ebay uses both and it works fine. they give you a specific star icon for the level of feedback, and also list the number.

My mistake, I thought he said stars instead of numbers, but he said numbers and then "something like 5 stars"... (Which I'm assuming he means the vBulletin scale of 1-5 stars). The easiest way to do it without having to even edit the PHP file would be to just do some if conditionals in the postbit template to base your stars on the TR score.

As for the eBay stars that yoyoyoyo mentioned... don't even get me started with how pointless those things are... They are eyecandy and nothing more... and that's all I will say about that.

I think the hack works great, the stars are cool but there just for looks, My site could not live without this hack..and there are a few things I would LOVE to see done with this hack jason but stars arent really one of them :P. If you ever get time I might give you some money to modify this hack for a few things jason, when you get time :). I love this hack, and thank you a TON for doing it.

~Big Curt

when i install ( tarder system automatic add top rated trader )
http://www.efz-tm.net/forums/traderratings.php?

Thanks for a brilliant mod!!!

I am still hoping for a percentage mod for this. Right now I am having problems because people assume ANY positive number means the seller is okay, and buy from them without looking at the details. But as it turns out, a seller with 10+ and 4- = 6+. It should really equal 60%.

My members are trying to work on this. I am not above doing on the fly calculations on my site, as it's pretty small. Alternately, I can add another DB column and run some SQL to populate it, and then I just need to code to display it.

Anyone wanna take this on? Here is where we stand on this:

http://www.rs25.com/forums/showthread.php?p=578034

I'm still hoping for an upgrade to 3.5 for this hack.

any idea when?

1. I said this before and I will say it again. There will NOT be an update for vB 3.5.x until they have a final release. (So much code changes during the beta/RC versions, I really don't feel like having to do a bunch of needless re-work). It is currently a RC1, typically two more RC's come out, then the final release.

2. If you want to know how to make a % display, look at the function that does the calculations, and also the main TR page (since it calcs %'s for that page). The easiest cource of action would be to add another column to your user table to store the % value (if you don't want to do it on the fly). Then under the function that calculates out the TR score, add the code to calculate the % and update the user table with that info too.

You will have to run a mass-update to re-calc all users. I'm not sure if I posted any code for that, but the concept is not that complex to write your own little routine.

Is there a way that i can remove the trader ratings from my forum?

When i go to "apply phrases" i get this error"
Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO phrase (languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (0, 'tratings', 'Trader Ratings', 1)
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'tratings-0-1' for key 2

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Wednesday 03rd of August 2005 12:52:12 PM"

I already have it installed on my forum but i tried to do it again becasue it dosent work with the new skins that ive added, it only works with the 1st one.