Profile Enhancements - MyLs1 Gifts ( Send gifts or drinks! )

MyLs1.com Gifts ( Facebook Style )

This is a product that will allow members to send gifts to each other, The way Facebook does

This 1.0.2 Update just replace the gift.php file on the root directory.

This product was for sale before but now is finally released for free.
Brought to you by Myls1.com :up:

- MyLs1 Gifts Version 1.0.2

Demo Corvette Site:

http://www.eicorvette.com
Chevrolet corvette forums, ZR1, Stingray, C6, Z06, C5, C4, C3, C2, C1 - photos and more!

- All the credit goes to Cole2026 he is the designer/coder of this product. Very recomended person to work with :up:

- Special thanx to DS MrSinister for fixing the Table Prefix Issue.

#################### INSTALL ####################


1- Upload files to their respective folders:

admincp / gifts.php

images / gifts

includes / xml / bitfield_gifts
cpnav_gifts

root directory / gifts.php

2- Import product:

MyLs1_Gifts.xml

3- Memberinfo Template edit, find:

<div id="profile_tabs">
$template_hook[profile_left_first]
$blocks[visitor_messaging]
$blocks[aboutme]
$blocks[stats]
$blocks[friends]
$blocks[infractions]
$blocks[contactinfo]
$template_hook[profile_left_last]
</div>

Add this before the <div id="profile_tabs">:

$blocks[gifts]

So it will look like this-->

$blocks[gifts]

<div id="profile_tabs">
$template_hook[profile_left_first]
$blocks[visitor_messaging]
$blocks[aboutme]
$blocks[stats]
$blocks[friends]
$blocks[infractions]
$blocks[contactinfo]
$template_hook[profile_left_last]
</div>


4- Style manager:

Add this to Additional CSS Definitions


.explanation {
background-color:#FFFFCC; padding:3px;
}

#################### HOW TO USE ####################

--- How to set ---

Set your settings on the admin cp
Add gifts as follows:

example:

- Name of the gift: Beer
- Description of gift: Budweiser
- Choose category: drinks
- enter url ( images / gifts / drinks / budweiser.gif )


Provided are 2 folders, one for drinks and one for love
There are few drinks in a .gif format and some roses in a .gif format, but you will have to add your own gifts / icons

--- /How to set ---


--- How to use ---

On the members profile there will be the block called gifts
There are 2 links, Give a gift and View all.
When they click on Give a gift, it will take them to a page where the categories are.
Click on the categorie, check the gift to send, add messages and Give.

--- /How to use ---


Instructions provided on zip file.

The following is extra:

#################### GIFT COUNT ON POSTBIT ####################

To display gifts count on postbit's:

Add new plugin

Hook Location: showthread_postbit_create
Title: Gifts in Postbit Legacy
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

$num_gifts = $db->query_first(" 
    SELECT COUNT(*) 
    FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "gifts AS gifts 
    WHERE recipientid = " . $post['userid'] 
,DBARRAY_NUM); 
$post['gifts'] = $num_gifts[0]; 


Plugin is active: yes

Then on the postbit where you want to display it just put

(<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[gifts]</a>) gifts

#################### /GIFT COUNT ON POSTBIT ####################

Enjoy!

[christian8a]

Originally Posted by GlamRockTalk

Chris, what do we have to do to upgrade? Just overwrite the gifts.php file?

Ops yea just upload the gift.php file. Ill put that on the update too

[MrEyes]

Originally Posted by christian8a

Yea now it worked fine..

Good news

What about that issue of the Postbit Gift count?
What do you mean, needs to be corrected or it will be an issue for busy forums?

The way the postbit hack works is to perform a query every time vbulletin builds a postbit, this query retrieves the count of gifts that the person (relevant to that postbit) has made. By default a typical thread will display 15 posts, so that is 15 additional queries (assuming that there are at least 15 post). However it is possible for members to configure anything between 5 & 40. So that is alot of extra queries.

Unfortunately right now I can't offer an alternative as everything I have looked at requires considerable reworking

[RedTrinity]

Originally Posted by GamerGirl27

Yes, everything works fine when its disabled/uninstalled, so its definitely an issue with the plugin - somebody was reporting the same problem before with it, so I am not alone.

Well, I suppose I am not going to get any support for this, so I have no choice but to uninstall it.

[christian8a]

Originally Posted by GamerGirl27

Well, I suppose I am not going to get any support for this, so I have no choice but to uninstall it.

Yea, sorry but I have no idea what could be causing that issue, it is obviously another hack wich is crashing with it, it works on all other sites.
Besides that as MrEyes was saying it will add alot of queries using that postbit hack, better if you wait for a better release of this plugin.

[MrBig]

thank you for sharing this :] any other cool [.gif] gifts that we can use?

[puregraf]

i removed the gift count in postbit legacy and my site is still very slow when your plugin is enabled. memory goes up instantly to over 80% on my dedicated server, and also server load goes from normal under 5.00 to crazy over 55% used up.

actually it might be the "activity modification" causing this ..

[christian8a]

Originally Posted by puregraf

i removed the gift count in postbit legacy and my site is still very slow when your plugin is enabled. memory goes up instantly to over 80% on my dedicated server, and also server load goes from normal under 5.00 to crazy over 55% used up.


actually it might be the "activity modification" causing this ..

just for that plugin?

[TNCclubman]

what does the new gifts.php do?

[C138 Kaysone]

It would be easier if you showed an example of where the "(<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[gifts]</a>) gifts" should go you know?

[MissKalunji]

you can put it anywhere in your postbit under the age,post count it's really up to you

search for i think its $post[age]