Listings for special member levels have special icons

[briano]

I need to have a special user level, something like "Gold Member". I need it so that when they post a listing, their listings have a special "Gold Member" icon that distinguishes them from other members.

Is something like this possible? Did some searching and could not find any thing like this.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by briano

I need to have a special user level, something like "Gold Member". I need it so that when they post a listing, their listings have a special "Gold Member" icon that distinguishes them from other members.

Is something like this possible? Did some searching and could not find any thing like this.

With the developer edition, just about anything is possible since you have access to almost all the scripts to modify.

Exactly where you want the "gold member" icon to appear will ultimately determine how dificult it will be to do.

[briano]

Well, it would need to appear on the search results page, catagory view page (with the listings within each catagory, and on the listing itself. This way people can see right away that the listing is from the special member level.

After thinking about it over night I think I could probably do an IF statement that looks for the poster's member level, but I'll have to dig a little more to see how to call that out. Something like:

{if $Memberlevel="Gold"}
<td><img src="gold-member-icon.jpg"></td>
{/if}

I know that's not the correct code, but I think something similar with the correct variables *might* work. Maybe it wouldn't be that simple. I'll do some more digging this afternoon when I have time.

[Lhotch]

Generally speaking, member information isnt gathered when querying ads for display.

Off the top of my head you could probably accomplish what you want to do in one of a couple ways. One would be to assign gold members thier own membership level. The other would be to use one of the registration extra fields.

Either way though would require that all of the ad queries be modified to collect this extra data from the user table so it can be associated with an ad.

[briano]

Thank you for the help, Lhotch. I have it semi working, but I'm still digging around in the code and making sure I'm doing it correctly. I'll work on it and post my code to see if I'm causing any problems.