Finished the Multiple Ranks Hack

check it out on my board @
STGN
go into the UserCP -> edit profile, and select a rankset from the dropdown menu..
im just finishing off the control panel section to allow you to add rank schemes through there instead of using phpmyadmin like im doing at the moment, should all be done by tomorrow at which time ill attatch the hack.

i made this for ikonboard months ago and we were the only one to have it, i thought "ill not share this i want us to be origional" but after receiving so much help from here i want to give something back for it

basically it allows your users to pick a scheme for the rank pips, i.e. they pick trees and it gives them tree pips, they pick snowmen it gives them snowmen pips

[Shakron]

Well, it seems you won't give it to us even if you promised to do so

... but it would be just fair if you could as at least tell us why ... because if you don't do that we all will come here every day to see if you posted it ... and will get disappointed every day

[Goldfinger]

i'd like to get my hands on this hack .

oh sorry guys i totally forgot, heres the multi rank control panel (im sure someone could improve on this, it was just... thrown together as quickly as possible) ill post the hack in a few hours, just need to extract the changes from the code. while you wait, youll be able to see how the hack works from the admin script though.
NOTE: you will also need to add the hack for the selection box in the users profile to get this to work, otherwise users will get a box where theyll have to type the rank name in manually (guess) which isn't great, ill bundle that hack in the same zip

[Shakron]

Thanks ... I really thought you wouldn't give it to us anymore

... as soon as we have it on our board we will show you our brand new SWG-board

[Ruth]

Thanks Lob

[Bitmap]

yea ... thanks lob ... it looks pretty cool in the admincenter but i'm still waiting for the rest of the hack
hope your not forgetting to attach it like last time

[Shakron]

I don't want to get on your nerves but .. could we please get the other part of the hack?

I mean .. I don't understand you ... you offered that hack and now you are not posting it and you are ignoring me when I try to contact you .. what have I done wrong?

... and if you are mad about me (don't know why) ... then please give it at least to the other people or tell us, that you won't give it to us.

LoB, could you please post the second part of the code, im dying to get that stuff

thanks,
Ichabod Crane

[Shakron]

Originally posted by rcooper
Man is thisn what i am thinking. Like picking what stars go to what group you select? I run a hunting , fishing and acamping board I would like to have the stars go with the person say they are hunting -> deer fishing ->fish etc etc.

Is that what this hack does?

R.cooper

Hmm .. I am not sure if I understood it right, but it's like this:

UserA opens his user-center and there he is able to choose what ranking-path he wants. So if we take as an example a Star Wars board this would mean, that he is able to choose between the following paths:
- Jedi
- Dark-Jedi
- Rebell
- Imperial
- Crime

Now, let's say he chooses the Imperial-path. This means he will get ranks like Leutnant, General, Grand-Admiral ...

Someone else chose Jedi and so his rank-path will be like Jedi-Padwan- Jedi - Jedi-Master ...

.. ok? Well .. that's it and believe me: It's pretty cool

.. so I am still hoping that we get the second part ...

here it is sorry for the long wait, i do things then wait so long to document them i forget how they work lol.

BEFORE INSTALLING:
you will need the hack which allows for the use of combo (dropdown) boxes in the user profile fields
when it's done, you'll need a custom user profile field called "Rankset" using the dropdown combobox (otherwise people will have to type in rankset names by hand instead of selecting from a list)

run the install script (attatched to this post)
and modify the code (below)
then use the ranks admincenter to add ranks.


look for this code in admin/functions.php

on a sidenote, you'll see [field8] below, in userfields find out which is your last unused custom user field and use that (change the number in this script) or simply add a new column in phpmyadmin, the custom user field (8) stores the rank info for that user

PHP Code:

        if ($avatarurl=="" or ($bbuserinfo[userid]>0 and !($bbuserinfo[showavatars]))) {
            $post[avatar]="";
        } else {
            eval("\$post[avatar] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_avatar")."\";");
        }
        if ($post[customtitle]==2) {
            $post[usertitle] = htmlspecialchars($post[usertitle]);
        } 


right after it put this:

PHP Code:

//START MULTI RACE HACK

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM userfield WHERE userid='$post[userid]'");
$userinfo = mysql_fetch_array($res);
mysql_free_result($res);

//go through all of the ranks, seeing which postcount fits which pip

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM rankcategories WHERE cat_name='$userinfo[field8]'");
$rankinfo = mysql_fetch_array($res);
mysql_free_result($res);

if(!isset($rankinfo[cat_id]) || strlen($rankinfo[cat_id])<1)
{
$rankinfo[cat_id]=1;
}

$rankposts = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM ranks WHERE rank_catid='$rankinfo[cat_id]'");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rankposts))
   {

if($post[posts]>=$row[rank_posts])
{

$temppostcount = $row[rank_posts];

}


   }

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ranks WHERE rank_catid='$rankinfo[cat_id]' AND rank_posts='$temppostcount'");
$rank = mysql_fetch_array($res);
mysql_free_result($res);

$rankpip = "<img src=$rank[rank_graphic]>";

$post[usertitle]="$post[usertitle]<br>$rankpip"; 

//END MULTI RANK HACK