[HTL] & [TXT] Awards/Medals/Cards Hack [vB3]

Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3]
By: AnimeWebby
Idea by: Lesane
Updated: 28nd May 2004 - Installer not table prefix friendly.

What this hack does:
This hack allows you to add awards, medals or cards to your vbulletin and assign these to members who you think deserve them.
These graphics will then show up in their member profile and/or their postbits depending on where you choose to add this hack.

New in v2
- Extra page showing all awards available as well as all the users who have earned an award.
- Support for full urls and relative ones for award icons.
- Support for awards on showpost and announcement

Other Stuff:
Although I give credit to Lesane for the idea this hack is totally recoded to be less server intensive and also uses a whole lot less queries. Therefor I do not consider this a 'port'.

Installation:
Download the appropriate .Zip file and follow the instructions in the readme file.

Upgrading:
So far there are no ways to upgrade this hack, if you have an old copy installed then you need to uninstall and reinstall from scratch.

Coming Soon:
- Awards added to the search and memberlists.
- Added functions to the addition of awards as well as cron functions to assign awards automatically to those members with 'X' posts, registered 'X' days etc...
- Option to show award name rather than graphic.
- Option to turn awards OFF & ON in postbit and memberinfo
- Request award on awards page (at Cyricx' request)
(not necessarily in that order)

Make sure you backup your files and database first! This hack has been tested on vB RC1 and RC4 only!

Please click the install button

If you experience any errors, problems or the hack doesn't seem to be functioning correctly then send me a pm with the following info:
- HTL or Standalone installer.
- Version of vB you are running.
- File where error is encountered.
- Exact error or description of error.

Views so far:
[NORMAL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.7 KB, 69 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.8 KB, 57 views)
[TXT]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (8.5 KB, 278 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (10.2 KB, 203 views)

If you installed this hack before 23rd May and are getting foreach errors in your showthread then follow the step below:

In /includes/functions_showthread.php find:

PHP Code:

    // sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template 


below that add:

PHP Code:

    // user awards
    global $userawards; 


If in your showthread.php member post counts show N/A, they have no profile link or their user title is guest you MUST run 'Fix broken user profiles' in the update counters part of the admincp. This is found under the nav bar 'Import & Maintenance' > 'Update Counters' > 'Fix broken user profiles'. This will add the awards for all the users currently in your database and prevent showing incorrent member info.

[InfiniteWebby]

Sorry after reading your erros properly i realised it was a problem on my behalf, the installer wasnt freindly for forums that didnt use the vb3_ prefix, its fixed now so you can go download and install again.

[Mystictrunks03]

cool thanks webby and one other thing wud the arcade champion thing be in the awards box too like ur forum or u gotta customize that?

edit: holdup i still get the same thing

[tHe Rk]

I just wanted to drop a line to Anime for being a big help with support and very quick bug fixes for this hack! There a lot of hacks around here that would be great but don't get support and therefore don't always work properly like they should. I just wanted to say a lot of us appreciate the kind of support you showed in this thread. Also have to give you props on the longest damn hack ever made! Just kidding, it is damn long though But worth it, IMO. Thanks again, and look forward to future hacks from you!

[InfiniteWebby]

Thanks Rk and sorry it did take so long to sort everything out, but unlike alot of hackers on vB.org this is second to actual web design and programming therefore alot of my time is spent on my own projects. However this hack is not finished yet, I'm sure I will think of many more ways to make it better as well as finish my to-do list already planned.

@Mystic: I told you what was wrong, contact me on aim if you are still having problems.

[Mystictrunks03]

still the same problems and i never get to catch u on aim webby maybe u shud test run it b4 u release a fixed one for non prefix users, sorry if this is giving u a hard time webby

[Intex]

Great hack AnimeWebby - installed with no problems on 3.0.1.

Just one thing though - on the awards page, there is a 'Request Award' on the options column. Is this supposed to be a link? Mine just has the text there.

[InfiniteWebby]

Intex, no it is not a current feature but expect it to be implemented soon.

@ MysticTrunks: I did test it after I fixed the prefix thing and I can guarentee the installer works (at least for me) with both prefixes and no prefix options.

[cuerty]

Simple doubt.

Why are all my users into the userawards table, even those without a award?

[InfiniteWebby]

cuerty, are you talking about the database useraward table or the awards.php user's award table? if it is the database one then they need to be there otherwise when a users profile is taken from the database it is incomplete and it would result in the n/a post counts, guest user title's etc...

[cuerty]

Thanks, I was talking about database. If for migrate the old awards of my vb2 forum