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

VBay.

This will add an auction section to your bulletin!

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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]

Im working on upgrading this. its almost fully phrased now, and im extending the my_vbay page to include tagged auctions and bidded-on auctions.

[Wild Bronco]

Smash and kisses

remember hide higest bidder

[Blaine0002]

Thats currently implemented!!

Check your vbay settings

[buurman]

Blaine,

Where is the text located that is send in the PM when a item is sold?

Searched my as* off, but cant find it in phrases and templates and PHP files.
Its a big mistery

[edit] ah... found it ... in a PHP file "closedauctions.php" in the includes/cron folder

[buurman]

An other question:

How do I get a new item to be an "buy now" instead of a "bid" item?

[Blaine0002]

That will be implemented in the next version as well

[towermatt]

Looks great so far, I took all day to read the thread and I am really happy Blaine has gone to all this trouble for us.

That is the name of an insane train in the book series my site is about.

[towermatt]

Looks great so far. My only problem is I use an XFLOAT BBCODE to wrap text around my images and it looks like it got broken some how.

and I can't edit the auction so I want to make sure its something I can fix before I let other folks throw stuff out there.

[Blaine0002]

I dont see why you would need to include your own images as there is a built in image uploader

and editing isnt implemented yet

[towermatt]

I was just using a URL but I can try to use the image uploader.

We have photopost on the site so I already encourage them to upload to the gallery.

However, it doesn't have to be that way.

thanks man.