Its a good component your one
lol, i liked it i just thought that it would be a giant pain in the a** to have to add points manually and that there had to be a better way to do it.
You were right about Marc, he was fantastic. I haven't spoken to him in awhile but i assume he is still good.
In regards to your questions, i have a few suggestions but don't really have much time up my sleeve today to look into them, however i will put it somewhere on my to-do list for now. If you are worried about the profile update feature, you can just set the points to 0, it means people won't get awarded for updating their profiles, but i the scheme of things for now it might not be a huge issue.
The workaround i had in my head for preventing people from updating their profile more than once was possibly to make use of the community builder profile updated field, whilst i don't know much about it i guess it would be possible to reference to it in the mambot, so for example on a conditional statement it went something like this:
If cb_profile_updated field = today then
end
else
profile point code continues here.
something like that would probably work i guess and the bonus to using the CB field is that it would put less strain on a big site as it is only a quick db lookup, the other option would be a little harder i think, and making another table in the component that logs dates, and checking to see if the date matches today, but i think the cb way is much better.
Im sorry that at the moment i don't have much time to look into it, these were just ideas i came up with whilst i was at work, with my mind somewhere else as per usual.... now jusst struggling with amazon.com concepts and the works :S.
In regards to your other question, how hard would it be to modify the mambot to award people for making blog posts, or entering videos, or in your custom golf component, it depends on the way you want to do it. As per usual there is an eas...ier way and a hard way. but the component has the custom1,2 and 3 fields in the table so you can use the code to add to other components.
Probobly the easiest way to get it to work, is annoying but is to hack the code a little bit, and find the points in each of the components where the entry is saved, after validation and to insert the add points code into that space.
In the file i have uploaded there is a readme.txt file that explains the addpoints call, but you could use the addpoints call in the component to lookup the value of say custom1, and award points. the only problem with that is that if components are updated, you need to add them into the updated components again.
The other way to do it is to have a look at the mambot codes, Marc was ingenious in his logic here, but basically the mambot looks for when content is submitted and looks to see 2 things, firstly what the component is, and secondly what the task was. If you have a look at the url in a test site with SEF turned off, you will see the component and the task. If you then looked at the components that you want to use, say myblog, you might find something like this:
index2.php?option=com_myblog&no_html=1&admin=1&task=edit&Itemid=0
in this case if you have a look at the mambot the code would be something like this... again very untested so you will have to have a play with it.
the component here would be com_myblog, and the task would be edit, im not sure if it would work but you will have to have a play with it. i have uploaded a txt file with a suggestion, however it really is just me taking the code from weblinks and changing it, removing the validation, so i have no idea if it will work, or anything like that. in regards to your custom component, since it is custom, if it shows a task great try and work it into the mambot, however if not it might just be easier to add the code directly into your custom component (the addpoints call).
Hope it points you in the right direction.... Thanks for the origional component, its nice to see a karma system for joomla that is decent, it seams to be something that is really lacking which is funny, because i would have thought that if you want a good / big community then you need to reward people for community contributions, and a karma / points system does that perfectly.
For anyone else reading too, have a play with the mambot code, that way you can customize the component to your needs, and if you get something working then why not post it to the boards here.
Wishlist:
* Get Karma system to award points for other forums, and to add points to forum karma.
*Work it so that you can 'trade' points for goods & services in Virtuemart.
*Get my site finished, seams to be the never ending story (one of these days!)
