UKBL ~ "Buy Me a Beer" Hack
 

UKBL ~ "Buy Me a Beer" Hack v1.5

You may of seen this on other Forums But Now, The Buy Me a Beer Hack comes to VBulletin :D Display a Drinks Icon on your Postbit and watch those beers come rolling in, Don't forget to Buy me a Beer ;)
Now even Easier to Install ;)

Step By Step Demo: http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/foru...Me__a_Beer.swf

All we need to do is a simple Custom User Field to allow members to add their paypal address, Thats It.

In this Updated version i've set the beer Price to ?3 you can off course change this and convert the currency to UD Dollars, its a lot easier believe me.
So to Start

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/81.png

Here is a walkthrough on what to do.

Download the beer.zip file and upload the four images to your forums /images/misc directory or even a hosting service like photobucket.


Next we need to create a Custom User Field in the members CP so, Log onto your Admin CP and go to "User Profile Fields"

Click on Add New User Profile field, and chose "Single Line Text Box"

Then copy the Following


Title = Buy Me A Beer

Description = Add your Paypal Email Address so members can buy you a Beer!

Max length of allowed user input = 50

Field Length = 50

Display Order = 10

Field Required = No

Field Editable by User = Yes

Private Field = No

Field Searchable on Members List = Yes

Display Page = Edit your Details

Thats It when your done click save ;)

Then you'll see a list of custom fields and your new one should be right at the bottom, Make a note of the field number, For example we'll use field8

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/82.png

Copy and Paste the code from the zip file into notepad



You need to edit the following

Remember to change the X in FieldX to the Field Number from your Custom Field shown in RED

In the code look for


This is the value of your beer, Look for

This is the currancy country code and GB is the Country , so for Dollars you'd need to change these values to USD and US

its pretty easy really,

and finally change the url of the pictures you uploaded earlier to your forums /images/misc folder or even an image hosting company.

Thats all there is to the code edits, Now we need to go back to our Admin CP, Go to the template you are using in Styles & Templates/Style Manager, and select Edit templates.

Go to "postbit templates" and select the template you are using, either postbit or postbit_legacy.


Find the following

directly below it add your saved code :)

Then all your members need to do is to add their Paypal address in their UserCP and automatically their drinks icon will show up in their postbit, If they no longer want to accept Drinks, all they need to do is to delete their Paypal Address from their User CP

So when they click on your Drinks icon they'll be taken to your Paypal's donation Page

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/83.png

Easy

Hope you enjoy this, Please don't forget to click install if you use

:D



Several Members have expressed concerns with the fact that when you hover with your cursor over the drinks icon the members paypal add is displayed in the Status Bar.

Concerns were made about email harvesters and spammers, and as a responsible Developer Please Find below a security patch which you will need to add at the bottom of the Postbit template that your using, Just copy and paste, right at the bottom.




This will disable the Staus bar and prevent anyone viewing details, however once the Beer icon has been clicked and the page reverts to the paypal payment page, then the link will be shown.

Also Don't forget to add a template conditional around your uploaded code


With the X the numbers of your usergroup, This will prevent guests, and no registered members from viewing this hack ;)

Please continue reporting any bugs and we'll fix them accordindly ;)


You can Now add a wide variety of Drinks, Food or anything you want to the list and this will be shown inyour posbit and will still allow others to Buy for you via paypal, The Code is basically the same but we will need to add a few extra's, To get the multichoice hack to work we need to have the "Buy Me a Beer Hack" Installed, so if you havn't done that then please do so before going to Multichoice, OK so lets start...

1. Download the Multichoice.zip to your desktop and copy the multichoice.txt file to your text editor, like Notepad

2.Next we need to create a Custom User Field in the members CP so, Log onto your Admin CP and go to "User Profile Fields"

Click on Add New User Profile field, and chose "Single Selection drop down menu "

Then copy the Following


Title = Buy Me A Drink

Options Add the Different varity of drinks here ( One on each line, Remember you need to keep the name of the drinks the same as the drinks Picture format, so if you have Beer, Then you should have beer.png as the graphic file. )

Display Order = 15

Field Required = No

Field Editable by User = Yes

Private Field = No

Field Searchable on Members List = Yes

Display Page = Edit your Details

Thats It when your done click save ;)


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/77.png


Remember you need to add this second custom user field in addition to the first one, make a note of the user Field Number Its like this Field9

Next Make sure that the graphic files are named the same as the Drinks in the Multichoice box, So if you have Wine as one of your choices, you need to make sure the Graphic is called Wine.png

In your forums Image directory you need to make a new directory called "Drinks" and upload all your drinks graphic files to your newly created directory, should be something like this..

