[eoc_Jason]

Spinball - Yes I can make a script that processes in batches, I'll do that tomorrow (It's 11pm here, about to go to sleep).

Ryansmith - My mistake, there is a small bug in the DB. It will be fixed in the next version, until then anyone can fix this glitch with the following sql statement. I don't know why/how I set it to unsigned, I guess I just wasn't thinking. After making the change you will need to run the mass-update script to ensure that any user that would be negative is, otherwise their score would show up as zero.

ALTER TABLE user CHANGE itrader_total itrader_total INT( 10 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'

I *might* make the home page again, but it's really not a top priority. Like I said in a previous post, the relevant info will end up being in the Admin / Mod CP. More than likely there will be an admin email notification when a person reaches a certain threshold in the negative range.

As for additional comments being optional, yes I can do that too (right now it's hardcoded) and will have it in the next version. The main reason I made it required was the fact that info there is more permanent than in threads. i.e. there is no time limit on my forum for users to edit posts, thus they could go and edit a deal and that info would be lost forever. They enter it in the iTrader comment and it can not be changed after the edit time limit (5min). Also, I don't know if anyone noticed, but admin's can post comments in other's deal threads.

I'll consider the deal price range, but most people either go and look at their previous deals to see what they bought or sold, that's why you can make the URLs required. A person can just as easily choose a higher price range if they wanted to start scamming others.

URL can be set to required or optional. Bare in mind even if URLs are set to optional, and strict URL checking is set to yes, then that URL will have to match up with a thread in the forum. (It actually can accept a threadid or postid, if it's a postid I just searches for the matching thread).

If you change your rating style from unique to non-unique, you will have to run the mass-update script (in the extras/admincp included in zip) to recalcualte all user data and update the fields in the user table.

The PM addition was hastly put in at the last minute (I just completely forgot, I'm sorry). I will definitly fix that too asap, I know there needs to be some checks to make sure they can accept PMs, their PM box isn't full, etc... If you want to fix it yourself, you will need to do a pre_save & check for the existance of the $errors variable.

I also wanted to double check some things and make the "Can Rate" usergroup permission actually function more as "Can Rate / Be Rated", as it wouldn't make sense to allow one group to rate another (yet that person can't rate back).

Well, it looks like we have enough to get a 2.0.1 release out the door. I was hoping to finally get back to doing some other work tomorrow, but for you guys I can make an exception, what's one more day after working on this thing for the past who knows how many weeks. If you guys ever get bored, you should really browse some of the code, I can't believe how much it's grown since the previous version.


Finally, to answer the person's post about "Trader Ratings". My goal is to have a completely stand-alone site where registered users can rate each other, with a twist. I don't want to go into details about the site and such, but one of the big features will be the ability for forums to request data & verify user authenticity. So you know John Doe on forum X is the same John Doe on forum Y with the same rating, you can also see which forum they deal the most on, etc. In theory any forum could interface with it since I'm planning on just passing the data via XML. All actual ratings will be stored on the TR website, the forums will essentially only have to store minimal user data & retrieve rating updates. There's a LOT more to it than just that, but that is the "in a nutshell" overview. It is technically possible for me to import data from forums, however that would require working with the site admin so they can export the necessary data. But the big goal I wanted to overcome was the problem of ratings being local to only one forum. By overcoming that, it also helps with another problem which is trolling / fraud. Since often a person will go to one forum, try to scam some people, and once he gets booted he just moves on to another, rinse, wash, and repeat. I do know a few of the people that manage Troll Hunters, and plan on working with them extensively and hopefully bringing them on as part of the staff for the site. Nobody likes to get ripped off, and hopefully I can do something to help prevent that.