[RC] Multi-Race Rank Themes mod AKA Ranking Sets (1.3.6)

[MewDragon]

Will some additional features be implemented, perhaps from that request thread I showed you?

Just wondering, cause I can bump the request thread see if anyone else wants to make the mod.

[IBBoard]

I already posted in it. Some of the ideas are more viable than others without having one hell of a big mod that hugely complicates the coding and potentially involves a lot of extra or more heavy-weight queries.

Anyone else with any experience of the mod? Only had a couple of people download it so far.

[MewDragon]

whoops, my bad, didn't think to check. I replied.

[IBBoard]

As an update on one of the planned features, I've now added a Rank Themes List feature to the Hive World Terra forums. It lists all of the available rank sets (i.e. not the private ones) and lets users see all of the ranks in the set.

I've yet to work out the skinning for a standard prosilver skin (because mine strips out large amounts of cruft and makes parts of it more semantic) and write up the instructions, but the functionality should be available fairly soon.

[Mitch1063]

Downloaded Version 0.1.6 and got this error in IE

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The XML page cannot be displayed 
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. 


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The system cannot locate the resource specified
 

Please advice

[IBBoard]

Sorry about that, it looks like I packaged the wrong XSL file and that the Prosilver 1.0 version I packaged has an error in it anyway.

There are two solutions until I update the package:

• Download the SubSilver XSL file and save it in the same folder as the Mod instructions
• Download the Prosilver XSL file and save it over the top of the existing one. Open up the XML file with a text editor and replace "modx.subsilver.en.xsl" with "modx.prosilver.en.xsl" in the first line.

Thanks for being the first person to actually report the issue.

[edit] It seems that at some point the phpBB team have added some extra options to the XML file. The new version is now being released as "Multi-race rank set mod v1.0 RC1", using the new "development stage" feature.

[IBBoard]

Does anyone at all have any comments? Even a "it installed and is working fine" so I know it is suitable for submission.

I know 18 people have downloaded the mod this month, so there must be people installing it somewhere. I'm just not getting the feedback :\

[Scorpio]

I'm currently making clean install for this so i can say something to you...

[Scorpio]

Well now it is installed and seem to work correct...

how ever I don't know how the private themes should work...


EDIT:

Only curiosity that I've fould sofar is that when you create new rank...
it places it in the defaul theme by default but it doesn't show the post count box...
if you select any other (exept special) the box comes visible and then you can select he default theme back.
It could be that it should offer the special theme by default because it doesn't need post count anyway.
So when you select any other theme it pops the post count box... maybe...

[IBBoard]

So it does. I hadn't noticed that before. I'll keep with defaulting to the 'default' set but make sure that it shows the post count box by default.

[Scorpio]

Great...


Could tell what is the funtion of the private themes and how shoud they be used since I don't seem to figure that out...

[IBBoard]

Okay, it's a simple enough fix:

Find:

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'S_SPECIAL_RANK'	=> (!isset($ranks['rank_special']) || $ranks['rank_special']) ? true : false,

replace with:

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'S_SPECIAL_RANK'	=> (isset($ranks) && $ranks['rank_special']) ? true : false,

It's the line that had the rank list added below it in the RC1 instructions. It seems that the old one may have defaulted to Special based on that (!isset only happens when you're adding a rank), but I think defaulting to 'default' makes more sense in most situations when you're using multiple schemes. I guess another feature would be an "add to this scheme" button instead of the normal "add rank" button (which I just kept as the adding rank method for consistency).

As for private schemes, it just means that they can't be selected by users. The Special scheme is the main example, and it can only be selected when the user has a rank from it specifically assigned. Other private schemes would just be schemes that you're in the process of making. It's just a mechanism to ensure that people don't start using part-complete schemes that may end up being scrapped or not released for a while yet.

I'll get an updated release up shortly.


[edit] Update now available.

[Scorpio]

Well that sure ly fixed that.


Just for record...

Aprat for few extra line breaks or TABS in the guide adn my files...
I had no problems installing this MOD and, as far as I have been able to test it, it works just as it should.

[IBBoard]

Glad it seems to be working from the instructions. It's always easier to do the mod than make sure the instructions are simple enough that people recreate the modification correctly

As for tabs, I tried to keep to the matching number of tabs in the finds and replaces. Partly it is for consistency and partly because it always annoys me when I copy and paste code and it suddenly isn't indented because the author didn't indent their replacement. If there's anywhere that it causes real problems then I'll fix them.

Thanks.

Anyone else? Once v1.0 gets released then the rank themes page gets added in the next version

[Scorpio]

Just adding feature requests (just so it is also in this topic as well) if you may...

• Possibility to remove Users ability to choose theme and force spesific theme to group (or maybe even users)

if this is added then I'll be one happy camper...

Then it would be pretty much what I requested here