[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 AnimeWebby

Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3]
By: AnimeWebby
Idea by: Lesane

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

Installation:
Just upload award.php to your admincp, awards.php to your root directory and follow the instructions in the text file.

it seems that the HTL and TXT instructions are different.

1: There's NO award.php in HTL zip file, there's only 1 file in /admincp/award.php
2: Cant find:

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
global $vboptions, $stylevar, $vbphrase, $DB_site, $datastore, $_USEROPTIONS, $style, $show; 


for step 9 in /includes/functions_showthread.php


Cant find this step on HTL instruction (it's only in TXT one)

==>Find:
// do posts from ignored users
if ($tachyuser AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'showpost' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'private')
{
$maintemplatename = 'postbit_ignore_global';
}
else if ($ignore["$post[userid]"]/* AND !in_array($post['userid'], explode(' ', $bbuserinfo['buddylist']))*/)
{
$maintemplatename = 'postbit_ignore';
$show['showpostlink'] = ($alternate != 'usernote');
}

==>Replace With:
// AWARDS IN POSTBIT
foreach($awards AS $key => $useraward)
{
$userawardid = "award$useraward[awardid]";
if (!empty($post["$userawardid"]))
{
$userawardid_desc = $userawardid."_desc";
if ($post[$userawardid_desc] != '')
{
$useraward[description] = $post[$userawardid_desc];
}
eval('$post[\'awards\'] .= "' . fetch_template('awards_bit') . '";');
}
}
// END AWARDS IN POSTBIT
-------------------------------

and others ... after that

[Cyricx]

I will suggest that you go through the code fully again.

Make sure the templates names are correct.

I had to spend about a hour debugging the code and finally was able to fix it. It was searching for a template that doesn't exist.

I had to compare the file edits between both HTL / Text File. From my observation, one of those are outdated.

But it's working on my site now.

Cyricx

[maytrix]

I too had to go through the code twice. I also had to make it work better with some previous installed hacks. It is is a good working hack, but it is a medium to high installation skill level.

[InfiniteWebby]

@Cyricx: What template is that?

And I uploaded the wrong file so I will fix it as soon as I finish this post, sorry to all but trying to keep up with what you've done and haven't done gets quite confusing.

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by AnimeWebby

@Cyricx: What template is that?

And I uploaded the wrong file so I will fix it as soon as I finish this post, sorry to all but trying to keep up with what you've done and haven't done gets quite confusing.

Ok I installed this onto my forum and I get this error message when I try to view any of the threads.


Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /hsphere/local/home/mojoblac/flowfusion.biz/forum/includes/functions_showthread.php
Line: 679


Any suggestions? Cause I been at it all night/Morning

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Ok I installed this onto my forum and I get this error message when I try to view any of the threads.


Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /hsphere/local/home/mojoblac/flowfusion.biz/forum/includes/functions_showthread.php
Line: 679


Any suggestions? Cause I been at it all night/Morning

Oh yeah once this is fixed. Where do I go to add an award? Or give someone an award?

[maytrix]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Ok I installed this onto my forum and I get this error message when I try to view any of the threads.


Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /hsphere/local/home/mojoblac/flowfusion.biz/forum/includes/functions_showthread.php
Line: 679


Any suggestions? Cause I been at it all night/Morning

What is on lines around 679 in your functions_showthread.php?

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by maytrix

What is on lines around 679 in your functions_showthread.php?

if (!empty($post["$userawardid"]))

{

$userawardid_desc = $userawardid."_desc";
if ($post[$userawardid_desc] != '')

{

This is from 674 to 681 and I tried to remove the spaces

[maytrix]

Did you fix user info like it says in the last step?

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by maytrix

Did you fix user info like it says in the last step?

What do you mean? I did everything it says in the Hack