That was implemented in v1.0.6


That system supports many payment processors and will work well for what you want.

Can you make this possible? It will be nice to have options to do raffles by sample.

users with 1000 posts win what ever you state
users with 5000 post win another prize ect.....

Will be nice to increase participation on the forum

If you can edit the numbers of post to win contest will be even better

Just an Idea I think many wiill like to increase participation and registrations

You can already set the minimum number of posts required to enter a raffle.

If you mean make is so the user with the most posts wins.. it's been tried in the past and it results in nonsense posts and spamming. So, that won't happen.

EXPLENDID AMIGOE!
that took care of my project.
now im able to use this plugin.
thank you
for such help.

Nice work mate. will update to the newer version soon

Updated to the new version from 1.0.7 and it says I dont have enough credits to buy a ticket. Im using vBCredits and it worked on the previous version.

Any ideas mate?

Thank you for letting me know.

My fast fingers fixed an error in version 1.1.1 for "other" credit systems, but created a new error for vBCredits.

Fixed and tested in version uploaded today.

Works a treat. Many thanks for the quick response and keep up the good work

I see in the sample rules that a couple states aren't included in the raffle. Should I take it that these states do not allow free raffles? Any one place online I can find these state rules?

As stated in the sample rules, they are a sample and should not be taken as the rules that should be used on your site.

Contact a lawyer to find out what is or isn't legal for your particular site.

EDIT: From time to time, the site those rules are taken from has a free raffle for items of extreme value. When I say extreme, I mean from $200 to over $1000. That might be why the rules are the way they are there. As a matter of fact, if you read them completely they also might require a social security number in order for someone to claim a prize. I'm pretty sure that's because items over a certain dollar amount have to be reported on a 1099 tax form. But, only a lawyer can answer your question in a proper way.

Just tried to install this on 4.1.3 ....

Received an SQL error during install ...

Seemed to go through first part of import and install process fine....

... then it updated style information ...

... then it CRASHED ..... :(

I put xxx's in some places for privacy ....

Any ideas what to do next, or how I can un-install this half baked install?

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Doug

ps: It appears some pieces installed in spite of the SQL crash. (see pic). Is the blank field under Administrator Permissions yours and should it say "Can Admin Raffles"? Hope this stuff reported helps you troubleshoot the problem as we'd like to use this mod.

Thanks.

Another question. Any tips on how to align my raffle image in the center?
http://www.chromebookuser.com/raffle...do=raffle&id=1

In IE and FF it shows up on the right. In Chrome and Safari it shows up on the left. Whenever I edit the default raffle css, the image then appears under the section that displays the raffle status.

The statements about timezone are not part of my mod. I don't know where that's coming from. It may be part of one of your templates and that's throwing the error.

This error is a problem with your MySQL configuration. It's probably always been there, but it reared it's ugly head now.

See this for more info..

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...too-large.html


I'd go into the database with phpMyAdmin and delete the two raffle tables if they exist. But, I'd also be very careful about doing that. If you fix whatever the problem is with your template, you could just try installing again and it will just complete the install.

It could be, but I can't be sure without the label.

NVM, I figured out a fix.

I don't normally support customization of the templates. But try

display:block
clear:both

Sorry... I figured out all of my problems, thanks. I was using HTML in the raffle description and it was causing some problems... * sighs *

Gotcha :)

FYI, BB Codes will work in raffle descriptions. ;)

Care to share that fix?

Thanks ... :)

Increased the variable to 16Mb and the re-install went fine. :up:

Mod seems to be working fine but I haven't done any real testing. I'll report any anomalies to you ... appreciate the support .... :)

Regards,
Doug

Are there any instructions anywhere to show how to define and setup the profile fields (type etc) for the address, phone number and PayPal data?

Thanks .. :)

Regards,
Doug

AdminCP->User Profile Fields

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...3&d=1304177740

Thanks ... doh ... :o :D

Give me a coffee break and you have to re-train me .... ;)

Regards,
Doug

Do profile fields have to be created in order for this mod to work properly?

Hi .. :)

I asked a similar question in the other mod referenced here, but never received an answer, so I thought I'd check here too.

You indicate that you support AWCoding- Credit Purchase System.

