tm-kn / staff-page

A MyBB plugin which adds a manageable page with list of staff.

Project is no longer maintained.

Staff Page

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It is a MyBB plugin, which adds a manageable page with list of staff. It creates a list of staff and allows administrators to display members and group them as they like. The page can display description of groups and members set in ACP. Groups displayed on the page are independent from the forum's users groups. In other words, this plugin gives possibility to create a small staff directory, without using MyBB's groups.

By default this plugin is displayed instead of showteam.php page, but the replcamenet can be switched off in the board settings, if you wish to use both of them at once. In this case you will need to add a link to memberlist.php?action=staff by yourself, beucase the plugin only adds redirection.

Installation

1. Unpack the plugin archive.
2. Upload content of Upload folder to your forum's root directory.
3. Go to plugins page in the ACP and install the plugin.

The page generated by this plugin is available under memberlist.php?action=staff URL.

Configuration

1. Firstly you must set administrator permissions to gain access to the Staff Page configuration. The permission can be found in the configuration section.
2. Now you can access plugin's configuration page. To do so, go to Configuration tab of ACP and choose Staff Page from the sidebar on the left. There you can manage your staff page by adding members and grouping them into groups. 🔥

Groups permissions

You can disallow users from accessing the staff page by setting it in the groups permissions in ACP.

Board settigs

In the board settings the plugin gives administrators option to set avatar size displayed on the staff page and the redirection from showteam.php can be turned off.

Author

• tm-kn <[email protected]>

Information

Project is published under the GPL v3 license.

 

Reporting issues

All issues, suggestions, ideas and feedback can be reported on the issues page of this repository. Feel free to do so. 😜

staff-page's Issues

Staff Page in the ACP won't show up on the side

Yes it is enabled for the group i'm using. Yes I do see that the owner doesn't maintain this anymore but any help would be great! I will ask the MyBB team if I don't get help here.
NVM fixed, IDK if this is new but to add the permission you go Users&Groups>Admin Permission>Then your name.Which is weird because before I just already had the Staff Page Config on the left without doing this step.

Online and offline indicator

Add online and offline indicator on the list.

Order users

Users needs to be ordered somehow. Whether by name or manually like in case of the groups.

Escaping strings while inserting settings

Language strings in the settings inserting should be escaped properly to avoid SQL injection from the language files.

Allow users to change description

Allow users to change their description if they have a suitable group permission.

Clickable avatars

Make avatars on the list clickable.

Staff Page Admin Panel Issue: Warning [2] count():

Hello!

Please see attached issue that cropped up when I created a group for the Staff Page.

Thank you!

Enable HTML in Description

HTML is enabled - it works - when viewing the description in /admin/index.php?module=config-staff_page however, HTML doesn't seem to work when viewing the page live (/memberlist.php?action=staff)

It would be great if this would work, or you could direct me to making this work. I am using BBC at the moment, but would prefer the ability to use HTML

Thanks!

Warning [2] count():

Please fix this issue. It practicality makes your addon useless when this doesn't work.

@tm-kn

Performance

Using strtolower is not necessary when using ==. It would only be necessary if you are using === which forces exact matches including type.

Instead of using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] you should use the constant THIS_SCRIPT. All core files that constant will be like filename.php. This will make your code more consistent with MyBB coding standards. Similarly, use either $mybb->input['parameter'] or $mybb->get_input($parameter) instead of the superglobal $_GET.

This part is a bit confusing:
$query = $db->simple_select('staff_page_members', '*', $group_id ? ('group_id = ' . intval($group_id)) : '1', array('order_by' => 'user_id', 'order_dir' => 'ASC'));
Overall I really dislike using ternary operators even if it is shorter. It is much harder to read.