i'll second that... EXTREME interest. If we don't see some movement in a few weeks, I might just roll up my sleeves. For websites that make revenue on selling impressions (CPM) this mod is worth thousands in ad revenue from repeat visitors.

11 months, and filburt1 never bothered attaching a new version FIXED BY vb.org MEMBERS.

Can someone post the new version?

I said this before, but it bears repeating:
Slap this up on SourceForge or Google Code and let's get some REAL development here... I'm tired of having the original poster tell us he's working on things or that he'll update it whenever.

If this was truly open source (as the author claims it to be) it should follow the rules of the General Public License... Not the Filburt1 License . It seems that for all intents and purposes, we're on our own.

I'm going to look in to what it takes to create a SourceForge or Google Code setup; perhaps someone who knows a thing or two about it could beat me to the punch?

If you give me a list of all known bugs I shall do my best to fix them.

Something can still be 'open-source' without being GNU. There's nothing wrong with him using his own license, although his license is pretty much the same as the GNU. His license says users can distribute the modified code, they just can't sell it.

As someone who bought the original version of this over a year ago, I'd love to see anyone get it stable for 3.5.

Most people are likely to upgrade it to 3.6 than 3.5

I saw that. :)

Lots of interest on my part. I just stumbled across this and am still running 3.5.4. Will it work with that one or do I have to edit templates myself? (Which I am not good at)...

3.5 here as well. Like to add this to my site, but it appears there are to many issues atm .

You know, I bet if everyone like us chipped in $10 we could entice a professional developer to fix this.

$10 here.

I'll pitch in $50... there should also be a product XML I uploaded in the thread that creates takes care of the SQL changes and phrases... that should help whoever wants to clean up the bugs and package the whole thing.

Frankly its mostly done from what I can tell... its just a lot of the fixes are posted in this thread instead of being included into the package/installer.

FWIW if we're paying there's 1 feature I would desperately like added and that is the ability for admins to set a different POP username/password through the ACP user interface from some users...

That way I could configure my admins and mods with real pop accounts (that they can also access using outlook/etc.) and let the regular members default to using the catchall only...

I'm already working on it, but only in my spare time so don't expect anything soon. I've just about fixed the installer.

i'd donate $999.99... or more...

Yeah and I'd be happy to donate $100 if someone can port this to v3.6 and fix all the bugs. :)

This is just my own speculation (and guess) as some one that had paid him, waited forever, and then received a refund when it was posted over here. Some people did not get refunds.

It seems that coders are working on 3.6.x (which is certainly understandable) but my guess is that filburt1 sold this to many people as a product for 3.5.4 and his posting it here was to FIRST get a working attached product for the people that had paid him, (have no refund or product) and then the second issue would be moving it to a working and attached version for 3.6.x
So from his perspective he may feel that he should have an attached working 3.5.4 for those who have not received refunds.

My perspective is this: the first version that somebody compiles and that others agree is suitable for distribution is the one that I'll attach to this thread. That doesn't leave much reading-into or ambiguation.

You guys shouldn't be spending money on this project; that's the entire point of the open-sourcing. I've already explained my reasoning in the first post in extensive detail, and there's literally nothing else I can say about it, because I've already said everything. If you want to go on speculating, be my guest, but your speculation will always be wrong if it's not outlined in the first post.

I'd think by page 8 we could have moved past breaucratic issues and focused on, you know, the implementation.

Nope, no conjecture left there.
Is ambiguation a word ? :)

with 50 installs one would think that hack is working. It is at least for me.

You must not visit Wikipedia much. :D

Anyway, we know about the nature of open source. Idealistic communal development principles aside, many of us just want this working and released as of a year ago and are willing to pay extra to make it happen.

True... but the problem is there is no package - and no real support.

If everything were packaged up and there was someone willing to support it I'd be more inclined to install it into a 1500 user forum... as it stands I'm not sure if I am willing to do that.

