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]

You would have to custom code something like that as this product will not support it as is. I'm not sure, but I think that would require an extensive re-write of the code.

How many times can a player get the same cap?

Also, have you tried just limiting the number of medals shown on the post bit and letting the rest of them display only in the user's profile tab? That way you could control how many show on the postbit and still have the total count reflect the greater number (also in the postbit as you have it now).

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by Mobo

You would have to custom code something like that as this product will not support it as is. I'm not sure, but I think that would require an extensive re-write of the code.

How many times can a player get the same cap?

Also, have you tried just limiting the number of medals shown on the post bit and letting the rest of them display only in the user's profile tab? That way you could control how many show on the postbit and still have the total count reflect the greater number (also in the postbit as you have it now).

I think an if condition could just be added to the ranks_postbit_display just not sure how I should do it, I tried a couple of variations and ruined the display.

I also did limit the awards that how however I have an extensive list of awards if you have a look: http://www.fpcforums.com/forums/ranks.php

The problem is if I limit it to one medal then that is not great as members want to see there award, but if I limit it to two then some users only have caps and that would display twice so that is also an issue. I need to do something though as I have currently 18 countries listed that will play with players needing caps, at 11 players each time currently thats 198 members not issued with awards because of this current problem I have. And since some have played 4/5 games you can imagine how many awards are to be issued.

[Mobo]

Besides doing the custom coding, I think you may be stuck with just displaying the top X rated medals on the post bit and letting rest stay on the profile tab.

Another thought that might work for you and be easier to code. Have you thought about using YARS to show your highest ranked medals in the postbit, and then use a modified YAAS to display your Cap medals in the signature area? The Sig area has more room, so could display more Cap medals. I think you might be able to modify that with the hook location (but I've not checked it out, just thinking out loud really).

[Mobo]

I just took a quick look, and you can put them in the Sig area with a setting in YAAS, so no code modification needed for that.

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by Mobo

I just took a quick look, and you can put them in the Sig area with a setting in YAAS, so no code modification needed for that.

I don't want hundreds of medals in my sig area either, I want to be able to issue the same medal as many times as I like but it only shows once.

[Mobo]

Sounds like you are set on modifying this code or writing your own then. If you don't have the coding skills, check out vWorker.com. I've hired coders off of there several times with good results.

I've actually worked with this one coder on several vB4 projects and have always been happy with this work:

       CodeIsLife Toan T. Tran
       W3TDS - World Wide Web Transfer Data Services
    
       Email: toan.trantuan@gmail.com

Good luck.

[WoODoO]

Separating the ranks by category within the postbit, is it possible?

How to this?
Exemple image:

[Mobo]

I'm not sure if you can do that with just this Mod, but I think if you used both YARS and YAAS, they would be separated by default... again, I think. You would use one of the Mods to handel your Badges and the other to handle the Medals.

[WoODoO]

Originally Posted by Mobo

I'm not sure if you can do that with just this Mod, but I think if you used both YARS and YAAS, they would be separated by default... again, I think. You would use one of the Mods to handel your Badges and the other to handle the Medals.

where I find the YAAS?

[Mobo]

Here you go, YAAS.