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There is only one line of code different between the two versions of ranking.php. It is on line 8 and reads $info .= '<br>'."\n\t\t\t\t\t\t".$user_title;.

If you want to get rid of titles for mods and admins then you can simply comment it out like this //$info .= '<br>'."\n\t\t\t\t\t\t".$user_title;. Remember if you do this you also get rid of custom titles for mods and admins.

I just had a look at your board. What might look good is to have different colour stars above rank 5 i.e. Grandmasters. What I mean is for ranks 1 to 5 you get the normal blue stars say 3 bright blue stars and 2 dull blue stars. Above rank 5 you get red stars so a Grandmaster would get 5 bright blue stars plus one red star.

Have you both got it working now.

Sorry, my hosts are upgrading their servers and because its mainly for business use they do it late at night.

The file that is there now includes a fix which allows titles for mods and admins as well as a graphic. You can use custom titles for everybody but they should still get ranked according to the number of posts they have made.

If everything worked OK then your sites should look like my test site. You can use any graphics you want as long as they fit in the column.

They only thing you can't do is to have different graphics for individual members of the same rank. For instances, if you have mods with titles of mod, supermod and ultramod they all get the same graphic because they are all moderators. I am going to have a good look at invisionbaord and phpbb to see how they handle it and then come up with v2 of this mod.

If you want it to work differently let me know, it really is very easy to change things.

OK. Fixed it. Download the zip again. The only file you have to replace is ranking.php.

It is probably better this way anyway. Now you could have a graphic for mods and admins which didn't have any text in it, just a picture.

EDIT

I have now changed the graphics for admin and mod if you want to try the new ones. Having problems with the server at the moment, file is there but cannot download. I think they are upgrading.

Finished, at least for testing purposes. Files and instructions here.
http://www.post21.co.uk/psfiles

Manne and others, I have included a pre-modified version of viewtopic.php if you don't want to bother with the editing yourself.

Sample graphics are included but the idea is that users will come up with their own undoubtedly superior offerings.

This is only being released for testing purposes. I will release it as a mod in the proper way shortly and post the announcement in the proper forum.

Kennel. My coding is somewhat primitive. If you have the time could you check that I haven't done anything silly. I have made it as modular as possible. There are only 11 lines of extra code in viewtopic.php everything else being done with file includes.

Improved version is currently in the planning stage which will allow options to be set through the Admin interface.

EDIT

Just to reassure everybody, this does not alter the database in any way and does not write to any files. As far as I can see the worst that could happen is you would have to re-upload viewtopic.php. If you have already made modifications to this file please be sure to back it up.

As far as I know the value of the base url is stored in the options table of the PunBB database not in a file. The short answer is to alter it just edit the database entry.

Just tidied it up a bit. And before you ask mannesan, yes I can do the stars in yellow.

I don't claim credit for the graphics, I used that well know web designing technique known as surf 'n' steal.

Good idea. It could have something like a silver bar for mods and a gold bar for admins. It doesn't actually have any options at all apart from adapting itself to the number of ranks or the users own images. I wanted to avoid altering any of the admin php files. I suppose I could change it so it will look for a special graphic file for admins and mods and default to my method if it can't find one.

I had a go at this. I put a test board up at http://www.post21.co.uk/forum
Excuse the rubbish graphics, they were for test purposes only. I must admit, not knowing any php did make it a little difficult

Its http://www.mysql.com (not .net)

Were you actually asking about making an sql database on your own pc or on your IP's server?

Nice job. Its looking pretty slick now.

Nice. If you want it to blend with your site you could do this.

http://www.post21.co.uk/files/hewitt1.png

Thats good to know. I am of the school of thought that thinks people using version 4 browsers should be given a quick redirect and instructions on how to upgrade. Trying to make anything compatible with all versions of browsers just increases the size of html and seriously limits the effectiveness of CSS. Interestingly I noticed that the latest incarnation of Invision Board which is standards compliant (unlike version 1.1) has problems with old browsers.