I thought you packaged it? (it was not you?). I am using it in a 12000 members forum. I could try to package my install, but I am in no way in the mood to start answering questions from newbies, like how to import an XML etc.... I think that there is a minimum of php/templates/database knowledge involved.

True, this way this project is dead, and my (and other's) money lost.

I should start a website where you can search for coders who dont do their job after paying. I have plenty. All of them found here at vb.org. Weird huh?

I did throw together a quick XML file to take care of the DB changes.

No one has really packaged together a .zip with the xml, php files with all the fixes, etc.

Right now the "install" consists of combing through this thread to find all the "change this" and "change that" posts to make changes...

Could we at least have all the required fixes updated in the main post? That would make easier to get this updated and a new version sent out.

I agree. It would be nice to have all the corrections that have written put together along with the original files so we could use it. I know it has been worked on for 3.6 but I would like to see something done for 3.5.4 1st.

Thanks,
Parker

To be honest I don't really see much of a reason to develop something for an out of date version of vb... YMMV.

Yea I'd think it would be easier to upgrade vbulletin rather than find/fix/install depricated plug-ins. plus version 3.6 is hot :D

I've been working on cleaning up the code, as well as incorporating fixes posted here. I'm doing this in my spare time (the very little I have); so don't expect it soon soon (and it will be for 3.6)

~SecondV

Don't worry about that at all; you wouldn't be responsible for it. As with many (not all) open-source projects, the entire team overall is responsible to an extent, not merely individuals within it.

Anybody who wants can feel free to post their compiled version should do so. If others say it works for them, then the AUTHOR OF THE MODIFICATION ONLY, NOBODY ELSE should send me a private message and I'll add it to the first post.

Or another moderator can do it as well if they feel it's appropriate.

Jeez, this is like herding cats. For all the "hey, works for me/etc" posts on here we could have had a working modification available to the general public a long time ago.

Will someone just step up and be a vBulletin hero here?

I have a problem when I click the link to install I get this error message:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT phrasetypeid, title, product
FROM phrasetype
WHERE phrasetypeid IN (500);

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasetypeid' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Saturday, February 3rd 2007 @ 06:07:21 PM
Script : http://www.adviceforall.org/forum/ad...ms_install.php
Referrer :
IP Address : 195.93.21.101
Username : Rick
Classname : vB_Database

Can someone tell me how to resolve this

Thanks

~Rick~

So no progress on this?

I've got a shiny new $20 bill (via PayPal) for a working, packaged version of this...

Well, gentlemen, any news? :p

I had mine working in 3.6.3 (I thought) for quite awhile with some flakiness from time to time. Recently, my host, hostgator pulled the plug on my domains. Found out when I called them that the vbms scripts had gotten stuck in a loop and were saturating the server. I finally ended up pulling the plug on this software- not worth the headaches it was causing and wasn't worht the site going down again.

I know a few other people have said they're working on it, but since it doesn't seem to be moving, I'm taking some serious time to get this fixed, both for my site and others. Will update y'all once it's done.

Edit, dec 28th: I think I've got it mostly working again, except for receiving attachments. Hoping to be done by the end of the weekend.

Sounds promising! Thanx & I'm sure a lot will be in anticipation!

Jacquii.

+1!
Waiting for someone, who will come and make this job.

lazy me =)

3.6 Fixed Version up here - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1193477

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT phrasetypeid, title, product
FROM vb3_phrasetype
WHERE phrasetypeid IN (500);

MySQL-Fehler : Unbekanntes Tabellenfeld 'phrasetypeid' in field list
Fehler-Nr. : 1054
Datum : Thursday, March 15th 2007 @ 12:34:50 PM
Skript :xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwwa/admincp/vbms_install.php
Referrer : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxwwa/admincp/vbms_install.php
IP-Adresse : xxxxxxxx
Benutzername : dukemarex
Klassenname : vb_database
:confused: