Miscellaneous Hacks - Yet Another Awards System

A lot of you have been waiting for this forever to work 100% with 3.7 due to the new profile tabs...Well wait no longer, here is the new revises version of HacNho's YAAS (Yet Another Awards System).

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

In ModCP
+ Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
+ Remove awards from members

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)

CHANGES/MODIFICATION:
- Tables to add: 3 (award, award_user, award_cat)
- Files to add: 4 (/awards.php, /award_request.php, /admincp/award.php, /admincp/award_cat.php)


DIFFICULTY:
Easy
Time: about 5 minutes
Installer is included (1 product XML)

CREDIT:
Idea has been carried on by many people, here are some:
- Lesane for original Award hack for vB2, eventhough I've never use his hack
- AnimeWebby for Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3], which I write new code based on his.
- Mac ycl6 for phpBB Medal System for phpBB forum
- Dr Erwin Loh for FORM TO THREAD/ FORUM/ PM/ EMAIL hack
- Cypher for helping with the tabs in 3.7
- liwo for re-writing plugins
- and all others for supports and ideas

And most of all to HacNho

This MOD is 100% Supported.

Authors of YaAS 3.7:
Xanlamin
CypherSTL

Current Release: v3.7.4

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

Problem with the 3.6 version is I had to uninstall it due to SQL memory leaks that almost killed my site.

Really? Hmm never had an issue.... I'll check into it in the ranks version as it is very similar to the old Awards system.

[kNeeLy]

i have had this installed forever now..does anyone know where to get sum new/fresh awards?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by kNeeLy

i have had this installed forever now..does anyone know where to get sum new/fresh awards?

For what? I have COD4 & BF2142 that are perfect but you said new and those are slightly outdated O.o

Google Icons or icon packs most come w/ png and use them or find a good little ribbon to use as a BG and then overlay the icon or graphic and save

[Xanlamin]

With 4.0 just around the corner we will no longer be supporting the 3.7 version so we can concentrate on 3.8 and 100% recode for 4.0. If you upgrade your forums to 3.8 or vB4 you can go over to those releases and have continued support.

[MarceloS]

Originally Posted by Xanlamin

With 4.0 just around the corner we will no longer be supporting the 3.7 version so we can concentrate on 3.8 and 100% recode for 4.0. If you upgrade your forums to 3.8 or vB4 you can go over to those releases and have continued support.

Excellent news man. I am glad to hear that you will be working on a 4.0 version.

By the way, do you think that most mods will not be compatible with 4.0?

[gnagplank6]

This mod sounds awesome.

I would very much like to install it, but does anyone know whether it will run with VB 3.8+???

Thanks!!

[kNeeLy]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

For what? I have COD4 & BF2142 that are perfect but you said new and those are slightly outdated O.o

Google Icons or icon packs most come w/ png and use them or find a good little ribbon to use as a BG and then overlay the icon or graphic and save

im terrible at photochopping tho... :-( Is there anywhere that you know that i can DL sum new awards? I run a car forum and need sum more/new ones.

[Xanlamin]

Originally Posted by MarceloS

Excellent news man. I am glad to hear that you will be working on a 4.0 version.

By the way, do you think that most mods will not be compatible with 4.0?

So far there are a lot of mods written for 3.8 that do in fact work without modification with 4.0

Originally Posted by gnagplank6

This mod sounds awesome.

I would very much like to install it, but does anyone know whether it will run with VB 3.8+???

Thanks!!

We have a 3.8 version of this mod in the 3.8 Mods section.

[dfidler]

This mod will fail if you try to grant an award to a user by username, if their username has a single quote in it. eg my'name.

The fix is simple.

Edit the following files:

1. admincp/award.php
2. modcp/award.php

Now find the code in these files (there are two instances of it in each file for a total of four).

WHERE username = '". $vbulletin->GPC['awardusername']

Change it to:

WHERE username = '". $db->escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['awardusername'])

Note: this bug may be fixed in newer versions or it may already be mentioned here in the mod discussion.. However, it was WAY faster for me to find+fix the bug than to read through the 36 pages of comments on this mod. Apologies if this has already been found. In my defense, the mod download doesn't include this fix in it [yet?].

[fishmaster]

Any news on the 4.0 version?