Different Promotions

[legionofangels]

How do I code non-usergroup items such as let's say additional smilies for example, to a usergroup?

I'm using this as an example as we're trying to set up some promotions based upon post count only, but they are things that don't affect the Usergroup directly or currently in the admin cp, like hiding a certain forum or custom avatars. They both have built in set ups for restricting the usergroups.

So how do I restrict the usergroups to other things on our board, or do I need complete custom coding for this?

Any mod out there that I missed in searching that already does this?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Sorry but i really don't understand.

What i read in your post is: How to setup a Usergroup promotion using something unrelated to Usergroups and without setting the Usergroup permissions, to set permissions for a Usergroup.

correct?

[legionofangels]

lol I admit, I kinda slaughtered that, lemme retry.

Ok gonna set up premium memberships or "additional forum options" like an arcade or whatever, based upon user post count. Which means for each separate level they gain, I definitely will need to make new usergroups for this, which is besides the point.

However not all of the things we are going to give to members is an "add-on" from vb.org which typically has a "usergroups can use this" selection tool in the admin cp.

In the admin cp currently for things like Custom Avatars or Ability to see a Secret Forum there are post count or promotions you can use to allow users to get those options at certain post counts, reputation, or days on the site.

How do I do this for options such as "smilies'' which are not relative or designated to any certain set of usergroups?

i.e. Additonal Smilies granted to Users at 250 posts.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

no i know what your talking about i did that on my site

basically it takes a while if im understanding what your saying

basically what your going to want to do is

if you are tring to make like for example what i did 5 user groups

them make them get promoted and demoted through usergroups based apon time registered and post count

then just set what ever setting you want them to have for each user group you make

it takes a while but its worth it your site basically runs it self after a while lol i know mine dose lol

shit my site told my happy b-day and i didnt even rember installing a mod for it to do that

idk i install alot of shit

but ya if you talking about 10 posts then moves to the next user group

then on that next user group set the next promotion but then also set another promotion that demots them if they dont have a minimum

lol i know its confussing it took me about a week to set up all that shit minus the user group settings

[legionofangels]

Actually no, that's not what I meant.

I know how to set up the usergroups and even the user rank system so that it all works together. What I need to know how to do is how to set up awards for things that aren't in the promotions system.

Such as a different example, lets say that IPB Pro Arcade, not going to use it this is an example, but lets say we were.

Lets say I wanted to allow users on my board with 500 posts and above to be able to use it, how do I do that?

(( if that add on has a built in setting to do this, lets assume it doesn't for this example ))

[cheesegrits]

That's going to need customizing your site for each "thing" you want to control access to. What kind of customizing you need to do will depend on what the "thing" is. It might be as simple as template conditionals using is_member_of($userinfo,$goupid), and/or plugins in the "thing" to prevent them sidestepping the navbar link and going straight to a URL.

So say you have your Arcade link in the navbar, and your promotion groupw that let them play Arcade have the iD's of 27 and 32, you'd wrap this round your Arcade link ...

<if condition="is_member_of($userinfo['userid'],27,32)">
... link to Arcade ...
</if>

Then to prevent them simply typing the arcade.php (or whatever it is) link in directly, you'd need to hang a plugin on the first available hook in arcade.php, and do a similar test in PHP, and throw a polite error if they aren't in the appropriate groups.

I think this will work, although I have some nagging memory telling me that promotional groups may not work the same when it comes to is_member_of().

Either way, AFAIK, there is no generic mod which lets you do this. You'll have to roll your own set of customizations to achieve it.

-- hugh

[legionofangels]

That actually doesn't sound too bad.

On the issue of your nagging memory of that, can't I just use whatever code vBulletin does for the direct link to let's say...the admin forum?

I mean that line of code that locks someone out if they are not a member of the staff, mod or admins of your board, would be perfect for this...right?

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If i'm talking crazish again, if a normal member is handed the direct link to our forums staff forum, the system know's to lock them out, so why wouldn't it work if we used that line of code that does that to them?

[cheesegrits]

No, you can't use the code vB uses to control that Admin link, because that' is set up differently, in global.php, using user and UGP permissions, not group membership. Likewise forum access is controlled using forum permissions. And your original question is very specific about not using UGP's.

If all you want to do is control access by virtue of group membership, just use is_member_of().

-- uhgh

[Tact7626]

i'm glad the issue of conditionals was brought up here since i'm actually having trouble with it.

i'm working on putting together legion's ideas on his forum as he has described here. and what i at first thought was me not getting the conditional code correct i now think is an issue of promotions.

i found these two sites to help me with the conditional codes

http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f66/...list-2185.html

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131282

along with some other site which users $bbuserinfo which i don't think is listed at all in those two links. and confuses me cause how many ways to use usergroups are there? o_o i would guess this is because, if it's an "additional" group and not primary, the code is diffrent.

either way, i know that out of the 5 diffrent ways to do it, none worked which prompted me to check my promotion settings and i can't figure out what is wrong.

here's what i have as their settings

Flash Tier 1 Additional Usergroups Posts 1000 30 333
Flash Tier 2 Additional Usergroups Posts 1000 30 444
Flash Tier 3 Additional Usergroups Posts 1000 30 555

(with 1000 being rep, 30 being days, and 333/444/555 being posts) i'm using posts only as the promotion strategy so everything else should be irrelevent.

i have run the scheduled task to update promotions manually like 3 times and i get no changes whatsoever. nobody is setup automatically for the additional groups. so all the testing i did to find the right conditionals was useless thus far. >.< i might just manually set myself up to get done with testing but now i feel i need to fix this while i'm on it.

would anyone have any idea as to what i'm doing wrong?