Major Additions - VBay! Transform your vbulletin into an auctionhouse!

VBay.

This will add an auction section to your bulletin!

If you want to donate to me click the link over there ---------------------->

I am open to suggestions, bugs, comments, insults, and anything else you might say to me at the time :P

To do list:
*use forums/categories/subforums for your auctionhouse.
high bidder userid -> username
*" in description cuts the description at that point
add buyer name
fix pm formatting
add more currencies
intergrate with trader ratings
add paypal api
bidder usergroups
*hot auctions on main < - Available with addon (wont be packaged in vbay)
admin editing auctions
*set up for use with forum commenting.
*fix amount of days an auction can be posted (more than 2 char)
ability to prune old auctions
make sure buy it now is using buy it now price, not bid.
allow admin ability to specify bid/buyitnow/both overrides.

* = Completed.

Features:
Full BBCode support.
Specification of everything, Money Auction length ECT.
Image uploader for auctions.
Closed auction section.
3 auction types, bid, buy it now, or both.


To install
Upload files, and import product as usual
Make a new usergroup and call it the sellers usergroup, do what you want with this group (allow people to request addition maybe?)
Go to vbulletin options and into vbay, set the usergroup id of the sellers group you just made.


To upgrade
re upload all files
import new product
REVERT YOUR TEMPLATES

[Blaine0002]

lol, you are free to edit the code as long as you only use it on your website, but you are also free to pm me the code, would save me time and work (no pressure tho) The only hack that needs to be installed is vbay. im just putting vbayprevious out there so people have an option to install the previous version if the current one is buggy. and yes hornstar i will take that into consideration (and no not MY paypal )

[angeljs]

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

Any more cash payment systems i should use?

Nochex is always popular. You can pay with your credit card without having to have an account. www.nochex.com

[talkwebz]

Its not like sitepoints.
I modified mine
www.talkwebz.com/vbay.php
I got rid of the stupid address text box and it doesn't work but if its there it would work im not going to use it but just telling you guys this is the cloest it looks like sitepoint's marketplace.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by talkwebz

Its not like sitepoints.
I modified mine
www.talkwebz.com/vbay.php
I got rid of the stupid address text box and it doesn't work but if its there it would work im not going to use it but just telling you guys this is the cloest it looks like sitepoint's marketplace.

That was constructive :alien:

To remove the address requirement - edit vbay.php, search for and delete or comment out:

	if ($address == '') {eval(standard_error(fetch_error('vbay_post_fields'))); }

and

if ($_POST['address'] == '') {
	eval(standard_error(fetch_error('vbay_enter_address')));
}

if that doesn't work, you could probably set a default address by adding:
$address = "care of www.mydomain.com";
in the // SET UP CODE NEEDED FOR MAIN SCRIPT section...

[dartho]

Trying to think of ways to stop sniping on these auctions, one was to have the auction end time automagically extend by x minutes if a bid is placed in teh last x minutes, andother may be to have an optional randomise option which randomises the end time within a period, say the last hour.

Do you think you'll add an "Autobid" feature so a user can bid their highest, but it it only post as high a bid as needed?

[Blaine0002]

sorry guys ive been a bit busy the holiday season, ill start work on this again in a few days ;P

[yingzhou]

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

sorry guys ive been a bit busy the holiday season, ill start work on this again in a few days ;P

Enjoy your holidays! We wait for your back! Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.

[rolandogomez]

Seems like a great hack, keep us posted when you have all the additions and more out of beta, I will install this, thanks, rg sends!

[Draygonia]

When I click to sell, it says to request a sellers group or something and says "there are no public usergroups for you to join" and I setup the usergroup for vbay with the ID and all, but it still doesnt work!

[ashley53680]

Originally Posted by rolandogomez

Seems like a great hack, keep us posted when you have all the additions and more out of beta, I will install this, thanks, rg sends!

What they said.