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!

[Bluefin221]

Is there a way to centre the ranks as the display out of line unless they are all done by same graphic person, which is not possible at times. Would appreciate any help, searched the thread but cannot find anything related.

[MarceloS]

Looks like a good alternative to YAAS.

(1) Does this one have automated ranks? Like "when user gets to 100 posts, give rank x"

(2) Is it possible to choose a custom position to display the ranks on postbit?

Thanks.

[KGodel]

Just wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to hide some categories from being displayed on the page that lists all of the "ranks". Thanks!

[Arashdn]

Hi,
Will this mod work on VB 4.2 ?

[Arashdn]

Originally Posted by Arashdn

Hi,
Will this mod work on VB 4.2 ?

Yes , It works well ....

[Mobo]

I've gotten great use out of the YAAS mod and the YARS mod has been very helpful as well. As such, I'd like to share the 320+ medals I've had my artist design for me with the community. A lot of them are "medal sets", meaning a medal has multiple level or ranks. I use this level system extensively on my site, so there are a lot of those.

I've included the base image of each medal and its icon. They are both PNG images with transparent backgrounds.

A sample:



Please only use these only on your vBulliten sites. The zip file for these is to large to attach here, so you can download it here.

Hope this helps some of you out.

[Mobo]

I've just installed this on my friends 4.2.0 site and for some reason the Rank System Settings page will not display anything. Here is a screen shot of what we see. Has anyone ever seen this before?

[hoplomachus]

I've installed but there is 2 errors first when i choose Diagnostic i get the following back ...

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /admincp/rank_diagnostics.php on line 29

second error is when i goto this section ... Submission: From Userid for Congratulation PM and/or Email

in there i click where it says Click Here to edit PM content the link leads to ... /admincp/phrase.php?do=edit&e[3000][rank_pm]

But phrase.php doesnt exsist in admincp and returns the following ...

No Phrases Matched Your Query

Hope someone can help im on 4.2.0

Thanks
Hops

[zascok]

Hi everyone, I'm about to give it a go. Just a question: How intensive the hack can go with a server? How many queries are there lets say if I have 10 users with a rank posted on the same page.

[hoplomachus]

ok an update line 29 is ... $bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());