Major Additions - Yet Another Ranks System

* CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR FORUM AND DATABASE BEFORE INSTALLING !

I've had quite a few PM's in regards to this and seeing as how once upon a time I administered a gaming tournament forum it came in handy... we had virtual armies in battlefield games with Generals, LtCol's, Captains, squads of 6 and enjoyed a rank structure along with our awards so we converted the Awards mod into a Ranks mod, many also had a need for it and now we have it for 4.x. This is a complete re-write of the 4.x Yet Another Awards System by CypherSTL and Xanlamin ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 ) with updates including one fix by another community member for the profile tabs (noted in Changelog.txt). I hope everyone enjoys it who finds a use for it .

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Medals/Ranks system. Admin can give members ranks, and rank icons will be displayed in member's profile, posts, as well as in a rank list.

FEATURES:
In AdminCP

• Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
• Can Create/Edit/Delete ranks in ACP (with Rank Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
• Can Move one (or all) rank(s) from one category to another
• Can set some ranks un-classified (not displayed for public)
• Can re-order ranks in ranks showcase
• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

In ModCP

• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

Front page & other

• Display ranks list in with: Rank Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each rank.
• Display ranks showcase in profile, with Rank information, Issue time and reason
• Display rank icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)
• Separate Rank Request/Recommendation Forms
• CSS Customizable
• Points System *Requires MySQL 5.0+

Attention:

If you do not properly setup this modification you will see errors such as:

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I am getting this error when i recommend or issue rank request?

how to fix it ?

Basically here's the short on this:

• Edit your usergroups, for each usergroup set whether they can request and recommend ranks.
• Setup the mod options in AdminCP > Ranks System > Rank System Settings.
• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Bingo . You can create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members .
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute.
• Try disabling the Points System, do you still have a issue?

Other issues:

• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  - The core of the ranks sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System you must be running at least MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ranks_rankusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments = OFF
• Styling issues? - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....58&postcount=2
• If you have any other issues, post them however I need to know if this was the 2nd, 3rd or 4th request, what was done before the error and if issuing to another user worked afterwords! Thanks!

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by Nuker_Viper

i have had the same problem so this is what i did:
Since i use the ranks for my clan members only and they can only have 1 rank at a time; i disabled the following in the Plugin Manger:

YARS in Member Profile - Cache Templates
YARS in Member Profile - Init
YARS in Member Profile - Profile

I also replaced $vbphrase[rank_description] the text "Description" with "Rank Duties"
And sme rank settings: userinfo_left and style 3 so that it just uses the icon. Disabled the image in the display. So no need to upload an image - just an icon.

This will disable the tab in your profiles but keep the postbit intact. Just make sure your postbit i set to at least 1 and it is active.

Thanks for the input Viper.:up: This may come in handy in the future.
I was able to get everything working as it should. I think there must have been some code missing in the awards mod. I re-edited the templates and plugins as described on the thread by another user and that seemed to do the trick.

[MalluParadise]

working on 4.1.7?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by MalluParadise

working on 4.1.7?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=65

[djpatch]

Getting this error when I try to go to the ranks page. Using Vb 4.1.7.
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in forum\ranks.php on line 46

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by djpatch

Getting this error when I try to go to the ranks page. Using Vb 4.1.7.
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in forum\ranks.php on line 46

More than likely it's due to your PHP version i.e. 5.3.x for now simply edit ranks.php and find:

$bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

Replace with:

$bbcode_parser = new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

Save & re-upload the file, error should be gone, it's the =& that's causing all the fuss .

[hanhdn]

Hi TheLastSuperman ,
I can't not open http://srsc.com.vn/forum/ranks.php it show error:
This webpage is not available
The webpage at http://srsc.com.vn/forum/ranks.php might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
With recommend_rank.php and request_rank.php work fine
I'm sure that the url corrected

(my forum using vbb4.08 platform)

[gamersplatoon]

I'm having a header problem after i installed a fixed forum ,the ranks tab gets automatically fluid and it messes up the whole header and page width..
here is a screenshots,
i need help.

http://imageshack.us/f/694/19490726.png/
http://imageshack.us/f/225/94262547.png/

vb version 4.1.7

Please HELP ASAP>.

[SN1PERCITY]

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.6:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE rank ADD rank_allowrecommend TINYINT( 1 ) DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL,ADD rank_pointvalue TINYINT( 3 ) DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'rank_allowrecommend'
Error Number : 1060
Request Date : Thursday, October 27th 2011 @ 06:24:47 AM
Error Date : Thursday, October 27th 2011 @ 06:24:48 AM
Script : http://www.*******************/admin...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.******************/adminc...?do=productadd
IP Address : **.***.*.*****
Username : BIGADMIN
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.92-community-log

this is what im getting

[MalluParadise]

ranks.php is fixed in 4.1.7 ?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by SN1PERCITY

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.6

this is what im getting

I believe it's the last part of the install code for 3.8.3 version... will update if need be upon further review, will be in the new version though .

Originally Posted by MalluParadise

ranks.php is fixed in 4.1.7 ?

Yes unless you are on PHP 5.3 then see here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=75