Major Additions - Yet Another Ranks System

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

I've had quite a few PM's in regards to this and seeing as how once upon a time I administered a gaming tournament forum it came in handy... we had virtual armies in battlefield games with Generals, LtCol's, Captains, squads of 6 and enjoyed a rank structure along with our awards so we converted the Awards mod into a Ranks mod, many also had a need for it and now we have it for 4.x. This is a complete re-write of the 4.x Yet Another Awards System by CypherSTL and Xanlamin ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 ) with updates including one fix by another community member for the profile tabs (noted in Changelog.txt). I hope everyone enjoys it who finds a use for it .

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

FEATURES:
In AdminCP

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

In ModCP

• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

Front page & other

• Display ranks list in with: Rank Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each rank.
• Display ranks showcase in profile, with Rank information, Issue time and reason
• Display rank icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)
• Separate Rank Request/Recommendation Forms
• CSS Customizable
• Points System *Requires MySQL 5.0+

Attention:

If you do not properly setup this modification you will see errors such as:

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I am getting this error when i recommend or issue rank request?

how to fix it ?

Basically here's the short on this:

• Edit your usergroups, for each usergroup set whether they can request and recommend ranks.
• Setup the mod options in AdminCP > Ranks System > Rank System Settings.
• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Bingo . You can create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members .
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute.
• Try disabling the Points System, do you still have a issue?

Other issues:

• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  - The core of the ranks sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System you must be running at least MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ranks_rankusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments = OFF
• Styling issues? - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....58&postcount=2
• If you have any other issues, post them however I need to know if this was the 2nd, 3rd or 4th request, what was done before the error and if issuing to another user worked afterwords! Thanks!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by j0k4w1ld

where is that?

You can edit the .xml however if your not experienced doing so it will be better to install, now go to the admincp and search in the phrases i.e.

AdminCP > Languages and Phrases > Phrase Manager

Now search for award or in the top right change the # to show from 15 to 1500 and now you can scroll all the phrases on one page, scroll down until you find those titled award this or that and have at it! .

[Asterix_ita]

Excuse me,

I would like to remove a rank assigned to the user xxx, how can I do?

I don't find "Remove ranks from members"

Thanks

Regards

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Asterix_ita

Excuse me,

I would like to remove a rank assigned to the user xxx, how can I do?

I don't find "Remove ranks from members"


Thanks

Regards

AdminCP > Rank System > Ranks Manager > Now beside the rank in question under "controls" on the right, click the underlined "[Give rank to user]" link > Now when the new page loads in admincp you can view a list of who has been assigned that particular rank at the bottom of the page, find the user and under "Controls" on the right click "Remove" then verify that you do want to remove and done .

[Asterix_ita]

Thank you so much, I had missed.
Sorry but it isn't possible create a page for this action?

thank

regards

[odie3]

Hi my ranks are not showing up in the profile tab (like my awards are). Also, there is a extra tab floating around but I think that is from your awards MOD... guess I need to ask over that about that bit.

[odie3]

also, when I got my PM the

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by odie3

Hi my ranks are not showing up in the profile tab (like my awards are). Also, there is a extra tab floating around but I think that is from your awards MOD... guess I need to ask over that about that bit.

Hmm... that could be the Awards mod itself, I fixed the floating tab when I converted it over to the Ranks mod along with sorting some other things etc etc. - Check out the Awards mod thread for a fix, it's there .

Originally Posted by odie3

also, when I got my PM the [img] tag was missing my web address - it only had [img]images/medals/gd/ranks/usmc-o8.gif[/img]

Not sure why that is, have you tried entering in the full url for the image location?

[odie3]

Hi TheLastSuperman,

I'll check the other thread for the "Floating Tab" issue. Not sure if that will correct my ranks not showing up on my Profile but here is additional information: I just gave a rank to a user that I have not assigned any awards to. His profile does not have a floating tab but his rank is showing under the "Rank" tab. Where as mine has a floating tap, my "Awards" are showing but not my "Rank". All related to "floating" tab fix you think? Just thought I pass this along just in case!

Yes, my paths are good, if I add http://ghostdogs.net to the path all is good.


From PM (other than added * to break the img tag here)

Major General
[*img]images/medals/gd/ranks/usmc-o8.gif[*/img]

I added a * to the start/end of the tag - could it because it is missing the starting "/" (Slash)?


*Edit Summary:
Ok, I did the profile updates from the Awards MOD Page.
1. Floating Tab corrected in Profile
2. Missing ranks in Profile corrected

New Issue:
Now I have two tabs for "Awards" and for "Ranks"!

Old issue:
PM does not show rank graphic

[TheLastSuperman]

Sounds like something has become mucked up while you've been trying your best to sort the issues initially encountered.... if you just now installed either mod, it might be best to completely uninstall - afterwords you need to install one at a time, testing each this way you sort any issues in the first one installed before installing the second mod and you can then differentiate between the errors from both .

Edit: Also no, with BB Codes it starts as [EXAMPLE] and the contents in between i.e.

[EXAMPLE]Code that interacts w/ BB Code to render properly here[/EXAMPLE] so it only needs a ending tag i.e. the / to tell it "Hey we started reading this code now stop reading and show the output on screen" more or less.

[odie3]

Hmm, not sure then. I'll send myself another rank to see what happens.

Oh, after doing the full bits to sort out the "floating tab" in YAAS I still have two tabs for YARS -so I think that fix from that MOD is effecting this one in some way. Because now I am getting my ranks now but getting two tabs (once again only on this MOD not in Awards).


EDIT:
perhaps I misunderstood how that was supposed to work. that's clickable link, when I click it takes me to my rank, which is this: http://ghostdogs.net/ranks.php?do=viewrank&rank_id=38