Show Thread Enhancements - Extended Reputation Display

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This hack extends the existing reputation display system from just the light/dark green pips to green and golden pips, and then a series of bronze, silver and gold stars as the pips limit is reached.

The dark green pips are followed by light green pips, which are then followed by gold pips. When the limit these can display is reached, the (prefix) display of stars begins - starting with the bronze stars, then silver stars and finally gold Stars. If your reputation is zero then the neutral grey pip is displayed. Negative reputations are displayed in a similar manner using light and dark red pips and red stars - however, there is only one star level for negative reputation.

Each time you 'lap' the limit of the pips display, another star is added. The number of each star is limited by an ACP option (by default, 5 bronze = 1 silver, and 5 silver = 1 gold). The number and value of the pips in each group of pips is defined by six settings in the vboptions > reputation options. A line break can be inserted after the stars. The extended display system can be enabled/disabled in the options.

Just follow the install instructions in the zip file to install this product.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vb 3.8

[Barteh]

True

[Pandemikk]

Images are in the correct directory. The text shows repeated times but no images are displayed.

[RobbieZ]

Originally Posted by Pandemikk

Images are in the correct directory. The text shows repeated times but no images are displayed.

If you are showing text then your images are in the wrong directory/folder. Especially if you are using a different style.

The easiest and quickest way to find out where the images should be is to hover over the text.

eg. 'Admin has a reputation beyond reputation'
'Admin has a reputation beyond reputation'
'Admin has a reputation beyond reputation'
'Admin has a reputation beyond reputation'

Now you need to right click your mouse and hit view image.

A new screen will open with a server error saying not found but in the top bar will be the true root to your image.

eg Http://www.YOURFORUM.com/forum/image...n/greenpip.png

Please note that the above is not the actual path it is a random example of where it might be.

[Pandemikk]

Okay.. Uhm?

Sorry for being short earlier.

I enabled the product again before uploading the images again or moving them. And now it works perfectly..? I'm going to go ahead and blame this on a cache of some sort.

Thanks for the mod.

[Paul M]

Good to hear, now you can click installed

[yoyoman]

Installed and marked!
Thanks for the MOD!

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Mellymonster

If anyone wants to use my stars, they are welcome too. Hope no one minds me posting this here. http://www.sendspace.com/file/679fdw I made them and have full rights to give them away, so if you want to use them, go for it.

Originally Posted by Paul M

I dont mind you posting them, but please attach them here as a zip file, not link to another site, thanks.

Here are my stars... very similar to Melly's but my "bronze" star is blue, I don't like bronze... they are 16 color transparent gifs. Looks good on both light and dark backgrounds.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK I have it installed but no place to change settings... on 3.8.4 PL2

in VB Options there is: User Reputation Settings but no changes were made to this page... Nothing else about Reputation? Also nothing under "User Reputation" on the side menu... where are the settings, please???

EDIT- Nevermind, I had to leave the admin cp and re-open it and Extended Reputation showed up in VB options.

nice mod, installed. Been looking for something like this, I have some members with uber high rep and 10 'green' pips just isn't enough.

[BirdOPrey5]

It would be great if there could be a line-break after every 5 stars for the legacy postbit.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK I changed to much smaller stars and really like the display no line break needed. Now I'm wondering if there is an easy way to make it display as many red stars as 'positive' stars in total? In the plugin I added 2 lines under the neg rep declarations,

				$repy = 'redstar';
				$repz = 'redstar';

and changed the if statement from if($pos) to just if(1) - best I could tell the logic might just have been there already but alas it didn't work right, very low reps had the full amount of negative stars but when I sorted my member list by lowest rep first I saw some were out of order, one had 2 red stars and a few pips and it was listed below 1 star and some pips, when I looked at the actual values they were as expected (sorted correctly) so I guess the math/logic for negative rep multiple stars is wrong- is there an'easy' fix for this, something I could add to the code so it calculates the number of negative stars correctly?