Message Board Rank Suggestion

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:00 pm

well I had an idea for the Org but unfortunately its probably impossible to code
but to have custom ranks on the message board reflect the person's studio
and draw that information from the table that contains the studio info for each member

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:18 pm

I know nothing about how much coding that would take, but it seems like a cool idea.

But you'd probably want to make it optional; some people might not want such a title.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:23 pm

well after looking at how Phade has this set up that could probably be handled with the edit profile feature in the main site as he has it set up to show if you donated or not depending on how you have that preferance set there

as for coding it probably would take a lot

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:44 pm

you could post info on your studio in your sig.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:39 pm

It wouldn't take much code at all. I don't have the org or phpbb table names in front of me, but the revised query would probably resemble

Code: Select all

SELECT ..., s.EgoInflatingName FROM ..., Users u, Studios s WHERE s.userid = u.userid AND u.userid=...

so from there, you'd just toss another key-value pair to the phpbb template formatter. Of course, this assumes a 1:1 relationship between user and studio, which isn't always the case. It would probably be better to do it as separate queries, an outer left join (ick), or whatever the .org database schema requires.

Technical issues aside, I'm not sure exactly what that would add in terms of board functionality that you couldn't just do in your sig, as downwithpants suggested. Hacking phpbb is fun, but it's not always useful, and in a production environment you want things to work as opposed to looking cool.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:58 pm

wow this got better response than my last suggestion

LightningCountX · Post by **LightningCountX** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:49 am

thats a pretty cool idea, id like to have LoD Productions under my name

having it optional is also a bonus. If you can enter the title yourself in your profile, that would be cool. Phade would be pissed if he had to do over 1000 custom titles

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:47 am

well the ideas would be that it listed the Studio you have listed in your Main Site Profile so it would be whatever you have there