help me out

Snags