Major Additions - Tournaments, Ladders & Leagues Manager v4.x

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Modification Description

This modification allows you to manage tournaments and ladders on your forum. It provides interactibility both for forum members and forum admin.

Tournament Types:

• Single Elimination Tournaments
• Last Man Standing Tournaments
• Double Elimination Tournaments
• Round Robin Tournaments also called all-play-all tournament
• Double Round Robin

Ladder Description:

Users or teams can join ladders and challenge other players or teams in the ladder. Elo rating system is used which calculates the difficultly of a match according to the players' ranks and this is taken into account when the ranks are updated after the match is finished.

Feature List:

• General Features
  • All pages are XHTML valid
• Tournament Features
  • Hall of Fame (Top 10 Tournament Players)
  • Permissions can be set per usergroup
    (AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> {Select Usergroup} -> Tournament Permissions)
  • Tournaments start automatically when no slots are left
  • Tournaments have proper Date/ Time converted to users timezone and DST
  • 3 Tournament Modes: Last Man Standing, Single Elimination, Double Elimination and Round Robin
  • Filter Tournaments Displayed according to Tournament Status
  • Tournament User Stats Page
  • 'Start Tournament' for Single Elimination adds bye players and creates brackets
• Tournament options
  • Turn on/off tournament
  • Create Thread on Tournament Creation
  • Require check-in before tournaments
  • Tournament Stats in Member Profile
  • Tournament Stats in Postbit (Can be turned on/off in Tournament Options)
  • Comments per page
  • Tournament description length shown in tournament List
• Tournament Display
  • LMS realtime ranking shows if players are equal positions
  • Tournament View Counter
  • Tournament creator and last edited by notes at bottom of tournament
• Tournament Moderators can...
  • Add/edit tournament (description uses vBulletin Editor)
  • Edit tournament type if not started yet
  • Add Score type (points, wins, kills, deaths, etc.) for LMS tournaments
  • Tournament mods can remove players if tournament hasn't started
  • Increase/ Decrease Tournament Slots
  • Pm all competitors with custom message and title (permissions set to bypass max pm recipients restrictions)
  • Add players (Ajax/Javascript userid fetch)
  • Swap players in LMS mode
  • Create/ edit/ delete announcements
• Competitors can...
  • Players can remove themselves if tournament hasn't started
  • Users can PM themselves the details of the tournament
  • Sign up to tournament only once
• Tournament Comments
  • Uses vBulletin Editor
  • Comment Display with user avatars and last edited by note
  • User able to edit/delete their own comment (subject to permissions)
  • Tournament moderators can edit all comments
  • If applicable under username on comments Tournament Creator, Tournament Competitor or Tournament Winner
  • Comment paging
• Teams
  • Users can apply to teams
  • Leader can accept/ decline users
  • Team profile shows team stats
  • Team list
  • Can limit teams created by user (in usergroup options)
  • Fields: team website, gamertag, logo, description, slog, tags
• Team leader can...
  • delete players from his/her team
  • Promote players in his/her team to Leader or Co-Leader
  • Join tournaments
  • Search Free Agents for new team members
• Ladder Features
  • Elo rating system (Javascript Elo calculator @ ladders.php?do=elorating)
  • Players last activity (date)
  • Winning/ Losing Streak
  • Longest Winning Streak
  • Admin can submit scores/ add challenges
  • Report/ dispute challenges
  • Match Finder
• Ladder Display
  • leader-board for each ladder
  • last 10 upcoming/ past matches per ladder
  • separate page for accepting/rejecting challenges and submitting score (have to be accepted by other user)
• Tournament Announcements
  • Tournament Moderators can create/edit announcements
  • Uses forum last visit for announcement read marking
  • Shows last user to edit announcement
• Categories
  • Share categories for tournaments/ ladders/ leagues
  • Category displays in navbar when viewing ladder/ tournament/ league

Installation:

1. Follow instructions included in .zip
2. Click Install

Premium Features:

• Pay to play/ credits system
  • Opportunity to earn money for your forum
  • Uses PayPal for payments
• Support Tickets
• Leagues into Knockout Stage
• Live Match Finder

Suggestions:

1. Please post any suggestions/ comments about this modification and I will try and implement them

** Don't forgot to click Mark as Installed **

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

3. I don't see any option to abbreviate column titles.? (if thats what you mean, but i'm sure when i figure out #1 this wont be an issue)

vBulletin Options -> Tournament and Ladder Options -> Ladder Columns Abbreviations -> Yes

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Can you give any more details? Do you get any error messages?

