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Yet Another Ranks System
Mod Version: 4.1.4, by TheLastSuperman

* 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 ( Yet Another Awards System ) 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:

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? -

  Spoiler (click to open)

  
  

  Updated to v4.1.4 on 7/2/2011
  Notes:

  • Removed some residual Awards references in snippets of the code.
  • Updated two phrases.
  • Tested and initial bug report of database error depends on settings from tests ran, please be sure to test on a site with more than one user and have the options set correctly in admincp.
  • Tested and confirmed to work on vBulletin 4.1.4.

  
  Updated (Remains at v4.1.4) on 7/3/2011
  Notes:

  • Updated SQL to properly delete awards.
  • Confirmed the dismissed DB error upon request/recommend after further testing and this has been sorted.

  
  Updated (Remains at v4.1.4) on 7/11/2011
  Notes:

  • Updated installation SQL to check for MySQL version and define as TYPE or ENGINE correctly.

  
  Updated (Remains at v4.1.4) on 10/29/2012
  Notes:

  • Fixed Security Vulnerability UNIT => UINT etc.

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  Custom Style - Display issues on the Rank Page?
  
  Edit template RANKS and find:
  

  Code:

  {vb:raw header}
  {vb:raw navbar}
  {vb:raw rank_categories}

  Add {vb:cssfile additional.css} {vb:raw headinclude_bottom} as shown in blue then save template:
  
  

  Code:

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{vb:var vbcsspath}editor.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{vb:var vbcsspath}bbcode.css" />
  {vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
  </head>

  *I'll include the call of additional.css in the next version .

  
  

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• 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!