Groups/Contributers Page

[kenny]

As requested by JohanNL in this topic, here is a simple page that lists all your custom groups and their members. It's a very simple snippet, requiring only 1 file edit

Comment:
Some of the features:

• Group name is now a link to the memberlist groups page
• Groups rank image & title
• Config options - decide whether or not to show group rank, title and description

Demo: groups.php

I've set my page to show all custom groups as well as the pre-defined Administrators and Global Moderators. Guests, Bots ans Reg Users are hidden. You should note that any group marked as hidden will not show up on this page.

By default, the group leader is the 1st user in the list and their name is in bold. If there is no group leader, then none is shown. If there are no members, no members are shown. If there is neither a leader or any members, but the groups exists, the box will show but it will be empty. I plan on expanding on this to show messages like "The groups has no members"

All styling is done in the HTML file itself, so if you want to change font sizes or things like that, change them there. I also included a little bit of CSS3 - rounded corner borders. They only work on Mozilla and Webkit based browsers (Firefox, Safari). Just remove the CSS and the class="round" if you don't want that.

I should note that there is not pagination of any sort included with this script and it will pull all members of custom groups onto that one page. So if you have a group with 100 or 100 members, you may wish to exclude that group This snippet is ideal for small groups of people you wish to give recognition to.

[austin881]

If there is neither a leader or any members, but the groups exists, the box will show but it will be empty. I plan on expanding on this to show messages like "The groups has no members"

Could you help me figure out how to do that? I'd really like that functionality.

I see where it looks like you started to implement this...

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'S_NO_MEMBERS' => ($members['user_id'] == $user_id) ? true : false,


But obviously that won't work. I'm not sure what will though.

[kenny]

My templating skillz have improved since doing this. I found you can do this quite easily

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      <!-- BEGIN leaders -->
         <a style="display: block; border-bottom: 1px dotted #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR}; padding: 3px;" href="{groups.leaders.U_VIEW_PROFILE}" title="View Profile"><strong>&raquo;</strong> <strong style="color: #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR};">{groups.leaders.USERNAME}</strong></a>
      <!-- END leaders -->   
      <!-- BEGIN members -->
         <a style="display: block; border-bottom: 1px dotted #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR}; padding: 3px;" href="{groups.members.U_VIEW_PROFILE}" title="View Profile"><span style="color: #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR};">{groups.members.USERNAME}</span></a>         
      <!-- END members -->   

Becomes this:

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      <!-- BEGIN leaders -->
         <a style="display: block; border-bottom: 1px dotted #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR}; padding: 3px;" href="{groups.leaders.U_VIEW_PROFILE}" title="View Profile"><strong>&raquo;</strong> <strong style="color: #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR};">{groups.leaders.USERNAME}</strong></a>
      <!-- BEGINELSE -->
         <span style="display: block;">{L_NO_LEADERS}</span>   
      <!-- END leaders -->
            
      <!-- BEGIN members -->
         <a style="display: block; border-bottom: 1px dotted #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR}; padding: 3px;" href="{groups.members.U_VIEW_PROFILE}" title="View Profile"><span style="color: #{groups.GROUP_COLOUR};">{groups.members.USERNAME}</span></a>         
      <!-- BEGINELSE -->
         <span style="display: block;">{L_NO_MEMBERS}</span>   
      <!-- END members -->

And 2 new language strings for the ./mods/groups.php file:

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    'NO_LEADERS'        => 'This group does not have a leader assigned.',
    'NO_MEMBERS'        => 'There are currently no members in this group.', 

Edit: If you can confirm this is ok, I'll update the main package (ps. it's now updated on this site )

[austin881]

Wow you mean to tell me after all the silly weird things I tried in the template and in the groups.php file THAT IS THE FIX?! Don' you just love this stuff?

Thanks a million! It works great.
http://www.silveradosierra.com/groups.php

[kenny]

Excellent. That looks great
I'll upload the new package in a few minutes

[JimA]

I just edited it a little to make sure the Newly Registered Users group isn't displayed at the group page as well. Might be worth to edit in your package as well.

Open: groups.php

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// I would like to thank the wiki many times over <3 - http://wiki.phpbb.com/Template_Syntax
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM ' . GROUPS_TABLE . '
    WHERE group_type <> 2
    AND group_id > 3
    AND group_id <> 6
    ORDER BY group_name';
$result = $db->sql_query($sql); 

Inline, find:

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AND group_id <> 6

Add after (on a new line):

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AND group_name <> "NEWLY_REGISTERED" 

(I first did just a check on the Group ID, that differs however on all boards, since the feature was added in 3.0.6, so someone tipped me about the above, will work for everyone )

[kenny]

That's great, thanks Jim. I'll have the package updated in the next few days

[kenny]

And updated. Easiest thing to do is simple replace groups.php with the new file. SQL update, file header info updated and added a link to this topic in the file as well

[RMcGirr83]

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    AND group_name <> "NEWLY_REGISTERED"

Jim is a baaaaad, baaaaad boy!!

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    AND group_name != "NEWLY_REGISTERED"

[Dakin Quelia]

Excellent work, kenny.