User Points System

UPDATE: Code tested on both 2.0.3 and 2.2.0

Install instructions updated to reflect differences in versions.

Ability to specify Text values for points directly added.
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As requested in this thread ( http://vbulletin.org/forum/showthrea...threadid=23114 )

This hack includes a small script and instructions on how to install and set up the system.

Purpose: Just a simple engine that allows mods and admins to award arbitrary points to users, which will be displayed under their names/avatars.

The points can be named anything you wish, and represent anything you choose. You can use the script to add or subtract them.

As the script utilizes a Custom Profile Field, the point field can be directly edited in the CP when editing a user, allowing you to place text in the field rather than merely a number.

On our forum, the points are called Gil and represent our virtual currency

It is used to purchase perks like Custom Titles and avatars.

Our staff, having no use for Gil, instead like to have snappy quotes in the field, like "I send greetings of death!!!" (Reno) and "Who needs Gil when you have power?" (Sephiroth)

[gwhooooey]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52437" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...threadid=52437</a>

...would anyone be able to do something like that?

[csidlernet]

Sickass hack.

[yzztik]

Anyone have any idea if there is a way to use the point system hack but keep the points they have so far from the store hack? Basically I am tired of the store hack and how long it takes to upgrade my board beacause of it and lately I have been having weird problems so I was thinking of replacing it with this, specially since its not based on posts, but I don't want members to lose their current points, is there a way to set it up so that it uses those points as a starting point or to transfer them to this one somehow?

[proxyMX]

does this work with 2.3.0?

[proxyMX]

UPDATE: this hack works with VBULLETIN 2.3.0
id like to see some sort of update in which you can give EVERYONE points by the click of a button, please post this, it shouldnt be too hard to implement

[Salazar]

First things first: This is a GREAT Hack, Palmer!
I have installed it on my test board and it works great. Though I have some questions:

- Is there a way to increase - let's say 2 - points automatically when starting a new thread?
- I also wonder, if increasing and deacreasing could be done more easily by clicking a small + or - button. That should add +1 or -1 to the total amount

Example:

Username
[AVATAR]

Location: anywhere
Registered: anytime
Points: 22 (+/-)

[Reeve of shinra]

Salazar, check through this thread - or through the hack forum itself - for an add on that lets you give users points for starting new threads.

[Salazar]

Thank you Reeve, I found the addon.

[Sacrifice]

STEP 6: Edit TEMPLATE postbit

ADD Underneath "Posts: $post[posts]<br>"

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<a href="moderator.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=points&userid=$userinfo[userid]" target=_blank>Points:</a> $post[field5]<br>

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I'm new to Vb, and I'm stuck on this part. Edit Template postbit I can't seem to find it in the templates section. Can someone please tell me where to modify this?

[Salazar]

Today at 02:57 AM Sacrifice said this in Post #249
I'm new to Vb, and I'm stuck on this part. Edit Template postbit I can't seem to find it in the templates section. Can someone please tell me where to modify this?

If you don't know where or even what a template is, you really should not try to install a hack. You wouldn't do any good, believe me. Please consider to read the vbulletin manual...

Nevertheless, here is what you ought to do:

Go to your Admin Control Panel -> Templates -> click "Modify" -> click [Expand List] -> Look for the "Postbit Templates" -> and next to "postbit" klick [change original]