So, does that mean we can use their add-on to have members purchase site credits through PayPal (or some other gateways) using real money, which then creates a "credits" balance through your mod, which in-turn can be used to buy raffle tickets from the your mod?

Sorry if I'm not explaining what we're trying to accomplish well, but this virtual currency stuff is kind of new for us.

Regards,
Doug

Not unless you want to use them.

Yes it does. However, they would be purchasing raffle tickets not credits. You set the price per ticket and they have to purchase them before they can enter the raffle.

The settings for the AWCoding mod are show in Raffle Settings.

And, you don't need to use a credit system if you don't want to. The raffle system was originally designed for free raffles and it can still function as such.

Thanks .. :)

I thought this might be a good mechanism to help raise money to support our not-for-proft collector's organization.

Appreciate the support..

Regards,
Doug

Maybe I missed this somewhere along in others questions but when creating a raffle and setting up the draw date why is it that if a raffle registers through say 6/5/2011 and the ability to enter the raffle ends at 12 am 6/4/2011 the araffle isn't actually scheduled through task manager to be drawn until the 6/6/2011? What I found was I had to go back and edit the draw date in raffle settings again and when I do a manual draw the draw date shows as being drawn on 6/4/2011? Kind of deceiving to those who entered the raffle in my opinion?

The raffle draws on the date the raffle is set to end.

If you set it to end on 6/5/2011, the ability to enter ends at midnight (00:00am) 6/5/2011 and it draws on 6/5/2011. If you left the draw time as the default, it would draw on 6/5/2011 at 10:00am per your server's time setting.

The only way a raffle wouldn't draw is if nobody comes to the site to trigger the vbulletin cron jobs. (highly unlikely, but possible)

Also because the vb cron jobs run via code in your pages, the actual draw can vary some. On one site, the job is scheduled for 10:00am, but due to low activity on the day it was to be drawn the actual draw didn't take place until 10:10am.

Although the cron draw routine hasn't changed much at all since the initial release, I've set up 2 test raffles on 2 different servers to be sure the draws take place as they should.

They should both draw tomorrow morning at 10:00am their server times. (one Eastern time, one Mountain Time)

And I should win them both. :D

i have yet been able to get PM's to work...
I (administrator) do not get a PM and neither does the winner.

no special permissions are set...any registered user or better can enter...
i have ran 3 test raffles with 3 different versions and no go.

VB 4.13

am i missing something?

update:
if i manually end a raffle.. it sends the PM's...but if i let it run to the end and auto-draw it WILL NOT send PM's...

Thank you.

Fixed in version 1.1.6.

NOTE: I strongly recommend that anyone running versions 1.0.6 through 1.1.5 update to version 1.1.6. The bug was introduced in version 1.0.6.

Updated with thanks ... :)

Regards,
Doug

Thanks VERY MUCH!!!

To fix my image alignment issue on the raffle detail page, I edited the raffle_detail template by commenting out the stats that appear on the top left of the page. I also commented out the <div> statement around the raffle prize image and created my own.

Here's a piece of my raffle_detail template. Don't know if it will help.

Thank You,
I'll give this a shot.

Your problem is the picture is too large to fit in the area provided.

I've released an update today that allows the maximum picture width to be set for the raffle detail page.

In your case I think that picture is 600 pixels wide, set the new option in Raffle Setting to either 400 or 500 and the picture will then fit.

The only problem I ever had with allowing picture resizing on that page is that smaller pictures will be increased in size, degrading the quality of the picture. But, people seem to want it so I released it.

I'm running 1.1.5 and want to upgrade. How should I do this while preserving my template changes? D I just need to re-edit the templates after the upgrade?

Yes, easiest would be to copy your template changes to notepad and paste them back in after updating.

The only thing you might want to do is to look at the included template before you replace it. Look for picturewidth and pictureheight and include them in your template if you want.

Which, by the way.. I do like what you did with the template. ;)

Thanks! ;) I've been getting a bunch of ad clicks on my raffle page, especially on the text links surrounding the raffle details:
http://www.chromebookuser.com/raffle...do=raffle&id=1

I encourage others to do the same.

it would be nice if I could specify a minimum number of entrants. For example, I may want 100 people to enter the drawing before a winner is selected. I would use this with or without the raffle start/end dates.