Special and Normal Rank Images

[Oyabun1]

@AylaAsperger
You need to explain more what you are trying to do. What portal system are you using and why do you want to add ranks to the portal blocks?

The files you are looking to edit are to do with personal messages (PM) and not portals.

[AylaAsperger]

@Oyabun1: Right now the special and normal rank images works exactly as it should but is only visible in the profiles and topics. In my previous post I expressed the wish to have the special and normal rank images also visible in both PMs and the portal. I am using Board3 Portal 1.0.5 which has two blocks in which the rank image is shown, the user menu block and the random member block. I really hope someone can help me out getting this to work!

Thank you all very much for your time!

[IBBoard]

Sorry, I've never used any portal MODs and don't provide support for integration with any other MODs (I've not got enough time as it is). It should generally be quite easy, though.

The way the MOD works is to create a wrapper method for rank fetching that gets the "normal" rank for people with special ranks or no rank for people with only a normal rank. The two calls for ranks are normally quite close together, then you just need to assign them to template variables and add the variables to the template file as well. The changes in any one file (e.g. viewtopic.php) should give you an idea of what you need to do, but how you get the data is another matter.

[AylaAsperger]

I've tried to look at the instructions for viewtopic and find out how I can install it in other files, but I cant seem to find any of the matches in the other files and I don't know what to change. I started with the files for pm's because they arent changed by the mod currently. And the PM is a standard function for phpbb.

[IBBoard]

Basically, anywhere that you find something that looks like:

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get_user_rank($user_row['user_rank'], $user_row['user_posts'], $user_row['rank_title'], $user_row['rank_image'], $user_row['rank_image_src']);

then add something like:

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	if (defined('SHOW_SPECIAL_AS_EXTRA') && SHOW_SPECIAL_AS_EXTRA)
	{
		$user_row['extra_rank_title'] = $user_row['rank_title'];
		$user_row['extra_rank_img'] = $user_row['rank_image'];
		$user_row['extra_rank_img_src'] = $user_row['rank_img_src'];
		$user_row['rank_title'] = $user_row['rank_img'] = $user_row['rank_img_src'] = '';

		get_user_additional_rank($user_row['user_rank'], $user_row['user_posts'], $user_row['rank_title'], $user_row['rank_image'], $user_row['rank_image_src']);
	}
	else
	{
		get_user_additional_rank($user_row['user_rank'], $user_row['user_posts'], $user_row['extra_rank_title'], $user_row['extra_rank_img'], $user_row['extra_rank_img_src']);
	}

to pull in the extra ranks in either the "extra_..." indexes or pull them in to the standard indexes having swapped the standard indexes to the extra indexes.
(code copied and pasted from the PM code)

Then you just need to make sure that your variable names and indexes are correct (it might not be "rank_title" everywhere) and then add them as template variables:

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		'EXTRA_RANK_TITLE'	=> $extra_rank_title,
		'EXTRA_RANK_IMG'	=> $extra_rank_img,
		'EXTRA_RANK_IMG_SRC'=> $extra_rank_img_src,

and use the variables in the template.

Beyond that then I can't really comment as I can't hope to support every combination of addons that display ranks. Hopefully it helps, though.

[AylaAsperger]

Thank you very much! I am going to look at this after dinner and try it out! Your help is much appreciated!

[Paul]

MOD Updated to version 1.2
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[Marc]

MOD Updated to version 1.2.3
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