Description: Allows you to place little graphics next to users in special groups (similar to the admin/mod flags). You can set which groups and create your own images to use.
New Files: You will need to create images (special.gif or special1.gif etc...) as needed and upload them to your /images directory
Database Altered: none
Info/Instructions: Pay special attention to the notes, as if you have more or less groups, you may need to adjust the code as necessary.
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Note: If you modify your UBB.Threads code, you may be giving up your right for "official" support from Infopop.If you need official support, you'll need to restore unmodified files.
Im planning to use it for members that play different online games. Right now Im testing it to show a Halo 2 image and linking that image to the reveliant persosn stats for that game.
In that case you will need to change it a bit more. You will need to leave the {$postrow[$i]['UserStatus']} where it is and introduce a new array dimention something like {$postrow[$i]['NewImage']} which will be populated according to the group that the user belongs to (and then you can distiguish whether mods/admins are affected by this or not) and display any information you need from there on.
Edit: And of course you will place the {$postrow[$i]['NewImage']} wherever you want in the template to be shown. The same thing happens with showthreaded screens - the names of the variables differ a bit.
Josh, I noticed that on the postlist.php edits t1.B_Body is missing off the end of both the original and replacement SELECT statement lines. I kept them in on mine. (running 6.5 latest release).
This is dependant on usergroup - so what this is mostly used for - if you offer subscriptions/donations via MyPaymentPal or similar - you can give those folks a ribbon next to their name after they make payment. This one is totally automatic - and next to the username like an admin/mod flag. You have to define each Admin selectable ratings on a user by user bases.
This is nifty . . . but I'd like to see something that instead of giving users of a specific group a special flag, would set up a color class for their names (like modname and adminname) that a new stylesheet element could be defined for, so that a specific group could be made to stand out by name color on the boards, rather than by a status flag.
Great mod. I have been trying to get the "special" group name to display in the Who's Online screen. I added the text I want displayed to the language file. But trying to set the Status by the U_Groups feild has not worked. I'm sure it's something little I'm missing. Thanks.
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