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

[PhotoGenie]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by kc5uyw
Anyone have a possible update for this one to move to 2.2.2?

I get just about everything in, however the functions.php has some major changes and I cannot get some of the code in because of if.

[kc5uyw]

I'll take a look at it again.

[importmix]

I get an error:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent....

when i add this line to my functions.php

if ($post[donator]!="" and $post[donator]!="0") {
eval("\$post[donation] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_donation")."\";");
} else {
$post[donation]="";
}

I am clicking on the little white arrow that goes to the shortcut to the newest post. Its on the index page and in the topic area too. i am using vb 2.2.1

It seems to be working in the profile area of a member. Just not in the post bit area....well because I removed the above code from functions.php until someone can tell me what's going on.

UPDATE! Nevermind. After trying all last night and thinking about it all day....cuz I really like this hack. I tried one for time and it worked. All I can think....maybe the text editor I was using messed something up. I have no Idea!

[Gholsie]

MarkB, can you take a quick look at my site? Check out the News forum and you'll be able to see my posts in there (user = Mike).

Right now the Contributor text shows up as a bar across the top of my post. How can I get it to show up underneath the username next to the location and with an icon?

http://www.240z.org/forums/showthrea...&threadid=1520

[m]
:?:

[Gholsie]

Nevermind...

Your instructions are a little different as compared to my templates for 2.2.1. I had put the postbit entry after my </smallfont><br> statement!!

After a closer examination, I managed to make it work right!!

Your instructions:

## Find:

Posts: $post[posts]<br>

## AFTER, ADD THIS:

$post[donation]


My template:

Posts: $post[posts]</smallfont></td>

I added your statement after that and it didn't look quite right.

So, here's my fix:

Posts: $post[posts]<br>
$post[donation]</smallfont></td>

And it looks GREAT!! Thanks.

:up:

[MarkB]

Glad it works for you

[Gholsie]

It's actually quite flexible. I've been moving the title around within my template and have come up with a pretty good looking label called "Supporting Member"....

Take a look.

Great hack. Very easy and flexible. You do good work. :up:

[Destee]

Great Work! Installed Perfectly!

[wnkremer]

I normally just lurk and benefit from all of your expertise (shame on me!), but I had to post to say thanks to Mark for this hack. It's amazing what a little peer pressure in the form of a supporter icon can do!

I added this hack after I lost my main corporate sponsor due to budget cuts. I have 2000+ members, and about 15% have contributed in the two months since I used this hack to add a supporter icon. Considering that 2000+ includes an unusually large influx of new members in the past month due to defections from another forum, I'm pleased with that percentage, and I hope the newbies will like what they see enough to contribute, too.

I'm curious--how are all of you doing on your contributions? Has the supporter designation dramatically improved your contribution rate?

Anyway, I'm very thankful for this hack,

Wendy

[Warlord]

installed, no problems. Thanks, nice hack.