Mark User As Contributor

Quite simply, if you have a donation system on your forums, you may wish to have a way of having donating members stand out from the freeloaders

This hack will place text/icon/whatever you choose both within their profile and on their posts, in a spot of your choosing.

Administrators set whether a user is a contributor within the Admin control panel.

Please remember to backup your database first!!

This is a very simple hack including just a couple of file and template edits, and two new templates. The new templates and database changes are made by the included install file.

See this thread for screenshots

If there are any problems, please post below...

Mark

[GeorgeofCS]

Oh if someone could come up with some good icons for the different levels that would help cause I'll use this change on my site as well and some nice looking icons would definitely help I suck at graphics

[bbaddons]

I will attempt some, could you give some examplesof what you need? Like money signs, stars, or something of the like. Let me know and I will try, I am not the best in the world but I would surely like to help out if I can.

BTW: Thanks for going at this hack, I am sure Van will be as glad to see it as I will.

[GeorgeofCS]

Stars would be cool. I'm doing mine as a 4 level system bronze, silver, gold and platinum, although the colors really don't matter we can always change them I'm also adding a default option for contributors for those that don't want to show what level they are. I'm almost done here

[bbaddons]

I used the original vBulletin stars for this but I hope this will work. You will have to cut them up (I did not want to make 4 posts just for stars ).

(they are transparent)

From what you are saying this is going to be a pretty nice hack!

[GeorgeofCS]

Ok the good news is I do have a fully operational donation system ready to roll.

The bad news is you gotta wait until possibly tomorrow morning for me to make instructions on how to install this. Cause I still don't know

[bbaddons]

Send it away, I can find a way to install it

Really though, that is fine, I can wait. Gives me something to do tomorrow .

[Jakeman]

how do i uninstall the database mods that this hack installs? i want to uninstall it. the file and template mods are easy, but i don't know how to undo the db mods.

[bbaddons]

I would guess just delete what it installed (remove the tables it installed, or sections of the tables, ect).

Of course, please do not quote me on that because I do not want you to delete something that may mess up your DB. I have deleted things of that nature before like that (in phpMyAdmin) and nothing happened, but something could go wrong.

[Jakeman]

i've got phpmyadmin but i can't figure it out.

i figured out how to mark contributing members using just templates and custom user info fields so i'm gonna do that instead. ideally i want to remove the database mods though.

[Hooper]

Hi Mark,

Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this. Any chance that maybe there could be 3 levels of contributions? Possibly silver, bronze, and gold levels?

Very nice. You did a wonderful job on this.

Thanks Mark.