[HTL] & [TXT] Awards/Medals/Cards Hack [vB3]

Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3]
By: AnimeWebby
Idea by: Lesane
Updated: 28nd May 2004 - Installer not table prefix friendly.

What this hack does:
This hack allows you to add awards, medals or cards to your vbulletin and assign these to members who you think deserve them.
These graphics will then show up in their member profile and/or their postbits depending on where you choose to add this hack.

New in v2
- Extra page showing all awards available as well as all the users who have earned an award.
- Support for full urls and relative ones for award icons.
- Support for awards on showpost and announcement

Other Stuff:
Although I give credit to Lesane for the idea this hack is totally recoded to be less server intensive and also uses a whole lot less queries. Therefor I do not consider this a 'port'.

Installation:
Download the appropriate .Zip file and follow the instructions in the readme file.

Upgrading:
So far there are no ways to upgrade this hack, if you have an old copy installed then you need to uninstall and reinstall from scratch.

Coming Soon:
- Awards added to the search and memberlists.
- Added functions to the addition of awards as well as cron functions to assign awards automatically to those members with 'X' posts, registered 'X' days etc...
- Option to show award name rather than graphic.
- Option to turn awards OFF & ON in postbit and memberinfo
- Request award on awards page (at Cyricx' request)
(not necessarily in that order)

Make sure you backup your files and database first! This hack has been tested on vB RC1 and RC4 only!

Please click the install button

If you experience any errors, problems or the hack doesn't seem to be functioning correctly then send me a pm with the following info:
- HTL or Standalone installer.
- Version of vB you are running.
- File where error is encountered.
- Exact error or description of error.

Views so far:
[NORMAL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.7 KB, 69 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.8 KB, 57 views)
[TXT]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (8.5 KB, 278 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (10.2 KB, 203 views)

If you installed this hack before 23rd May and are getting foreach errors in your showthread then follow the step below:

In /includes/functions_showthread.php find:

PHP Code:

    // sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template 


below that add:

PHP Code:

    // user awards
    global $userawards; 


If in your showthread.php member post counts show N/A, they have no profile link or their user title is guest you MUST run 'Fix broken user profiles' in the update counters part of the admincp. This is found under the nav bar 'Import & Maintenance' > 'Update Counters' > 'Fix broken user profiles'. This will add the awards for all the users currently in your database and prevent showing incorrent member info.

[mtha]

Originally Posted by M.C.

i`ve got small bug! In Private Messages Page i got that:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in z:\home\localhost\www\forum\includes\functions_sho wthread.php on line 691

Anypage that has user postbit displayed /showthread used will have the same problem

PM, view thread, viewpost ...

maybe this hack should be moved to Beta mods, as of it's not completed

cant run both sql queries in the txt file can someone please tell me what they should be

thank you

dont think anyone can tell you if you dont tell us what the error is, and some details. otherwise, I just say, they should be as it is in the txt file.

[InfiniteWebby]

OK just upldated the attachements to version 2 where the errors regarding the showpost and announcements are fixed and also the extra page for users who have awards has been added.

I was hoping to get the request award option finished but I think this is an important update.

[SpankMe]

Nice hack. What I would like to see is the ability to give Mods and/or Super Mods the option to give out awards.

[SpankMe]

Never mind. I've done it myself.

[SpankMe]

Something else I've added you might want to think about, is who gave the award.

[mtha]

Originally Posted by AnimeWebby

OK just upldated the attachements to version 2 where the errors regarding the showpost and announcements are fixed and also the extra page for users who have awards has been added.

how should I upgrade from version 1?

[maytrix]

Just a note, your awards hack and the vbarcade hack are not compatible. You use a global of $awards which is also used by that hack. If you change your global to $awards2 you can get both to live in harmony.

[Flow Fusion]

Can someone clean up the text file for this hack? When I try to view it on my Mac it looks like a mess?

[Roxie]

So, is this hack beta?

[InfiniteWebby]

@mtha: the only option is to undo all the changes made in v1 and then redo all the changes in v2

@maytrix: I realise that and I think to keep adequate varibale names you should change alll occurances of $award or $awards used in the arcade hack to $arcadeawards but whatever tickles your fancy so to speak.

@flow fusion: i cant help you out in anyway except to advise you to use HTL instead of relying on text files, macs aren't my speciality.

@roxie: I don't conisder it beta as it works perfectly at the moment. However some might consider it still in beta stages because of the large amounts of bugs found last time and that it might be the same case this time.