Moderator forum link query

scojones

Hey there,
So, have a look at a post by me (this one), you see where it says "Mod: Horse Racing" and has a link to the horse racing forum. How is this implemented?

ecksor

There's a field in your user profile called "moderates" that can be seen in the admin control panel that sets it.

scojones

Cheers ecksor. Is that a standard vbulletin thing, or is it custom user profile field that you created?

ecksor

We've had it for years, I'm think it's standard.

scojones

I just checked there and it's definitely not standard. It must be some sort of profile hack.

Sparky

sjones wrote:

I just checked there and it's definitely not standard. It must be some sort of profile hack.

John Breslin aka Cloud made this system in which it uses your forumbits from the database and via php adds them to a user profile field set by yourself.

there will be a file called modtitles.php as John has here.
http://www.johnbreslin.com/wiki/index.php/VBulletin_Moderator_Titles_Add-On

You will notice how usergroups are displayed as 6,5,7. These are the same usergroups that allow for the Admin, Smod text to be added on.

Once you have your script saved and uploaded onto your server, your next task is to create a single user profile field box which if you never done it before becomes field 5

Now next thing is to go into your style and edit either the postbit template or the postbit_legacy (the postbit_legacy look is like what boards has now, where the user info is on the left)

Then depending on where you want to add the title in the user info area, add

<div><if condition="$post['field5']"><div>$post[field5]</div></if>

Once set up, run the script to add the modtitles.

If you have any difficulty, PM me and I can try and sort it out for ya.