Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

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

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

FEATURES:
In AdminCP
- Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
- Can Create/Edit/Delete awards in ACP (with Award Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
- Can Move one (or all) award(s) from one category to another
- Can set some awards un-classified (not displayed for public)
- Can re-order awards in awards showcase
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing awards to the log

In ModCP
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing award to the log

Front page
- Display awards list in with: Award Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each award.
- Display awards showcase in profile, with Award information, Issue time and reason
- Display award icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)

New Features/Additions since 3.8
- Points System
- Separate Award Request/Recommendation Forms
- CSS Customizable

Current Release Version 4.0.9

• Added - Handling of user merges
• Added - Handling of user deletes
• Added - Manage awards on per user basis
• Added - Extra info to the logs for mass removal and editing of issued awards
• Added - Ability to collapse categories on awards.php
• Added - Checksum file for checking for suspect file versions
• Added - Various missing phrases
• Fixed - Memberlist not showing awards when option is active
• Fixed - Navtab not being selected (vb version < 4.2)
• Fixed - Category title not being displayed on awards.php
• Fixed - Logging not working in modcp
• Fixed - A few other minor bugs

[edytwinky]

Originally Posted by edytwinky

On the user's profile page, does anybody have issues with the tab that says awards not appearing properly?

Originally Posted by Crotan

Existing bug, sadly developer is AWOL, but the fix should still stand.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=742

Thanks Crotan! That helped!

[squidsk]

I was fixing various bugs for YaAS so I decided to bundle it up into a new version. This is not official, but as the plugin says re-usable code I can release it for the benefit of the community. These changes should be compatible with all VB 4 versions with one caveat it does not support the new navigation manager from VB 4.2.

The mostly complete list of fixes/changes is:

4.0.3 RELEASE:  (06/13/2012)
    * Fixed - Various install/uninstall code issues
    * Fixed - User profile tab graphical issues
    * Fixed - Recommend/request award showing an error message, in certain circumstances, when there's no error
    * Fixed - Various links not using properly escaped & (i.e. should be & instead of &)
    * Fixed - Code that generated invalid xhtml
    * Fixed - Compatibility with other mods (e.g. vbsso)
    * Fixed - Setting determining which side of the memberprofile the awards tab should appear on not working
    * Ported - Fix from 3.8.4 for admincp for usernames with ' to modcp
    * Changed - Style of the awards tab on the user's profile page to better match with the standard tabs
    * Changed - Style for award icons and images so they are both vertically and horizontally centered in their row (awards.php & user profile)
    * Updated - Version in version phrase

If I messed up anything or there's a bug I didn't catch please let me know and I'll see about fixing it.

EDIT: Re-added the upload with correct XML.

[speedracer68]

Thanks for working on this.

How safe would it be to try this? If for some reason does not work as well as the version I have can I revert without losing anything?

Also, has anyone found a way to auto approve awards? I use them for people to show off what events they have participated in and it would be great if it would run without me having to approve each one.

[Thunderbird8]

What plugins were changed? I've implemented a customization on my board that allows members to determine how their awards are sorted, and I'd prefer to avoid having to reimplement that if possible.

You can fix the issue with the 4.2 navbar by changing $template_hook['navtab_middle'] to $template_hook['navtab_end'] in YAAS - Add Tab to Navbar. The former was deleted in 4.2, but the latter remains, and will work with 4.2 and previous versions.

[squidsk]

EDIT: I've re-uploaded the new version of YaAS. I've also added two more changes to the list of things that were altered which I'd forgot to include when I first posted.

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by speedracer68

Thanks for working on this.

How safe would it be to try this? If for some reason does not work as well as the version I have can I revert without losing anything?

It would be pretty safe to try, but reverting would be a bit of a pain, as there's no easy way to revert to a previous version of a plugin. You might be able to just reload the old xml file and have it overwrite the changes from this plugin, but you'd likely need to take a back of the three awards tables, uninstall the 4.0.3 version, reinstall the 4.0.2PL1 version and then restore the backups to your db. The changes I've made do not alter the db in any way so there's no loss of anything if you upgrade.

Also, has anyone found a way to auto approve awards? I use them for people to show off what events they have participated in and it would be great if it would run without me having to approve each one.

I don't think so, but this would allow for easy abuse as then a member could give themselves any award even if they didn't actually meet whatever requirements you have for granting the award.

Originally Posted by Thunderbird8

What plugins were changed? I've implemented a customization on my board that allows members to determine how their awards are sorted, and I'd prefer to avoid having to reimplement that if possible.

One plugin was changed, the YAAS in Member Profile - Profile plugin, and one plugin was removed, the YAAS - Profile Tab plugin. Both these changes were to fix the tab display issue on the member profile pages. I don't think any other plugins were changed. Various templates were also changed, but the merge utility should be able to merge all the changes. There were also some changes made to the php pages.

You can fix the issue with the 4.2 navbar by changing $template_hook['navtab_middle'] to $template_hook['navtab_end'] in YAAS - Add Tab to Navbar. The former was deleted in 4.2, but the latter remains, and will work with 4.2 and previous versions.

Thanks, I'll look into that once I upgrade to 4.2. Not being on 4.2 was the main reason I didn't make sure it was compatible with the navigation menu changes.

[UK CHI3F]

So much going on at present with this mod but my site is re-launching in less than 2 weeks and id really like to solve the background issue on the awards page.
All other mods are fine.

Any advice as to where to look or what code might be wrong would be greatly appreciated.
our site is www.xboxplayers.com

[squidsk]

How are you setting the background image? In other words what did you change and where to get the background image onto your site?

[UK CHI3F]

Hi squidsk

It is additional css in the additional css posted like below

{
background: url(images/f1bkg.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
        -webkit-background-size: cover; /*for webKit*/
        -moz-background-size: cover; /*Mozilla*/
        -o-background-size: cover; /*opera*/
        background-size: cover; /*generic*/
}

nabbed the code off another site , hoping its not the problem as we love our fixed background

[squidsk]

I'd guess that the awards page isn't loading that additional css for some reason. I'll look into it.