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

heres the attatched multirace rank hack installed..
get rid of the default set if you like, they were just for my board.

don't all thank me at once

[Bitmap]

well ... thank you
it's great you postet it ... hope i can get it to work.

[Martyjp]

You are a star thank you

[Dunny]

anyone got a demo of it in action?

[Shakron]

Well, I acctually said "thank you" yesterday per ICQ but here .. just for you ... Thank You!

... now we just need to get it working .. and that's the problem ... *sigh* ...

Originally posted by Dunny
anyone got a demo of it in action?

check my first post or go here: http://stgn.ugforums.com/vb/

[Martyjp]

Hope you dont mind, I have made a slight change to the code

in the changes to functions.php

change

PHP Code:

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

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

//END MULTI RANK HACK 


to

PHP Code:

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

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

//END MULTI RANK HACK 


Now go into the vb control panel and remove all user titles, and then you need to edit any user groups that have their own titles, such as moderators and administrators, what you will need to do here is stick a <BR> on the end. like so



The original hack will only display the pips and will keep the user titles that vb uses as standard, the above makes a slight change so that it displays the rank name

It may be a sloppy way of doing it, I am not sure but it does the job, what I would rather have it do is display administrator titles instead of the rank, but I havent worked that bit out yet

Thanks again LoB

np, i was eventually going to get around to that, but well... im lazy

edit - you might wanna put a <br> after $post[usertitle] because administrator/senior member whatever, ends up on the same line

[Martyjp]

Reason why I did it the way I did

I have removed all user titles from my board, so for the majority of members $post[usertitle] will be blank, if you put a <BR> after it then there will be a blank line under the username, to get round this I have added <BR> after the titles in edit user groups. This would also have to be done on any custom user titles.

Since I dont allow people to change their titles on my board the way I did it worked best, but with boards that do you are correct in saying <BR> needs top be added

PHP Code:

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

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

//END MULTI RANK HACK