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ALTER TABLE `dle_users` ADD `point_num` mediumint(8) NOT NULL default '0' // <-- point_num Ваше поле

$db->query( "UPDATE " . USERPREFIX . "_users SET news_num=news_num+1, point_num=point_num+1 WHERE user_id='{$member_id['user_id']}'" ); // <-- point_num Ваше поле

$db->query("UPDATE " . USERPREFIX . "_users SET news_num=news_num-1, point_num=point_num-1 WHERE name='{$row['autor']}'"); // <-- point_num Ваше поле

    if( $row['signature'] and $user_group[$row['user_group']]['allow_signature'] ) {
        $tpl->set_block( "'\\[signature\\](.*?)\\[/signature\\]'si", "\\1" );
        $tpl->set( '{signature}', stripslashes( $row['signature'] ) );
    } else {
        $tpl->set_block( "'\\[signature\\](.*?)\\[/signature\\]'si", "" );
        $tpl->set( '{signature}', "" );    
    }

    if( $row['point_num'] ) {
        $tpl->set_block( "'\\[point-num\\](.*?)\\[/point-num\\]'si", "\\1" );
        $tpl->set( '{point-num}', $row['point_num'] );
    } else {
        $tpl->set_block( "'\\[point-num\\](.*?)\\[/point-num\\]'si", "" );
        $tpl->set( '{point-num}', "" );    
    }

{point-num} или [point-num]{point-num}[/point-num]