Hey William,

That 2 liner code you shouldn't add into your custom .badge file, what this 2 liner code we mentioned here is you can use this method to achieve your custom badge for your site user.

To implement this, first you have to understand how user get your custom badge first.

Let me use one of the example to explain this :

>> One of the existing search badge in Easysocial

1. First you have to create similar this rules file and store it as this file format .badge , you can take a look this example located at this file location JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easysocial/defaults/badges/search.badge

2. That command section you have to set any keyword for this but make sure your command is unique e.g. you can put something like custom.searchbadge and this command is very important.

3. Once you created the rules file, you can upload your custom .badge file from backend > Easysocial > achievement > install

4. Once you installed, this badge will appear on backend > Easysocial > achievement listing

5. How the user get this build-in search badge in Easysocial, you have to add one line of code into this function, you can open this file -> JoomlaFolder/components/com_easysocial/controllers/search.php
screenshot : http://take.ms/QSTn3
This code function is when the user trying to search something in Easysocial, it will go through this method from this php file, so system will stored this who perform this search, it will log 1 record into database.

I hope my explanation will help you understand more about this.

By the way, if you still unable to install it, can you zip your .badge file then attach into your next reply so I can better have a check and see whether you have wrote the correct syntax?

And can you share with us how you want to allow your site user to achieve your custom badge?