vB Stars Hack

What Does This Hack Do?: It adds stars to your postbit based on the number of posts you have. You earn a star by Y number of posts (you can set Y in the admin control panel).
For every 10 stars (that's 10 x Y posts) you get a other color star, for 10 other color stars you get another color star, etc, you see the point (i hope, or see screenshot ).
THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS THE OTHER STAR HACKS THAT ARE ALREADY AVAILABLE

Screenshots:
-Postbit
-Admin CP Options

Installation: Very easy
upload the images in the zip to your imagesfolder/stars/
when you have vbhacker, you can install this hack very easily with the included vbhacker install file...
also in the zip is a text file for manual installation (if you prefer that )
after you installed the hack, please set the options in the admin cp -> vb options -> vb star hack options or else this hack won't work!

Additional Info: This hack has been tested on 2.2.9 and on 2.3.0, but as the code is very simple and works almost fully on it's own, it should work 100% correct on 2.2.x (and lower even?) but i'm not here to test that

Update Info:
-[high]24 march 2003[/high] - new version! (v1.1) new features: more options see screenshots
currently there is no way of upgrading. You'll have to re-install the hack for now...
added a nice vbhacker install file for easy installation, also in the zip is a text file if you want to do it manual
-[high]23 march 2003[/high] - bug fixed. No idea where it came from! 0_o

[SharronH]

Hi, which file is the "postbit" template? TIA

[TLfuRy]

Look under 'templates' in the admin cp (very bottom of the left menu).

[FlyingDutchman]

03-31-03 at 05:04 PM TLfuRy said this in Post #20
I like this hack, but I would like to change it slightly so that it only displays one row of stars. Say, 1 star for every 100 posts. I've messed around a little bit trying to do this, but haven't been able to get it to work properly. Any ideas? I'm not concerned with multiple color stars or anything.

Thanks.

with the hack installed, in the postbit template, find:

<smallfont>$post[usertitle]$stars[phatimage]$stars[greenimage]$stars[pinkimage]$stars[yellowimage]</smallfont><br><br>

REPLACE with:

<smallfont>$post[usertitle]$stars[greenimage]</smallfont><br><br>

now, in the vb options, set the 'Stars Hack Number' to 1...
enjoy (you can change the image, right one is: '3rd Star Image
')
(ok, this will still use all the code (some is useless now ) but i have no time at this moment, so this quick (and 100% working) fix will do i guess )

[TLfuRy]

Thanks for the reply. I tried what you said, but now the number of stars doens't really seem to have much relevance to their post count. I have users with 1 star that have over 4000 posts...and users with 1200 posts and 6 stars.

Did I do something wrong?

[JeffyJoe]

Great hack...

was messin around with the other ones - never could get them going right...
this one installed very easily using vbhacker
(I had to manually edit the postbit - due to different codes from my forum skin)
(yes I'm a newbie to this, but learning fast)
because of this (i think),,, I had to run the query's again as the vbstars options, didn't show up in my vb options...

now for a newbie question:

when I did this the vb stars options showed double.
how do I get rid of double options?

(i'm guessing it is just a matter of running another query, but I don't know what it should be)

here's a pic of my problem:

[FlyingDutchman]

edit admin/config.php and set $debug to 1

now you can edit the options in the admin cp (3 new links will show up)
i think you'll find your way around with this
if you don't, just tell me

(and don't forget to set $debug to 0 or anything again afterwards!!!!!)

[JeffyJoe]

any Ideas?

[DeadBeat]

OK I think I have everything installed correctly but in admin control panel I see the VB Stars Hack title but there are no options under it and i have it set to debug 1 ......

Any ideas?

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

[x]installed

Nice nice Dutchman.. but why does it always say "The star image for the 1st star range, you earn..." in all ranges?

I translated your queries into german and attached the file here. Feel free to use it for the other german speakers who wants to install your great hack.

[bilco105]

Hi, I just installed your mod. It shows up fine in the admin console. Yet when I look at someones post it isn't there

I followed the instructions to a "t"

Any ideas why it doesn't work