$400 for some one to do this project for me.

[Jakeman]

I guess Kier is too busy, which is totally understandable given that he's coding vB officially now. I offered Kier $200 if he would do this for me. Because I'm anxious to get this done I'm doubling the bounty to $400. Below is a copy of the e-mail I sent Kier describing what I want done. I think it's pretty specific. Is anyone here willing to take on this task? I'll mail a check to whoever to can do this for me. Of course, I don't want a just a bunch of spaggeti code that isn't easily adapted in the future, etc. I would like it to be some what modular and documented (as I explained to Kier below). Heck, an online CP for the whole works would be sweet if it can be done. Anyways, if you think you can help me with this drop me an e-mail at the_jakeman@yahoo.com . Thanks!



I understand you are busy and stuff. I'm kinda anxious about this though. I'll cut you a $200 check if you can set me up with what I want. In case you need a memory jog: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11771

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To sum this up, I've modified your showmods hack (with your help) to list my clan member user group for my forums. That's all good. I need three other things:

1. the proper code to put into a page for counting the total number of peeps in my clan (prolly counting the admin and mod groups since they're all in my clan too).
2. The code for listing the next "x" number of calendar events on vB's calendar.
3. For the members page that lists all the members in the clan member user group, I want an e-mail column and a number of forum posts column. The e-mail column would link to vB's "send user an e-mail" page (I have it set to use e-mail forms).

See these two pages for reference (notice the red box which will contain the first two things):
http://www.mac-gamer.com/mactest/rev2/
http://www.mac-gamer.com/forum/showmods.php (your customized showmods hack)

The first two items will be on every page of the clan site. The members page will have these two things in that outlined box plus the thrid item... a dump of the clan member, admin, and mod user groups that your showmods hack it doing.

Ideally I want this idependant of the forums. It makes me a little uneasy having my clan site integrated with vB's temps... if vB gets updated them my clan sites temps can get jacked. If you could make these stand-alone pages that would be sweet. I figure it's ok to use vB's global.php connect script though. I would like it somewhat "modular" so if I were to change the layout of my clan site I can just go back and insert the code in the tables I want (html tables) and be up and running again.
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If you can do this let me know how long it will be until you can start on this and how long you think it will take. Thanks dude!

Question on implementation: To make html pages with php included that grabs from a db, is it a .html file with <?php ... ?> in the proper tables of the html page to pull the info, or is it a .php file with html inserts?

Me: I know html very well. Just learning php (as in early beginner with a bunch of thick books that I'm starting on). But I know some C++ so I have a little background.


On a side note, I think it would be cool to have support for peeps forming their own "teams"... basically a separate user group that would be listed independantly on the members listing page. Any ideas on what would be the best way to do this? For this the member listing would need to be adaptable to additional groups in the future though.

I can do it for you for free, but most likely not as cleanly as others might.

Can you tell me the usergroupid for your clan, plus any other ids for usergroups that are also part of it? I'll start off by posting you some independent code you can smack anywhere you want.

The e-mail link for members is very easy. Just put http://www.mac-gamer.com/forum/member.php?action=mailform&userid=xxxx

Whereby xxxx is whatever you have as a variable for userid (could be $userinfo[userid] or some such).

btw, you can parse php within html, but you need to define .html as php-parsed either in httpd.conf or in .htaccess.

I have it set in httpd.conf and the line looks like this either way:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml .htm .html

i AM looking for a clean job on this. I've got another guy that says he can do this for me. I would rather pay to have this done well than having some one throw together a bunch of code segments for me to insert everywhere.

the idea of php parsed html pages intrigues me though. That would make managing layouts and php displayed info much like vB's template system, right?

My bet is most people are going to be very reluctant to accept this as a paid job. You would have been better off accepting Bira's kind and selfless offer!

You are asking someone to write clean modular/upgradeable code for a beta release of vB. Do you expect them to maintain and upgrade this code indefinately with each vB release?

I've noticed even when I give free help to people, their expectations suddenly seem to resemble that of a paying employer. The emails start coming asking for this new feature or complaints that this doesn't work quite like I'd like to see etc etc... I shudder to think what it would be like if I was paid!

just my thoughts.

I know exactly what you are talking about dude. I do side jobs for people to help them with Mac stuff, then it always ends up being more than I was original contracted for.