I upgraded from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 & that fixed it, but no there was no error msg's.

The site just had no structure, hardly any images, etc.. just links, like forum titles, navbar links, footer links, etc. everything all lined up to the left. (see image)


I really dont see how the mod could have caused it, but its all i did was upgrade. lol
(maybe i did something else that i didn't notice)


Also..
Competitions footer says:

Tournaments & Ladders Manager v4.4.0 Copyright by BananaLive

Manage Products > Installed Products says:

4.3.9 Tournament and Ladder Modification for vBulletin

Is it upgraded or not.?
What options or features can i see to tell if it is or not.

I'm afraid to try update again. lol

Originally Posted by bananalive

vBulletin Options -> Tournament and Ladder Options -> Ladder Columns Abbreviations -> Yes

I hate to sound like a boob, but i just dont have that option. lol
Can you post up a screen shot of it.. I have gone up & down the list of options & its just not there.
Maybe the 4.4.0 install went wrong & removed it or something.
Is that option new for 4.4.0.? (or should it be there in prior versions too)
The only 2 options i have that have the word column in them:

• Show Elo Rating column
• Ladder Columns

None of the options say anything about "abbreviations"

Thanks

[champendk]

Im thinking of using joomla as the cms and Vb as forum..

Now i want to know if its possible to pull info from VB to joomla to show ranking, latest ladders, hall of fame and other stuff?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

I upgraded from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 & that fixed it, but no there was no error msg's.

The site just had no structure, hardly any images, etc.. just links, like forum titles, navbar links, footer links, etc. everything all lined up to the left. (see image)


I really dont see how the mod could have caused it, but its all i did was upgrade. lol
(maybe i did something else that i didn't notice)


Also..
Competitions footer says:



Manage Products > Installed Products says:


Is it upgraded or not.?
What options or features can i see to tell if it is or not.

I'm afraid to try update again. lol


I hate to sound like a boob, but i just dont have that option. lol
Can you post up a screen shot of it.. I have gone up & down the list of options & its just not there.
Maybe the 4.4.0 install went wrong & removed it or something.
Is that option new for 4.4.0.? (or should it be there in prior versions too)
The only 2 options i have that have the word column in them:

• Show Elo Rating column
• Ladder Columns

None of the options say anything about "abbreviations"

Thanks

The screenshot looks as if there is no css.

I think you might be running files from v4.4.0 and product file from v4.3.9. It'll be best you upgrade.

The options should be right at the bottom, below 'Ladder Columns'.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by champendk

Im thinking of using joomla as the cms and Vb as forum..

Now i want to know if its possible to pull info from VB to joomla to show ranking, latest ladders, hall of fame and other stuff?

I've not used Joomla, but if you can create php or mysql modules then you'll be to fetch them.

[HighJinx]

just updated to 4.4.1 and got this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /mywebsite/tournaments.php on line 3107

any ideas

reinstalled seems to be fine now....watch this space

if ($tid==1)
{
$template_hook['round1'] .= "<br />Strike";
$template_hook['round2'] .= "<br />Crash";
$template_hook['round3'] .= "<br />Citystreets";
$template_hook['round4'] .= "<br />Cup";
}

is there anyway of replacing the map names with an image?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by HighJinx

if ($tid==1)
{
$template_hook['round2'] .= "<br />Crash";
$template_hook['round3'] .= "<br />Citystreets";
$template_hook['round4'] .= "<br />Cup";
}

is there anyway of replacing the map names with an image?

You can put in html...

Instead of...

PHP Code:

$template_hook['round1'] .= "<br />Strike"; 


Use...

PHP Code:

$template_hook['round1'] .= '<br /><img src="http://imageurl.com/image.jpg" alt="Strike" />'; 


http://imageurl.com/image.jpg is image url

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by bananalive

The screenshot looks as if there is no css.

I think you might be running files from v4.4.0 and product file from v4.3.9. It'll be best you upgrade.

The options should be right at the bottom, below 'Ladder Columns'.

You think better to reinstall/upload 4.4.0 or just update to 4.4.1..? (im scared of it going down again. lol) Is 4.4.1 safe.?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

You think better to reinstall/upload 4.4.0 or just update to 4.4.1..? (im scared of it going down again. lol) Is 4.4.1 safe.?

Upgrade to v4.4.1. There should be anything affecting the rest of your site in any of the versions.

[HighJinx]

many thanks bananalive

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