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

[Dave234]

So....if my web host makes a backup of my website every day, is that the same as my mysql database having a backup?

Is that all I need to be able to install this mod?

[Thunderbird8]

Having your own backup is a better idea, that way if something goes wrong, you don't need to bug your webhost.

[Mellow]

I'm a bit confused on one point.. is the automation only based on the criteria listed in that mod? I was hoping to allow members to request an award and have the system automatically give them that award without myself or the mods approving it.. just saves us time. Thanks,

[squidsk]

There is no mechanism to allow average users to be able to give themselves an award, and I doubt I'll add it as that can be way too easily abused.

[killerford]

So is this mod now back up and running without any problems or sign of hackers or exploits on it?

[Thunderbird8]

It would not have been released from quarantine if there was still a known problem with it. The Exploit Guidelines specifically say that a fix is checked by staff to ensure it's actually fixed.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Hello Squidsk,

I got the following notification:

The templates shown on this page have been updated in the default template set since you customized them.

It may be necessary for you to revert the custom templates, or otherwise check that they fully support vBulletin 4.1.10. If you do not do this, some sections of vBulletin may not function! Please see the release announcements at the vBulletin.com Forums for more information.

And it looks like this:


What should I do buddy?

[gbicar]

I get this error during installation, but because there are two. xml file? which is the right one?
What should I do?

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Hello Squidsk,

I got the following notification:

The templates shown on this page have been updated in the default template set since you customized them.

It may be necessary for you to revert the custom templates, or otherwise check that they fully support vBulletin 4.1.10. If you do not do this, some sections of vBulletin may not function! Please see the release announcements at the vBulletin.com Forums for more information.

And it looks like this:


What should I do buddy?

I've never had that crop up in my testing and I always test by both upgrading from the last version (4.0.3) and as a clean install. I'd say that you customized the templates, except that the changes were made by me or the system. I'd almost say that there is/was a bug in the plugin system in 4.1.10. Revert the templates to default is what I'd suggest, but only after taking a backup of the awards tables just in case something goes fubar.

Originally Posted by gbicar

I get this error during installation, but because there are two. xml file? which is the right one?
What should I do?

You should only use the xml file that isn't labelled new. The one labelled old shouldn't even be in the zip (a mistake on my part) and can be safely deleted. If you still get the error using only one of the xml files, then its likely a problem/conflict being caused by another plugin you have installed.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Ok squidsk, I will do just that, it's weird though because I never touched those templates...I don't use the CAG Style templates only the Blackstealth, so I can just dismiss the warning for those 2 correct?