Major Additions - iTrader v2.0.1

iTrader - A user feedback add-on for vBulletin 3.5.x
Copyright ?2004-2005 Jason Rabel, All Rights Reserved.
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Latest iTrader Verson: 2.0.1
vB Versions Supported: 3.5.x & 3.6.x
Author: Jason Rabel
Contact: PM me here.
Site: EXTREME Overclocking
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Description:
iTrader for vB 3.5.x & 3.6.x has evolved from Trader Ratings for vB 3.0.x which evolved from Buy/Sell/Trade User Rating System for vB 2.x. This is a rating system for when members buy / sell / trade items from each other (presumably on a FS section of your forum). It is somewhat based on the honor system since there is no automatic way to truly tell if they did engage in a transaction. iTrader came about because it was a pain to try and maintain a single thread listing good / bad traders and so far has worked out quite well.

Features:

• Rate another member: Positive / Negative / Neutral
• Specify in each transaction: Buyer, Seller, or Trade
• Leave multiple comments about the deal
• Dates & IPs are all recorded to prevent abuse
• Specify a thread URL to the deal
• Advanced URL checking
• Display ratings over time
• Filter based on Buyer/Seller/Trade/or feedback they left for others
• Users can edit/delete ratings left for others (time based limitation)
• iTrader Admins can edit/delete anyone's ratings (just incase)
• PM notification when new rating or comment is left
• Per-usergroup permissions
• Lots of admin controllable options

Installation / Upgrade Info:
Read the included readme file, it explains everything.

Standard Disclaimer:
BACKUP YOUR DATABASE & FILES BEFORE IMPLEMENTING THIS HACK!!!

Donations:
This add-on will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. The link is on the right under "The Developer" info.

Future Additions:

• AdminCP & ModCP Menus for searching IPs, stats, mass-prune, etc
• Better navigation across pages
• Better error descriptions
• Adjust action icons some
• Page to link two ratings manually
• AdminCP Option to choose how ratings are ordered (asc or desc by time)
• AJAX editing

Release History:
2.0.1 - December 18, 2005
2.0.0 - December 14, 2005

Detailed template edits : (Link)

[dsotmoon]

i may be mistaken but the alt color is probably called in the td class ...

<td class="$navclass[attachments]"

[WichitaRacing]

Originally Posted by dsotmoon

i may be mistaken but the alt color is probably called in the td class ...

<td class="$navclass[attachments]"

That did it! Thanks!

What's the template that holds the post count, location, join date, etc. that is in every post?

[Damian]

Originally Posted by WichitaRacing

What's the template that holds the post count, location, join date, etc. that is in every post?

postbit and postbit_legacy

[WichitaRacing]

Originally Posted by Damian

postbit and postbit_legacy

Ah, forgot the darn legacy template. Thanks.

[benFF]

Originally Posted by WichitaRacing

Ah, forgot the darn legacy template. Thanks.

Awesome, with only a few extra lines, I've also got it verifying against a Photopost Classifieds installation I'll wait until the new version of this pops out though before i post it, just in case any major changes happen.

Rock on Jason!

[Dennis B]

Thanks Jason!

/me upgrades!

[sellbuydomain]

hi, i just move my new the forum to another hosting ,so i backup forum database and restore database in new hosting, does this mean the i trade database did not backup? i see there is an insert itrade database error, it looks like no table in the my database after i move the forum, can you guys look this error up
any way i can fix it? i already install the product and install the xml product again, problem still same,


Database error in vBulletin 3.5.2:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO pmreceipt
(pmid, userid, touserid, tousername, title, sendtime)
VALUES
(35, 2, 5,
'dkegie', 'iTrader Rating Notification', 1135876701);

MySQL Error : Duplicate entry '35' for key 1
Error Number : 1062
Date : Thursday, December 29th 2005 @ 12:18:21 PM
Script : http://www.xxxx.net/itrader_feedback.php
Referrer : http://www.xxxx.net/itrader_feedback.php?u=5
IP Address : 71.34.223.543
Username : nertt
Classname : vb_database

[Ncturnal]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Since vBSEO is a pay product, I have no way of testing / fixing issues related to it. However from the issue you described, you could edit the iTrader function to parse the string accordingly, shouldn't be too difficult to change.

How would I go about that?

[benFF]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Before anyone asks... The necessary info to upgrade from Trader Ratings 3.0.x is included in the zip file...

Not sure if this is a bug or feature, but if you have strict checking on, and you put a post url (rather than a thread) - it still uses the name of the user who made the THREAD as its check.

So say for example, fred posted a thread, then joe posted saying he had that item (so you bought it)

When you came to link to the post as the deal post, it wouldn't let you, as it would say that rep can only be left for fred (not joe).

Or is it supposed to be like that?

[eoc_Jason]

Ncturnal - Can you give me some specific URL examples that vBSEO makes? Or better yet just the URL to your forum so I can browse them myself? I can then create an option in the admincp to enable/disable vBSEO URL style when checking.

benFF - ThreadID or PostID it makes no difference. The PostID just queries back to find the Thread ID, thread creator id, etc. One of the two people engaged in the deal must be the thread creator or it will return invalid. If neither fred or joe originally created the thread, then it will not work. -- I'll double check verification though just for you.

On a different note, I was hoping to get some feedback from you guys. How much do you use the filters for "From Buyers", "From Sellers", "From Trades"? I want to add the capability to add in extra view types, however each time you add them, there's really no automatic way to make a filter work how you want without some additional coding from the end user. I was thinking just having two filter choices, "Feedback Received" and "Feedback Left For Others". I'll try to see if I can figure a better method as I don't want to loose the functionality, but at the same time I think additional user-defined rating types is important to have.

One of my own forum members found a little bug dealing with an error page not showing the correct date when trying to rate the same user. But that is minor, it will be fixed in 2.0.2

I've got my list of current things I'm trying to get in the 2.0.2 release, and am slowly whittling it down.

I'm sorry if I've been short with some of you guys lately, if you remember a while back I had to take my mom to the medical center for some tests, and well, they *thought* they saw something in her scans so she had to go back (went yesterday). I can breathe a big sigh of relief now as they said that there is nothing wrong and she is okay. (I was half expecting them to say there was a tumor or cancer or something, that's why I've been kind of on edge.)