[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.

[tomcromp]

Is there anyone willing to install this hack for us. It screwed up the forum last time.

[red_baron2000]

great hack ..i've installed wothout any problem all works fine..however i am missing the medals icons anyone know where i can get some? thak you

[SHARKY]

would be nice if there was an install text instead of the edits within the install so when ya add nnew templates to your site you can just edit them rather than have the edits in the install itself

[SirJonathan]

hey guys! Got what I think is a simple bug to work out..

When viewing a member profile, I get:

Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in (address)/community/member.php on line 512

Line 512:

if (!in_array($userinfo['userid'], $buddylist))

This is code directly AFTER the awards hack. I've put the original up, works fine. Added the hacks in and it no longer works. Tested it a couple times to make sure I Wasn't messing up .

Any thoughts?

[TLSNetwork]

i have installed this and for the most part it is working well , The only problem i get is it is not showing up in the posts , It shows up ok in the users profile and everything looks good there , But for some reason and no matter how hard i try i cannot get it to show up in ther posts I am not getting any sql errors anywhere so all thats ok as far as i know.
Any ideas anybody this is on a 3.0.3 board.

edit : Never mind i sort out the problem

[RetroDreams]

How do I edit this so if there are no awards, it will display "No Awards?"

[GlitterKill]

I just updated to 3.0.4 which seems to break this hack. I went back to fix the hack by going through the install procedure again and when I did the functions.php hack (the file has changed in 3.0.4) I get this error on the site:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/virtual/site2/fst/var/www/html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 941

I took out that functions.php hack and the board runs again but without the awards showing at all. Any ideas?

[dssart]

I re-uploaded all the files from the zip and selected "uninstall" from the installation screen. Afterwards the forum was inoperable, however I then performed the VBulletin upgrade as normal and after the upgrade the forum was perfectly fine.

I'm leary about re-installing this..has anyone done the upgrade and re-installed? does it work O.K. under 3.0.5?

[GlitterKill]

No, the hack will break vb 3.0.4 from my experience. Is that the version you are running? How did you install the functions.php hack when the file in 3.0.4 is different than the instructiosn for the hack? Where did you place the hack code?

[dssart]

I read your message that you were having problems with this hack under 3.0.4 so I figured I'd better try uninstalling it before I updated from 3.0.3. I updated to 3.0.5 this evening. I didn't want to try and save this hack through the upgrade. It's more of a headache to save it than it would be to simply spend the hour or so to hand install it again.

In order to get a thorough uninstall, I uploaded all the files from the .zip file, and then ran the install script and from there the uninstall option. The uninstall ran seemingly well until it was done. When I then tried accessing my forum I received a MySQL error message. Same when trying to access the admin CP. If I hadn't been upgrading ( which must've replaced the corrupted file ) I would be screwed.

I'm not going to re-install this hack and risk crippling my forum until I hear someone has it up and working under 3.0.5