I have looked into it a bit more....and now it just tells the # I got from different members. Looking under trader ratings at the top though, every single member has a trader rating higher then the # of different traders that left them feedback. Im just hoping it is a mistake and the trader rating # will be set so its the total # again, not the # of different users

how do I get the postbit to show all positive feedback instead of the calculated score?

What am I missing? The hack works great but when i view my posts the trader rating does not show. I have added the

<if condition="$post['userid']"><div>Trader Rating: (<a href="traderratings.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[ratetradetotal]</a>)</div></if>

to the MEMBERINFO template and to the postbit_legacy but neither made any differnece.

I am a total noob to VB, so i am sure it is something simple i missed, any feedback would be appreciated.

1shotdesign.com/trade

Great Hack BTW
Mark

woot, NVM problem solved. :D

Where in the traderratings.php file do I put the

"<if condition="is_member_of($post, 11)">
(trader ratings row)
</if>"

Code. I do not want to use the template change so that no one can type the URL and go to the feedback page.

What I want is:

ONLY 3 USER GROUPS (for example 1,2,3)CAN VIEW, PROVIDE FEEDBACK, RATE and all the other functionalities of this script. NO other user groups (like 4,5,6) can do anything at all. Can this be done with a simple code in the script file?

ONE MORE QUESTION:

The comment field where feedbacks are written can only take 80 characters max. How do I change it to take 300 character?

I am still looking into this. It turns out that the percent is ALREADY calculated on the trader ratings page for the individual. So the math is ALREADY being done. I put the code into the post bit template, though, and it did not work.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! :D

Thanks for the code on making the rating link only show up conditionally. I used that. I think a lot of folks might like to do that.

The biggest problem I've heard with rating is abuse; the URL feature is designed to cut down on this.

We have this FINE HACK INSTALLED in test. One of our mods jumped right in and posted a bogus URL in the feedback. We don't want to have to ban people for doing this.

My thought to cut down on that is to make sure the URL is valid. I tried doing some more validation on the URL tested in line 368 of traderratings.php.

such that at least it would have to point to a thread in our domain (we have production and test boards). My code is a flop and I'm out of time to debug it today.

However, it seems like the URL to the board is known to vB. Grabbing this URL would allow both basic validation AND to allow the documentation in the URL box to use the actual board URL in the example. I'm new to vB so I don't know this variable and will have to dig for it.

Also, once the thread is known, one could check the thread starter and thread replies for the users involved in giving/receiving the feedback. Disallow the feedback unless the giver is either the thread starter or one of the posters. Don't know how to catch all 3 of these things: the reviewer, thread starter and thread reply posters.

Anyway, if someone can give me some pointers, I'd appreciate it & when its done will contrib the code back.

wow this is awsome 10 stars :)

Excellent idea and in fact I came here to request the EXACT same thing you already have. I went to buy something and in the post the user had a 0 rating. My first thougth was he didn't have any ratings. When I clicked on his profile he had 2... one good, one bad so they off set.

Great idea and I hope it can be included!

^^ great idea!! makes a lot of sense