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)

[BarryoBrien]

is there a version for download thats works with 3.7?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by BarryoBrien

is there a version for download thats works with 3.7?

Read the last few posts about a page or two before yours. There's a fix to make it work with 3.7.

[Boosted Panda]

Originally Posted by spankaveli

edit: nm, there were a few that had <form but not sessionhash. added it to the <form ones and its working. thanks!

No problemo!

That should make it 100% now.

[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by Boosted Panda

Everyone on 3.7 and 3.6.10

There are 3 templates that need editing:

itrader_detail_feedback
itrader_feedback
itrader_reportbadrating

search for: sessionhash

after the line with sessionhash add:
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

Originally Posted by spankaveli

edit: nm, there were a few that had <form but not sessionhash. added it to the <form ones and its working. thanks!

Are we saying there are more edits beyond those in the three templates above? Maybe until we get an official 3.7 release, having all the 3.6-to-3.7 edits in one post would help everyone out. I could tackle making such a list in a couple of days, but not now--have a death in the family we're attending to... *sigh*

[Jpax]

Originally Posted by spankaveli

edit: nm, there were a few that had <form but not sessionhash. added it to the <form ones and its working. thanks!

Can you post where you added the security token please

[Alex@Mk3OC]

I added it under the line with <form in, works fine now

[eoc_Jason]

Hi Guys,

I was pretty much waiting for the final Gold version of vB 3.7 to be released before diving too far into the code. Yes I will be releasing a fresh version for 3.7 (because I too plan on upgrading). But I just started really working on it this past weekend after getting a test 3.7 forum installed. I do have several other big work-related projects going on at the moment, coding a free add-on isn't exactly at the top of the priority list so please be patient... The more people gripe and get demanding, the less incentive I have to actually finish it.

I'm kind of thinking on reverting back to a more simpler style, without having the whole extended comments thread thing with a rating pair. I think that really flew over most people's heads and I have not seen it used much on the few sites I check out. I also think I'm either going to completely remove the "report" feature, or possibly make it just an option in the admincp since that seemed to get abused more than it being actually of any use. If anyone has any serious objections to these removal, let me know and I can leave it in and maybe make some sort of style option in the admincp.

Other changes are mostly just minor fixes like the PM notifications being more details, navagation corrections, etc...

If there are any features you really want to see, please PM me here and be as detailed as possible.

[eoc_Jason]

Oh yeah, also I thought of instead of having a person click on the receporcial link to 'link' the two ratings together I could just run a quick DB query to automatically see if one has rated the other recently... I can't believe I didn't think of that originally...

[Cyn]

We currently have vbclassified on our forum and would like to switch back to our old setup that used iTrader. We still have iTrader in place and active. Is there any way to convert our vbclassified feedbacks to carry over into the member's iTrader?

Thanks!

[Spinball]

Jason it's great to hear your thoughts on your fantastic hack.
Please don't remove *any* functionality. It works perfectly on www.avforums.com and in my opinion, the closer you can make it to ebay's trading system (with rebuttals) the better since that is what people are used to and will feel familiar with.

We require both parties to have posted in the thread with one of them having started it - as per standard functionality of your hack. This is awesome because it discourages people from hijacking wanted threads (i.e. they can't leave feedback).
To overcome the occasional problem of people struggling to enter the correct trade link, I created a tutorial video which anyone is welcome to use:
http://www.avforums.com/tutorials/le...g_feedback.wmv

Although having some way of doing the job without entering the thread URL would be infinitely better.