Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

*** CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR FORUM AND DATABASE BEFORE INSTALLING ***

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
+ Writes granting/removing awards to the log

In ModCP
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing award to the log

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)

New Features/Additions since 3.8
- Points System
- Separate Award Request/Recommendation Forms
- CSS Customizable

Current Release Version 4.0.9

• Added - Handling of user merges
• Added - Handling of user deletes
• Added - Manage awards on per user basis
• Added - Extra info to the logs for mass removal and editing of issued awards
• Added - Ability to collapse categories on awards.php
• Added - Checksum file for checking for suspect file versions
• Added - Various missing phrases
• Fixed - Memberlist not showing awards when option is active
• Fixed - Navtab not being selected (vb version < 4.2)
• Fixed - Category title not being displayed on awards.php
• Fixed - Logging not working in modcp
• Fixed - A few other minor bugs

[Parafal]

What should I do to upgrade to this last version? Just upload the xml file? Or all the file via FTP too?

[Blackhat]

What was the problem ? What do I need to update ?

[Juggernaut]

Updated, and it looks fine

[Xanlamin]

A complete description as to what the problem was will be posted here shortly and an updated release.

[CypherSTL]

You only have to reupload the award_request and award_recommend PHP files. If you upload the XML as well, it will update the version number.

The updated ChangeLog within the Zip file states the nature of the fix.

[Alien]

Hey nice job getting things back up...

I did notice that there still hasn't been a bug fix for the following minor issue as of yet:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=361

I hope that is still in the pipeline! Thanks again for your hard work on this project!

[Rene Kriest]

Phew, I am so glad that this fab mod is back. Good job!

[kersti]

I'm really not seeing how I would use this on my community - can others give me a brief run down on how you work it? What kind of awards do you give? How do you determine if someone is due an award? Why would I use this over vBActivity for example?

[Kaleem]

Originally Posted by kersti

I'm really not seeing how I would use this on my community - can others give me a brief run down on how you work it? What kind of awards do you give? How do you determine if someone is due an award? Why would I use this over vBActivity for example?

Create competitions lets say for Post of the Month, Thread of the Month etc etc..
You can do many other things like Poster of the Month or whtever really depend on your site.
And give out awards.

[pjdaley]

I use for simply pointing out good members who stand out or bad members who are on probation it doesn't HAVE to used for just awards.

ie: Users who need to be pointed out the community as trouble makers get a trouble maker award. If they don't behave the mods know they have already had their chance.