This isn't writing stuff for vB though. It's writing code to be able to access and display info from vB's database. Hmmmm, well, I'm gonna wait for a reply from the first guy who accepted my offer. I may end up having bira write me code snipets grata.

Yeah, bira that would be cool if you could post some code snipets for me in this thread. Ummmm, I'm still curious whether it would be similar to vB's templates if I were to make .html files php parsable.

Jakeman, I'm sorry to say this but the requests you make are really easy. I don't think you should pay for them, but it's up to you. Like I said, I don't mind posting here the code you need. It's no biggie at all.

Jakeman, with regards to parsing html pages as php -

There is absolutely no difference if a page is called something.php or something.html - zero difference.

You can write an html page and in any point place <?php echo $something ?> (for example). Then, you can save that page as .html or .php - the parsing and the output will be identical.

You can look at my site http://www.atlasf1.com -- except for the Bulletin Board, almost all pages are .html and yet they ALL have php in them.

hmmm, the first guy who took me up on my offer hasn't replied to me yet.

Ya really thing my requests are easy? I always post in here asking how to do certain things like this and I never get one reply. I figured I might as well put money on it to get it done.

Ya, bira, hook it up dude. Once I make html pages php parsable then I'm on easy street except for the actual php code to echo info from the vB db.

The only thing that I think might be harder to do is making the "total member" count and member listing page adaptable to adding in more user groups (teams within the clan that have their own user group) so that the total member number would include additional user groups I add and the member listing page would also list the new user group.

I e-mailed the other guy about this... I want the member listing page to act like vB category listings. It starts out with all the categories displayed, you then click on a category and it expands that one category while leaving the other collapsed.

bira, start posting code snipets whenever you get the time. :D

Jakeman I will do it for you if you want but I don't have the time to give away stuff for free ;) (though I did move someone's forum the other day for free but let's not make a habit of it)

And there is no reason you can't just use the vb templates for this. Templates that you add aren't touched by any upgrades. Your description is just a little vague on what you want exactly.

More details:

I'm probably just gonna administer all team creation myself. There are too many dynamics that are coming to mind if team creation and adminstration were to be unadminstered and at the users disgression. What would be better is if team creation was left to me and adding people to a team after its creation is left to the leader of that team (the leader would be the moderator of their team's forum and would be able to add member's to their team/user group through their mod control panel on the forums). In order for a team admin (team forum mod) to add a user to their team the person would first have to be in the clan member user group for a team admin to be able to add them to their team. This way regular forum members that were never in the clan couldn't jump over the step of joining the clan and go straight to joining a team. Could this be done?

Of course, the member listing page on the clan site would need to reflect these teams and their members (people in that particular user group for that team). Ideally I would like a control panel for the member listing page at this point. For example, I add a new user group/team, set up the forum and mod for that team, then go to the CP for the member listing page and be able to add that new team/user group to the listing. (the point being to avoid having to deal directly with adding php code to the php file that makes the member listing in order to display a new user group since php is very new to me)

Regarding the member listing page. That would be cool it you could make it like the forum category listings in vB. The member listing page starts out just listing the "categories" of members that are all collapsed so they don't actually show the people under each category... like this:

M.A.C. Admin - total = 1

M.A.C. Members - total = 120

Team "Diablo 2" - total = 53

Team "Quake 3" - total = 62

...then you click on one of the "member categories" and it displays the people in that category and leaves the other categories collapsed but their links still there.

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freddie. I guess it would be ok to use vB's templates for all of this, but if the whole clan site was integrated with the forums then whenever you visited a clan site page it would start a session on the forums and mark the unread threads as read even when you didn't browse the forums, right?

Shesh! I've got 3 people wanting to do this for me now! Plus a couple peeps that want to do it for free. btw, Kier just messaged me and said he could still do this for me.

Here's how it's gonna play. I offered this to Kier first so I'm gonna go with him for now since he says he can still do it. Sorry to bait you guys along and then pull the offer. I'll post here if it falls through with Kier.

Shesh! I gotta redo my list of what I want done! I've got all my needs spread out among various e-mails, threads, and posts.

if Freddie will do it for you, he's worth the money. Go for it and don't even think twice about taking his offer!

seriously huh. But I think Kier has equivalent skills also. If he didn't they wouldn't have hired him onto the vB dev team. Besides, my current member listing page uses a modified version of Kier's showmods hack, so I might as well build off of what I already have.