Nice that you made such a system Looks very clever! Thumbs up m8!

What's really neat is once you created the code, just copy and paste it to other templates to display user's awards elsewhere.

And if you want to add an award to the system, just add a profile field, note the ID, add the award code (just like all the others) where the award should go (if you have a specific order, like the military does) and it works perfectly.

can i get it so it just has the ranks (candian)?????


i have the pictuers

Simple. First step, make a usergroup for each rank. An ENTIRE usergroup for Trained Private, Corporal, Master Corporal, etc. What I did to keep it organized is name the usergroups like so:

Paygrade, Rank Name
E-1 Trained Private
E-2 Corporal
E-3 Master Corporal
E-4 Sergeant
Etc. (I may be getting the ranks a little off, I use www.uniforminsignia.net and those are the only for Enlisted ranks they display for the Dominion of Canada.

Once the usergroups are setup, write down each usergroup ID for refference.

Now place the code in the template where you want it. I have my postbit legacy templates setup like so:

Username
User Title [custom user title]
Rank [I made special images for the ranks, so it's not just the insignia, but whatever you have for the image goes here]
Awards
User Info [Location etc]

Here's the code:
You'll want a new "IF" line for every single rank. X reperesents the usergroup ID of the rank. Y is the rank insignia image URL. What the line says is "IF the user is in this USERGROUP then display this IMAGE" I may be dumbing it down a bit much but now EVERYONE can understand. I put the <br> at the end because directly below I have the awards. If you don't want to use awards, you may not need the BR. I put it there in case and if your postbit is too spaced out, just delete it.

Sorry if this took a LONG time, I haven't visited in a while.

The advantage of having a usergroup for each rank is not only is it simple to promote someone, but you can give higher ranking members the ability to do certain things. I for one have my Sergeant Majors moderating certain forums. My Brigadier General can edit users profiles via the admincp and give out awards and such. Generals have full administrative access etc. The one thing you have to watch out for is you would be wise to not change the "Registered Users" usergroup like I did. It's good to have each member in that usergroup because you can give "universal" permission to everyone rather than editing each usergroup to do the basic stuff.

Another thing, remember to check off ranks when giving promotions. If you have more than one checked as an additional or primary usergroup, the user will display two ranks.

Sorry to keep posting, I hope nobody minds.

For Awards, the US Army displays 3 ribbons per row If you simply user the code I put in the first post, you'll get a long line of ribbons for the more experienced members. Here's how to stack them. IE doesnt' like this so use Netscape or FireFox.

Put the <table> tags around the entire awards tags. Get the combined width of 3 ribbons in pixesl (or however many you want to display per row). Add a couple pixesl to that number for leniency. Now put the table tags around the awards like so:

Every time the combined width of the ribbons exceeds X, it will goto the next row. IE doesn't bnd the table to these limits all the time like it SHOULD, FireFox does. If you goto www.oxy-moron.net you'll see the awesome ribbons thing we have going on. If you WANT, you can put the defined table width tags around the ribbons and then not around the medals. If you WANT to let people display as many medals as they wish you canot stack them like the military does where they dangle over one another. If you stack them like the ribbons it won't look good. So just don't put table tags around the medals and they will stretch the postbit. On my site, I don't allow people to wear more than 4 medals at a time. They can be exchagned upon request for the corresponding ribbon at any time.

GOOD IDEA:
Some people would like to have a "store" where you can buy items and display them in your postbit. Well, we all know we have the usergroup subscription feature. All you have to do is set up a usergroup with the name of the item that is to be purchased. Once the person pays the money, they join the usergroup for that item. Then user the smae way you use to display ranks. If IS_MEMBER_OF. See what I'm saying? Then when they are in the usergroup, they are displaying the image of the item they purchased. You as the admin can put people in these usergroups too as "gifts" or "contests" to up the activity a little bit. That's how I display the "Medals of Generocity", you have to pay via paypal OR give me the money in person and I just add them in the usergroup manually.

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