Miscellaneous Hacks - Yet Another Awards System

A lot of you have been waiting for this forever to work 100% with 3.7 due to the new profile tabs...Well wait no longer, here is the new revises version of HacNho's YAAS (Yet Another Awards System).

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Medals/Awards system. Admin can give members awards, and award icons will be displayed in member's profile, posts, as well as in a award list.

FEATURES:
In AdminCP
- Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
- Can Create/Edit/Delete awards in ACP (with Award Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
- Can Move one (or all) award(s) from one category to another
- Can set some awards un-classified (not displayed for public)
- Can re-order awards in awards showcase
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

In ModCP
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

Front page
- Display awards list in with: Award Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each award.
- Display awards showcase in profile, with Award information, Issue time and reason
- Display award icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)

CHANGES/MODIFICATION:
- Tables to add: 3 (award, award_user, award_cat)
- Files to add: 4 (/awards.php, /award_request.php, /admincp/award.php, /admincp/award_cat.php)


DIFFICULTY:
Easy
Time: about 5 minutes
Installer is included (1 product XML)

CREDIT:
Idea has been carried on by many people, here are some:
- Lesane for original Award hack for vB2, eventhough I've never use his hack
- AnimeWebby for Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3], which I write new code based on his.
- Mac ycl6 for phpBB Medal System for phpBB forum
- Dr Erwin Loh for FORM TO THREAD/ FORUM/ PM/ EMAIL hack
- Cypher for helping with the tabs in 3.7
- liwo for re-writing plugins
- and all others for supports and ideas

And most of all to HacNho

This MOD is 100% Supported.

Authors of YaAS 3.7:
Xanlamin
CypherSTL

Current Release: v3.7.4

[Infante]

Is there a way to remove the border from the medal box in the postbit?

[Chris11987]

Is there any plans to give awards to members automatically? Like say, an award for reaching X amount of posts, without having to have an admin/mod do it manually.

[Xanlamin]

Originally Posted by Chris11987

Is there any plans to give awards to members automatically? Like say, an award for reaching X amount of posts, without having to have an admin/mod do it manually.

This would not be anytime soon.

[gamerfu]

Originally Posted by Xanlamin

Thanks kurv;

Where would you like the link placed? cause right now when you click on an award it should take you to there profile (soon to the awards tab itself), we may be able to figure a way to have it choose able to which it would take you to.

to gorentals: this would be possible yes as an option.

As to an update...we where not able to work on this as much as we would have liked to this past week...I really hate emergancies, expect some major updates coming the weekend of the 27th.

August 27th... waiting patiently.

[CypherSTL]

Currently the following is completed:
* Product installable only on vBulletin 3.7.0 or greater
* Fixed typos in phrases
* Removed unused phrases
* Added additional placement options for Awards Showcase in postbit
* Awards link to 'My Awards' tab in users profile

I have a few more bugs to work out before I update the product on here. Additional bug fixes and features will follow.

After I finish working out some issues that I'm running into I will try my best to implement the following:
* Points values on awards
* Awards issued based on postcount -- cron based?
* Add option to remove Award Request Forum threads - leaving it 0 breaks the request option.

Any ideas on how to implement the automation of issuing awards on postcounts would be appreciated.

[stickskills]

Points values on awards? Yes! I've really been hoping that we'd see that for quite some time, thank you!

[Day Dreamer]

When I set my options to display the tab on the left it works, but I want it to display last. But when I set it to right it doesn't go into a tab it displays underneath the tabbed section which I really don't want at all. How can I get it to display as the last tab?

[CypherSTL]

Originally Posted by Day Dreamer

When I set my options to display the tab on the left it works, but I want it to display last. But when I set it to right it doesn't go into a tab it displays underneath the tabbed section which I really don't want at all. How can I get it to display as the last tab?

As far as I can tell that has been fixed in the version that I will be releasing this evening.

[CypherSTL]

The bug with some boards having a Forum ID of "0" for the Award Request Forum ID, I do believe I have figured out why.

You have to have either one of the following filled out for users to request awards

• Award Request Forum ID
• Award Request Thread ID
• Award Request PM Address
• Award Request Email Address

If all of those are left blank, the end-users will not be able to request awards as the script will error out. Possibly I could rework the request system; but for now this is the current way the original author coded it.

[Chris11987]

* Points values on awards
* Awards issued based on postcount

Those 2, I'll be looking forward to. Once you make awards based on post count, is it that much harder to make it for a specific forum(s) only?