Ember's Pet Hack

This is currently version 2.0 of the Pet Hack.

The pet hack enabled each user to have their own pet, which is displayed in the postbit under the postcount (screen shot below).

The user can define their own Pet Name, as well as select the breed of pet from a drop down wether the pet is male or female.

Version 2 adds 2 major new features.

Number one is the images, each breed of pet has a male and female image which is displayed depending on what the user has selected.

The second is the stats, each pet has its own level, HP and EXP. This was taken directly from knomans levels hack, and edited slightly (more credits are given in the install file).

The images of the pets were created by danwei - she has been working very hard on them this afternoon, and without her this wouldnt have happened!!

Inside the zip you will find install instructions, the images needed and s txt file containing some information about what might be appearing in future versions.

I hope you enjoy v2 of the hack, and I will be accepted all comments and suggestions!

If you install this hack live, then please post the link here so I can link to some live examples. Remember to click the "install" button.

Live examples:

Gaming World
Rozhon.com

[sslight]

Did you run the quireys?

[Dribbles]

any news on the new version comming out?

[Koutaru]

I can't wait until version 3 comes out
Almost every one of members has a pet

[mx3]

a lot of my members don't like this hack, because there is no battle system...i hope it will be included!

[SRozhon]

I added more pets to this for my forum. I hope you don't mind Ember, but I thought some of you might also like to use them too.

There are 12 in here including a Golden Retreiver Puppy, a Poodle, squirrel, catepiller, bird, Teddy Bears, and a snail. I just added the graphics to the pets folder and added references to them in the member and function files. It's all in the zip if you want them. I also put my postbit in there. I use Ravio style so it needed to be changed a little to look right. I included it in case some of you are having the same prob.

I still think this Hack is so cute Ember! Thanks again!

[Ember]

Nice work SR, the future versions of this hack have been delayed until... well, indefinatly. I have no time to work on this hack, I have a lot of coursework, plus a big website to maintain now... I may come back and work on it, if anyone wants to take over, feel free ^_^

[Koutaru]

that's sad ember, I hope someone does continue this hack or that you'll get back to it soon

anyway, good luck

[mx3]

i also made a couple more pets...since my boards are based on gaming, one of my members suggested a 'Metool' from the Mega Man series...i also added a snake. i may post them later, or when i have more pets and changes.

[lynda]

Simple hack to make it only show up if you've selected a pet...

For functions.php, in the original code, after:

PHP Code:

//end Pet gender 


Add:

PHP Code:

        if ($post[petgender] != "0" or $post[pettype] != "0") {
            eval("\$pethack = \"".gettemplate("postbit_pethack")."\";");
        } 


Then make a template called postbit_pethack and put your pethack postbit addition in there. In postbit, put $pethack where you want it to appear.

To allow users to UNselect a pet, in modifyprofile add:

PHP Code:

    <option value="0"$petgender_select[0]>No Pet</option> 


Above the female selection and:

PHP Code:

    <option value="0"$pettype_select[0]>No Pet</option> 


Above the first type option (should be Dog, I believe)

Love the hack.

[midnightz]

I have a question. I have installed the pet hack 2.0 and I'm getting a bit of table madness. I'm a newbie and i have fiquired out some of the cool hacks here. But I have done the followed the directions three times and still come up with this.

I do have some custom work on my board, but nothing in the templates that are being hacked by the Pet hack.

Here is a shot of what I see:

Thank you,
midnightz & Kitten