[2.0.20] Annual Stars

[Extensions Robot]

MOD Name: Annual Stars
Author: drathbun
MOD Description: This MOD adds one star per each 365 days of membership on a user's profile, their entry on the memberlist, and on viewtopic.


MOD Version: 1.0.2 (Updated 05/10/06)

Download File: annual_stars.1.0.2.zip
mods overview page: View
File Size: 3926 Bytes

Security Score: 0

Support for this MOD needs to be asked within this topic. The phpBB Teams are not responsible or required to give anyone support for this MOD. By installing this MOD, the phpBB Support Team or phpBB MODifications Team may not be able to provide support.

This MOD has only been tested by the phpBB MOD Team with the phpBB version in the topic title. It may not work in any other versions of phpBB.

[webmacster87]

MOD Validated/Released

Notes:
This MOD will add a number of stars to a users' profile, posts, and the memberlist indicating how many years he/she has been registered to the board.

[drathbun]

FAQ

• Help, I installed the MOD but no stars show up! What did I do wrong?
  First make sure you uploaded the graphic, and that you referenced the proper path in the admin panel.
  Next, make sure you have at least one user that has been a member of your board for at least a year.
• Does this MOD handle leap years?
  No, it does not. It was much easier to simply subtrace 365 days from the current date and compare to the registration date. As a result, the "annual" nature of this Annual Stars MOD is a bit compromised.
• Will you make a special graphic for me?
  Nope, my skills are not in that area. There are several colors of stars provided in the download package that work well for light-colored backgrounds. A user has provided a collection of stars that can be used for dark-color backgrounds as well. If you create something and would like to share it, feel free to send me a PM with the details, and I will be happy to host the images.

Edit History:
2007-08-13 : Added FAQ and download link to stars for dark-colored background boards

Screen shots:

Admin Control Panel


Memberlist


Profile


On a post (viewtopic)


Samples showing more than one year of membership



Additional graphics provided:
Download stars for dark background - provided by DizzyDazzle, thanks

[igorw]

Thanks! Installing!

[-SV-]

Nice mod!

Thought about writing something like this myself, but now it appears I don't have to

Thanks!

[Xusqui]

Nice mod!!!

I'll try it...

[Peter77sx]

Congrats on the MOD release! it's a nice little mod.

[drathbun]

One important point that came out in the testing... you do need to have at least one member of your board that has been a member for at least 365 days before you will see any stars (or other graphic of choice).

I released a very generic version of the MOD. In my case, I know exactly what the image is so I specify the height and width attributes as part of the <img src="..."> code. The released version does not provide those attributes since I have no idea what size image folks might use.

[observe]

In my latest version of phpbb, there is also the registration time, which is before the stars.
How can I avoid to show the time?

tnx

[drathbun]

Two points, first, if you want to remove the time only, the easiest thing to do would be to open viewtopic_body.tpl and remove this code:

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<br />{postrow.POSTER_JOINED}

Now as to the MOD as released, there is one subtle thing missing that everyone might want to do. It has nothing to do with security or functionality. It will make your board match the screen shots. There are several options, the easiest of which is to open your existing viewtopic_body.tpl and find this

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{postrow.POSTER_TERM_IMG}

and before that, in the same line, add a break as in this

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<br />

That will put the stars on a new line, which is the intended function of the MOD as shown in the screen shots. The existing code misses that break and adds the stars to the end of the joined date, which is not what was intended.

I will update and release 1.0.2 as quickly as I can. My apologies for the inconvenience.

I've said this over and over... writing the code is the easy part. Writing up the MOD template install instructions gets me nearly every time, no matter how careful I am.

[drumstix42]

This is a cool idea. I think I may just install it

[observe]

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{postrow.POSTER_TERM_IMG}

and before that, in the same line, add a break as in this

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<br />

It's just what I've done. Thank you.
(but the hour is just a foolish thing....i wonder if it's in the vanilla version or in some mod i uploaded - how to delete it? )

observe

[drathbun]

If you are getting the time as part of the registration date, I would look in viewtopic.php and find the code that sets up the variable POSTER_JOINED and see if there is some sort of format being applied.

FYI, I went over the MOD install notes last night prior to resubmitting, and the change that I will be submitting is not the same as what I posted above. If you look at the code used to create the variable $poster_term_img within viewtopic.php it adds a conditional <br /> after the string if there are any stars to be assigned, otherwise it leaves it off. In other words, we handle the <br /> at the end of the code.

All you need to do to change the code from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 is change one of the find statements from this:

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{postrow.POSTER_JOINED}

to this

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{postrow.POSTER_JOINED}<br />

and the following in-line find as well. This will result in the variable {postrow.POSTER_TERM_IMG} being displayed after the break, as intended. The <br /> is already there in the standard phpBB subSilver template.

[deejaybet]

...the height and width attributes as part of the <img src="..."> code. The released version does not provide those attributes since I have no idea what size image folks might use.

can u not just leave the attributes out and let the file load normally ? it will just load its original size

also... how does this show along with the ranks?

[ycl6]

MOD Updated to version 1.0.2
See first post for Download Link