Major Additions - Yet Another Ranks System

* CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR FORUM AND DATABASE BEFORE INSTALLING !

I've had quite a few PM's in regards to this and seeing as how once upon a time I administered a gaming tournament forum it came in handy... we had virtual armies in battlefield games with Generals, LtCol's, Captains, squads of 6 and enjoyed a rank structure along with our awards so we converted the Awards mod into a Ranks mod, many also had a need for it and now we have it for 4.x. This is a complete re-write of the 4.x Yet Another Awards System by CypherSTL and Xanlamin ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 ) with updates including one fix by another community member for the profile tabs (noted in Changelog.txt). I hope everyone enjoys it who finds a use for it .

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Medals/Ranks system. Admin can give members ranks, and rank icons will be displayed in member's profile, posts, as well as in a rank list.

FEATURES:
In AdminCP

• Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
• Can Create/Edit/Delete ranks in ACP (with Rank Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
• Can Move one (or all) rank(s) from one category to another
• Can set some ranks un-classified (not displayed for public)
• Can re-order ranks in ranks showcase
• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

In ModCP

• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

Front page & other

• Display ranks list in with: Rank Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each rank.
• Display ranks showcase in profile, with Rank information, Issue time and reason
• Display rank icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)
• Separate Rank Request/Recommendation Forms
• CSS Customizable
• Points System *Requires MySQL 5.0+

Attention:

If you do not properly setup this modification you will see errors such as:

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I am getting this error when i recommend or issue rank request?

how to fix it ?

Basically here's the short on this:

• Edit your usergroups, for each usergroup set whether they can request and recommend ranks.
• Setup the mod options in AdminCP > Ranks System > Rank System Settings.
• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Bingo . You can create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members .
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute.
• Try disabling the Points System, do you still have a issue?

Other issues:

• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  - The core of the ranks sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System you must be running at least MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ranks_rankusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments = OFF
• Styling issues? - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....58&postcount=2
• If you have any other issues, post them however I need to know if this was the 2nd, 3rd or 4th request, what was done before the error and if issuing to another user worked afterwords! Thanks!

[Mobo]

If you issue them the same award, the award will be displayed for each time you assign it to someone. If you are just wanting to have the "Tourny A" award displayed once for each user, but want it to some how indicate that that person has played in Tourny A ten times, you would have to edit the issue reason for that person. Then it would only show up on their Awards tab (on their profile page).

What I have done on my site is to have most of my awards (we call them medals) done up in sets of four:

Base Medal




Bronze Medal




Silver Medal




Gold Medal




I can then just replace the medal with the next highest version of it. So, for your Tourny award, you could set the Base award at 1 tournament, Bronze at 5 tournaments, and so on depending on how high you need to go.

Hope this helps some.

[Bluefin221]

Well, I will be issuing caps as its for a FIFA forum www.fpcforums.com I'm actually looking to edit the display in postbit so it displays the exact same way as ranks do, I haven't had time though, were 3 weeks old and its a busy site already.

Anyway, there are guys who will play many times for their country some 40 times etc and I want to just issue them with the same medal 40 times as a cap if that makes sense.

[Cledus James]

If someone could please help me with a problem with this mod I'm having it would be great.

My problem is that in a users profile the My Ranks tab link is NOT working. Once clicked nothing loads. For an example of what I'm talking about go here:

http://www.suicide-kings.net/forums/member.php?1-Cledus

Now if you click on the My Ranks tab you'll notice no pages load. Please help me fix this. Thanks.

[TheLastSuperman]

The Awards mod you have installed is causing this issue, click on My Ranks... now notice how a new tab titled "Awards" is also shown yet before it was not?

Now view my profile here: http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...s/michael.html

*I'm disabling the mod shortly so hurry up and confirm what I'm saying by clicking .

As you can see there is no issue, in fact I ensured before releasing this to include Sadiq's fix listed in the Awards mod thread into the Ranks mod therefor the issue cannot and is not caused by the Yet Another Ranks Mod .

[Cledus James]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

The Awards mod you have installed is causing this issue, click on My Ranks... now notice how a new tab titled "Awards" is also shown yet before it was not?

Now view my profile here: http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...s/michael.html

*I'm disabling the mod shortly so hurry up and confirm what I'm saying by clicking .

As you can see there is no issue, in fact I ensured before releasing this to include Sadiq's fix listed in the Awards mod thread into the Ranks mod therefor the issue cannot and is not caused by the Yet Another Ranks Mod .

So are you saying there's no fix to the problem unless I disable YARS or YAAS? Like they both cant be active?

[Mobo]

No, he is saying that the issue is in the YAAS coding, not his. You will need to apply the fix for that to the YAAS coding. I would suggest that you disable the YARS product, fix the YAAS product and then re-enable YARS.

You could also confirm that it is YAAS by disabling it and seeing if your My Ranks tab works correctly then.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Mobo

No, he is saying that the issue is in the YAAS coding, not his. You will need to apply the fix for that to the YAAS coding. I would suggest that you disable the YARS product, fix the YAAS product and then re-enable YARS.

You could also confirm that it is YAAS by disabling it and seeing if your My Ranks tab works correctly then.

Bingo and thanks btw Mobo!

[Cledus James]

Can anyone tell me if there's a way to rename the My Ranks tab to something else? Thanks for any input given.

[CharlieDelta]

A simple "search" of this thread will give you the answer you needed.

This may help - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=93

Cheers.

[Bluefin221]

Ok, I need to be able to issue the same award multiple times, basically as many as I want for the same rank and have it only display once on the postbit, I don't want to have to edit the reason as that still only means one rank, as I award caps for representing your country then people can represent their country many times, but I cannot currently issuing them a rank each time as that means they could potentially have 40 ranks all on the postbit. Also we play tournaments and teams could potentially win a tournament twice so again I would like to issue them with the same rank and it only display once.

Is this possible and if so how do I make it so?