(Done 1.4.x, 1.5.x) YaBB version mod

[old dan]

If you're proud of your Yabb version and want to show it off (inspired by the 1.5.3 upgrade).
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<ID>
YaBB Version Mod
</ID>

<Version>
1.0
</Version>

<Mod Info>
Proudly display your Yabb version on your front page.
</Mod Info>

<Author>
Dan E. Monk (old dan)
</Author>

<Edit File>
English.lng
</Edit File>

<Search For>
$yycopyright = "<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"1\"> $mbname | Powered by <a href=\"http://www.yabbse.org/index.php?affiliate=$mbname;l=$boardurl;v=$YaBBversion\" target=\"_blank\">YaBB SE</a><br />\n© 2001-2003, YaBB SE Dev Team. All Rights Reserved.</font>";
</Search For>

<Replace>
$yycopyright = "<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"1\"> $mbname | Powered by <a href=\"http://www.yabbse.org/index.php?affiliate=$mbname;l=$boardurl;v=$YaBBversion\" target=\"_blank\">$YaBBversion</a><br />\n© 2001-2003, YaBB SE Dev Team. All Rights Reserved.</font>";
</Replace>
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I would appreciate it if someone could translate this for me.


To see it in action go to
http://olddan.themonks.info/Board/
and scroll down to the bottom of the page.

[charlottezweb]

Care to explain this?  

Members: 2726  &#8226;  Posts: 237  &#8226;  Topics: 21  

I'm confused

[old dan]

Care to explain this?  

Members: 2726  •  Posts: 237  •  Topics: 21  

I'm confused

Not sure what (Members: 2726  •  Posts: 237  •  Topics: 21 ) has to do with the mod. And it has very little to do with my test board (http://olddan.themonks.info/Board/), as only 2 of those members ever post. Me and my alter ego.

About the mod: it's very trivial. All it does is change the link to Yabb from YaBB SE to Powered by YaBB SE 1.5.3  (provided you have 1.5.3 installed, otherwise it will display your current version)

The reason I did this is I installed the upgrade to 1.5.3 and then rolled the mouse over the link to see if it displayed. Well the link is too long and cut off before the version was displayed. So I changed the text in english.lng. Then I thought maybe others would like to do the same so I wrote up this mod.

This may be the simplest mod ever written. It's actually a warmup for another mod I'm going to make. I just wanted to see if I still remembered everything.

[[Unknown]]

Mind if I include this mod in my project/1.6.0?  .

I've always thought this was a good idea... never understood why the version isn't down there.

So what's this new other mod...?

-[Unknown]

[old dan]

Mind if I include this mod in my project/1.6.0?  .

I've always thought this was a good idea... never understood why the version isn't down there.
-[Unknown]

no problem, in fact I'd be honored.

So what's this new other mod...?

-[Unknown]

it's a secret.   (j/k)

It's a new post based membergroup mod so you can add, change or delete post based membergroups from the admin panel. And there's no limit to how many groups you can make. I'm testing it out now.

[[Unknown]]

I've done a lot of work on that kinda thing.  How does this compare?

I posted this:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS {$db_prefix}post_groups (
  ID_GROUP smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
  minPosts smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  stars tinyint(4) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  starImage tinytext NOT NULL default 'star.gif',
  PRIMARY KEY (ID_GROUP),
  KEY minPosts (minPosts)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

INSERT IGNORE INTO {$db_prefix}post_groups
  (ID_GROUP, minPosts, stars, starImage)
VALUES
  (1, 0, 5, 'staradmin.gif'),
  (2, 0, 5, 'starmod.gif'),
  (3, 0, 1, 'star.gif'),
  (4, 50, 2, 'star.gif'),
  (5, 100, 3, 'star.gif'),
  (6, 250, 4, 'star.gif'),
  (7, 500, 5, 'star.gif'),
  (8, 0, 5, 'stargmod.gif');

SELECT pg.ID_GROUP, pg.stars, pg.starImage, mg.membergroup
FROM {$db_prefix}post_groups AS pg, {$db_prefix}membergroups AS mg
WHERE (pg.minPosts<$posts OR ID_GROUP=$ID_GROUP)
  AND pg.ID_GROUP=mg.ID_GROUP
ORDER BY pg.minPosts DESC
LIMIT 1

If the user's a mod, the ID_GROUP should... possibly?... be changed to 2.

Thoughts?

Do note this is for my project, and in it ID_GROUP is used instead of memberGroup.

-[Unknown]

[charlottezweb]

I was just curious  

Cool mod though.

[old dan]

I've done a lot of work on that kinda thing.  How does this compare?

I posted this:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS {$db_prefix}post_groups (
  ID_GROUP smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
  minPosts smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  stars tinyint(4) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  starImage tinytext NOT NULL default 'star.gif',
  PRIMARY KEY (ID_GROUP),
  KEY minPosts (minPosts)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

INSERT IGNORE INTO {$db_prefix}post_groups
  (ID_GROUP, minPosts, stars, starImage)
VALUES
  (1, 0, 5, 'staradmin.gif'),
  (2, 0, 5, 'starmod.gif'),
  (3, 0, 1, 'star.gif'),
  (4, 50, 2, 'star.gif'),
  (5, 100, 3, 'star.gif'),
  (6, 250, 4, 'star.gif'),
  (7, 500, 5, 'star.gif'),
  (8, 0, 5, 'stargmod.gif');

SELECT pg.ID_GROUP, pg.stars, pg.starImage, mg.membergroup
FROM {$db_prefix}post_groups AS pg, {$db_prefix}membergroups AS mg
WHERE (pg.minPosts<$posts OR ID_GROUP=$ID_GROUP)
  AND pg.ID_GROUP=mg.ID_GROUP
ORDER BY pg.minPosts DESC
LIMIT 1

If the user's a mod, the ID_GROUP should... possibly?... be changed to 2.

Thoughts?

Do note this is for my project, and in it ID_GROUP is used instead of memberGroup.

-[Unknown]

Cool, I'll hold off on mine.

Interesting question about moderators. doesn't that change depending if they are in a forum they moderate or not?

Looking at your code the major difference between your mod and mine is the way we handle stars. In mine I just used single gifs. In other words for a group with 5 stars the gif would be 5 stars rather than 5 individual star gifs. That way I only needed to add one more field to the db and kept everything in the membergroups table. Plus it makes it more flexible in case a user wants to use something beside stars. Adding the gif name would be good. I just used 'userstar = star[post count].gif'.

anyway, this is something that has been needed to be done for a long time. I really liked and used Thunderaces mod. And he was of course my inspiration.

[old dan]

I was just curious  

Cool mod though.

thanks. And curiousity is good. Unless you're a cat.