YourForum.com/images/drinks

Finally we need to edit the code we have already uploaded into the postbit template,

So grab that code


Now look carefully at the code


The red X's are to be replace withthe usergroup ID's of the usergroups you want to view

This remains the same as this is our user dedined field which we did earleier which allows the insertion of the Paypal Email addy. That was field8 in our example.

Now look at the next bit

Have you noticed i've changed the "Buy me a Beer" to "Buy me a Drink" and inplace of the name of our graphic file i've added another post field attribute $post[fieldx9] Which is the custom user field for the dropdown multichoice ;) this will insert whatever the member choses to show in their postbit.

VERY IMPORTANT.

As the Name only of the Graphic file is chosen by the user, you need to ensure that your graphic formats remain the same, either all .jpg, png, or gif, No mixing of formats allowed. ;)

Hope you enjoy the new addition

Many thanks to My Friend Steve (TimberFloorAu) from http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/ for the update on the code, and for getting my ideas working :D

:) Reserved :cool:

haha nice!

lol this is really fresh!! Will take a closer look on it this week-end. Thx :=)

Cheers :D

Its been a long time coming, Once its all set up on your site, all your members need to do is create their own Donate button in their paypal account and just use the 7 digit number in the HTML code to add to their UserCP, Then they'll recieve their Beer Glass, or Coffee or Coke whatever icon you chose to add.

Then just click on the beer glass to be taken to their paypal Page :D

Get Fresh at the weekend ?? :p

Just to let you all know i've updated the code making it easier for everyone.

The main differences are

1. Now your members will not have to play around making Donation Buttons at Pay pal to get an ID number, all they need to do is add their Paypal email in the Custom user field in the User CP ;)

2. To stop abuse of the system with members paying pennies to each other, which means Paypal will take that as cost, and no one getting anything, I've made the donations fixed at ?3, Its easy to change this amount and also the currancy, its all in the code ;)

3. Installation time should be no more than 10 minutes or less if your fast.

New Zip file uploaded

Enjoy :D

Good work mate !

What about a custom page called:

Most Pissed Users.

Listing who has been bought the most beers/cokes etc in chronological order.

That would be the icing on the cake.

Ste

Hi Steve

This ones for you

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/78.png

:D

Instead of going down the Pub and spending all your money you could buy everyone a beer :)

LOL!!!

This is great!! You're getting good at this!

Thank you :)

Notes:

rename your image url to coincide with image uploaded:

thus
beer.png to match the uploaded file, included file needs to be renamed accordingly.

Changed my postbit as above to fit in with our style.

Good work Mate

hahah lol at Fosters, we export that for the Poms to drink ;)

We drink VB

All joking aside:

if a new custom drop down was added for say Coffee , Wine, Beer, Coke etc

then linked to the image, when users edit their paypal details, they could choose their preferred poison.

This then would reflect the drink type in postbit, and provide some alternate drinking donations on a per user basis

******
My only reservation.
I would prefer that the email addy is hidden. When hovering over the beer bottle, this could cause some security issues.

Thats just an example url, As long as you have the fully url to where your graphic is, it dosn't matter what its called ;)

You drink VB ??? Vbulletin ??:confused:

BTW, It looks great on your forum :D

Great Ideas mate :D Something to look at for version 2 ;)

What do you mean about the email addy showing when you hover over the beer???

It should only say "Buy me a Beer"? :confused:

Cheers mate will do a screeny.

Yeah ironically, VB is Victoria Beer.
Hence we have the VBSOLB ( Victoria Beer Stadium of Light ) for our betting forums.


All good fun.

In the bottom bar of a window, so email harvesters can gather your info, just by scanning across the forum.

Perhaps a URL rewrite or a htaccess hack could fix this.

Ste

Question has already been asked in this thread.

http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/notic...y-me-beer.html

can we make it usergroup viewable, ie only registered members/mods/admins can see the buy me a beer symbol and consequently the hover issue

Great Idea, for that we'd need to add a conditional

Just add this at the begining of the code

and replace the x, y, z with the Usergroup id's

remember to end with

at the end of the code ;)

When you set up a Custom Field Job there is an option for Multi choices, I guess that would allow members what drink they would like to chose, but they'd have to select it themselves, and where would we put all the images?? Perhaps in their own directory???

