Checking Hack Interest

Anyone interested in me creating a hack that will allow your users to enter a Custom Title for themselves? I will make it so that you can set a # of posts a user must have before being able to use it. I will also make an option for you to limit the length of the title. The title will then appear on their posts below their username, or below their avatar (or wherever you want in postbit). This would be in addition to the title that they are given automatically through the control panel based on their post count.

I have this list of 100 little hacks I want to make but I can never get around to doing it.

huh, i thought rangersfan's avatar hack already allows that option ? i haven't enabled it yet... my members are asking i enable it

Originally posted by eva2000
huh, i thought rangersfan's avatar hack already allows that option ? i haven't enabled it yet... my members are asking i enable it

It does, thats why I am confused as to what Me2Be is asking for...

Ah, I guess I'm so used to the avatar for UBB that didn't allow it, I just ASSUMED this one didn't either! (I know, I know - you know what happens when you assume.... )

But I would still love this custom title!

is this done yet?????

Originally posted by Martin
is this done yet?????

You are referring to the Custom Title Hack, right?

No Martin I will get to work on it. I got consumed in trying to figure out to make PHP save images in my web directory for an upgrade to my avatar hack - file permission problems, and all that (see my post in the PHP coding forum)

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-03-2000 at 02:10 PM]

This would be a great hack, but I have a suggestion
I would like to enter things that can't be used, so that my users for example can't use the same title that I use and appear to be an admin

But you were going to have that in anyway weren't you? I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot

Originally posted by thetakerfan
I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot

And we still like ya anyway

Originally posted by thetakerfan
This would be a great hack, but I have a suggestion
I would like to enter things that can't be used, so that my users for example can't use the same title that I use and appear to be an admin

But you were going to have that in anyway weren't you? I'm just wasting everyones time...I do that alot

Actually that hadn't occurred to me. The user text will not be in place of the field that says "Administrator" but I guess someone could be fooled by a cursory glance.

There doesn't really seem to be a nice way to determine who is a moderator and who isn't.

Admin is usergroupid 6
Super Mod is usergroupid 5

Moderators are usergroupid 7 and up but also any usergroups that one creates to restrict access could also be 7 and up. You can't count on the moderators user title to actually contain "moderator" but I suppose you could do a select on usergroup and see if the user's usergroup title contains the "!Auto Generated Moderator Please Leave!" string. Any suggestions?

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-03-2000 at 04:43 PM]

Perhaps you can add a field where if someone abuses this feature, you can turn off their ability to change this in their member profile? That way you can decide what is unacceptable for your forum.

[Edited by Me2Be on 08-03-2000 at 04:47 PM]