How to exclude banned members?

Thank you for your help in advance

I may have found an error: when you are viewing somebody's trader ratings up top it shows Forum> Trader Ratings > Viewing Member (or something like that) when you click the trader ratings link it goes to the member's page.. not the main summary page.

sorry.. didn't feel like reading 35 pages to find that one . .. atleast I'm not alone on this.

could someone please share with me the easiest way to manually change a users Rating. I don't care if I have to go into the DB I just need to know where.

Very nice hack! <clicks on Install>

and Rex, let me know if you find out how to manually change a rating, either on here or on SU. (mtied, on the other site)

You can't manually add / remove points to a rating, it is recalculated based on data in the DB each time someone rates the user (or a rating is edited of course).

Can someone help me modify my member templates so that theres a nice link in their profile to add feedback?

Read the text file. All you have to do is modify the memberinfo (I think it is) template and add the TR text similar to the postbit. Also you might want to modify the member search results too for convience.

I installed this hack today! Thanks for making it.

Seems to work fine on my vb 307

hi guys

one very small problem, when i click to got o the traders ratings on my default skin it works perfect but my second skin it just shows a white blank page, any ideas?

many thanks

dean

you need to add the template changes to your other style...

I have a few questions:

Once installed, can I change the settings in the traderratings.php file. I want to change the time limit allowed for editing the ratings.

If it is possible, how can I set the editing time to 90 days. Is it still in seconds? (90 days X 24 hours X 60 mins X 60 sec)

Do I need to reinstall to change the setting. I have already installed.

Also, I have read through most of the pages and still not sure about the following issue. From what I understand ONE unique user can give 10 feedbacks but they will only count for 1 point in rating. Now my question is which point will be taken. A person can rate "positive" in one feedback transaction and "negative" in another.. You know what I mean? what if in 10 feedbacks 6 is positive and 4 is negative. Will the script count any of those? or is it going to only count the first one? I am very confused.

ive done the template edits on both :ermm:

Is there a way that I can have the Trader Rating notification private message contain a link back to the sender's Trader Rating page?

Thanks again for the awesome hack!

The actual message is stored in the phrase: tratings_pm_message.

You could have that passed a parameter and return it as part of the phrase, but I think it's probably easier to add it manually.

The last code in traderratings.php is the function for sending the pm. You can easily see what details are being used as far as the username/userid etc are concerned, so it's easy to add the url into $message before it's sent.

If you want the url in the middle of the message, or don't want to hard code the message so it's easy to change in future or translate, you can use a particular unique word in the phrase in place of the userid and then replace it with a string function before inserting the pm.

Hmm...sounds a bit over my head, but thanks!

In the template.txt file provided with the installation zip file it says the following:

Quote:

NOTE: If you only want specific user groups to use the ratings, you will also need to modify the traderratings.php code to prevent users from getting to the feedback page through manual URLs (unlikely, but possible). This feature will be fully implemented in the next version (if you don't want to modify the php file).

Can anyone here tell us the what code in the php file to modify. I have done the template modification to not allow certain user groups but i want to make it full proof so that none can use the ratings system via manually going to the trader ratings pages (all pages in TR).

I would appreciate if someone here gives me the actual code to reflect the change.

Would it be possible to make a small module for vbadvanced that shows like the top 5 rated members or something?

to do this I think I would need the portion of code that makes top rated traders. Can anyone help?

Yes, i'll take a look @ it.

I think there might already be one for vBadvanced, but it is burried somewhere in the 30+ pages of posts...

Hi I posted this before but i did not get any attention from anyone. Please help me with this.

In the template.txt file provided with the installation zip file it says the following:

Quote:

NOTE: If you only want specific user groups to use the ratings, you will also need to modify the traderratings.php code to prevent users from getting to the feedback page through manual URLs (unlikely, but possible). This feature will be fully implemented in the next version (if you don't want to modify the php file).

Can anyone here tell us the what code in the php file to modify. I have done the template modification to not allow certain user groups but i want to make it full proof so that none can use the ratings system via manually going to the trader ratings pages (all pages in TR).

I would appreciate if someone here gives me the actual code to reflect the change.

I have asked a few questions ..looks like this thread is dead

I believe your question has been answered before, have you searched trough the thread?

Yes i have read through (ALL) the posts. All the posts that deals with this issue talks about usergroup restriction based on templates. I want to make it fullprrof by modifying the traderratings.php file.

Nowhere my question is answered.

Does this hack work on VB 3.0.7 ?

ok - the hack works on 3.0.7
It's active on http://www.411domain.com

Nice hack!

eoc Jason, I just sent you a pm. with a few questions

As I have said many times in the past, this hack will work with just about any vB 3.x version (past, present, and future) because it is implemented independent of 99% of vB itself.

I don't provide any technical support because I am too busy with other work. (Which is why that nifty little checkbox next to "supported" is NOT CHECKED). I've been meaning to come out with an update, but seeing as how this is free (and works great as-is) it's not exactly high on my priority list.

It's not a complicated hack, if you can't figure it out then I'm sorry but you will have to rely on some of the other people here for help, or just try to track down what you are doing wrong yourself.

done

Just wanted to thank you again for this great hack.
If anyone wants to check out a very active use (even though many ratings were "imported" into the system) of Trader Ratings, check out:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/traderratings.php

Also, I paypaled you a little thank you money a (month or two ago) in the hopes it will inspire you for an update at some point.

Thanks again!

Agree with djwins - this is one of the most important hacks I have on my board and is appreciated by all users.
Jason - appreciate you may be really busy, but a rebuttal facility would be an excellent addition.
Also I hope you'll be able to set aside a little time to tweak the hack for 3.5.

Jason, I'm running a trading forum using 3.5 beta 1. I am happy to beta test the new version of this hack.

I'm not even going to consider a 3.5 hack until it becomes a stable / gold release. Besides, I've got some bigger plans for the TR system that should make it a much more valuable resource to the end-user. (It will always be free, don't worry.)

Intruiging. Let me know if you need a board to test with :)

anyones date stuck on 1969?

nevermind.. found out what it was..

date format on my user_rate table was not the same as my post table.. so i changed it.. doesn't help the old ratings, but it will surely help the new ones

http://www.turbomaxima.com/post_table.jpg

http://www.turbomaxima.com/user_rate_table.jpg

How do I get this to show up in the post bit?

Larry