I'll be sleeping on this one tonight ;)

I will look into this also.

The status bar issue is not gonna work, so user conditions are the go.

Thanks

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regarding the Drinks.

Perhaps a drop down box.

Coke
White Wine
Red Wine
Scotch
Vodka
Alcopop
Coffee
Tea
Water

these would then need to link to their own image file. Thats the bit I need to get my head around.

Thanks Steve,

I've found out how to do this now and will be able to add a new custom field with a whole variety of drinks ;)

Just need now to get some decent quality 48 x 48 pixel .png drinks icons, will do those tommorrow when i get home from work :D

This can only get better :D:D Now i need some sleep its 1.04am in the UK and i need to be up at 6am for work :o

This seems like a VERY cool and fun way for folks to interact. Plus, it doesn't hurt to get a couple of bucks here and there ;)

I'd be looking for a 'twist' on it though. Since my site is a 'family oriented' site, I'd want things like "Kool Aid" and "Coca Cola" and "Water Bottles" and especially the "Dole Whip" from the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. :up:

Once you have the 'options' setup I might just try this one out on my site. Great job on these modifications!

<font size="3">HOT DANG!</font> I've been waiting on this for MONTHS NOW! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!

I will if I have time do some for you today, we already have quite a few.

Ste

some in our shop:
http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/xperi...?go=shop&cat=5

Will deffo do you some new images tho ( dont forget some ppl cannot view png's )

Thanks Arny, You can do quite a lot with this, Will Try and get it finished with the updates as soon as i can ;)

I knew you'd be happy :D

You know, I just thought of something....I can make a "Buy me a Pin" and do Disney pins for all of the characters or rides or parks or....well, you get the idea ;)

Wow...get this thing going my friend! Can't wait! :up:

This could also be made into an extremely powerful "Charity" tool

Providing the charities were aware and had paypal.

A very exciting mod, simple but very cool !

Steve, great point. I can't wait until the "options" upgrade has been figured out to jump all over this one :)

Mexican Beer xD

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/637...5233681ux2.jpg

Install!

Thank You!

Guys had 15 minutes to spare and created these.

Only 3 for now, but including the psd too.

Font is Segoe UI

Using Photoshop CS

Feel free to ignore, use adapt whatever, but ensure you share them !!

Size of each image is 150 x 48

Enjoy


p.s PSD is in the zip file


*** pps. Full Credit to UkBusinessLive for this ( I am just fiddling ;) )

Previous post are GIF

Below are the PNG

saved as png 8

edited to add : My new Postbit

Thanks for that Steve, I will include them, with the Update zip folder, Any chance you could do the rest of them when you get a minute ;)

I worked out how to change the code to include a dropdown menu for members to chose their own drinks from a list, I'll update it all when i get back from work, This has turned out from being a simple idea to quite a varied and interesting hack with a variety of uses.

If you want to bypass the Alcohol drinks you could, just use soft drinks and Ice creams for childrens and family forums, I even had a PM to say can they use Food?? In fact its up to you what you use this for.

Experiment and see what works for you but the great thing being is that members will see a healthly increase in their paypal funds ;)

Thanks to steve for his help last night and everyone who contributed with ideas :D

Will try my best mate.

We are fighting floods here in QLD at the moment, and have an open house tomorrow, and friends coming this evening, so could be sunday before i get chance.

Ste

thanks a lot

OK ! Found time to do a few more ;)

Enjoy :)

Includes all the drinks and a coupole not shown here and the psd

Last for the night for me.

Due to a request heres the SUPPORT MY COLLEGE FUND

Thanks for those Steve I'll save them as a zip on the first post for members to download, Just to let you know also i've updated the thread with the new Multichoice.zip which gives instructions on adding an additional multichoice selection of drinks ;)

I love that Big Mac Graphic, I can imagine it, Buy me a Big Mac :D lol https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/77.jpg

You need to install the first "Buy me a beer" hack before you can install the Multichoice ;)

Cheers mate, I am 3 sheets to the wind,, been having a yarn with friends, and necking the grog, so gonna have a looksy tomoz mate.

Great MOD, will try it out in the mornin.

Ste