Allows a user to send a gift to another member.

This is a role based feature. Just check 'Can give a gift to a user' on the 'Roles & Permissions' page for those roles you wish to be able to give gifts. 'Give a gift' will appear as a link on the 'Account Options' side panel menu list.

Sending a gift
A 'gift' link will appear next to each comment. Click on the link to send a gift to the author.
It is also possible to send a gift by using the link on the 'side bar' when viewing a user's account profile.

Compatability with UserAward
Version 1.0.2 or later of UserAward should be used if this extension is to be used at the same time as UserGifts.

User Preferences
Users can select how their gifts are displayed from the Account|Forum Preferences form.

Included Gifts
NB For copyright reasons, the included gifts must not be used in a commercial site.

Important
The format of the 'gifts.php' file will change to cope with gift levels etc. (see below) so only upload your own gifts if you are using a test site.

If you have created your own gifts do not upload the gifts folder and gifts.php to your server.

Version History
Version 0.8b
- Fixed unexpected & error

Version 0.7b
- Fixed error on sign-in
- Fixed error where gifts icon not appearing on account page

Version 0.6b
- Fixed error message when deleting gift type

Version 0.4b
- Sorted problem with repeated sorting of the awards.
- Fixed problem with deleting award types and then adding a new award type which resulted in the incorrect gift being displayed.
- Removed need to override image cache. Each gift image is now unique.
- Can now delete all gift types

Version 0.3b
- Added 'Do not accept gifts' and 'Make gifts I receive visible to all' settings to the forum preferences form
- Only show Real Name if user has enabled the option to make their name visible
- Fixed problem where not entering a gift message was returning to the wrong user
- No longer necessary to include a message
- Removed settings page (not needed for the time being)
- Added simple pagination - show 3 newest gifts

Version 0.2b
- Minor code changes

Version 0.1b
- First beta release

Things I'm working on:
- Send an automatic email when a gift is sent.
- Users to qualify for different levels of gifts depending on the number of posts made.
- Improve pagination to include multiple pages.
- A way of limiting the number of gifts a user can send.

Donations
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AWESOME!!!!!
thanks a bunch

Great add-on mm. In terms of your roadmap for features, can I suggest some form of pagination (maybe 3 or 5 of the latest gifts displayed on the account page, with a link to the older ones... like The Wall add-on has)?

[settings] -> [application settings] -> [discussion and control panel listings] would be the best place for that setting.

Version number changed from 0.2 Beta to 0.3 Beta.

Fantastic add-on. Thanks very much!

I think it'd be useful if the admin could set a limit on how many gifts a user can send within a given time frame. At the moment my users are spamming each other silly with hundreds of gifts.

Uploaded version 0.4 Beta of UserGifts.

so umm
where did you get your images from (the gift one)
i wanted to find some more to add,
thanks

thanks
how did you change the format form .ico to png, also how did you make it smaller size
i put it in the ftp and changed it to png
but i dunno if that is right

* i think you should add categories so that we can have different categories with different gifts in them
also page numbers within each category or even if not in the category in the base folder (maybe you have some uncategorized gifts or whatever) and you can have page numbers there too

sound confusing?

From your post I can't know what the problem is.
Do you get any error messages?

this is the error i get when logging into the test account
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/chadamga/public_html/forum.chadamgames.com/extensions/UserGifts/default.php on line 544

Please tell me what happend
this is happening to at least 3 people.
rest works

I have a simple fix, but the gift images dowsent show on the profile page.
The error is showing on php5 because oop is different.
$this can only be used inside an object.
It's a reference to itself, as you could guess.

From outside the object, you must use the instance name of the object.
there have been a lot of changes between php4 and php5.


code: (at line 544)
$NoticeCollector->AddNotice('<span><a href="./" '.'id="RemoveMessage'.$Row['GiftID'].'" '.'onclick="RemoveGiftMessage(\''.$Context->Configuration['WEB_ROOT'].'extensions/UserGifts/ajax/remove.php\', \''.$Row['GiftID'].'\', \'RemoveMessage'.$Row['GiftID'].'\'); return false;">'.$Context->GetDefinition('UserGiftsHide').'</a></span>'.GetImage($Context->Configuration['WEB_ROOT'].'extensions/UserGifts/gifts/'.$Context->UserGiftsGifts['Icon'][$Row['Gift']]).'<br/>'.$Giftmessage);

Getting this error right after enabling the extension?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home/wohoo/public_html/BLABLA/talkbox/extensions/UserGifts/default.php on line 663

Uploaded version 0.8 Beta of UserGifts.